2008-2009 PHYSICS COLLOQUIA

School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University

Spring Semester

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
8/Mar/2009 Dr. Ella Sklan (TAU, Medicine) Host factors required for hepatitis C virus replication (Abstract)
15/Mar/2009 Prof. Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg) The Optics of the Dark Universe
22/Mar/2009 Dr. Louis Lyons (Oxford, UK) Bayes versus Frequentism - the return of an old controversy (Abstract)
29/Mar/2009 Prof. Ramy Brustein (Ben-Gurion) Quantum Black Holes challenge basic principles of Quantum Mechanics (Abstract)
Dothan Memorial Colloquium
19/Apr/2009
Dr. Gregory Korchemsky (Saclay) Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and physics of soap bubbles (Abstract)
26/Apr/2009 Prof. David Horn (TAU) Finding structures in data (Abstract)
Yehuda Eisenberg Memorial Colloquium
3/May/2009
Prof. Dam Thanh Son (U of Washington, Seattle) Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory
Special Colloquium
12:00-13:00, 4/May/2009
Prof. Martin Plenio (Imperial College London) The role of quantum coherence and decoherence in photosynthetic complexes
Yuval Ne'eman Memorial Colloquium
10/May/2009
Prof. Yakir Aharonov (TAU) Why does God play dice?
Symposium: Dan David Cosmology Prize
14:15-16:00, 17/May/2009
Dan David Prize Winners THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND: COSMOLOGY'S ROSETTA STONE (Details)
Solange Akselrod Memorial Lectures
24/May/2009
Prof. Dan Adam (Technion) and Prof. Illana Gozes (TAU) Cardiac Function; Alzheimer's Disease (Full Titles and Abstracts)
31/May/2009 NO COLLOQUIUM
7/Jun/2009 Prof. Amit Keren (Technion) Nano-Magnets (Abstract)
14/Jun/2009 Prof. Leo Corry (TAU, History of Science) Einstein, Hilbert and the Tortuous Way to General Relativity (Abstract)





Fall Semester

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
2/Nov/2008 Postponed (No Colloquium Today)
9/Nov/2008 Prof. Gil Refael (Caltech) The thin film Giaever transformer - vortex drag in a superconductor thin-film bilayer (Abstract)
Special Colloquium
4:05-5:35pm, 16/Nov/2008
Talks by Prof. Stuart Freedman (Berkeley) and Dr. John Ellis (CERN) Colloquium in celebration of Prof. Avivi Avin's 80'th birthday (Full details)
23/Nov/2008 Prof. Mark Dykman (Michigan State) Quantum activation and quantum measurements (Abstract)
30/Nov/2008 Dr. Itzhak Fouxon (TAU) From hydrodynamics to gravity and back (Abstract)
7/Dec/2008 Prof. Moshe Paz-Pasternak (TAU) Discovery of a new configuration of magnetite; a prospect for improving the bionavigation of bacteria, birds, fishes, and perhaps of homo sapiens (Abstract)
14/Dec/2008 Prof. Nissan Itzhaki (TAU) String Theory and Cosmology (Abstract)
John Bahcall Colloquium
21/Dec/2008
Prof. Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) Cosmic Explosions (Abstract)
Special Colloquium
12(noon), 29/Dec/2008 (Thursday)
Prof. J. C. Seamus Davis (Cornell University & Brookhaven) Atomic Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure in the Cuprate Superconducting and Pseudogap States (Abstract)
Special Colloquium
2pm, 31/Dec/2008 (Wednesday)
Holcblat Hall (Room 7)
Prof. Avi Loeb (Harvard) New Frontiers in the Early Universe and Around Black Holes (Abstract)
Shulamit Goldhaber Colloquium
4/Jan/2009
Dr. Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) Preparing for physics at the LHC with the ATLAS detector (Abstract)
11/Jan/2009 Dr. Maxim Khodas (Brookhaven) Collective dynamics of one-dimensional systems (Abstract)
18/Jan/2009 Prof. Dan Maoz (TAU) Discovering Extrasolar Planets Using Gravitational Lensing (Abstract)
25/Jan/2009 Prof. Pekka Sinervo (Toronto) The Search for Truth: What We Know About the Top Quark (Abstract)