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Past Seminars

The Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics sponsors

  • The astrophysics seminar (Wed 11:15, Benoziyo Seminar Room)
  • The astrophysics journal club (Sun 12:30, Benoziyo Lounge)
  • Astrophysics-related physics colloquia (Thu 11:15, Weissman Auditorium)
  • The John Bahcall Memorial lecture
  • Astrophysics workshops
Date: Wednesday, April 03, 2013, 11:00 - 12:00
  Seminar
Title: Exploring the dynamic radio sky
Lecturer: Assaf Horesh
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: THE PROGENITORS OF TYPE IA SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS ARE HEAD-ON COLLISIONS OF WHITE DWARFS IN TRIPLE SYSTEMS
Lecturer: Doron Kushnir
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: Close encounters of the asteroid kind - studying flyby of asteroids near the Earth
Lecturer: David Polishook
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
  Deplecture
Title: TBD
Lecturer: Ashley Zaudere
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: The XENON Dark Matter search project: New results and behind the scenes.
Lecturer: Ranny Budnik
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 02, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: Machine learning methods applied to the Dark Energy Survey
Lecturer: Maayane Soumagnac
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 30, 2012, 12:30 - 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Tidal disruption of stars and binaries by massive Objects
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 30, 2012, 12:30 - 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Tidal disruption of stars and binaries by massive Objects
Lecturer: Shiho Kobayashi
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The Origin of Retrograde Hot Jupiters
Lecturer: S. Naoz
Harvard
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: Making stars - How do galaxies build their stars over cosmic time?
Lecturer: Raanan Nordon
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 07, 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: Are Gamma-Ray Bursts optically brighter at high-z?
Lecturer: D. Coward
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 12:15 - 13:15
  Seminar
Title: The full view of dark matter in galaxy clusters with CLASH
Lecturer: Elinor Medezinski
JHU
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 12:00 - 13:15
  Seminar
Title: Extragalactic Water Masers and their Host Active Galactic Nuclei/Studying Neutron Star Formation and Particle Acceleration with Pulsar Wind Nebulae
Lecturer: Ingyin/Joseph Gelfand
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 11:00 - 12:00
  Seminar
Title: The Explosive Deaths of Massive Stars
Lecturer: Iair Arcavi
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, October 14, 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
  Seminar
Title: Are planetary systems flat?
Lecturer: Scott Tremaine
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2012, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: The Radio and Optical Luminosity Evolution of Quasars: AGN Were More Radio Loud In The Past
Lecturer: Jack Singal
Stanford
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: The fireball model
Lecturer: Eli Waxman
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, August 05, 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Modified recombination from dark-matter annihilation
Lecturer: Kfir Blum
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 11:15 - 12:30
  Seminar
Title: Grand Unification of Neutron Stars
Lecturer: Vicky Kaspi
McGill U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback: HST/COS Observations
Lecturer: Nahum Arav
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 11:15
  Deplecture
Title: Observing the Growth of the Most Massive Black Holes at High Redshifts
Lecturer: Benny Trakhtenbrot
TAU
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 06, 2012, 11:15 - 12:30
  Seminar
Title: Light curves following shock breakout through a thick wind
Lecturer: Gilad Svirski
Tel Aviv U.
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
  Journal Club
Title: Is it possible to destroy a black hole?
Lecturer: Abhay Shah
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 06, 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
  Journal Club
Title: CWI and KCWI: Spectroscopic observations of the cosmic web with an IFU spectrograph
Lecturer: Sagi Ben-Ami
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: TBD
Lecturer: R. Budnik
Columbia
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
  Journal Club
Title: Current and future constraints on dark matter from prompt and inverse-Compton photon emission in the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background
Lecturer: Gilad Rave
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, April 01, 2012, 12:30 - 14:00
  Journal Club
Title: Acoustic detection of neutirnos
Lecturer: Amyad Spektor
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: A Hydrodynamic Diffusion Model for Superluminous Supernovae
Lecturer: Sivan Ginzburg
Hebrew University
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
  Journal Club
Title: Current and future constraints on dark matter from prompt and inverse-Compton photon emission in the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background
paper
Lecturer: Gilad Rave
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: New Electrodynamics of Pulsars
Lecturer: Andrei Gruzinov
NYU
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
  Journal Club
Title: What is the Most Promising Electromagnetic Counterpart of a Neutron Star Binary Merger?
