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    Prof. Giora Mikenberg

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    Maintenece and construction of the upgrade of the ATLAS-MUON End-Cap MUON System
    The production of wedges containing 3 production quadruplets was assembled at CERN using parts to achieve precise positions that have been developed and constructed at the Weizmann Institute. Similarly the frames to support and positioning these quadruplets were developed at the Weizmann Institute and constructed by Israeli Industry. The positioning system of pins to allow precise assembly (to within 0.03mm on a structure of 4X2m²) is a major achievement. The operation of completing all wedges has come to an end and the New Small Wheel (NSW) detector has been installed in the ATLAS experiment, where it needs to operate until 2042. The large amount of data that needs to be transmitted in real-time by the this new detector (NSW) is performed by a network of more than 7000 optical fibers. This large fiber-optics network and inter-connection is part of the Israeli responsibility, and therefore I was personally involved in performing this connection underground and supervise its operation.
    Search for Higgs bosons and SUSY particles at LHC.
    Collaboration with:  E. Duchovni, E. Gross, L. Levinson,
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    Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin

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    Computational Quantum Chemistry
    Collaboration with:  D. Milstein, M. van der Boom, R. Neumann, M. A. Iron, L. Kronik, J. L. Sussman
    High-accuracy ab initio thermochemistry: method development and applications.
    Development of novel, more universal, density functionals, with particular emphasis on fifth-rung ("double hybrid") approaches
    Application of density functional methods to organometallic systems, with special reference to homogenous catalysis.
    Ab initio prediction of rotation-vibration spectra beyond the harmonic approximation.
    Intermolecular interactions
    Computational molecular biology (focusing on acetylcholinesterase and on COVID19)

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    Prof. Yitzhak Maron

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    Study of High-Energy-Density Plasmas:
    Collaboration with:  Cornell Univ. , Princeton Univ. , Sandia National Laboratories , Naval Research Laboratory, University of Jena in Germany , HZDR Institute-Dresden , Michigan State Univ. , Univ. of CA in San Diego , LLNL- NIF facility
    Experimental platform: Z-pinch systems, with and without externally applied magnetic fields
    Development of non-invasive spectroscopic diagnostic methods (from visible to x-rays) for investigating matter under extreme conditions. Development of measurements of high spectral , spatial , and temporal resolutions.
    Design and build up of fast (ns) and ultra-fast (sub ns) spectroscopic systems.
    Study of Instabilities and turbulence phenomena.
    Radiation transport in non-equilibrium plasmas.
    Conversion of electric and magnetic-field energy into particle kinetic energy and radiation.
    Close collaboration with Universities and National laboratories in the US (Cornell, Sandia National Laboratory, National Ignition Facility, and Naval Research Labs).
    Line shape computations in hot and dense plasmas
    Measurements of ion temperature and turbulence in current driven and radiation driven plasmas Measurements of magnetic fields in current driven implosions and in laser-matter interaction experiments
    High-Power-Laser matter interaction:
    Collaboration with:  University of Jena and HZDR-Dresden in Germany , LLNL - National Ignition facility, Sandia National Laboratories.
    Warm dense matter (solid-state density with temperatures of the order of the Fermi energy) formed by intense laser-matter interaction.
    Intense-laser-beam guiding by plasma channels.
    Experiments are performed in major European facilities: Jena University and HZDR - Drezden (Germany), Ѐcole polytechnique - LULI (France).
    Analysis of x-ray data from NIF

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    Prof. Victor Malka

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    Laser Plasma Accelerators
    Collaboration with:  HZDR in Germany, Ecole Polytechnique in France, and UM from US
    Compact plasma based accelerators of electrons and protons
    Compact plasma based X ray beams
    Gas dynamics for targetry
    Medical applications (radiotherapy, X ray phase contrast imaging)

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    Prof. Igor Lubomirsky

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    Ice Nucleation on Charged Surfaces (Electrofreezing)
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Meir Lahav
    Ice nucleation
    design of polar crystals and surfaces by symmetry reduction
    non-classical crystal growth
    surface and bulk pyroelectricity
    Fundamentals of electro-chemo-mechanical effects
    local symmetry reduction
    non-classical electrostriction
    ionic conductivity
    elastic interactions in solids with a large concentration of point defects

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    Dr. Nir London

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    Discovery and design of specific covalent inhibitors
    Covalent personalized medicine for cancer
    Computational ligand/drug discovery

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    Dr. Yoav Livneh

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    Interoception - perception of internal bodily signals
    Cortical computations for modulation of bodily physiology
    Continuous updating in the brain-body loop

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  • Prof. Yaron Lipman

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    Geometric modeling, geometry processing, shape analysis, computer graphics, Discrete differential geometry
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    Prof. Koby Levy

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    Dynamics, entropy and diffusion in biomoelcular systems
    The mechanisms of protein-DNA recognition: understanding the driving forces for fast assembly

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  • Dr. Emmanuel Levy

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    Design of protein-based super assemblies
    Collaboration with:  Jonathan Doye (Oxford) Samuel Safran (WIS)
    New methods to detect and measure protein interactions
    Computational analyses of protein structure

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