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Date:31TuesdayJanuary 2012Lecture
Oscillations and vibrations- The Sturm and Courant theorems revisited
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Prof. Uzy Smilansky
Weizmann Institute of ScienceOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:31TuesdayJanuary 2012Lecture
The ups and downs of an atmospheric aerosol: Chemically-resolved particle fluxes over tropical and temperate forests.
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Dr. Delphine Farmer
Department of Chemistry Colorado State University Fort Collins, COOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:31TuesdayJanuary 2012Lecture
Polyploidy counteracts tumorigenicity through suppression of the non-coding RNA H19
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Ofer Shoshani Organizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:31TuesdayJanuary 2012Lecture
How We Know That We Know:The Process Underlying Subjective Confidence
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Asher Koriat
Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making University of HaifaOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about How do people monitor the correctness of their answers and j...» How do people monitor the correctness of their answers and judgments? A self-consistency model is proposed for the basis of confidence judgments and their accuracy. The model assumes that the process underlying subjective confidence in general-knowledge questions and perceptual judgments has much in common with that underlying statistical inference about the outside world. Participants behave like intuitive statisticians who attempt to reach a conclusion about a population on the basis of a small sample of observations. Subjective confidence is based on the sampling of clues from memory, and represent an assessment of the likelihood that a new sample will yield the same decision. Results consistent with the model were obtained across several two-alternative forced-choice tasks. The model explains some of the basic observations about subjective confidence and generates new predictions. -
Date:31TuesdayJanuary 2012Lecture
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More information Time 13:30 - 13:30Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Julia Farache-Pinto Organizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:01WednesdayFebruary 2012Lecture
OCTOPUS Plenary Meeting
More information Time All dayLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:01WednesdayFebruary 2012Lecture
How to secrete while catching your breath
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Elazar Zelzer
Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISHomepage Contact -
Date:01WednesdayFebruary 2012Lecture
"What Was Learned Starting from a Universal Mechanism that Corrects Errors in the Translation of the Genome".
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Paul Schimmel
The Scripps Research Institute CA, USAOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:01WednesdayFebruary 2012Lecture
Functional Colloids and further materials sought after by BASF
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Wendel Wohlleben
BASF SE Material Physics Ludwigshafen, Germany (Currently a visiting scientist in Prof. Israel Rubinstein's group)Organizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Starting with two colloidal systems where detailed structure...» Starting with two colloidal systems where detailed structure-property relationships guided the optimization of a functional material, the third part of the talk sketches the materials areas where BASF is seeking academic partnerships.
The first exemplary topic addresses the self-assembly mechanisms of synthetic Hydrophobin proteins in their 'dirty' application environment. These proteins invert the hydrophobicity of solid surfaces and are a powerful co-surfactant in e.g. emulsions to enhance the interface elastic modulus. The second part discusses the formulation and fractionation of nanotubes and inorganic crystallization seed particles, where non-covalent ligands adsorb in different geometries, exchange against each other and thus enhance the specificity of individualization and effectiveness. Focus areas for multi-material systems in general include heat management, lightweight composites and materials for electronics, construction or water treatment.
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Date:01WednesdayFebruary 2012Lecture
Fractals, multifractals, and stochastic geometry in modern condensed matter physics
More information Time 13:15 - 15:00Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Ilya Gruzberg
Chicago UniversityOrganizer Department of Condensed Matter PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Lecture 1. Fractals. Introduction, examples. Trying to def...»
Lecture 1. Fractals. Introduction, examples. Trying to define a fractal.
Scaling, self-similarity, fractal dimension. Deterministic versus random
fractals. Diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA). Fractal clusters in statistical mechanics. Conformal invariance. Basics of Schramm-Lowner evolution (SLE) and its applications.
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Date:02ThursdayFebruary 2012Lecture
Workshop and Round Table Discussion Cancer Therapy
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Profs.A.Onn, J.Schachter, A.Levitzki, Tamar Peretz, Bella Kaufman, Yaacov Shechter Contact -
Date:02ThursdayFebruary 2012Lecture
Workshop and Round Table Discussion Cancer Therapy
More information Time 11:00 - 17:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Workshop and RTD Cancer Research
VariousOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact -
Date:02ThursdayFebruary 2012Lecture
What does a Point Process Outside a Domain tell us about What's Inside?
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Subhro Ghosh
UC BerkeleyOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:02ThursdayFebruary 2012Lecture
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More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Matt Strassler
Rutgers UniversityOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact -
Date:02ThursdayFebruary 2012Cultural Events
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
More information Time 17:30 - 17:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:03FridayFebruary 2012Cultural Events
"What does science have to say about Happiness?"
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title With Prof. Yoram Yuval, Psychologist and PsychoanalystLocation Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumContact -
Date:05SundayFebruary 2012Lecture
Biogeochemistry of Methane in Lake Sediments
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Dr. Orit Sivan Organizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:05SundayFebruary 2012Lecture
Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin
More information Time 12:30 - 14:00Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics BuildingLecturer Ilya Gurwich Organizer Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about We show that the 5-GHz radio flux of transient ballistic jet...» We show that the 5-GHz radio flux of transient ballistic jets in black hole binaries correlates with the dimensionless black hole spin parameter a* estimated via the continuum-fitting method. The data suggest that jet power scales either as the square of a* or as the square of the angular velocity of the horizon ΩH. This is the first direct evidence that jets may be powered by black hole spin energy. The observed correlation validates the continuum-fitting method of measuring spin. In addition, for those black holes that have well-sampled radio observations of ballistic jets, the correlation may be used to obtain rough estimates of their spins. -
Date:05SundayFebruary 2012Lecture
The transcriptional network driving t(8;21) leukemia the most common subtype of human AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia)
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Oren Ben-Ami
Yoram Groner's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:05SundayFebruary 2012Lecture
Microbiology Journal Club - Inheritance in D. melanogaster of different phenotypes and its reversal by commensal bacteria
More information Time 13:00 - 14:00Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Dr. Yael Fridmann Sirkis Organizer Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences , Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact