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February 01-28, 2017
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Date:14TuesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Dr. Boaz Katz - The Copernicus riddle: Why did it take two millenia to figure out that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Boaz Katz
Particle Physics and Astrophysics DepartmentOrganizer Communications and Spokesperson DepartmentHomepage Contact Details Show full text description of The lecture is in Hebrew...» The lecture is in Hebrew -
Date:14TuesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
The interplay between learning systems and their impact on long-term declarative memory
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Avi Mendelsohn
Dept of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of HaifaOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Details Show full text description of Host: Dr.Yaniv Ziv yaniv.ziv@weizmann.ac.il tel: 4275 For a...» Host: Dr.Yaniv Ziv yaniv.ziv@weizmann.ac.il tel: 4275
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Date:14TuesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
AMO Journal Club
More information Time 13:15 - 14:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Optics and Atomic Physics SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Speakers: Omri Bar-Elli, Ayelet Uzan ...» Speakers: Omri Bar-Elli, Ayelet Uzan -
Date:14TuesdayFebruary 2017Cultural Events
Cancelled King of the jungle and Tuti wonder woman
More information Time 17:30Location Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact Details Show full text description of Starring: Michael Lewis, Tuti the wonder woman, Revital Zalt...» Starring: Michael Lewis, Tuti the wonder woman, Revital Zaltsman, Dudi Gazit the African Circus -
Date:15WednesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Chromosome condensation and replication responds to nuclear mechanics in contractile muscles
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Talila Volk
Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Life SciencesContact -
Date:15WednesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Spotlight on Science: Atoms of recognition in human and computer vision
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallOrganizer Department of Life Sciences Core FacilitiesContact -
Date:16ThursdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Magnetic Resonance Seminar
More information Time 09:30Title Flexible and compact hybrid metamaterials for enhanced in vivo magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopyLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Rita Schmidt
C.J.Gorter Center for High Field MRI, University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.Organizer Department of Chemical and Biological Physics
Magnetic Resonance SeminarContact -
Date:16ThursdayFebruary 2017Colloquia
Mass Transfer in Binaries:Planets Around Stars and Stars Around Supermassive Black Holes
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Reem Sari
HUJIOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Details Show full text description of 11:00 – coffee, tea, and more...» 11:00 – coffee, tea, and moreAbstract Show full text abstract about Mass transfer between members of a binary is a common and we...» Mass transfer between members of a binary is a common and well studies situation. As members of a binary become closer to each other, mass may leak from one object due to the strong tidal forces from the other. Usually, the leaking mass flows towards the companion, but we show that for main sequence stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the galactic center and emit gravitational waves mass may also leak away from it. We show that the mass transfer affects the evolution of the gravitational wave emission in a way that reflects internal properties of the star. This may be relevant to observations of the planned LISA mission. On another front, tides may lead to orbital decay of planets which are close enough to their stars. Mass transfer will occur and we discuss its observational consequences in view of data from the Kepler mission. -
Date:16ThursdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Development of novel therapies for inborn errors of metabolism
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Nicola Brunetti-PierriOrganizer Life Sciences
Metabollic Research ForumContact -
Date:16ThursdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Protein Kinase A (PKA) isoform specificity: from single molecules to the brain
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Seminar RoomLecturer Dr. Ronit Ilouz
University of California, San DiegoOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact -
Date:16ThursdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Pelletron meeting - by invitation only
More information Time 16:00 - 17:45Contact -
Date:19SundayFebruary 2017Lecture
RNA tails in gene regulation
More information Time 10:00Title Special Guest SeminarLocation Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Narry Kim
Institute for Basic Science and Seoul National UniversityOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact -
Date:19SundayFebruary 2017Lecture
Toxic Metals in Iron Age Humans from the Faynan Area, Jordan: What Can Geochemical Tools Tell Us?
