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January 01, 2016
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Date:20ThursdayApril 2017Lecture
Imm Student Seminars by Niv Zmora & Eman Khatib -Thursday, April 20th, 2017
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Niv Zmora
“The good, the bad and the useless (bugs)”|“Metabolic regulation of bone marrow neutrophil function during inflammation”Organizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:20ThursdayApril 2017Cultural Events
Afternoon music- Rockville in tribute to Coldplay
More information Time 16:30 - 16:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:23SundayApril 2017Conference
The 2nd Israeli Meeting on Systems Medicine in conjunction with CASyM
More information Time 08:00 - 16:00Location The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Doron LancetOrganizer Faculty of BiochemistryHomepage -
Date:23SundayApril 2017Lecture
TBA
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Christopher Collom Organizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:23SundayApril 2017Lecture
PTPROt in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a tumor suppressor or promotor?
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Jean Wakim
Ari Elson's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:23SundayApril 2017Lecture
A cheap, carbon-nitrogen compound initiates efficient water splitting to H2 and O2 by visible light
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Title SAERI-Sustainability And Energy Research Initiative Seminar SeriesLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Yeshayahu (Shay) Lifshitz
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and FUNSOM, Soochow University, Suzhou, ChinaOrganizer Weizmann School of ScienceContact -
Date:24MondayApril 2017Lecture
Memorial Ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day
More information Time 10:00 - 10:45Contact -
Date:24MondayApril 2017Lecture
AMO Special Seminar
More information Time 12:45 - 14:00Title Anderson localization in nanophotonic structuresLocation Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Hanan Herzig Sheinfux
Technion - IITOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Anderson localization is a cornerstone of our understanding ...» Anderson localization is a cornerstone of our understanding of the interaction of light with disorder. But in the deep subwavelength regime, all photonic transport effects, including Anderson localization, become trivialized and effective medium theory should take over.
This talk will present work on subwavelength disordered multilayer structures - stacks of dielectric layers, where each is layer has an average thickness of lambda/40 (experimentally) or lambda/1000 (theoretically). But rather than being a weak effect, localization in this regime dominates transport completely and induces a rich regime of transport where disorder can sometimes increase transmission rather than reduce it. Furthermore, changing a single layer by 2 nm is shown to have a measurable effect on transport in visible wavelengths. -
Date:24MondayApril 2017Lecture
Molecular Neuroscience Forum Seminar
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Title How to make or break neuronal axons: roles and regulation of the cytoskeletonLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Andreas Prokop
University of ManchesterOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesHomepage Contact -
Date:24MondayApril 2017Lecture
Molecular Neuroscience Forum Seminar
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Title How to make or break neuronal axons: roles and regulation of the cytoskeletonLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Andreas Prokop
University of ManchesterOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesHomepage Contact -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
Mini Symposium on Immune Response to Viral Infections
More information Time 09:00 - 13:30Location Camelia Botnar BuildingOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
How do caveolae prevent the plasma membrane from breaking?
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Ben Nichols
MRC Laboratory o f Molecular Biology, Cambridge,UKOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
ANALYTIC BOOTSTRAP FOR LARGE N CFTS
More information Time 10:30 - 10:30Location Newe ShalomLecturer AGENSE BISSI
(HARVARD)Organizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
INDICES, PARTITION FUNCTIONS AND THE A-TWIST ACROSS DIMENSIONS
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Newe ShalomLecturer CYRIL CLOSSET
(CERN)Organizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about I will present some recent results about supersymmetric indi...» I will present some recent results about supersymmetric indices, partition functions and related observables that can be computed exactly on a large class of supersymmetric background geometries, in three- and four-dimensional gauge theories with four flat-space supercharges. I will emphasize interesting relationships between these observables, and their common origin in a A-twisted topological field theory in two dimensions -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
MCB - Students seminar
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Title TBALocation Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
“Development of novel antimicrobial agents”
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Dr. Zvi Hayouka
HUJIOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:25TuesdayApril 2017Lecture
Bonsai trees in your head: The powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision making
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain ResearchLecturer Prof. Jonathan Roiser
UCL Institute of Cognitive NeuroscienceOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Making decisions in the real world is challenging because ch...» Making decisions in the real world is challenging because choices made now influence what options will be available in the future. As the number of steps in a sequence of choices increases, the potential number of paths through a decision tree increases exponentially. How are we able to make good decisions in the face of such overwhelming complexity? One idea is that the brain uses shortcuts, or heuristics, to reduce computational demands. I will present evidence for the existence of a novel heuristic, "pruning", which entails avoiding even considering entire branches of a decision tree that begin with a large negative outcome, regardless of subsequent outcomes. We found that decision making was profoundly impaired when the optimal choice entailed initially accepting a large negative outcome (Huys et al 2012 PLoS Computational Biology 8(3):e1002410); and computational modelling showed that this bias could not be explained by other influences such as poor planning or loss aversion. A subsequent neuroimaging study, using a computational approach to assess pruning on a trial-by-trial basis, confirmed this behavioural effect, and suggested that pruning behaviour is driven by activity in brain regions implicated in emotional processing; in particular the subgenual cingulate cortex which plays a critical role in depression. These results will be discussed with reference to a contemporary theoretical framework that relates Pavlovian behavioural inhibition to serotonin and depressive symptoms. -
Date:27ThursdayApril 2017Lecture
Seminar
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Title Sharing Speeds Science: Intro to Addgene's Nonprofit Science ModelLocation Camelia Botnar BuildingLecturer Joanne Kamens, Ph.D.
