2006-2007 PHYSICS COLLOQUIA

School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University

Spring Semester

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
25/Feb/2007 Prof. Erich Vogt (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada) TRIUMF's new ISAC facility for nuclear astrophysics (Abstract)
11/Mar/2007 Prof. Eli Waxman (Weizmann) High energy particles and magnetic fields: Some open questions in relativistic astrophysics (Abstract)
18/Mar/2007 Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford) Search for Gravity-like Forces at sub-mm distance (Abstract)
25/Mar/2007 Dr. Nir Gov (Weizmann, Chemical Physics) Surfing the membranes of cells: how cells make fingers and waves and how they divide (Abstract)
Yoseph Dotan memorial Colloquium
15/Apr/2007
Prof. David Olive (University of Wales Swansea) The Eternal Monopole (Abstract)
Yuval Ne'eman memorial Colloquium
(Lev Auditorium)

22/Apr/2007
Prof. Leonard Susskind (Stanford) Black Holes, White Holes, and Yuval (Abstract)
Judah M Eisenberg memorial Colloquium
(Lev Auditorium)

29/Apr/2007
Larry McLerran (Brookhaven National Lab) The Color Glass Condensate and Glasma (Abstract)
(Lev Auditorium)
06/May/2007
Prof. Abraham Katzir (Tel Aviv) Infrared Transmitting Silver Halide Fibers and Their Applications (Abstract)
Special Colloquium - The 2007 Sackler Biophysics Prize, 2-5 pm
13/May/2007
Prof. Clare Waterman-Storer (Scripps Inst., La Jolla & NIH)

Prof. Frank Juelicher (MPI - Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
Microscopes and Motility: Integrating Cytoskeletal Systems in Cell Migration

Theoretical Approaches to Cellular Force Generation and Dynamics
(Abstracts) ( The 2007 Sackler Biophysics Prize )
Special Colloquium, 5 pm
(Lev Auditorium)

15/May/2007 (Tuesday)
2006/7 Wolf prize winner: Prof. Peter Grunberg (IFF, Germany) Spin Transfer Phenomena in Layered Magnetic Structures: Research and Applications (Abstract)
Special Colloquium, 1 pm
(Holcblat Hall)

17/May/2007 (Thursday)
Prof. Allen Goldman (University of Minnesota) Inducing Superconductivity Using the Electric Field Effect (Abstract)
20/May/2007 Prof. Itzhak Kelson (Tel Aviv) DART - a New Modality for Cancer Treatment (Abstract)
27/May/2007 Prof. Ze'ev Rudnick (Tel Aviv) Prime numbers and the Riemann zeta function (Abstract)
Shulamit Goldhaber memorial Colloquium
03/Jun/2007
Prof. Jacob Bekenstein (Hebrew U.) The Holographic Universe (Abstract)





Fall Semester

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
22/Oct/2006 Prof. Yakir Aharonov (Tel Aviv) Quantum Miracles (Abstract)
29/Oct/2006 Dr. Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv) The Next Great Cosmological Probe: 21-cm Emission from the Era of the First Galaxies (Abstract)
5/Nov/2006 Prof. Nir Shaviv (Hebrew University) A Physicist's View of Global Warming (Abstract)
12/Nov/2006 Dr. Oded Regev (Comp. Sci., Tel Aviv) Hamiltonian Problems and Quantum Computation (Abstract)
19/Nov/2006 Dr. Ehud Nakar (Caltech) Short gamma-ray bursts: cosmic explosions - the last frontier (Abstract)
26/Nov/2006 Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann) How genomes utilize redundancy to cope with genetic and non-genetic perturbations (Abstract)
3/Dec/2006 Prof. Adiel Stern (Weizmann) Electronic braiding and the non-Abelian quantum Hall effect (Abstract)
10/Dec/2006 Prof. Aaron Lewis (Hebrew U) New Horizons in Optical and Chemical Nanocharacterization (Abstract)
24/Dec/2006 Prof. Claire Max (UC Santa Cruz) Adaptive Optics: A Sharper Image (Abstract)
John Bahcall Colloquium
31/Dec/2006
Prof. Avi Loeb (Harvard) Key Questions about Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies (Abstract)
7/Jan/2007 Prof. Mordehai Heiblum (Weizmann) Controlled Dephasing and Phase Recovery via Cross-Correlation Measurements of Electrons (Abstract)
14/Jan/2007 Prof. Uzi Even (Tel Aviv, Chemistry) Supersonic beams and slow beams: a remarkable tool of basic science (Abstract)
21/Jan/2007 Prof. Jonathan L. Rosner (University of Chicago) Successes and Puzzles in Particle Physics (Abstract)