Department ofPhysics of Complex Systems
Events

Everything on the calendar

Colloquia, seminars, PhD defenses, symposia and one-day meetings that the department takes part in — what is coming up, and the full archive of what has already happened. Every entry says whose series it belongs to, because the department does not run a seminar series of its own that is published anywhere public.

Upcoming

Thu 22 Oct 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Matthew Yankowitz · University of Washington 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 29 Oct 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Javad Shabani · New York University 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 12 Nov 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Preden-Severin Roulleau · Saclay 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 03 Dec 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Mitali Banerjee · EPFL 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 17 Dec 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Andrei Bernevig · Princeton 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 07 Jan 2027 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Sanfeng Wu · Princeton 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 28 Jan 2027 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Srijit Goswami · TU Delft 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 01 Apr 2027 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Li Jia Leo · Brown 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 20 May 2027 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Steve Girvin · Yale 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced. Thu 27 May 2027 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Physics Colloquium Prof. Silke Buehler-Paschen · Vienna University of Technology 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Talk title to be announced.

Every forthcoming event on record is a Physics Colloquium — the colloquium calendar is the only public feed that publishes ahead of time. Seminars, defenses and workshops appear here once they have taken place, unless the department gives us a calendar of its own.

Past

Wed 15 Jul 2026 PhD defense Faculty of Physics Hidden Structures in Nonequilibrium Dynamics: Anomalous Relaxation and Chiral Wave Turbulence Shahaf Aharony Shapira 10:00-11:00·PhD Defense Seminar - Shahaf Aharony Shapira Thu 09 Jul 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Measurement-altered quantum matter Prof. Jason Alicea 11:15-12:30·Physics Library Sun 28 Jun 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Can we tame data-driven yet reductionistic AI models for biology? Prof. Amos Tanay 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Mon 22 Jun 2026 Workshop Faculty of Physics Pre-SAAC Symposium on AMO Prof. Immanuel Bloch | Max Planck, Prof. Phil Bucksbaum | Stanford University, Prof. Rainer Blatt | Universitaet Innsbruck, Prof. Dieter Meschede | Universität Bonn 16:00-19:00·Physics Weissman Auditorium Wed 17 Jun 2026 PhD defense Faculty of Physics Quantum attosecond interferometry Chen Mor 15:00-16:00·PhD Defense Sun 14 Jun 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The optics of life - The materials and physics behind biogenic structural colors and its biomimetics Prof. Dan Oron 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 11 Jun 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Chirality and Electron Spin: A Miraculous Match Prof. Ron Naaman 11:00-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 07 Jun 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics When One Event Controls Everything: Condensation and Big Jumps in Stochastic Dynamics Prof. Stav Burov 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 24 May 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Membrane remodelling in life processes: Unravelling membrane interactions, one vesicle at a time. Prof. Raya Sorkin 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 17 May 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Travelling waves in our immune system Prof. Ariel Amir 13:15-14:30·LUNCH AT 12:45 Sun 10 May 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Non-genetic memory and restraint of cell-to-cell variability in bacteria Professor Hanna Salman 13:15-14:30·LUNCH AT 12:45 Sun 03 May 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Collective dynamics of trail-interacting particles Ram Adar 13:15-14:30·lunch at 12:45 Sun 19 Apr 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics A Langevin model for human aging and longevity Prof. Uri Alon 13:15-14:30·LUNCH AT 12:45 Thu 16 Apr 2026 PhD defense Faculty of Physics Towards Dephasingless Laser-Wakefield Acceleration Aaron Rafael Liberman 11:00-14:00·Special PhD Defense Seminar Sun 12 Apr 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Universal Linear Response of First-Passage Kinetics: A Framework for Prediction and Inference Prof. Shlomi Reuven 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 12 Mar 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Geometric constraints during epithelial jamming Prof. Jeffrey Fredberg 13:15-14:30·Weissman Auditorium·Special seminar · lunch at 12:45 Sun 08 Mar 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Collective dynamics of trail-interacting particles Dr. Yaarit Adamovich · Lubch at 12:45 13:15-14:30 Sun 01 Mar 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Unzipping the Secrets of Transcription Regulation: From Target Search to Barrier Crossing Prof. Ariel Kaplan 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Tue 24 Feb 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Optimization and Wealth Sharing in First-Passage Resetting Prof. Sidney Redner 13:15-14:30·Drory Auditorium, Physics Faculty·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 22 Feb 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Emergence of Chirality in Soft Matter Prof. Robin L. B. Selinger 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 15 Feb 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Tiny wings, big feat: instability and control in flying insects Prof. Tsevi Beatus 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 08 Feb 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics microbiome as part of the tumor ecosystem and its effects on cancer therapy Prof. Ravid Straussman 13:15-14:15·lunch at 12:45 Sun 01 Feb 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Self-organized