Executive Director – addgeneOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Title; ‘Sharing Speeds Science: Intro to Addgene's Nonp...» Title; ‘Sharing Speeds Science: Intro to Addgene's Nonprofit Science Model
Info; addgene is a nonprofit organization founded to help scientists share materials and useful data across borders around the world. Addgene has distributed over 750,000 plasmids to scientists in 85 countries. This movement of samples has influenced fields from Stem Cells to CRISPR and almost everything in between. Addgene's Executive Director, Joanne Kamens will present on this unique compnay model, what's new with Addgene and about what it is like to be an Addgenie.
Dr. Kamens is the Executive Director of Addgene, a mission driven, nonprofit dedicated to helping scientists around the world share useful research reagents and data. Dr. Kamens received her PhD in Genetics from Harvard Medical School then spent 15 years as a researcher and manager in Pharma at BASF/Abbott working on both small molecule and antibody therapies for immune disease. In 2007 she joined RXi Pharmaceuticals as Senior Director of Research Collaborations. Dr. Kamens founded the current Boston chapter of the Association for Women in Science. She has helped start and supports many scientist mentoring programs with training and best practices. In 2010, Dr. Kamens received the Catalyst Award from the Science Club for Girls for longstanding dedication to empowering women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and in 2013, she was named one of PharmaVoice's 100 Most Inspiring Commanders & Chiefs. She serves on a number of other non-profit boards and speaks widely on career development and workplace diversity topics in person and via Webinar.
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Date:27ThursdayApril 2017Colloquia
Directed percolation transition to turbulence
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Bjorn Hof
IST AustriaOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The transition to turbulence in simple shear flows, like pip...» The transition to turbulence in simple shear flows, like pipe, channel and Couette flow, has remained an open problem for over a century. Typically here turbulence arises despite the linear stability of the laminar flow and results from perturbations of finite amplitude. Turbulence at first appears in the form of localised patches (e.g. puffs, spots or stripes) which coexist with laminar flow, resulting in complex, disordered flow patterns (spatio-temporal intermittency). Individual turbulent domains can collapse or they can proliferate and seed other patches of turbulence. The time scales on which flows evolve are extremely large and likewise are the relevant length scales. Characterizing the transition process hence requires experiments of very large aspect ratios and extremely long observation times. In detailed experiments and direct numerical simulations of Couette flow we could for the first time determine the critical exponents that characterize this transition and show that it falls into the directed percolation universality class. In addition I will show how the obtained insights can be used to control and even fully suppress turbulence. -
Date:27ThursdayApril 2017Lecture
AMO Special Seminar
More information Time 13:15 - 14:15Title Quantum technologies and quantum controlLocation Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Prof. Tommaso Calarco
Universität UlmOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The control of quantum states is essential both for fundamen...» The control of quantum states is essential both for fundamental investigations and for technological applications of quantum physics. In quantum few-body systems, decoherence arising from interaction with the environment hinders the realization of desired processes. In quantum many-body systems, complexity of their dynamics further makes state preparation via external manipulation highly non-trivial. An effective strategy to counter these effects is offered by quantum optimal control theory, exploiting quantum coherence to dynamically reach a desired goal with high accuracy even under limitations on resources such as time, bandwidth, and precision. In this talk I will:
- introduce the quantum optimal control method we developed to this aim, the CRAB (Chopped Random Basis) algorithm, which is to date the only method that allows to perform optimal control of quantum many-body systems;
- present experimental results obtained via its application to various physical systems, from quantum logical operations in solid-state quantum optics to quantum criticality in ultra-cold atoms, both in open-loop and in closed-loop feedback scenarios, with applications ranging from quantum interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates on atom chips to magnetic field sensing in diamond NV centers and to the preparation of optical-lattice quantum registers for quantum simulation;
- use these examples to illustrate the quantum speed limit, i.e. the maximum speed achievable for a given quantum transformation, and describe related effects of nonlinearity due to inter-particle interactions and more in general to dynamical complexity;
- propose a way to characterise the latter in an information-theoretical fashion by the bandwidth of the optimized control pulses, as well as a conjecture about using this method for discrimination between different levels of complexity in quantum many-body systems.