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April 01, 2015
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Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
HOLOGRAPHIC ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPY AND THE INTERNAL SPACE
More information Time 10:30Location NeveOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
Genetic Diversity for Drought Resistance in Wild Emmer Wheat and its Potential for Wheat Improvement
More information Time 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Yehoshua (Shuki) Saranga Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Crop Science, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact Details Show full text description of http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/plantscience/people/Yehos...» http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/plantscience/people/Yehoshua_Saranga/
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Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
GEOMETRY AND ENTANGLEMENT IN TYPE IIB HOLOGRAPHY
More information Time 12:00Location Neve ShalomLecturer Francesco Aprile
UNIVERSITY OF CRETEOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
High Energy Theory Joint SeminarContact -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
Major Depression: Recent Developments and Challenges in Treatment
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Hilik Levkovitz
Deputy Director, Beer- Yakov Nees-Ziona Mental Health Center Chair Continuous Medical Education (CME), Sackler School of Medicine, Tel–Aviv UniversityOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The talk will provide an overview of recent developments in ...» The talk will provide an overview of recent developments in major depression, with emphasis on problem of predicting the clinical effects of the new antidepressants. I will discuss research findings both at the clinical level and at the levels of the biology of antidepressant action and of neuromodulation. -
Date:22WednesdayApril 2015Lecture
Ceremony marking Remembrance Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism
More information Time 11:00 - 11:45Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingContact -
Date:25SaturdayApril 2015Cultural Events
Zig zag couples
More information Time 21:00Location Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact -
Date:26SundayApril 201529WednesdayApril 2015Conference
Cortical Development in Health and Disease
More information Time 08:00 - 18:00Location David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumChairperson Orly ReinerHomepage Contact -
Date:26SundayApril 2015Lecture
Biological Molecules Search for Chemistry
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Koby Levy
Department of Structural BiologyOrganizer Communications and Spokesperson DepartmentContact -
Date:26SundayApril 2015Lecture
The missing Lincs: Elucidating the roles of Cytomegalovirus Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNAs in viral lytic infection
More information Time 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Sharon Karniely
Noam Stern-Ginossar's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Life SciencesContact -
Date:27MondayApril 2015Colloquia
Pearlman Lecture - "Exploring Complex Chemical Systems"
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Leroy (Lee) Cronin
School of Chemistry, University of GlasgowOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryContact Details Show full text description of How do high nuclearity inorganic and supramolecular assembli...» How do high nuclearity inorganic and supramolecular assemblies form? Can understanding the minimal information content of the structures help us understand their assembly? Is there a general route to explore the mechanism and how can one given compound dominate from a combinatorial explosion of possibilities? In our current work we are using new approaches to probability theory and template design to explore the possibility of using high probability templates to assemble low probability structures with 1000s of atoms in a single molecule. Take the example of a recent molecule discovered in our laboratory: A palladium oxometalate {Pd84}-ring cluster 3.3 nm in diameter; [Pd84O42(OAc)28(PO4)42]70- ({Pd84} ≡ {Pd12}7) which is formed in water just by mixing two reagents at room temperature and can be observed in solution within a few days mixing and crystallised with a week, see Figure 1. The key question is how could a ring as large as the {Pd84} spontaneously form and crystallize within the period of days. Indeed the state space for the molecule, just considering the unique arrangements of distinct 84 Pd atoms, ignoring symmetry, gives an upper limit on the combinatorial space of 84! = 3.3 × 10126. It is therefore perhaps safe to assume that the structure therefore did not ‘spontaneously’ form by random chance, but a series of templating events, combined with the correct kinetics, allowed this cluster to be selected from the vast envelope of possible structures available in solution. In this lecture I will propose a new theory that may explain the mechanism of self-assembly of gigantic systems, as well as an approach to understand and use the information content of complex molecular structures. -
Date:27MondayApril 2015Lecture
Chirality and Polarity: Two Mechanisms for Microstructure Formation in Soft Materials
More information Time 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room ALecturer Jonathan Selinger
Kent State UniversityOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about From liquid crystals to biological membranes, many soft mate...» From liquid crystals to biological membranes, many soft materials exhibit order in the molecular orientation. This order may be uniform across the material, or it may have some systematic modulation. In this talk, we survey mechanisms for the formation of modulated structures. Many of these structures arise from chirality (left-right asymmetry), which induces a favored twist. On macroscopic scale, this favored twist leads to cholesteric liquid crystals (with helical modulation), blue phases (with cubic lattices of double twist), and twisted membranes. We point out that related structures can arise from polarity (vector asymmetry), which induces a favored splay or bend. We compare and contrast polar structures with chiral structures, and show how each can be observed in experiments.
