• Picture of Prof. Amos Breskin

    Prof. Amos Breskin

    Noble-liquid neutron and gamma radiography concepts for detection of concealed explosives and nuclear materials (Homeland security)
    Photon imaging detectors
    Noble-liquid detector concepts for Dark-matter searches, neutrino physics and medical diagnostics
    Advanced gas-avalanche electron multipliers
    Particle tracking detectors for future particle and astroparticle experiments
    Methods of Nano-dosimetry for precise evaluation of radiation effects at the DNA level
    Methods for rapid evaluation of core fluids content in oil and gas wells

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  • Picture of Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam

    Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam

    Cosmic explosions
    Core-collapse supernova explosions: their origins, nature, physics and population statistics
    Thermonuclear supernova explosions (SNe Ia): their nature and rates
    Gamma-Ray Bursts: their origin and relation to supernovae
    New types of cosmic explosions

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  • Picture of Prof. Ofer Aharony

    Prof. Ofer Aharony

    Weakly coupled versions of the AdS/CFT correspondence and possible derivations
    Collaboration with:  S. Minwalla, G. Gur-Ari, R. Yacoby
    General properties of field theories with quenched disorder
    Collaboration with:  Z. Komargodski, S. Yankielowicz
    Strongly coupled field theories in anti-de Sitter space
    Collaboration with:  M. Berkooz, S. Rey, D. Tong, S. Yankielowicz
    Dualities between field theories in various dimensions
    Collaboration with:  G. Gur-Ari, S. Minwalla, P. Narayan, S. Razamat, N. Seiberg, T. Sharma, B. Willett, R. Yacoby

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  • Picture of Prof. Shimon Levit

    Prof. Shimon Levit

    Full vector path integrals for light propagation in dielectrics.
    Interaction of Squeezed Light with Atoms and Semiconductor Nanostructures
    Non classical light.
    Resonant scattaring off photonic slabs

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  • Picture of Dr. Kfir Blum

    Dr. Kfir Blum

    Theoretical particle physics
    Particle cosmology
    High-energy astrophysics

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  • Picture of Prof. Yitzhak Maron

    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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  • Picture of Dr. Haim Beidenkopf

    Dr. Haim Beidenkopf

    Topological phases of matter:
    Topological insulators
    Weak topological insulators
    Topological superconductors
    Crystalline topological Insulators
    Helical nanowires
    Scanning tunneling microscopy

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  • Picture of Dr. Ohad Shamir

    Dr. Ohad Shamir

    Machine Learning, statistical learning, online learning, learning theory, optimization

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  • Picture of Prof. Gregory Falkovich

    Prof. Gregory Falkovich

    Nonlinear waves and wave turbulence.
    Theory of fluid turbulence. Fundamental aspects and applications.
    Particles in random flows.

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  • Picture of Prof. Yuval Gefen

    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.

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