Sun 11-Oct-09: Welcome      Greetings  Lev Vaidman    Greetings  Yaron Oz    Greetings  Haim J. Wolfson    Greetings  Daniel Hershkovitz, Minister of Sciences   Sun 11-Oct-09: Sackler Lecture      Phase Factors, Gauge Theories and Strings  David Gross   Sun 11-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Ulf Leonhardt      The hidden horizon and black hole unitarity  Francois Englert    Anomalous dephasing in electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers  Eugene Sukhorukov    Paradoxes in the context of the Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects  Lev Vaidman   Sun 11-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Main hall - Chairman: Sergio Ulloa      Random Aharonov-Bohm vortices and some exact families of integrals  Stephane Ouvry    Counting statistics in multiple path geometries and quantum stirring  Doron Cohen    The AB effect and some topological effects in cosmology and nanophysics  Yurii Sitenko    Aharonov-Bohm and the Vacuum State of Gravitation  Pawel Mazur   Sun 11-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Room 105 - Chairman: Fredy Zypman      The Aharonov-Bohm effect does not enable superluminal signaling but in a subtle way.  Avshalom Elitzur    Quantum probabilities from quantum phase behavior  Alonso Botero    Duality of the Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects  Daniel Rohrlich    On geometric interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect and Berry's phase  Mikhail Katanaev    Propagators on multiply connected spaces with a nonvanishing gauge field and the noncommutative Bloch analysis  Pavel Stovicek   Sun 11-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Aharon Casher      Things I Do and Do Not Understand About the Aharonov-Bohm Effect  Murray Peshkin    The relation between field momentum and the vector potential.  Harry J. Lipkin    Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Hawking Radiation  Ulf Leonhardt    A Dynamical Nonlocal Exchange that is Responsible for the Shift of the Interference Pattern in the AB Effect  Tirzah Kaufherr   Sun 11-Oct-09: Poster Session      Poster - Non-commutative Yang-Mills with the Slavnov term  Bruno Charneski    Poster - Phase mapping between non-equivalent systems - nonlocal influence of classical fields on quantum mechanical gauge transformations and causal remedy of integral forms of Maxwell's equations  Konstantinos Moulopoulos    Poster - Relationship between the Berry phase and the angular momentum of an electron around a closed contour  Cheng Zhong Tan    Poster - Aharonov-Bohm self-adjoint extensions: Scattering and justification of the Dirichlet boundary conditions  Cesar de Oliveira    Poster - Aharonov-Anandan phase and pointed weak energy  John E. Gray    Poster - Theoretical foundation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect  Eliahu Comay    Poster - Topological phase in two flavor neutrino oscillations  Poonam Mehta    Poster - Coherent states of an electron in Aharonov-Bohm field  Damiao Pedro M. Filho    Poster - Influence of the coupling asymmetries and interactions at double-slit interference experiment setups  Ali ihsan Mese    Poster - Can the Aharonov-Bohm effect be used to detect or refute superseparability?  Rathindra N. Sen        Poster - The scalar complex potential and Aharonov-Bohm effect  Yaakov Friedman    Poster - Aharonov-Bohm Effects in Barotropic Magnetohydrodynamics  Asher Yahalom    Poster - Wave-Particle duality and the hamilton action  Gregory Sivashinsky    Poster - Experimental observations of geometric phases in mesoscopic narrow-gap semiconductor systems  Robert Lillianfeld    Poster - Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model: topological phases, BCS states and toric code stabilizers  Jiri Vala   Mon 12-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Klaus Ensslin      Pairing Symmetry in High-Temperature Superconductors : Cuprates and Iron Pnictides  Chang C Tsuei    The AB effect in mesoscopic solid state Physics  Yoseph Imry    Aharonov-Bohm hair for black holes and particles  Georgi Dvali   Mon 12-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Jurgen Smet      Time-resolved single electron interference in a semiconductor AB ring  Klaus Ensslin    Geometric manipulations, dephasing, and pumping of spin  Alexander Shnirman    Aharonov-Bohm interferometry in non-abelian quantum Hall states  Ady Stern   Mon 12-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Main hall - Chairman: Bernd Rosenow      Geometric phase interferometry with cold atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice.  