• Picture of Prof. Eran Oded Ofek

    Prof. Eran Oded Ofek

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    Gravitational lensing and microlensing
    Astronomical algorithms and high contrast imaging.
    Design and construction of W-FAST - Two telescopes system to explore the visible-light sky on sub-second time scales and search for Oort cloud objects.
    Transients and supernovae; shock breakout observations and measuring the properties of supernova progenitors; Eruptions prior to supernova explosions and interaction between the supernova ejeecta and its circumstellar matter; Design of the ULTRASAT UV space telescope.
    Search for isolated black holes in the Galaxy via astrometric microlensing.

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  • Picture of Prof. Amos Breskin

    Prof. Amos Breskin

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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    Dr. Kfir Blum

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    Theoretical particle physics
    Particle cosmology
    High-energy astrophysics

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    Prof. Yitzhak Maron

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    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 Prof. Nir Davidson

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    Ultracold atoms
    Quantum degenerated atomic gases
    Quantum nonlinear dynamics and chaos
    Laser physics
    Slow and stored light
    Atomic optics and interferometry

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    Design of protein-based super assemblies
    Collaboration with:  Jonathan Doye (Oxford) Cibele Falkenberg (Auburn)
    New methods to detect and measure protein interactions
    Large-scale analyses of protein structure
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    Dr. Assaf Gal

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    Mineral formation pathways in phytoplankton
    Silica formation in diatoms, from intracellular condensation of silica to morphogenesis of the cell-wall structure.
    Mechanisms of calcite precipitation by coccolithophores. The role of intermediate mineral pools inside the cell and the interactions between biomacromolecules with the inorganic phase.

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