shape changes in elastic active gels Prof. Kinjal Dasbiswas 13:15-14:30·lunch at 12:45 Thu 22 Jan 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Atomic tweezer arrays coupled to light Prof. Julian Leonard 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 18 Jan 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Evolution of error correction through a need for speed Prof. Arvind Murugan 13:15-14:15·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 15 Jan 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Probing flat-bands in twisted bilayer graphene Prof. Dima Efetov, LMU Munich, GER 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Tue 13 Jan 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Network Resilience Theory of Aging Dr. Bnaya Gross 13:15-14:30·Special seminar · Lunch at 12:45 Sun 11 Jan 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Structure in Prosody Prof. David Biron 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 08 Jan 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics זֶה סַבּוֹן, סוֹב סוֹב סוֹב: Spinning a tale about liquid crystals Prof. Randall D. Kamien 11:15-12:30·Weissman Auditorium Sun 04 Jan 2026 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Emergence of information in molecular systems Dr. Sabina Winograd-Katz 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 01 Jan 2026 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Water on the Moon Prof. Oded Aharonson 11:15-12:30·Weissman Auditorium Tue 30 Dec 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The Physics of Learnable Data Dr. Noam Itzhak Levi 13:15-14:30·LUNCH AT 12:45 Sun 28 Dec 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Anticipatory and Responsive Regulation of Blood Glucose Levels Dr. Danny Ben-Zvi 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 25 Dec 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Is there turbulence in the deep ocean? 12:30-14:00·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Special colloquium Thu 18 Dec 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics The quest for the Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler Pair Production Measurement Dr. Noam Tal-Hod 11:15-12:30·Weissman Auditorium Sun 14 Dec 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Self-organized hyperuniformity in population dynamics Dr. Tal Agranov 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 11 Dec 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Quantum Vortices of Photons Prof. Ofer Firstenberg 11:15-12:30·Weissman Auditorium Tue 09 Dec 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Nonreciprocal phases of matter Dr. Yael Avni 13:15-14:30·Special seminar · Lunch at 12:45 Sun 07 Dec 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Collective effects and Curie principle in biological cells: experiments and theory Dr. Daniel Riveline 13:15-14:30·LUNCH AT 12:45 Thu 04 Dec 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Subradiance in arrays of atoms coupled to photons Dr. Alexander Poddubny 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 30 Nov 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Intramolecular structural heterogeneity in intrinsically disordered proteins Prof. Beck- Barkai 13:15-14:30·lunch at 12:45 Thu 27 Nov 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics When single anyons meet a beam splitter Prof. Heung-Sun Sim 11:15-12:15·Weissman Auditorium Sun 23 Nov 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Hamiltonian hydrodynamics of 2D active matter Dr. Naomi Oppenheimer 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 20 Nov 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Dark matter detectors: WIMPs and other creatures Prof. Ranny Budnik 11:15-12:30·Weissman Auditorium Sun 16 Nov 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The infant gut microbiome - from computational tools to the bench and back Prof. Moran Yassour 13:15-14:30·lunch at 12:45 Thu 13 Nov 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics 2D van der Waals superconducting devices for science and technology Prof. Mandar M. Deshmukh 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 09 Nov 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics In vivo targeted and deterministic single cell cancer induction Prof. David Bensimon 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 06 Nov 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Superconductivity and magnetism in crystalline graphite allotropes Prof. Andrea Young 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 02 Nov 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Machines Learning without neurons in physical systems DR. Menachem Stern 13:15-14:30·lunch at 12:45 Thu 30 Oct 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Ants, Particles, and Puzzles Ofer Feinerman 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Mon 20 Oct 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Fluctuations and large deviations of the current in diffusive systems Professor Bernard Derrida 13:15-14:15·Refreshments at 12:45 Tue 30 Sep 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Comparative metagenomics using microbiome-wide sequence graphs Dr. Tal Korem 10:15-11:15·refreshments will be served at 9:45 Sun 13 Jul 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Probing extreme dynamics in proteins and DNA Prof. Hagen Hofmann 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 19 Jun 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Emergent Guage Fields in Quantum Condensed Matter Steven Allan Kivelson 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 15 Jun 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Probing extreme dynamics in proteins and DNA Prof. Hagen Hofmann 13:15-14:30·Cancelled · Lunch at 12:45 Sun 08 Jun 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Building accurate and functional neural circuits with a handful of design principles Prof. Elad Schneidman 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 29 May 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Extra-solar Planets: Historical Perspective Prof. Tsevi Mazeh 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 25 May 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Self-assembled active elastic gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues Prof. Anne Bernheim 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 22 May 