Omri Gat    Dephasing in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing a laterally coupled double quantum dot due to a coupling with a quantum dot charge sensor  Toshihiro Kubo    Coherent detection of electron dephasing  Luca Chirolli    Perfect Klein Tunneling with Zero Geometric Phase  Omri Bahat-Treidel    Wave functions and conductances at the integer quantum Hall transition: conformal invariance and possible theories  Ilya Gruzberg   Mon 12-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Room 105 - Chairman: Doron Cohen      Flux-dependent Kondo effect in an Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded quantum dot  Mikio Eto    Experimental Observation of Optical Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Stacked Type-II Quantum Dots  Igor Kuskovsky    Breaking of Phase Symmetry in a "Which-Path?" Interferometer  Vadim Puller    Fluctuation Theorem in a Quantum Dot Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer  Yasuhiro Utsumi   Mon 12-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Akira Tonomura      Interference between two indistinguishable electrons from independent sources  Moty Heiblum    Interaction-induced dephasing of quantum interference of electrons in quantum wires and Aharonov-Bohm ring  Alexander Mirlin    Quantum intereference in an artificial 2D lattice  Jurgen Smet    Quantum transport and Aharonov-Bohm effect in diffusive networks  Gilles Montambaux   Mon 12-Oct-09: Poster Session      Poster - Interface Andreev bound states in superconducting heterostructures  Mikhail Belogolovskii    Poster - Dynamics of wavepackets in semiconductor quantum rings  Andrey Chaves    Poster - Energy spectrum of semiconductor quantum rings under tilted magnetic fields  Gil de Aquino Farias    Poster - Investigation of the electric Aharonov-Bohm effect in a quantum ring  Areg Ghazaryan    Poster - A resonance of the cyclotron frequency with a time-periodic singular flux tube  Tomas Kalvoda    Poster - A systematic experimental investigation of the temperature dependence of incompressible edge states  Enver M. Kendirlik    Poster - Non-locality of bound electromagnetic field in near zone of radiating source: Experimental observation  Alexander Kholmetskii    Poster - Current-induced Aharonov-Bohm effect in a twisted quantum ring  Hisao Taira    Poster - Evidence for Aharonov-Bohm effect of charge density wave loop in TaS3 ring crystals  Masakatsu Tsubota    Poster - Adiabatic pumping and spin-dependent transport through quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers  Bastian Hiltscher    Poster - On a hydrogen atom in a thin slab  Matej Tusek    Poster - Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Anharmonic Oscillatorin noncommutative quantum mechanicsa  Carlos Stechhahn   Tue 13-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Shmuel Nussinov      Announcement  Lev Vaidman    Variations on a theme of A & B  Michael Berry    The Aharonov-Bohm effect for neutral particles  Edouard Sonin    Weak Measurement, Weak Values, and the Aharonov-Bohm effect  Yuval Gefen   Tue 13-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Main hall - Chairman: Hans-Peter Eckle      Influence of Coulomb interaction on periodicities of quantum Hall interferometes  Bernd Rosenow    Multiple Aharonov-Bohm periodicities in fractional quantum Hall interferometers  Ivan Levkivskyi    The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Fractional Statistics of Distinguishable Particles  Stefan Mashkevich    Experimental realization of a Fabry-Perot-type interferometer by copropagating edge states in the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect regimes  Eduard Deviatov    Inferring the transport properties of edge-states formed at quantum Hall based Aharonov-Bohm interferometers theoretically  Afif Siddiki   Tue 13-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Room 105 - Chairman: Alonso Botero      Tomography of many-body weak values: electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometry  Alessandro Romito    Finite-frequency current statistics and weak measurement of a mesos- copic conductor  Wolfgang Belzig    Aharonov-Bohm phase shift in an asymmetric wave guide quantum ring  Sven S. Buchholz    Core-shell nanowires pierced by modulated magnetic field: emergence of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations  Giulio Ferrari    The Aharonov-Bohm effect, internal dynamics and the quantum interference of macromolecules  Simon Horsley   Tue 13-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Main hall - Chairman: Wolfgang Belzig      Tunable pseudogap and quantum phase transitions in AB interferometers  Sergio Ulloa    Aharonov-Bohm-Casher Effects in a Mesoscopic System: Exact Results  Hans-Peter Eckle    Large geometric phases in graphene with reminiscences of Bristol in the late 1950's  Robert Englman   Tue 13-Oct-09: Parallel Sessions, Room 105 - Chairman: Pawel Mazur      Quantum interference experiments, modular variables and weak measurements  Jeff Tollaksen    AB Effect and Aharonov-Susskind Charge (non-)Superselection  Noam Erez    Impact of Aharonov-Bohm Solenoid on Particle Radiation in Magnetic Field  Dmitri Gitman   Tue 13-Oct-09: Sackler Lecture      History of the vector potential  Chen Ning Yang   Tue 13-Oct-09: Banquet at the Azrieli Center      Banquet at the Azrieli Center     Wed 14-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Tony Klein      The AB effect and its expanding applications  Akira Tonomura    Observation of Topological and Geometrical Effects by Neutron Interferometry  Sam Werner    Electron on a Sphere: Aharonov-Bohm Meet Aharonov-Casher  Yshai Avishai   Wed 14-Oct-09: Plenary Session - Chairman: Mark Azbel      Dedication to Yakir Aharonov  Mark Azbel    Dynamic Non-locality and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect  Sandu Popescu    Testing Atom and Neutron Neutrality with Atom Interferometry  Asimina Arvanitaki    Nonlocal phenomena in quantum mechanics  Yakir Aharonov