More information Time 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
M. Magaritz Seminar RoomLecturer Yigal Erel
Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:20MondayFebruary 2017Colloquia
Life Sciences Colloquium
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Title Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple PhenotypesLocation Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Danny Reinberg
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, New YorkOrganizer Life SciencesContact -
Date:20MondayFebruary 2017Lecture
AMO PhD Defense
More information Time 11:15 - 12:15Title Ultrasensitive measurements with high-Q toroidal micro-resonatorsLocation Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Drory AuditoriumLecturer Yulia Lovsky
Adviser: Prof. Barak DayanOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Optics and Atomic Physics SeminarContact -
Date:20MondayFebruary 2017Lecture
Starvation Dynamics of a Dumb and a Greedy Forager
More information Time 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Sid Redner, Santa Fe InstituteOrganizer Department of Chemical Research Support
Statistical Physics SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about What is the fate of a forager that depletes its environment ...» What is the fate of a forager that depletes its environment as it wanders? We investigate this question within the "starving" random walk model, in which the forager starves when it travels S steps without eating. The forager consumes food whenever it is found and becomes fully sated. However, when the forager lands on an empty site, it moves one time unit closer to starvation. We determine the forager lifetime, analytically in one dimension and numerically in higher dimensions. In two dimensions, long-lived walks explore a highly ramified region so as to remain close to food.
We also investigate the role of greed, in which the forager preferentially moves towards food when faced with a choice of hopping to food or to an empty site. Paradoxically, the forager lifetime can have a non-monotonic dependence on greed, with a different sense to the non-monotonicity in one and in two dimensions.
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Date:21TuesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
Studying the Role of Autophagy in Plant Central Metabolism
More information Time 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Tamar Avin-Wittenberg
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond Safra Campus, The Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:21TuesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
A Circuits First Approach to Mental Illness
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Amit Etkin
Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University and Investigator, Sierra-Pacific MIRECC, Palo Alto VAOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Details Show full text description of Host: Dr.Yaniv Ziv yaniv.ziv@weizmann.ac.il tel: 4275 For...» Host: Dr.Yaniv Ziv yaniv.ziv@weizmann.ac.il
tel: 4275
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Date:21TuesdayFebruary 2017Lecture
AMO Special Seminar
More information Time 13:15 - 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. August Krueger
Technion IIT, Dept. of MathematicsOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Optics and Atomic Physics SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Consider the correspondence f(x,y) → f(X,Y), where ...» Consider the correspondence f(x,y) → f(X,Y), where f is a function, x,y ∈ ℜ are coordinates, and X,Y are linear operators on an auxiliary space that satisfy the commutation relation XY-YX=i ∈ ℑ, for some real number ε. Making sense of f(X,Y) can require great care.
In physics one encounters this problem with the phase space picture of quantum mechanics commonly used in quantum optics, where X,Y are conjugate position and momentum operators. Such notions also occur in the strong field limit of the Landau problem and its string theory equivalent for D-branes where X,Y are the position operators for coordinates in a spatial plane. In mathematics one finds these problems addressed by harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg group along with general pseudo-differential operators and symbol calculus.
The ubiquity of the f(x,y) → f(X,Y) question has led many researchers in many different fields to perennially rediscover some formulas and miss others. This talk will discuss a review paper which aims to help the disparate communities speak to one another and cover new ground. This talk will focus on explicit representations and useful formulas. We will emphasize otherwise unexpected correspondences between continuous PDE and lattice difference equations, the likes of which are often found in models of nonlinear optical waveguide array lattices. -
Date:21TuesdayFebruary 2017Cultural Events
Afternoon Music - Amir Dadon
More information Time 16:30Location Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact Details Show full text description of Free Entrance for employees, students & families The e...» Free Entrance for employees, students & families
The entrance will be allowed only with WIS employee/student card
Amir Dadon's show includes hit singles from
his albums as well as songs in English such as
Purple Rain Prince and Leonard Cohen covers.