paper
Lecturer: Nahliel Wygoda
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
  Journal Club
Title: Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
paper
Lecturer: Peter Szabo
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, February 12, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
  Journal Club
Title: TBA
Lecturer: Eran Ofek
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, February 05, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
  Journal Club
Title: Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin
Note that the JC starts at 12:30
Lecturer: Ilya Gurwich
Location: Benoziyo Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 13:00 - 14:30
  Seminar
Title: Universe in TeV gamma rays: results of the H.E.S.S. experiment
Lecturer: Michal Ostrowski
Jagelonian University, Krakow
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 12:15
  Deplecture
Title: Direct Searches for Dark Matter
Lecturer: R. Lang
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: TBD
Lecturer: Hilel Rubinstein
WIS
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Super-eccentric hot Jupiters and High energy emission from Supernovae
Lecturer: Boaz Katz
Princeton IAS
Location: Weissman-Physics , Auditorium
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 12:15 - 13:30
  Seminar
Title: TBD
Lecturer: Y. Levin
Monash U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 12:15 - 13:30
  Seminar
Title: What can we learn from the abundance and clustering of galaxies?
Lecturer: Eyal Neistein
MPE
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, November 13, 2011, 14:00 - 15:30
  Journal Club
Title: A Compact Degenerate Primary-Star Progenitor of SN 2011fe
Lecturer: Avishay Gal-Yam
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 02, 2011, 12:15
  Deplecture
Title: First observational tests of eternal inflation
Lecturer: Hiranya Peiris
UCL
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Searching for redshift 7 quasars with the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)
Lecturer: Daniel Mortlock
Imperial College
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, August 21, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Seminar
Title: Stars are not what they seem, if you look at the Sun...
Lecturer: Ofer Cohen
Harvard CfA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Monday, August 15, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Seminar
Title: The Resolved Stellar Populations of M32
Lecturer: Antonela Monachesi
University of Michigan
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 11:15 - 12:30
  Seminar
Title: Dark matter detection with Xenon, scintillation properties and future detectors
Lecturer: Ranny Budnik
Columbia University
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - Discussion on selected papers
Lecturer: Dr. Dong Xu
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: The University of Hawai'i NASA Astrobiology Institute... and me
Lecturer: Gal Sarid
University of Hawai'i
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Journal Club
Title: Afterglow Observations of Fermi Large Area Telescope Gamma-ray Bursts and the Emerging Class of Hyper-energetic Events
Afterglow Observations
Lecturer: Nahliel Wygoda
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - Discussion on selected papers
Lecturer: Racheli Lazar
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - Discussion on selected papers
Lecturer: Dr. Assaf Sternberg
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal Club
A discussion on selected papers
Lecturer: Dr. Assaf Sternberg
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A special discussion on PTF11eon.
PTF11eon is the new SN on M51, discovered ~10 days ago by PTF and amateur astronomers simultaneously, (more or less).
Lecturer: Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, June 05, 2011, 12:30
  Seminar
Title: Review of recent results from the Kepler Mission: the quest to discover another Earth
Lecturer: Avi Shporer
UCSB/LCOGT
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, June 05, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Astrophysics Seminar
Lecturer: Dr. Avi Shporer
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A discussion on selected articles
Lecturer: Dr. Carles Badenes, Michal Bregman
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A discussion on selected articles
Lecturer: Prof. Eli Waxman, Dr. Dong Xu
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 08, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A discussion on selected articles
Lecturer: Nir Sapir
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 01, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A discussion on selected articles
Lecturer: Prof Moti Milgrom, Sagi Ben-Ami
Gravitational Cherenkov radiation. (Prof.Milgrom) Magnetars - An overview. (Sagi Ben-Ami)
Location: Physics-Benoziyo
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Redshift Distortions in the SDSS and BOSS LRG Samples
Lecturer: Eyal Kazin
NYU
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A discussion on selected articles
Lecturer: Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam
Location: Physics-Benoziyo , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 12:30 - 14:00
  Deplecture
Title: Journal club - A discussion on selected articles
Lecturer: Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam
Location: Physics-Benoziyo
Event poster
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 13:30
  Deplecture
