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June 13, 2013
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Date:04MondayNovember 2013Lecture
Mixed order phase transitions in one dimension
More information Time 14:15 - 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Amir Bar, WIS Organizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Continuous phase transitions, in which the order parameter c...» Continuous phase transitions, in which the order parameter changes continuously at the transition, exhibit universal features such as critical exponents. This universality is deeply related to the divergence of a length scale. On the other hand first order transitions, in which the order parameter is discontinuous, are not associated with diverging length scales and hence they are non-universal. This dichotomy fails in quite a number of models which exhibit phase transitions of mixed nature, namely transitions which on the one hand exhibit a diverging correlation length and on the other hand display a discontinuous order parameter. Examples include models of wetting, glass and jamming transitions, DNA denaturation, rewiring networks and some one-dimensional models with long-range interactions.
An exactly soluble Ising model which provides a link between some of these rather distinct classes of systems is introduced and analyzed through exact calculations and renormalization group (RG) analysis. The RG analysis reveals an intriguing connection between Bose Einstein condensation type transitions and Kosterlitz-Thouless type transitions in one dimension.
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Date:04MondayNovember 2013Lecture
Bi-Lipschitz Bijection between the Boolean Cube and the Hamming Ball
More information Time 14:30 - 14:30Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Igor Shinkar
Organizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
Solving Difficult Structures of Macromolecular Assemblies by Combinatorial Modeling, Cross-linking and Mass-Spectrometry.
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Nir Kalisman
Dept. of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of MedicineOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
“High-precision functional profiling and integration of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Curtis Huttenhower
Harvard UniversityOrganizer Faculty of BiologyContact -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
SUPERSYMMETRIC RENYI ENTROPY
More information Time 10:30 - 11:30Location Neve ShalomLecturer ITAMAR YAAKOV
PRINCETON UNIVERSITYOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The Renyi entropy is a generalization of entanglement entrop...» The Renyi entropy is a generalization of entanglement entropy which can be used to further characterize the ground state of a quantum field theory. I'll present an observable, analogous to the Renyi entropy, which is defined for a 3d gauge theory preserving four supercharges, and which preserves a subset of the supersymmetry. Using localization techniques, this supersymmetric Renyi entropy can be calculated exactly for a variety of strongly coupled 3d gauge theories. I’ll present the results of this calculation and some examples from interesting 3d models. -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
DILATONS AND FINE TUNING
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Location Neve ShalomLecturer JOHN TERNING
UC DAVISOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about After reviewing ideas about how conformal symmetry can solve...» After reviewing ideas about how conformal symmetry can solve the fine tuning problems of the standard model, I will discuss whether the Higgs can be a dilaton and then see how the cosmological constant problem can be addressed using the AdS/CFT correspondence. -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
Non-canonical binding and function of a TLR2 ligand in both immune cells and stem cells
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Ada Weinstock Organizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
CD4+ T-Cells Differentiation: Outside the box
More information Time 13:30 - 14:30Title Student SeminarLocation Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Inbal Eizenberg and Jacob Rimer Organizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:05TuesdayNovember 2013Lecture
"Preclinical development of scyllo-inositol for treatment of Alzheimer's disease."
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. JoAnne McLaurin
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology University of TorontoOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:06WednesdayNovember 2013Lecture
Noise and robustness in embryonic polarity
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Title Developmental ClubLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Benny Shilo
Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISContact -
Date:06WednesdayNovember 2013Lecture
Introduction to Lie Superalgebras
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Prof. Maria Gorelik
Organizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Lecture
Stability for the edge-isoperimetric inequality in the discrete cube
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer David Ellis
Queen Mary University of LondonOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Colloquia
Thought experiments on Einstein's gravity
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Donald Lynden-Bell
Institute of Astronomy, University of CambridgeOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about To interpret the acceleration of the universe Astronomers ha...» To interpret the acceleration of the universe Astronomers have invoked
the negative gravity of a highly strained space.
To gain understanding of the gravity due to the parts of the stress
tensor other than density we do thought experiments that parallel
the 18th and 19th Century experiments on Electricity carried out
by our forebears. There are 3 (or 10) conserved currents in gravity corresponding to conservation of energy, momentom, and angular momentum.
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Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Lecture
Multi-view inter-media: From space to ocean-depths
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Yoav Y. Schechner
TechnionOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Lecture
Why is type 1 diabetes a stubborn chronic disease?
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Lecturer Prof. Kevan Herold
Departments of Immunobiology and Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USAContact -
Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Lecture
Interconversion of islet cell types: beta-cell reconstitution by lineage reprogramming
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Lecturer Prof. Pedro Herrera
Department of Genetic Medicine & Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandContact -
Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Lecture
Making Sense of the "Arab Spring": New Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
More information Time 18:30 - 18:30Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Benedetta Berti
Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and Lecturer, Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion UniversityHomepage Contact Abstract Show full text abstract about Despite a number of core similarities on the levels of histo...» Despite a number of core similarities on the levels of history, politics, culture and language, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is extraordinarily complex, and individual Middle Eastern countries differ in virtually every way. From demographic makeup, to geography, to economy, to geostrategic considerations, the great differences among Middle Eastern nations help explain why each country has taken part differently in the Arab Awakening, as well as the markedly dissimilar government responses to the protest movements.
And yet the Arab Awakening is a phenomenon of the Middle Eastern region.
Likewise, one can enumerate challenges shared by virtually all the MENA nations, as well as the main social and political groups. This talk will analyze how the Middle East and North Africa region has been changing in the past three years. The focus of the talk will be understanding both the regional precipitants of the protests and the political, economic, and social challenges ahead.
How has the Middle East changed and what's in store for the future? How has Israel's place in the region been affected by these ongoing changes?
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Date:07ThursdayNovember 2013Cultural Events
Sentiment Neapolitan!
More information Time 21:00 - 21:00Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:10SundayNovember 2013Lecture
The Precambrian ocean green: Seawater chemistry in a low-oxygen world
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Prof. Itay Halevy
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of ScienceOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:10SundayNovember 2013Lecture
Targeted drug delivery and personalized medicine: From chemotherapy to nano-robots
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr. Avi Schroeder
Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact