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Aummune is a clinical-stage oncology company pioneering a unique approach, coupling immunotherapy with patient-tailored platform.
Our lead molecule—an individualized bispecific T cell engager for solid malignancies— has demonstrated efficacy and safety in several animal models.
A Phase 1 study with this asset has successfully completed enrollment and is showing encouraging results.

LLMs offer users intuitive interfaces for interacting with textual information. The integration of vision into LLMs through VLMs has enabled these models to "see" and reason over visual content. However, these VLMs possess generic knowledge, lacking a personal touch. This raises an intriguing question: can we equip these models with the ability to comprehend and utilize user-specific concepts, tailored specifically to you? Can we ask the model questions about you, such as what you are wearing or what your friend is doing in the image? In this talk, we will explore how we can personalize VLMs to each user, offering more meaningful interactions that better reflect individual experiences and relationships.

Bio:

Yuval is a PhD student at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or. His research centers around leveraging generative models to give users greater control and creative freedom when interacting with visual content. Currently interning at Snap Research under Kfir Aberman, Yuval is also exploring new approaches for personalizing generative models.

Let M be a closed Riemannian manifold, let f be a diffeomorphism of M, and let m the Riemannian volume of M. We prove that if (f^n)*m goes exponentially fast to a measure mu, then mu is an SRB measure. This is joint work with Federico Rodriguez-Hertz.

Located in a highly sensitive subtropical climate area and a densely populated area, Lake Kinneret is poised to undergo both natural and human-induced transformations in the coming decades. The lake is thermally stratified throughout most of the year and mixes thoroughly each winter when the epilimnion (upper layer) water temperature reaches equilibrium with the hypolimnion (bottom layer) water temperature by surface cooling and turbulence. Both the stratified and the fully mixed periods has a significant role in the Kinneret’s ecological system.

Observation shows that air above the Lake is warming in a rate of 0.4oC/decade, while the epilimnion and hypolimnion are warming in a rate of 0.3oC/decade and 0.1oC/decade, respectively, for the last 50 years. Therefore, stratification strength and duration is anticipated to change and impact the lake’s ecosystem.

Additionally, the sequence of drought periods and the expected future rise in water demands from Lake Kinneret formed the basis for the government's decision to channel desalinated water, via the natural course of the Tzalmon Stream, to the lake to ensure its operational functionality at high levels.

Using a 3D hydrodynamic model forced by short and long-term forecasts the above scenarios are examined and analyzed. A simulation forced by regional atmospheric RCP4.5 climate change scenario spanning from 2010-2070 show continuous warming followed by abrupt cooling of the lake water around the year 2065. This result, presumably due to enhanced latent heat loss, suggest a restrain the dramatic anticipated change in the lake stratification.

We study the assembly of programmable quasi-2D DNA compartments as
“artificial cells” from the individual cellular level to multicellular communication.
We will describe work on autonomous synthesis and assembly of cellular
machines, collective modes of synchrony in a 2D lattice of ~1000
compartments, and a first look at the birth of proteins on a single DNA.

Some problems in the theory and applications of stochastic processes reduce to solving integral equations with their covariance operators. Usually, such equations do not have explicit solutions, but useful information can still be extracted through asymptotic analysis with respect to relevant parameters. In this talk, I will survey some recent results on such equations for processes related to the fractional Brownian motion: applications include the problem of small deviations, linear filtering, and statistical inference.

Flood is the outcome of complex processes interacting at a range of scales. Flood generation and its magnitude depend on different precipitation and surface properties. As the climate becomes warmer globally, precipitation patterns are changing and, consequently, altering flood regimes. Resolving the expected changes in flood properties requires examining projections of precipitation features most correlated with floods. While the redistribution of mean annual precipitation amounts is generally known, the trends in many other essential factors controlling floods are yet to be resolved. For example, flash flood magnitude is sensitive to space-time rainstorm properties such as areal coverage or storm speed. Still, knowledge of how these properties are affected by global warming is lacking. Maximal rain rates for duration relevant to the watershed’s response time are also crucial parameters controlling the flood discharge. There is some understanding of how extreme rain rates change, but the magnitude and sign depend on the rain duration considered. Changes in frequency and the intra-seasonal distribution of precipitation events also affect flood regimes. Finally, watersheds of different properties are sensitive to different precipitation features, and thus, different watersheds may respond differently to global warming. In this talk, we will present the complexity of flood response under global warming and then focus on two questions: 1) how does global warming affect heavy precipitation events (HPEs) in the eastern Mediterranean, and 2) how these effects are imprinted in the resulting floods in small-medium Mediterranean watersheds.
We simulated 41 eastern Mediterranean HPEs with the high-resolution weather research and forecasting (WRF) model. Each event was simulated twice: under historical conditions and at the end of the 21st-century conditions (RCP8.5 scenario) using the “pseudo global warming” approach. Comparison of precipitation patterns from the paired simulations revealed that heavy precipitation events in our region are expected to become drier and more spatiotemporally concentrated, i.e., we expect higher rain rates on smaller coverage areas and shorter storm durations that, in total, yield lower amounts of rainfall.
These effects have some contradicting signs, and their full hydrological impact on streamflow peak discharge and volume was further explored. Ensembles of spatially-shifted rainfall data from the simulated HPEs were input to a high-resolution distributed hydrological model (GB-HYDRA) representing four small-medium-size watersheds (18–69 km2) in the eastern Mediterranean (Ramot Menashe). Flow volume is significantly reduced in future HPEs, while the change in flood peak is more complicated due to the combined effect of precipitation amount (decreasing) and precipitation rate (increasing). For the watersheds examined in this research, which are mostly agricultural, flood peaks at the watershed outlets are mostly reduced. The dynamics of flood generation at sub-watersheds of different sizes and properties are further examined in this research to understand scenarios for lowering or increasing flood peaks. This study emphasizes that detecting and quantifying global warming impact on space-time precipitation patterns is essential for flood regime projection.