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Beyond Images: Leveraging Stable Diffusion Techniques for Particle Physics Simulations Prof. Eilam Gross 11:15-12:15·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 18 May 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics When Will the Cancer Start? Anatoly B. Kolomeisky 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 11 May 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Second law of Thermodynamics in Living Matter Dr. Tomer Markovich 13:15-14:30·Lunch will be served at 12:45 Thu 08 May 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Dark Matter snooker (Dark matter via multiple collisions) Prof. Maxim Pospelov · The University of Minnesota 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 04 May 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Chromosomes as communication and memory machines Prof. Leonid Mirny 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 27 Apr 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Locomotion of thin active sheets by curvature modulation Prof. Eran Sharon 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 24 Apr 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics The quantum valley Hall effect and topological valleytronics Prof. Jun Zhu · Penn State University 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 20 Apr 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Horizontal Gene Transfer Networks: A Physics Perspective on Bacterial Evolution Dr. Michael Sheinman 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 10 Apr 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Double Scaled SYK, Infinite Temperature, de Sitter Space, and One-Plus-One QCD. Prof. Leonard Suskind · Session ID: 955 0510 1092 Passcode: 666666 16:00-17:30·Via Zoom·Virtual colloquium Thu 03 Apr 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Hunting Black Holes in our Galaxy Prof. Hans-Walter Rix · Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium Sun 30 Mar 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics An information content principle explains regulatory patterns of human gene expression across tissues. Professor Yitzhak Pilpel 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 27 Mar 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Simulating high-temperature superconductivity in a triangular moiré lattice Prof. Kin Fai Mak 11:15-12:15·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Light refreshments at 11:00 Sun 23 Mar 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Self-assembled active elastic gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues Prof. Anne Bernheim 12:45-14:30·Cancelled · Lunch at 12:45 Sun 09 Mar 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Mechanical communication in cardiac cell beating Prof. Shelly Tzlil 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 02 Mar 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Emergent Disorder and Mechanical Memory in Periodic Metamaterials Prof. Yair Shokef 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 23 Feb 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics What can microbes tell us about their environment Dr. David Zeevi 13:15-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 16 Feb 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Learning from learning systems Prof. Omri Barak 12:45-14:30·Physics Drory Auditorium·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 09 Feb 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The role of promiscuous molecular recognition in the evolution of self-incompatibility in plants Dr. Tamar Friedlander 12:45-14:15·Lunch at 12:45 Sun 02 Feb 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Design principles of protein-DNA Recognition Specificity in Embryonic Stem Cells David B. Lukatsky 12:45-14:30·Lunch at 12:45 Thu 30 Jan 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Factorization and Universality in Nuclear Physics Prof. Nir Barnea 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·In honor of the 100th birthday of Prof. Yigal Talmi Thu 30 Jan 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The Physics of Ancient Chromosomes Prof. Erez Lieberman Aiden 16:15-18:00·Special seminar · Refreshments at 16:00 Mon 27 Jan 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Programmable quantum many-body physics with Rydberg atom arrays Dr. Tom Manovitz 11:15-12:30·Light refreshments will be served at 11:00 Thu 23 Jan 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics It takes two to tango: The physics of heterogeneous bacterial active matter systems Prof. Joel Stavans 11:15-12:30·Physics Weissman Auditorium·Light refreshments at 11:00 Sun 19 Jan 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics A social view of viral decision making Prof. Avigdor Eldar 12:45-14:30·lunch will be served at 12:45 Sun 12 Jan 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Emerging Quantum Pheneomena in Nonlinear Nanophotonics: Toward New Regimes of Light-Matter Interactions Dr. Eran Lustig · Stanford University, CA, USA 11:15-12:30·Physics Library Sun 12 Jan 2025 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Rethinking Cryo-EM, by Cryo-STEM Prof. Michael Elbaum and Dr Shahar Seifer 12:45-14:30·lunch will be served at 12:45 Thu 09 Jan 2025 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Black Holes in Galaxies: Experimental Evidence & Cosmic Evolution Prof. Reinhard Genzel 11:15-12:30 Wed 01 Jan 2025 Other Faculty of Physics Tango club 19:30-20:45·Aquarium conference room·beginners class Sun 08 Dec 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Emergent Spatiotemporal Patterns in Insect Swarms Prof. Orit Peleg 12:45-14:30·You are invited to the Clore Seminar Sunday, December 8th, at 13:15 The seminar will take place in the physics library (Lunch at 12:45) Thu 05 Dec 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics IS EARTH EXCEPTIONAL? Prof. Livio Mario 11:15-12:30·Light refreshments at 11:00 Sun 01 Dec 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Memory in Capillary Networks Dr. Bat-El Pinchasik 13:15-14:30·Physics Library Thu 28 Nov 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Erasure detection with superconducting qubits Prof. Alex Retzker · Hebrew University of Jerusalem 11:15-12:30 Sun 24 Nov 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics this year's nobel prizes explained Prof. Eran Hornstein,Prof. Eran Hornstein,Prof. Eytan Domany,Prof. Sarel-Jacob