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February 01, 2010
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Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Lecture
"Ethics of energy research, production and use"
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Prof. Julian Kinderlerer
President , European Group on Ethics (EGE)in Science and New Technologies, European CommissionOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Lecture
TBA
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer AMIR YACOBY
HARVARD UNIVERSITYOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact -
Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Colloquia
Electrons in Graphene:Particles with SU(4) symmetry
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer AMIR YACOBY
HARVARD UNIVERSITYOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Interactions among electrons can give rise to striking colle...» Interactions among electrons can give rise to striking collective phenomena when the kinetic energy of charge carriers is suppressed. One example is the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect, in which correlations between electrons moving in two dimensions under the influence of a strong magnetic field generate spontaneously symmetry breaking and excitations with fractional charge.
Single and bilayer graphene provides a new platform to study many-body effects due to the relativistic nature of their charge carriers and the SU(4) symmetry that arises from the electron’s spin and valley degrees of freedom. In this talk I will discuss some of the unique manifestations of this SU(4) symmetry on correlated electron phenomena in graphene.
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Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Lecture
Efficient Preconditioning for Laplacian Matrices
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Raanan Fattal
Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Lecture
Dr. Barbara Pauly, EMBO Reports
More information Time 13:00 - 14:00Title EMBO reports - a behind the scenes look at scientific publishing as an alternative career for scientistsLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dr. Barbara Pauly
Editor, EMBO ReportsOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Lecture
Life Science Lecture
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Title Building functional muscles: how cells communicate to form a functional tissue during embryogenesisLocation Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Talila Volk
Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Cultural Events
Cinderella
More information Time 17:30 - 17:30Title Children's theaterLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:30ThursdayMay 2013Lecture
The Iranian-Israeli Nuclear Campaign: From Cultural Trauma to Reconciliation
More information Time 18:00 - 18:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Gad Yair
Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Louis and Ann Wolens Chair in Educational Research Director, NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in EducationContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Iran and Israel are on the verge of war. Iran and Israel are...» Iran and Israel are on the verge of war. Iran and Israel are set on their doomsday path by a double-bind process of colliding cultural traumas. Both parties are driven by deeply-traumatized national identities. The Iranians are attempting to escape from an inferiority complex that resulted from a series of colonial defeats. The Israeli threat to engage in a pre-emptive strike reflects deep fears of annihilation. Though generated by third parties, the reactions of one party toward the other only enflame the latter’s trauma, creating a double-bind process of escalating crisis. Unlocking of the current trajectory toward war should take a strong grip on the cultural traumas of both parties. Resolutions should create collective narratives that mitigate the national habitus of both parties. -
Date:31FridayMay 2013Cultural Events
Tango Magic
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title From Carlos Gardel to Astor PiazzollaLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:01SaturdayJune 2013Cultural Events
Short and To the Point
More information Time 21:00 - 21:00Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:02SundayJune 2013Lecture
Chemical Physics Lunch Club Seminar
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Title Structure of Water at Interfaces and Chemical Reactivity. Insight From SimulationsLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Ilan Benjamin
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of CaliforniaOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about In recent years, experimental data confirmed much of the ins...» In recent years, experimental data confirmed much of the insight gained from simulations about the structure and dynamics of the neat liquid-liquid and liquid-vapor interfaces. I will briefly review this progress and discuss our recent work which shows how liquid surface fluctuations control relaxation and reactivity. -
Date:03MondayJune 2013Colloquia
Faculty of Chemistry Colloquium - Prof. Leslie M. Loew
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Title DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYESLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Professor Leslie M. Loew
Cell Biology University of Connecticut Health CenterOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryContact -
Date:03MondayJune 2013Lecture
“Tooth, bone and what’s in between: a 3D story of structure and function”
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Gili Naveh
Student of Prof. Steve WeinerOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:03MondayJune 2013Lecture
Taming the complexity of cellular biology with Virtual Cell
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Michael Sela AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Leslie Loew
R.D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling University of Connecticut Health CenterOrganizer Clore Center for Biological PhysicsContact -
Date:03MondayJune 2013Lecture
Nonequilibrium Stationary States for some Model Systems
More information Time 14:15 - 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers, The State University Organizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact -
Date:03MondayJune 2013Lecture
Contagious sets in expanders
More information Time 14:30 - 14:30Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Daniel Reichman
Organizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:03MondayJune 2013Lecture
מפגשים בחזית המדע
More information Time 19:15 - 21:00Location Davidson Institute of Science EducationOrganizer Science for All UnitHomepage Contact -
Date:04TuesdayJune 2013Lecture
Structural Study of the GAL Regulon in S. Cerevisiae
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Tali Lavy
WIS-Department of Structural BiologyOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:04TuesdayJune 2013Lecture
Selective Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title Organic Chemistry- Dpeartmental seminarLocation Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Professor Mahdi Abu-Omar
Department of Chemistry and School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue UniversityOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Transition metal catalysts have been an integral part of the...» Transition metal catalysts have been an integral part of the success story of the petrochemical industry in the past century. Two of the grand challenges for this century are renewable energy and the utilization of green resources. Approximately 1.4 billion tons of lignocellulosic biomass is an annually renewable source of energy and feedstock in the U.S. alone. The major components of biomass are cellulose, hemicellulose/xylan, and lignin- all polymeric and contain high percentage of oxygen. I will describe catalytic processes based on cheap and abundant materials that can be employed in tandem to unravel polymeric biomass into soluble components and their subsequent transformation into fuels and high value organics. -
Date:04TuesdayJune 2013Lecture
"Using population-level transcriptome data to characterize host range evolution in a non-model insect-plant system"
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Aman Singh Gill
Department of Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, Department of Mathematics & Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USAOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Evolutionary transitions in host range (from generalist to s...» Evolutionary transitions in host range (from generalist to specialist and vice versa) in herbivorous insects may reflect a process of ecological speciation that helps to explain their immense diversity. Host range evolution also has a considerable economic dimension in the capacity of insects to evolve specialized preference for crop plants. Yet despite decades of research, the genomic basis of host-range evolution remains unclear, and nearly all studies to date (e.g. comparisons of the generalist Drosophila melanogaster to the specialist D. sechellia) concern species-level comparisons--where reproductive isolation is already complete, obscuring the evolutionary changes that may have initiated reproductive barriers in the first place. To help understand host-range evolution at the genomic level, we utilize a non-model species, the aphid Uroleucon ambrosiae, which has specialist populations in the eastern part of their North American range but generalist populations in the arid southwest. To characterize the functional genomics of host range evolution in this species, and to demonstrate an approach to functional genomics in non-model species, we carried out high-throughput sequencing on two libraries built from genes expressed across the transcriptome. The full set of expressed genes in these two libraries was analyzed for evidence of genetic differentiation (based on FST) and differential expression. The results point to candidate loci functionally involved in host-range evolution--many of which are associated with metabolic processes--in a system with ongoing gene flow and incomplete reproductive isolation.