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Date:27ThursdayJune 2019Lecture
The Palace in Rehovot: Objects in the Weizmann House Tell Their Story
More information Time 19:30 - 21:00Location Weizmann House gardenLecturer The Palace in Rehovot: Objects in the Weizmann House Tell Their Story
Yad Chaim Weizmann cordially invites you to an evening of art and history The Palace in Rehovot: Objects in the Weizmann House Tell Their Story WILL BE GIVEN (IN HEBREW) BY Alec Mishory, historian, curator, art critic and Israeli art researcher Thursday, June 27, 2019 19:30 – Gathering 20:00 – Lecture Weizmann House garden Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot * The lecture is open to the public * for information regarding accessibility arrangements and further details: 08-9343230Organizer Yad Chaim WeizmannContact -
Date:30SundayJune 2019Lecture
Influence of terrestrial plants and phytoplankton on photochemical air-pollution
More information Time 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
M. Magaritz Seminar RoomLecturer Eran Tas
Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:02TuesdayJuly 2019Lecture
To be announced
More information Time 10:00 - 10:30Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Eliane Yardeni
Department of Biomolecular Sciences-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:02TuesdayJuly 2019Lecture
Automated optimisation of antibody variable fragments directly from sequence.
More information Time 10:30 - 11:00Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Jake Parker
Department of Biomolecular Sciences-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:02TuesdayJuly 2019Lecture
The Departments of Immunology and Molecular Genetics- Special Guest Seminar:Dr. Eric Shifrut ,will lecture about "Engineering human T cell therapies using CRISPR discovery platforms”
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Eric Shifrut
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco.Organizer Department of ImmunologyContact -
Date:02TuesdayJuly 2019Academic Events
Scientific Council meeting
More information Time 14:00 - 16:00Location David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumContact -
Date:02TuesdayJuly 2019Lecture
TBA
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Prof. Elizabeth Meiering
University of Waterloo, CanadaOrganizer Department of Structural BiologyContact -
Date:03WednesdayJuly 201904ThursdayJuly 2019Conference
Future Directions in Genetics Education
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumChairperson Anat YardenOrganizer Vice President for Resource DevelopmentContact -
Date:03WednesdayJuly 2019Lecture
Developmental Club Series 2018-2019
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Gil LevkowitzOrganizer Department of Molecular Genetics
Developmental ClubContact -
Date:03WednesdayJuly 2019Lecture
Machine Learning and Statistics Seminar
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Title Learning Linear-Quadratic Regulators Efficiently with only $sqrt{T}$ RegretLocation Jacob Ziskind Building
Room 1Lecturer Alon Cohen
GoogleOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Seminar, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Seminar, Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences SeminarContact Details Show full text description of The linear-quadratic regulator is a simple and ubiquitous mo...» The linear-quadratic regulator is a simple and ubiquitous model in optimal control. Classical results in control theory pertain to asymptotic convergence and stability of such systems. Recently, it has received renewed interest from a learning-theoretic perspective with a focus on computational tractability and finite-time convergence guarantees. Among the most challenging problems in LQ control is that of adaptive control: regulating a system with parameters that are initially unknown and have to be learned while incurring the associated costs. In its modern incarnation, this problem is approached through the lens of online learning with partial feedback (e.g., multi-armed bandits) and regret minimization. Still, recent results derive algorithms that are either computationally intractable or suffer from high regret. In this talk, I will present the first computationally-efficient algorithm with $widetilde O(sqrt{T})$ regret for learning in linear quadratic control systems with unknown dynamics. By that, this resolves an open question of Abbasi-Yadkori and Szepesvari (2011) and Dean, Mania, Matni, Recht, and Tu (2018). The key to the efficiency of our algorithm is in a novel reformulation of the LQ control problem as a convex semi-definite program. This is joint work with Tomer Koren and Yishay Mansour presented at ICML 2019.
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Date:04ThursdayJuly 2019Colloquia
Physics Colloquium
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Title TBALocation Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Haim Beidenkopf
WISOrganizer 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 TBA ...» TBA -
Date:04ThursdayJuly 2019Colloquia
Physics Colloquium
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Title TBALocation Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Haim Beidenkopf
WISOrganizer 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 TBA ...» TBA -
Date:08MondayJuly 2019Lecture
Foundations of Computer Science Seminar
More information Time 14:30 - 16:00Title The Mechanism Design Approach to Interactive ProofsLocation Jacob Ziskind Building
Room 155Lecturer Shikha Singh
Williams CollegeOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Seminar, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Seminar, Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences SeminarContact Details Show full text description of The model of interactive proofs, introduced nearly two and a...» The model of interactive proofs, introduced nearly two and a half decade, is now increasingly widely being used to design computation-outsourcing protocols. In an interactive proof, an honest party interacts with powerful but strategic provers, to elicit from them the correct answer to a computational question. Classical interactive proofs assume that the provers are adversarial (i.e., they want to mislead the verifier) and cooperative (work together as a team).