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Date:28TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
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More information Time 10:30Location Neve ShalomLecturer BARTUMEU FIOL
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONAOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
High Energy Theory Joint SeminarContact Details Show full text description of 10:20 Gathering and coffee...» 10:20 Gathering and coffee -
Date:28TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
Challenges in carotenoid biosynthesis research: From metabolism to genetic regulation
More information Time 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Prof. Joseph Hirschberg
Department of Genetics, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, JerusalemOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:28TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
NELSON BRAGA
More information Time 12:00Location Neve ShalomLecturer NELSON BRAGA
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANERIO, BRAZILOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
High Energy Theory Joint SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about It is by now well known that the AdS/CFT duality provides an...» It is by now well known that the AdS/CFT duality provides an interesting way of calculating anomalous dimensions at high spin, for a gauge theory at strong coupling. A high spin operator, made of adjoint fields, is represented by (or dual to) a rotating open string in anti-de Sitter space. The anomalous dimension shows up, in the string side of the correspondence, simply as the difference between string energy and spin. On the other hand it is also know that it is possible to introduce matter degrees of freedom - fields in the fundamental representation of the gauge group - in the AdS/CFT duality by introducing probe (flavour) branes. This approach leads to a nice description of meson states. So, a natural question to be asked is : can one calculate the anomalous dimension for operators in the fundamental representation, like a quark anti-quark, using AdS/CFT? This question will be the main issue of this seminar. We will see that the presence of an energy scale makes it a non trivial task the identification of a quantity representing, in the string side, the dimension of the gauge theory operator. Serching for the solution to this problem, we found a new entry in the dictionary of AdS/CFT: the anomalous dimension at high spin is proportional to the string proper length. Also, we found strong indications that, in the case of a non conformal duality, the operator properties are obtained from measurements made by a local observer (not sensible to energy scales) in the anti-de Sitter space, while the description of the states comes from a coordinate time observer. (reference: JHEP 1408, 104 (2014) at ArXiv:1405.7388) -
Date:28TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Amit Zeisel
Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The mammalian cerebral cortex supports cognitive functions s...» The mammalian cerebral cortex supports cognitive functions such as sensorimotor integration, memory, and social behaviors. Normal brain function relies on a diverse set of differentiated cell types, including neurons, glia, and vasculature. Here, we have used large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to classify cells in the mouse somatosensory cortex and hippocampal CA1 region. We found 47 molecularly distinct subclasses, comprising all known major cell types in the cortex. We identified numerous marker genes, which allowed alignment with known cell types, morphology, and location. -
Date:28TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
New Insights into the Transport Mechanism of the Neurotransmitter:Sodium Symporter Family
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Dr. Lina Malinauskaite
University of OxfordOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:28TuesdayApril 2015Cultural Events
Music at noon - Beatles tribute concert
More information Time 16:30 - 17:30Location Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact Details Show full text description of Magical mystery band ...» Magical mystery band -
Date:29WednesdayApril 2015Lecture
Cell competition and Tumorigenesis
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Gines Morata
Centro de Biología Molecular, CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SpainOrganizer Life SciencesContact -
Date:29WednesdayApril 2015Lecture
Turbulent Magnetic Field Amplification in Young Galaxies
More information Time 10:15 - 11:15Location Dannie N. Heineman Laboratory
Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar RoomLecturer Jennifer SchoberOrganizer Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Magnetic fields play an important role in present-day galaxi...» Magnetic fields play an important role in present-day galaxies, for instance by influencing the star formation process. In models of young galaxies magnetic fields are usually not considered as they were assumed not to be dynamical important at high redshifts. In the presence of turbulence, however, the small-scale or turbulent dynamo can amplify weak magnetic seed fields by randomly stretching, twisting, and folding the field lines. The details of this process depend on the nature of turbulence, i.e. on the hydrodynamic and magnetic Reynolds numbers, and on the compressibility of the gas. In my talk I will introduce the basics of the turbulent dynamo and sketch our recent progress in describing it analytically and numerically. With a model of a typical young galaxy, where turbulence is driven by accretion and by supernova explosions, we determine the growth rate of the small-scale dynamo. We follow the exponential growth of the magnetic field on the viscous scale and also the subsequent transport of the magnetic energy to larger scales in the non-linear dynamo phase. Depending on the parameters of our model we find that equipartition of magnetic and kinetic energy, which corresponds to a field strength of roughly 10^(-5) G, is reached within 4 to 270 Myr. Thus, we expect that the turbulent dynamo can generate strong unordered fields already in very young galaxies which should be considered in future models of galaxy evolution. -
Date:29WednesdayApril 2015Colloquia
Special Chemistry Colloquium - "Bond, Chemical Bond"
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Wilson Ho
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California/USAOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryContact