John Bahcall memorial lecture
John Bahcall made seminal contributions to almost every subject in modern astrophysics. Most notable is his research into solar neutrinos, which lead to the birth of neutrino astronomy. John was a mentor to many Israeli astrophysicists and was of great help in starting and establishing the astrophysics groups at the Weizmann Institute and at Tel Aviv University.
2006-2007: Francis Halzen
High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory
2007-2008: Scott Tremaine
The Long-Term Evolution of Orbits in Planetary Systems and Binary Stars
2008-2009: Peter Goldreich
Reading the Record of Ancient Impacts
2009-2010: S.R. Kulkarni
Charting the Transient Sky: the Palomar Transient Factory
2012: Richard Ellis
Cosmic Dawn: The Quest for the First Galaxies
Einstein Colloquia
Devoted to presenting outstanding contributions to physics
2012
Past: Einstein Colloquium 2005, Einstein Colloquium
2006, Einstein Colloquium 2007, Einstein Colloquium 2008, Einstein Colloquium 2009, Einstein Colloquium 2010, Einstein Colloquium 2011
Arkadi Aronov memorial lecture
Arkadi Aronov was one of the world's outstanding condensed-matter theorists, with lasting contributions to the Physics of semiconductors, interacting electrons in disordered systems and kinetics. He joined WIS in the last few years before his untimely death in 1994
2006 - 2007: Yakir Aharonov
QUANTUM PHENOMENA - A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM REALITY
Past
Amos de-Shalit memorial lecture
Amos de-Shalit was invited in 1953 to join the Weizmann Institute and establish a new department of nuclear physics. A very bright physicist, an excellent speaker and the founder of science education in Israel, he led the department for several years and later became the Scientific Director and than the Director of the Institute. His death at the age of 43 was a great loss to nuclear physics and to all of science in Israel.
2010-2011: Aldo Covello
Nuclear shell model and realistic effective interactions
2010-2011: Klaus Blaum
Precision penning trap experiments with stored and cooled exotic lons
2011-2012: Pieter Van Isacker
Symmetries in Nuclei
Past
Giulio Racah memorial lecture
Yoel (Giulio) Racah joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shortly
before World WarII. There he introduced theoretical physics to Israel,
through many powerful and elegant methods in spectroscopy. His students
founded the physics department at the Weizmann Institute, in whose
growth and success he took special pride.
2011: Nirit Dudovich
Resolving Attosecond Processes via Strong-Field –Matter Interactions
2010: Gilad Perez
Top Physics in the Large Hadron Collider Era
Past