In this talk, I will present my work on a new payment-based interactive-proof system, called rational proofs. In rational proofs, the provers are not adversarial but rational, that is, they want to maximize the payment received from the verifier. Using principles from mechanism design, I will show how these payments can be used to leverage correctness from multiple provers who are either cooperative or non-cooperative in nature. I will also present how the guarantees of rational proofs are related to the soundness and completeness guarantees of classical interactive proofs.
Bio: Shikha Singh is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College and will be joining Williams College as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and her Integrated MSc. in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Kharagpur. Her broad research interests include algorithmic game theory, algorithms and data structures for big data, and complexity theory.
Abstract Show full text abstract about The model of interactive proofs, introduced nearly two and a...» The model of interactive proofs, introduced nearly two and a half decade, is now increasingly widely being used to design computation-outsourcing protocols. In an interactive proof, an honest party interacts with powerful but strategic provers, to elicit from them the correct answer to a computational question. Classical interactive proofs assume that the provers are adversarial (i.e., they want to mislead the verifier) and cooperative (work together as a team).
In this talk, I will present my work on a new payment-based interactive-proof system, called rational proofs. In rational proofs, the provers are not adversarial but rational, that is, they want to maximize the payment received from the verifier. Using principles from mechanism design, I will show how these payments can be used to leverage correctness from multiple provers who are either cooperative or non-cooperative in nature. I will also present how the guarantees of rational proofs are related to the soundness and completeness guarantees of classical interactive proofs.
Bio: Shikha Singh is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College and will be joining Williams College as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and her Integrated MSc. in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Kharagpur. Her broad research interests include algorithmic game theory, algorithms and data structures for big data, and complexity theory. -
Date:09TuesdayJuly 2019Lecture
TBA
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Prof. Peter Dedecker
KU LEUVEN, BELGIUMOrganizer Department of Structural BiologyContact -
Date:11ThursdayJuly 2019Lecture
Natural Killer Cell Therapy: From Hematopoietic stem cells to NK cells
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Inpyo ChoiOrganizer Department of Biological RegulationContact -
Date:14SundayJuly 2019Lecture
Trio correlation between cell mechanics, phagocytic capacity, and cancer aggressiveness
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences Building
Room 404Lecturer Prof. Ofra Benny
Faculty of Medicine, HUJIOrganizer Department of Materials and Interfaces
Soft Matter and BiomaterialsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about A comprehensive study showing a trio correlation between cel...» A comprehensive study showing a trio correlation between cell mechanics, phagocytic capacity, and cancer aggressiveness is presented. Mechanical properties of particles are shown to have a critical effect on the interactions with malignant cancer cells. Our findings offers new directions for mechanical based specificity in cancer treatment, and could lead to uptake measurement as a diagnostic tools for precision medicine. -
Date:16TuesdayJuly 2019Lecture
Special Guest Seminar
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Title “Nucleic Acid based therapies - from basic science to clinical translation: a view from the Biotech side”Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Yael WeissOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:17WednesdayJuly 2019Lecture
Developmental Club Series 2018-2019
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Eli AramaOrganizer Department of Molecular Genetics
Developmental ClubContact -
Date:17WednesdayJuly 2019Lecture
More surprises in f-electron magnetism
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences Building
Room 404Lecturer Prof. Alexander B. Shick
Institute of Physics CAS, PragueOrganizer Department of Materials and InterfacesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Surface supported single magnetic atoms, the so-called "...» Surface supported single magnetic atoms, the so-called "single-atom magnets", open new opportunities in a quest for t
he ultimate size limit of magnetic information storage. Initially, the research mainly focused on 3d-atoms on surfaces.
Recently, the attention was turned to the 4f-atoms, culminating in the experimental discovery of magnetically stable Ho atom
on MgO(001) substrate, and Dy atom on graphene/Ir(111).
I address the electronic and magnetic character of 4f-atoms on metal and Graphene substrate making use of a combination
of the DFT+U with the exact diagonalization of Anderson impurity model (DFT+U+ED). The spin and orbital magnetic moments
of Dy@Ir(111) and Dy/Graphene/Ir(111) are evaluated and compared with experimental XMCD data. The magnetic anisotropy
energy is estimated, and the magnetic stability is discussed. The role of 5d-4f interorbital exchange polarization in modification
of the 4f-shell energy spectrum is emphasized.
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Date:25ThursdayJuly 2019Lecture
TBA
More information Time 11:45 - 12:45Location Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Catherine PotenskiOrganizer Department of Biological RegulationContact