Title: Reveiw of Research conducted by speakers
Lecturer: Sagi Ben-Ami, Doron Kushnir
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, March 06, 2011, 13:30
  Deplecture
Title: On the origin of young nearby neutron stars
Lecturer: Ralph Neuhaeuser
AIU University Jena
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 13:30
  Journal Club
Title: Review of research conducted by speaker
Lecturer: Tal Alexander
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The Next Decade of Radio Astronomy Research: New opportunities for Israeli scientists
Lecturer: D. Frail
NRAO
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Supernova Science in the Era of Massive Surveys
Lecturer: Dovi Poznanski
LBNL
Location: Weissman-Physics
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Secular stellar dynamics near massive black holes
Lecturer: C. Hopman
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Disentangling the diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters
Lecturer: U. Keshet
Harvard CfA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 10:45
  Symposium
Title: High Energy Center meeting
09:45 Gathering, coffee

10:00‑10:30 Martin Obergaulinger:
"Magnetic field amplification in core‑collapse supernovae"
10:30‑11:00 David Wanderman:
"The luminosity function and the rate of Swift’s Gamma Ray Bursts"
11:00‑11:30 Simone Dall’Osso:
"Tidally‑Induced Differential Rotation in Neutron Stars"
11:30‑12:00 Avishay Gal‑Yam
"Expected rate of shock breakouts from PTF and NGTF"

12:00‑12:45 Lunch

12:45‑13:15 Amir Levinson
"Variable TeV emission as a manifestation of jet formation in M87?"
13:15‑13:45 Discussion

13:45 Coffee



Location: Drory Auditorium
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Dynamical and nonthermal processes in galaxy clusters
Lecturer: U. Keshet
Harvard CfA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: In Search of the Most Distant Supernovae and their Rates
Lecturer: O. Graur
Tel Aviv U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, November 07, 2010, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope
Lecturer: A. Shporer
UCSB/LCOGT
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Physical processes in young supernova remnants in three acts
Lecturer: Dan Patnaude
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: NLTT 11748 - The first eclipsing detached double WD binary
Lecturer: A. Shporer
UCSB/LCOGT
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Observational Signatures of TeVeS
Lecturer: E. Sagi
HUJI
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Water? Here? - Main-belt comets and related small body populations
Lecturer: Gal Sarid
IfA, Hawaii
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: TBD
Lecturer: S. Naoz
Northwestern U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: The early UV/Optical emission form core-collapse supernovae
Lecturer: I. Rabinak
WIS
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 2010, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Do Dwarf Galaxies Host Different Supernovae?
Lecturer: I. Arcavi
WIS
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Silicate dust features in AGNs and ULIRGs
Lecturer: M. Elitzur
U. Kentucky
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: A Magnetized Journey to Magnetized Worlds – Numerical Simulations of Astrophysical Plasmas
Lecturer: Ofer Cohen
Harvard CfA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: A Magnetized Journey to Magnetized Worlds – Numerical Simulations of Astrophysical Plasmas
Lecturer: Ofer Cohen
Harvard CfA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 12:30
  Journal Club
Title: Dynamics of black hole pairs. I. Periodic tables
arxiv.org/abs/0809.3838
Lecturer: Gabor Kupi
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 15:00
  Seminar
Title: Planet formation - the next generation: Some overlooked topics in planet formation
Lecturer: Hagai Perets
Harvard CfA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The degeneracy of galaxy formation models
Lecturer: E. Neistein
MPA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The SWARMS Survey: A Search for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors with SDSS
Lecturer: Carles Badenes
WIS/TAU
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Establishing a Physical Analogy between Coronae in Stars and in Active Galaxies
Lecturer: E. Behar
Technion
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, January 03, 2010, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Kepler, Oort and Kuiper
Lecturer: Eran Ofek
Caltech
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 12:15
  Informal Seminar
Title: The Mass-to-Light Function
Lecturer: N. Bahcall
Princeton U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 27, 2009, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Equilibrium Configurations of Synchronous Binaries and Applications to the Kuiper Belt
Lecturer: O. Gnat
Caltech
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The growth of dark matter halos and the formation of z~2 star-forming galaxies
Lecturer: Shy Genel
MPE
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Lux et Lex: Optical Traps for b decay studies
Special Seminar at Drory room
Lecturer: Guy Ron
LBL
Location: Weissman-Physics , New Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 17:00
  Seminar
Title: Galaxy surveys and the shape of the power spectrum
Lecturer: L. Verde
Barcelona
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Inflation: Compelling explanation and predicitive theory?