Fleishman 13:15-14:30·Special seminar Sun 17 Nov 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Yet Another Approach to Loschmidt's Paradox Dr. Lev Melnikovsky · Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science 13:15-14:30 Wed 13 Nov 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Enzymes as sequence-encoded, viscoelastic catalytic machines Prof. Tsvi Tlusty · Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 13:15-14:30 Sun 10 Nov 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Two-Part Seminar: Predicting antibiotic resistance & AI-driven science Prof. Roy Kishony · Technion -Faculty of Biology, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 13:15-14:30 Sun 13 Oct 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Statistical Physics of Multicomponent Systems with Non-Reciprocal Interactions Dr. Yael Avni · University of Chicago 13:15-14:30 Thu 05 Sep 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics New era in dark matter searches, the dawn of the nuclear clocks Prof. Gilad Perez · Weizmann Institute of Science 11:15-12:30 Sun 07 Jul 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics What does the system “care about”? Empirical approaches to identifying biological regulation Prof. Naama Brenner · Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Network Biology Research Lab, Technion 13:15-14:30 Sun 23 Jun 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The role of sign indefinite invariants in shaping turbulent cascades. Michal Shavit,Postdoctoral fellow · Courant NYU 12:45-14:30 Thu 20 Jun 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Stochastic resonance in polymer solution channel flow Prof. Victor Steinberg · Weizmann Institute of Science 11:15-12:30 Mon 10 Jun 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Mixing Artificial and Natural Intelligence: From Statistical Mechanics to AI and Back Dr. Michael (Misha) Chertkov · University of Arizona 13:00-14:00·Special seminar Mon 10 Jun 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics OBSERVATION OF FRACTIONAL QUANTUM ANOMALOUS HALL EFFECT Prof. Xiaodong Xu · University of Washington, Seattle, WA 11:15-12:30 Thu 06 Jun 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Crystalline Multilayer Graphene Prof. Long Ju · MIT 11:15-12:30 Tue 04 Jun 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Flexoelectricity versus Electrostatics in Polar Nematic Liquid Crystals Prof. Jonathan Selinger · Kent State University 13:15-14:30 Sun 26 May 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Phages vs bacteria warfare: co-evolution and intelligence gathering Prof. Yigal Meir · Ben-Gurion University 13:15-14:30 Thu 23 May 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Quantum Dot Physics Using Atomic Defects in Ultrathin Tunnel Barriers Prof. Hadar Steinberg · Hebrew University 11:15-12:30 Thu 16 May 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Toward Autonomous “Artificial Cells” in 2D Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv,Weizmann Institute of Science 11:15-12:30 Thu 09 May 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Synergistic progress in plasmas: from fusion to astrophysics Prof. Julien Fuchs · Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, France 11:15-12:30 Thu 11 Apr 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Toward Autonomous “Artificial Cells” in 2D Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv · Weizmann Institute of Science 11:15-12:30 Sun 07 Apr 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Odd Mechanical Screening: From Metamaterial to Continuum Mechanics of Disordered Solids Prof. Michael Moshe · Hebrew University in Jerusalem 13:15-14:30 Thu 04 Apr 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics The Rolling Stones, All Down the Line Prof. Tsvi Tlusti · UNIST 11:15-12:30 Thu 21 Mar 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Fractional statistics of anyons in mesoscopic colliders 11:15-12:30 Tue 19 Mar 2024 Conference Faculty of Physics STATISTICAL MECHANICS DAY XV 08:00 Sun 17 Mar 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics On plants and sounds: plants hearing and emitting airborne sounds Prof. Lilach Hadany · Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University 13:45-14:30 Thu 14 Mar 2024 Colloquium Faculty of Physics Failed Theories of Superconductivity Prof. Joerg Schmalian · KIT, Germany 11:15-12:30 Sun 03 Mar 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics A Statistical Physics Approach to Bacteria under Strong Perturbations Prof. Nathalie Q. Balaban · Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University 13:15-14:30 Sun 25 Feb 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Tails and (boson) peaks in the glassy vibrational density of states Avraham Moriel · Princeton University - The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 13:15-14:30 Sun 11 Feb 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Tunable Architecture of Nematic Disclination Lines Dr. Hillel Aharoni · department of physics of complex systems 13:15-14:30 Sun 04 Feb 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Multiscale Lattice Modeling and Simulations of Heterogeneous Membranes Prof. Oded Farago · Biomedical Engineering Department, BGU 13:15-14:30 Sun 28 Jan 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Some organizing principles behind microbial community dynamics Dr. Amir Erez -Racah · Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 13:15-14:15 Sun 21 Jan 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics How informative are structures of dna-bound proteins for revealing binding mechanisms inside cells? the case of the Origin of Replication Complex (ORC) Prof. Naama Barkai · Department of Molecular Genetics- Faculty of Biochemistry 13:15-14:15 Sun 14 Jan 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Kinetic Choreography: Exploring Protein-DNA Interactions Beyond Affinity & Specificity Prof. Koby Levy · Dept. of Chemical and structural Biology 13:15-14:15 Tue 09 Jan 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics Bridging scales in biological systems – from octopus skin to mouse brain Leenoy Meshulam · University of Washington, Seattle 12:45-13:45·Special seminar Sun 07 Jan 2024 Seminar Weizmann centre The Clore Center for Biological Physics The Fundamental Physics of the Onset of Frictional Motion: How do laboratory earthquakes nucleate? Prof. Jay Fineberg 13:15-14:15
Regular series

Standing invitations

These are the recurring series the department's members attend. None of them is a departmental seminar: two sit at the Faculty of Physics and Weizmann centre level, and the third is institute-wide. Days and times are given only where the organisers publish them.

Faculty of Physics

Physics Colloquium

Thursday, 11:15-12:30
Physics Weissman Auditorium (Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences)

The weekly faculty-wide colloquium. Confirmed by 38 archived occurrences and by the public colloquium calendar, which is the only live source of forthcoming talks.

Weizmann centre series

The Clore Center for Biological Physics seminar

Sunday, 13:15-14:30
Room not published

Fifty-five archived occurrences, overwhelmingly Sunday 13:15-14:30, several noting lunch at 12:45. No room is published with the listings; individual specials have been held in the Weissman and Drory auditoriums.

Institute-wide, hosted in this department

WIS-Q Seminar

Schedule not published — no weekday, time or room is given anywhere public

A cross-faculty meeting point for quantum science at Weizmann, hosted by Dr. Rotem Arnon-Friedman of this department. The series page lists nine past talks but publishes no weekday, time or room, so no schedule can be shown here.

About this page

Where these events come from

Two sources, both public

Forthcoming talks come from the public Faculty of Physics colloquium calendar, which is currently the only live feed of future events — the faculty's own “upcoming events” page serves a list with nothing in it. Everything past comes from the Faculty of Physics events archive.

No department-level feed exists

The department's site has no events section at all, and the faculty archive's per-department tag is empty on every one of its 123 entries, so no event can be attributed to this department from public data. The only department event we could confirm is the department retreat held in late April 2026 — mentioned in two group news posts, with no date, page or programme published anywhere, so it is not listed above.

What is missing

Group-level seminars, journal clubs and internal meetings are not published anywhere and are therefore absent. If the department keeps its own calendar, pointing this page at it is a one-line change — the whole list is driven by a single data file.