American Physical Society
Racah Institute of Physics
Workshop
Friction in Physics and Society
December 12, Danciger B
Seminar room, Noon
(12.12.12 @ 12.12)
Program
• 12.12 -12.24 Prof. M. Ya. Amusia, Introduction
• 12.24 – 13.12 Prof. J. Fineberg, “How things
slide: Rapid Dynamics at the onset of friction”,
• 13.12 – 14.00 Prof. S. Solomon, “A Physicist
View at Economic and Social Crisis Dynamics:
Negative Friction Amplifies Local Random
Events to Systemic Complex Changes”,
• 14.00 -14.30 - General discussion
Choice of Date
- problem of symbols
1. Translation symmetry
123 123 123 …
2. Reflection and Translation symmetry
Last news: End of the World
Year 2112 Day 21.12 Time 21.12
Be aware
We have extra 100 years! Hurrah!
Coincidence or not?
(Very last news)
Russian president V. Putin
has delivered the annual
address to the Federal
Assembly of Russia
12.12.12 at 12.00
Chag Hanukah
Sameach!
Special congratulations are going to
Professor Jay Fineberg
and
Professor Baruch Meerson,
who were recently elected APS Fellows
Why this is an important honor? Because
1. Only 0.1% of membership becomes Fellows,
2. Scientific VIPs include this fact in their CV and
biography
Some recollections about own
approach to friction
Jay’s abstract stimulated recollecting of some ideas on
friction that excited me at first as a schoolboy:
energy of such motion
determines the friction
coefficient
Thirty years later, but still naive
• Bending and oscillation of a structure.
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• Radiation while moving parallel to a surface
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