Lecturer: R. Jimenez
ICC Barcelona
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 15:00
Title: Special Astro-planetary-geophysics joint meeting
Lecturer: O. Aharonson
Caltech
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: An Unusually Fast-Evolving Supernova
Lecturer: Dovi Poznanski
UC Berkeley
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 13:30
  Informal Seminar
Title: An electromagnetic signature of BH binaries that enter their GW-induced inspiral
Lecturer: A. Loeb
Harvard
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: TBD
Lecturer: Ben Koester
Chicago U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Gamma-ray bursts in the light of Fermi and future experiments
Lecturer: P. Meszaros
Penn State U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 04, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Galaxy Clusters as Telescopes
Lecturer: Jean-Paul Kneib
LAM Marseille
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2009, 12:00
  Seminar
Title: Short talk mini-marathon
Lecturer: Short talk Marathon
Adam Hawken, UCL; Filipe Abdalla, UCL; Keren Sharon, Chicago; Tom Broadhurst, TAU ...
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: A New Instability in Eccentric Stellar Disks around Supermassive Black Holes
Lecturer: C. Hopman
Leiden
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Elliptical Galaxies
Lecturer: Craig L. Sarazin
University of Virginia
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 12:30
  Seminar
Title: Non-Thermal and Thermal Plasma in Clusters of Galaxies
Lecturer: Craig Sarazin
University of Virginia
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Fluctuation analyses and the Mass-Timescale relation in accreting Black Holes
Lecturer: A. Wandel
Hebrew U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: The Main Mode of Galaxy Formation: Cold Streams, Clumpy Disks and Compact Spheroids
Lecturer: Avishai Dekel
Hebrew U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The Cosmic Microwave Background and Fundamental Physics
Lecturer: M. Shimon
UCSD
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 10:45
  Informal Lecture
Title: Introduction to the CMB
Lecturer: M. Shimon
UC San Diego
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 13:30
  Informal Seminar
Title: The Smallest and Largest Impacts on Mars
An informal lunch seminar, held jointly with the dept. of environmental sciences, focussed on solar-syetem planetary science; lunch to be followed by an informal talk.
Lecturer: O. Aharonson
Caltech
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Lounge
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:30
  Symposium
Title: Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Excellence Center
Drory Auditorium
Lecturer: Multiple speakers
HUJI, TAU, BGU, WIS
Location: Weissman-Physics , New Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, March 08, 2009, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Type Ia Supernova Remnants: The Persistence of Memory
Lecturer: Carles Badenes
Princeton U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 04, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The first generation of galaxies and 21cm fluctuations
Lecturer: S. Naoz
Tel Aviv U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Lorentz Invariance, and the Equivalence Principle
Lecturer: S. Buchman
Stanford University
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: Photon breeding mechanism and the emission of relativistic jets
Lecturer: Juri Poutanen
University of Oulu
Location: Weissman-Physics , Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 07, 2009, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Accretion-powered millisecond pulsars
Lecturer: Juri Poutanen
University of Oulu, Finland
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Black Holes Unbound
Lecturer: D. Merritt
Rochester Institute of Technology
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 10:30
  Seminar
Title: National ignition facilty
Lecturer: Ed Moses
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Associate Director- NIF
Location: Drory Auditorium
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Physical processes during the periastron passage of Eta Carinae
Lecturer: A. Kashi
Technion
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 09:00 - Friday, December 19, 2008, 19:00
  Symposium
Title: Fireworks 2008: first results from wide-field surveys
A Benoziyo center Workshop
Location: Weissman-Physics , New Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: A Model of Dark Matter and Dark Energy based on Gravitational Polarisation
Lecturer: Luc Blanchet
IAP, Paris
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Cosmology and the Shape of Large-Scale Structure
Lecturer: N. Bahcall
Princeton U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: How to generate the MAGIC electromagnetic Field
Lecturer: D. Lynden Bell
Cambridge IoA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy: recent highlights
Lecturer: Farhad Zadeh
Northwestern University
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: IceCube and beyond - tuning into Cosmogenic neutrinos
Lecturer: H. Landsman
U. of Wisconsin
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, August 06, 2008, 11:15
  Informal Lecture
Title: Type IIn supernovae
Lecturer: Michael Kiewe
WIS
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Probing the accretion geometry of black holes with X-ray polarization
Lecturer: Jeremy Schnittman
Johns Hopkins U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 12:30
  Seminar
Title: Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Note special day!
