Open Day 2016

Open Day Schedule by Faculties
Campus of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
February 17, 2016


Life Sciences
Ebner Auditorium #10 on the campus map

09:30-10:00

Gathering and light refreshments

10:00-12:15

Overview & FAQ’s: research tracks in the Life Sciences Faculties: Prof. Asaf Aharoni, Dr. Karina Yaniv and Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky

12:30-13:00

Lunch at the Feinberg Graduate School - located at the
David Lopatie Hall of Graduate Studies

13:00-14:00

Meeting with FGS students

14:00-15:00

Meetings with representatives of specific tracks and departments (optional)

Physical Sciences
Weismann Auditorium #59 on the campus map

09:45-10:00

Gathering and light refreshments

10:15-11:15

Review of the research and academic programs in the Faculty of Physics
Prof. Shimon Levit, Chair of the Board of Studies

11:15-12:15

Meeting with FGS students (questions, answers, experiences)

12:15-13:00

Lunch

12:45-17:00

Meetings with representatives of research fields and lab visits

Chemical Sciences
Schmidt Auditorium #18 on the cmapus map

09:30-10:15

Gathering and light refreshments

10:15-10:30

Opening remarks, Prof. Gilad Haran, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry

10:30-11:20

Introduction to the Faculty of Chemistry

  • Dr. David Margulies, Department of Organic Chemistry
  • Dr. Yohai Kaspi, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Dr. Michal Leskes, Department of Materials and Interfaces
  • Dr. Emmanuel Levy, Department of Structural Biology
  • Prof. Ed Narevicius, Department of Chemical Physics

11:20-11:30

Coffe Break

11:30-11:50

Orientation session, Prof. Boris Rybtchinski, Chair of the Board of Studies in Chemical Science

11:50-12:30

Informal talks by students

12:30-13:00

Poster session

13:00-13:45

Lunch

14:00-14:45

Tour of the Electron Microscopy Unit and the Jean Goldwurm 3D Visualization Theater

15:00-16:00

Visitors Center

Mathematics & Computer Science
Ziskind Lecture Hall #40 on the cmapus map

09:30-10:10

Gathering and light refreshments

10:10-10:30

Meeting with Prof. Itai Benjamini- Chair of the Board of Studies

10:30-11:00

Scientific lecture by Prof. Irit Dinur

11:00-11:30

Scientific lecture by Dr. Yaron Lipman

11:30-12:30

Meeting with FGS students

12:30-14:00

Lunch with students and scientists

Science Teaching
Musher Building #51 on the campus map

09:30-10:30

Gathering and light refreshments

10:30-11:00

Introductions to the Department of Science Teaching and its research: Prof. David Fortus, Chair of the Board of Studies

11:00-11:30

Open discussion & FAQs

11:30-12:15

Lunch and meeting with FGS students

12:15-13:15

Individual meetings with Heads of Research Groups at the Department of Science Teaching