Personal
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Current address
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Faculty of
Physics, The Weizmann
Institute of Science |
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E-Mail : |
david.polishook
[at] weizmann.ac.il david [at]
wise.tau.ac.il |
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Telephones
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office/
+972-8-934-6512 fax/ +972-8-9344477 |
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Born : |
February 1976 |
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Marital
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Married + 1 |
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Languages : |
Hebrew,
English, basic Spanish |
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Education
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2010-2011 |
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Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Particle Physics
and Astrophysics, |
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2005-2010 |
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Ph.D. in planetary science, Tel-Aviv University. |
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2002-2005 |
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M.Sc. in planetary science, Tel-Aviv University. |
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1999-2002 |
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B.Sc. in
Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, and in General History, Tel-Aviv
University. |
Employment and Activities
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2010-2011 |
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Writer for the
Galileo popular magazine for science and thought. |
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2007-2010 |
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Lecturer of Astronomy
and Astrophysics at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC). |
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2005-2009 |
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Lecturer at
the Science
Oriented Youth unit, Tel Aviv University. |
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2005-2008 |
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Lecturer of
Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Open University. |
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2002-2010 |
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Astronomer at
the Wise observatory. |
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2000-2001 |
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Software
programmer, Tecnomatix Ltd. The eM-Power division. |
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1998-1999 |
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Software
programmer, Tecnomatix Ltd. The Robcad division. |
(Military service : 1994-1998)
Programming experience
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Languages and
programming environments: C, C++, Delphi, MATLAB, IRAF. |
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Software experience in astronomy: control software for the Wise Observatory
especially in its automatization; writing a pipeline for reduction and
measurement of photometry and spectroscopy in IRAF, for data obtained from
wide-field surveys; writing analysis code in MATLAB. |
Awards & Scholarships
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2008-10 |
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Ilan Ramon
scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students in space sciences, by the Ministry
of Science, Culture and Sport. |
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2010 |
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Special prize
for excellent Ph.D. student by the faculty of Exact Sciences. |
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2009 |
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Annual prize for
excellent Ph.D. students in the department of geophysics and planetary
sciences. |
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2006 |
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Alix
de-Rothschild scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, at the faculty of
exact science. |
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2005 |
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M.Sc. Tel-Aviv
University, summa cum laudae. |
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2003 |
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B.Sc. Tel-Aviv
University, magna cum laudae. |
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2002 |
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Dean of exact
sciences award for excellence for undergraduate students. |
Conferences & Seminars
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2011
October |
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DPS 2011 - Division
of Planetary Sciences 43nd meeting |
Talk |
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2010
December |
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Tel-Aviv University,
Israel |
A seminar talk
at the Geophysics and Planetary Sciences department |
Seminar Talk |
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2010
October |
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Pasadena, USA |
DPS 2010 -
Division of Planetary Sciences 42nd meeting |
Poster |
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2010 July |
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Poznan, Poland |
Binaries in
the Solar System second workshop |
Talk |
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2009
December |
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Bar-Ilan
University |
IPS 2009
Israel Physics Society. 55th annual meeting. |
Talk |
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2009 April |
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UCLA, USA |
A seminar talk
at the Earth and Planetary Sciences department |
Seminar Talk |
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2009 April |
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CalTech, USA |
A seminar talk
at the Astrophysics department |
Seminar Talk |
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2008
December |
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Ben-Gurion
University, Israel |
IPS 2008
Israel Physics Society. 54th annual meeting. |
Talk |
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2008 July |
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Baltimore, USA |
ACM 2008
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors |
Talk & Poster |
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2008 April |
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Wiezmann
institute, Israel |
AsCoS 2008
The Israeli Astrophysics & Cosmology Student Conference Series. |
Talk |
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2008 April |
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Cairo, Egypt |
MEARIM 1st
regional meeting of the IAU |
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2008
February |
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Hebrew
University, Israel |
A seminar talk
at the Racah institute of physics |
Seminar Talk |
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2007
December |
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Wiezmann
institute, Israel |
IPS 2007
Israel Physics Society. 53rd annual meeting. |
Talk |
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2005 August |
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Buzios, Brazil |
ACM 2005
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (IAU 229). |
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2005 March |
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Sde-Boker,
Israel |
On Science and
Imagination following Jules Verne. |
Talk |
Educational and Community
Activities
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2003-2010 |
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Co-organizer
of the Tel-Aviv University astronomy club public lecture and activities. |
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2003-2010 |
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Lectures,
writings and educational activities in astronomy and physics for children and
adults, at schools, academy, the internet and the media (http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~david/PublicOutreach.htm). |
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1999-2002 |
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"PERAH"
- Tutoring projects for children from disadvantaged families. |
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