Keynote Speaker
Amnon Aharony, Tel Aviv
    University, Tel Aviv, and Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva.
      The Rashba-Aharonov-Bohm interferometer: A spin
    polarizer analyzer. 
Invited Speakers
Ehud Altman, Weizmann
    Institute, Rehovot.
      Non equilibrium phenomena in strongly correlated
    ultracold atom systems. 
Satyajit Banerjee, Indian
    Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
      Instabilities and nonlinearities in bulk and
    nanopatterned superconductors.
Ramesh C. Budhani, Indian
    Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
 
      The de Gennes effect and giant magnetoreistance in
    ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures.
Debashish Chowdhury,
    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
      Motoring along the intracellular highway: The real
    engines of creation.
Doron Cohen, Ben Gurion
    University, Beer Sheva.
      The conductance of small mesoscopic disordered rings. 
Yoram Dagan, Tel Aviv
    University, Tel Aviv.
      Similarity and difference between electron and hole-doped cuprates. 
Kedar Damle, Tata
    Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
      Variational wavefunction studies of a triangular lattice supersolid.
Chandan Das Gupta, Indian
    Institute of Science, Bangalore.
 
      Growing length and time scales in glass forming liquids.
Eli Eisenberg, Tel Aviv
   University, Tel Aviv. 
     Exploring the efficiency of protein-complex production in the cell.
Ron Folman, Ben Gurion
    University, Beer Sheva.
      How atoms interact with surfaces. 
Itzhak Fouxon, Tel Aviv
    University, Tel Aviv. 
      Finite time collapses in freely cooling granular gases. 
Yuval Garini, Bar Ilan
    University, Ramat Gan.
      Organization of telomeres and their diffusion in the
    nucleus of the cell. 
Rama Govindarajan,
    Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
 
      Death of a vortex at the (spiralling) hands of a density interface.
Shahal Ilani, Weizmann
    Institute, Rehovot.
      Coupling of spin and orbital motion of electrons in
    ultra-clean carbon nanotubes. 
Nadav Katz, Hebrew
    University, Jerusalem.
      Superconducting phase qubits - Measuring noise and
    controlling decoherence. 
Eytan Katzav, King's College, London.
      Response-correlation inequality in dynamical systems. 
Kinneret Keren, Technion
    - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
      Intracellular fluid dynamics in rapidly moving cells. 
Yamuna Krishnan, National
    Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
      Wires, reporters, and information capsules: Cellular
    journalism with DNA.
Kalobaron Maiti, Tata
    Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
      Electron spectroscopy of correlated electron systems.
Shobhana Narasimhan,
    Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, bangalore.
      Structural, magnetic, and chemical effects in
    low-dimensional systems.
Yuvel Oreg, Weizmann
    Institute, Rehovot.
      Superconducting fluctuations in small rings.
Venkateswara Pai,
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
      Dissipative quantum Hall transport at the Dirac point of
    graphene.
Bipul Pal, Indian
    Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.
 
      Type-II behavior in wurtzite InP/InAs/InP
    core-multishell nanowires.
Avi Pe'er, Bar Ilan
    University, Ramat Gan.
      Ultracold polar molecules near quantum degeneracy. 
Sanjay Puri, Jawaharlal
    Nehru University, New Delhi.
      Cooling in freely-evolving granular gases.
Ronen Rapaport, Hebrew
    University, Jerusalem. 
      Correlated phases of cold dipolar exciton fluids: A
    Bose-Einstein condensate or a liquid? 
D. D. Sarma, Indian
    Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.
      Time-resolved study of growth mechanisms of
    semiconductor nanocrystals via the solution route.
G.V. Shivashankar,
    National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
      Cellular architecture of genome assembly & its regulation.
Ajay K. Sood, Indian
    Institute of Science, Bangalore.
      Fascinating dynamics of surfactant micellar gels under
    shear.
Jeff Steinhauer, Technion
    - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
      The a.c. and d.c. Josephson effects in a Bose-Einstein
    condensate.
Vikram Tripathi, Tata
    Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
      Nuclear spin pumping in semiconductor devices.
 
  