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Prof. Amos Breskin
Noble-liquid neutron and gamma radiography concepts for detection of concealed explosives and nuclear materials (Homeland security)Photon imaging detectorsNoble-liquid detector concepts for Dark-matter searches, neutrino physics and medical diagnosticsAdvanced gas-avalanche electron multipliersParticle tracking detectors for future particle and astroparticle experimentsMethods of Nano-dosimetry for precise evaluation of radiation effects at the DNA levelMethods for rapid evaluation of core fluids content in oil and gas wells
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Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam
Cosmic explosionsCore-collapse supernova explosions: their origins, nature, physics and population statisticsThermonuclear supernova explosions (SNe Ia): their nature and ratesGamma-Ray Bursts: their origin and relation to supernovaeNew types of cosmic explosions
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Prof. Ofer Aharony
Weakly coupled versions of the AdS/CFT correspondence and possible derivationsCollaboration with: S. Minwalla, G. Gur-Ari, R. YacobyGeneral properties of field theories with quenched disorderCollaboration with: Z. Komargodski, S. YankielowiczStrongly coupled field theories in anti-de Sitter spaceCollaboration with: M. Berkooz, S. Rey, D. Tong, S. YankielowiczDualities between field theories in various dimensionsCollaboration with: G. Gur-Ari, S. Minwalla, P. Narayan, S. Razamat, N. Seiberg, T. Sharma, B. Willett, R. Yacoby
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Prof. Yitzhak Maron
Imploding Plasmas under Pulsed Magnetic Fields:High-Resolution Spectroscopic studies of High-Energy-Density Plasmas (visible to x-ray).Design and build up of fast (ns) and ultra-fast (sub ns) optical spectroscopic systems.Studies of Instabilities and turbulence phenomena.Radiation transport and ion temperature in imploding plasmas.High-Power-Laser matter interaction:Warm dense matter (solid-state with temperatures above the Fermi energy) formed by intense laser solid-state interaction.Intense-Laser-Beam-guiding by the use of plasma channels.Development of novel spectroscopic diagnostic methods for matter under extreme conditions.Experiments are performed in major European laboratories: Jena, Drezden (Germany), Ecole polytechnique (France).Close collaboration with Universities and National plasma laboratories in the US (Cornell, Sandia, NRL, LLNL-NIF).
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Prof. Yuval Gefen
Low-dimensional interacting systems out of equilibrium.Interferometry and dephasing with electronic and anyonic systems.Weak measurement, weak values and foundations of quantum mechanics.Exotic excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect and Topological Insulators.Edge reconstruction and edge channels in the fractional quantum Hall effect and Topological Insulators.