Lecturer: Meir Shimon
UCSD
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, July 02, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Sculpting Circumstellar Disks
Lecturer: Alice Quillen
University of Rochester
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Faint and Dark Matter: New Spectroscopic Insights
Lecturer: Doron Chelouche
CITA
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: High Redshift Supernova Rates
Lecturer: Dovi Poznanski
UC Berkeley
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 12:30
  Informal Seminar
Title: The Nature of Long Radio Transients
Lecturer: Eran Ofek
Caltech
Location: Weissman-Physics , Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: A Statistical Perspective of Galaxy Clusters
Lecturer: Ben Koester
Chicago U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 04, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters - Rate and Physical Implications
Lecturer: Keren Sharon
Chicago U. and TAU
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, May 06, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Supernovae and gamma-ray bursts
Note special day (Tuesday)
Lecturer: P. Mazzali
MPA; INAF Trieste; Tokio
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, May 04, 2008, 12:30
  Seminar
Title: High energy observations of AGN with AGILE and GLAST
Note special time (Sunday 12:30) and location (Pizza at usual place; then move to De Shalit)
Lecturer: Elena Pian
INAF Trieste
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Zorro and the nature of SN Ia explosions
Lecturer: Paolo Mazzali
MPA Garching
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 11:15
  Seminar
Title: Temporal evolution of thermal emission from relativistically expanding plasma
Lecturer: Asaf Pe’er
STScI
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: J0737-3039 - The double pulsar: a prediction, a speculation, a result and its implications.
Lecturer: T. Piran
Hebrew U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, March 05, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The evolution of small bodies in the solar system
Lecturer: Dina Prialnik
Tel Aviv U.
Location:
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The AWE Hypothesis: a clue for a unified description of Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
Lecturer: Jean-Michel Alimi
Laboratory Universe and Theories Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008, 13:30
  Journal Club
Title: OJ287: A binary massive black hole on a relativistic orbit?
Lecturer: Tal Alexander
Location: Weissman-Physics , Lounge
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: On the Formation of Planets and the Origin of their Spins
Lecturer: Hilke Schlichting
Caltech
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Lensing-based cluster mass profiles vs. LCDM theory
Lecturer: T. Broadhurst
Tel Aviv U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: What is the primary energy output in Gamma-Ray Bursts?
Joint WIS-BGU astrophysics seminar
Lecturer: David Eichler
Ben Gurion U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 13:30
  Journal Club
Title: Q
Note special time and date!
Lecturer: Neta Bahcall
Princeton U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Lounge
Event poster
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2008, 13:30
  Seminar
Title: QPOs and Nonlinear Pendulums
Note special time and date! We will meet for Pizza in the lounge, then move on to the new Seminar room (L wing).
Lecturer: Paola Rebusco
MIT
Location: Weissman-Physics , New Seminar Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 02, 2008, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: Application of high-precision astronomical techniques to the study of binary stars
Lecturer: Shay Zucker
Tel Aviv U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: What can we learn from the smallest AGN?
Lecturer: Ari Laor
The Technion
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 12:15
  Deplecture
Title: The TAUVEX Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
Lecturer: Noah Brosch
Tel Aviv U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 11:15
  Deplecture
Title: Solving the Neutrino Problem: The Next Generation Neutrino Oscillation Experiments MINOS and NOvA
Lecturer: Ken Heller
U. of Minnesota
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 11:15
  Deplecture
Title: Double feature: 1. Magnetar Oscillations, and 2. Detecting gravitational waves using pulsar timing arrays
Lecturer: Yuri Levin
Leiden U.
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007, 12:45
  Deplecture
Title: Analysis of the thermal emission component in Gamma-Ray Bursts
Lecturer: Asaf Pe’er
U. Amsterdam
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 12:15
  Deplecture
Title: Force-free pulsar magnetosphere
Lecturer: Andrey Timokhin
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 12:15
  Deplecture
Title: Transiting extrasolar planets - from hot Jupiters to Earth analogs
Lecturer: Frederic Pont
Observatoire de Geneve
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster
Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 12:15
  Seminar
Title: The AGN obscuring torus - is it really a "bagel"?
Lecturer: Moshe Elitzur
U. Kentucky / LAOG, Grenoble
Location: Weissman-Physics , Amos de-Shalit Room
Event poster

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