Chemical Sciences | D4S8 18/35 Topological photonics - Moti Segev

Celebrating the 70th birthday of the State of Israel The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities cordially invites you to a conference on The Grand Challenges in the Chemical Sciences Sunday–Thursday, June 3–7, 2018 Organizing Committee: Prof. Raphael Levine (Chair), Prof. Joshua Jortner, Prof. Dan Shechtman, Prof. Itamar Willner Wednesday, June 6, 2018 ====================== Session 8 | Quantum Technologies Chair Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles Dorit Aharonov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Quantum Physics through the computational lens Moti Segev, IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Topological photonics Abraham Nitzan, IASH member; Tel Aviv University Molecular electronics and plasmonics: Electrons, light and heat transport at the nanoscale Session 9 | Big Data / Machine Learning and Deep Learning Chair David Harel, Vice President, IASH; Weizmann Institute of Science Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The machine & deep learning revolution: How does it change our understating of chemical sciences? Todd Martinez, Stanford University How much chemistry can we learn with machine learning? Session 10 | Computational & Theoretical Chair Rudy Marcus, 1992 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; California Institute of Technology EKU Gross, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem TDDFT: Simulating, analyzing and controlling many-electron dynamics, from photovoltaics to laser-driven spin switching Leeor Kronik, Weizmann Institute of Science Progress and challenges in the formalism and application of density functional theory Leticia González, University of Vienna Molecular photochemistry Session 11 | Photosynthesis and Energy Storage Chair Yaron Silberberg, IASH member; Weizmann Institute of Science Shaul Mukamel, University of California, Irvine Novel spectroscopic probes of photosynthetic charge and energy transfer with quantum and x-ray light Paul Brumer, University of Toronto Seeking quantum effects in biological light-harvesting systems Nathan Nelson, Tel Aviv University Photosynthetic reaction centers: The engine of life Greg Engel, University of Chicago Design principles of photosynthetic light harvesting Evening Lecture Chair Moti Segev, IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Scientific blunders Full Program: https://www.academy.ac.il/SystemFiles... Program, Biographies and Abstracts: https://www.academy.ac.il/SystemFiles...