Program - Events open to the public

Thursday, 14 May 2009

1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Conference: Education and University in Tel Aviv
Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education
Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Trubowicz Building of Law
4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Awarding of the Dr. Jaime Constantiner Prize in Jewish Education
Prize recipient: Tichon Hadash High School, Tel Aviv
Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Trubowicz Building of Law
5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Inauguration of the Gad Ya'acobi Conference for Society, Culture and Politics
Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy
Lecture: Sir Martin Gilbert, UK
Israel and Britain's Relationship - A Current View
Bar-Shira Auditorium
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Awarding of the 2009 Stockholm Junior Water Prize, Israel
In the presence of Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier
Ambassador of Sweden
Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt Auditorium
Wolfson Building for Computer and Software Engineering
8:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony of the Exhibition:Tel Aviv: Contemporary Urban Landscapes By Maya Cohen Levy
Recipient of the 2008 Michel Kikoïne Prize
and
Awarding of the 2009 Michel Kikoïne Prize
Michel Kikoïne Foundation
Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery and
the Michel Kikoïne Foundation



Friday, 15 May 2009

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noonThe Ilse and Willi Rothschild Summer Youth University
Closing ceremony of the winter semester, and presentation of the Summer Youth University's activities
The Unit for Science Oriented Youth
Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education
Bar-Shira Auditorium



Sunday, 17 May 2009

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Inauguration of the Argentina PhD Honors Program of the Smolarz Family Graduate School of Life Sciences
Lectures:
Dr. Gali Prag, Department of Biochemistry
Decrypting Protein Sign Language
Oded Rechavi, PhD student, Department of Neurobiology
The Immune Cell Habit of Sharing Challenges:
The Theory of Cell Autonomy

Auditorium in Memory of Judy Langer-Gefter (02),
Archie Sherman Building for Life Sciences
George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
12:00 noon-13:00 p.m. Inauguration of the Fabian-Cyril Boisson Auditorium in the Health Professions
Gretl and Fred Raymond Building for Health Professions (106)
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Awarding of Prizes in Computer Science:
Celia and Marcos Maus Prizes and the Jorge Deutsch Prize
Maus Multipurpose Computer Laboratory
Wladimir Schreiber Building of Mathematical Sciences
1:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Symposium: The Cosmic Microwave Background: Cosmology's Rosetta Stone
with the participation of the 2009 Dan David Prize laureates for the Past Time Dimension
Prof. Paulo de Bernardis
Prof. Andrew E. Lange
Prof. Paul Richards
Boris and Lena Melamed Auditorium, Arieh and Rivka Shenkar Building of Physics
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. 25th Anniversary of the Josef Buchmann Doctoral Fellowship Fund
Lectures by former and current Buchmann Fellows:
Prof. Daphna Joel, Department of Psychology,
Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
Compulsivity in Humans and Animals
Nurit Paz-Yaacov, Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center and Department of Human Genetics,
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Cancer - Beyond Genetics
Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Trubowicz Building of Law
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Symposium: Neuroimaging in Experimental Neuroscience
Alfredo Federico Strauss Center for Computational Neuroimaging
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute of Biophysics
Jack Green Building of Biotechnology (basement) MRI unit
2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Conference: Israel and the Middle East
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
in collaboration with the French Friends of Tel Aviv University/Ceri Sciences-Po
Chair of Middle East and Mediterranean at Sciences Po
with the support of the French Embassy in Israel
S.E. Hoffien Hall, Trubowicz Building of Law
The conference continues on Monday 9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Trubowicz Building of Law
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Annual Awarding Ceremony of Scholarships in Music
in Memory of Isaac (Iche) Baron
Prize recipient: Tal Haim Samnon
Clairmont Hall, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Roundtable Discussion on Leadership with the 2009
Dan David Prize laureate for the Present Time Dimension
Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
and Arab and Jewish high school students
in cooperation with the Unit for Science Oriented Youth
Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt Auditorium,
Wolfson Building for Computer and Software Engineering
http://video.tau.ac.il/General/Dan_David/2009/



Monday, 18 May 2009

9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Annual symposium and presentation of the 2009 Prize of the Renata Adler Memorial Research Center for Child Welfare and Protection
Prize recipient: Prof. Zahava Solomon
Bob Shapell School of Social Work (001)
12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. Awarding of the Deutsch Annual Prizes in Computer Science
Wladimir Schreiber Building of Mathematical Sciences (309)
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Awarding of the Sergio Grywac Prize for
Jewish-Arab Relations in the State of Israel

Dean's Office (305), Peretz Naftali Building of Social Sciences
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Unveiling Ceremony of the Chella and Moise Safra Gate (14)
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. 2009 Dan David Prize Young Researchers Scholarships
and Name Your Hero Youth Competition Award Ceremony
in the presence of the 2009 Dan David Prize laureates
and the Mia Fischer Scholarship Award Ceremony
Bar-Shira Auditorium



Tuesday, 19 May 2009

8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Symposium: Challenges for a Healthier World
with the participation of the 2009 Dan David Prize laureate for the Future Time Dimension, Prof. Robert C. Gallo
and young researchers in the field of biomedicine
Miriam and Adolfo Smolarz Auditorium
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. The Tel Aviv Symposium in Organic Chemistry 2009
Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Chemistry
Honoring the recipients of the 2009 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences - Chemistry
Boris and Lena Melamed Auditorium,
Arieh and Rivka Shenkar Building of Physics
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Inauguration of the Sieratzki-Korczyn Prize
for Advances in Neuroscience

in the framework of the
Annual Symposium of the Adams Super-Center for
Brain Studies

Lectures: Prof. Michael Davidson, Prof. Ehud Gazit,
Prof. Illana Gozes, Prof. Amos Korczyn,
Prof. Daniel Michaelson, Prof. Beka Solomon

Abraham Meerbaum Auditorium, Sackler Faculty of Medicine
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Inauguration of the Dr. Gerald and Reesa Niznick
Faculty Clinic

Lecture: Prof. Haim Tal, Head of the Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine Founded by the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity,
incumbent of the Dr. Gerald A. Niznick Chair in
Implant Dentistry
Sigma Epsilon Delta Fraternity Auditorium
Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
Founded by the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity
4:00 p.m.-5.30 p.m. Annual Lecture
Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Chair
for European Jewish History

Prof. Johannes Heil, Pro-Rector, Hochschule for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg
The Paleo-History of Ashkenazi Jewry: Findings, Facts and Fantasies
Cymbalista Jewish Heritage Center
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Annual Zvi Meitar Fellowships Award Ceremony
Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Trubowicz Building of Law
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Spanish Speaking Friends of Tel Aviv University
Meeting with Ambassadors from Spain and Latin America
Guided tour of campus
Lecture: Prof. Raanan Rein, Director, S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies
Venezuela Hall (527), Peretz Nafatali Building of Social Sciences
Event will be held in Spanish
5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Awarding of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize
in the Physical Sciences

Research Field for 2009:Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products
Boris and Lena Melamed Auditorium,
Arieh and Rivka Shenkar Building of Physics



Wednesday, 20 May 2009

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Annual Elga Cegla Prizes and Fellowships Ceremony
Buchmann Faculty of Law
Sonja Kosoi Meeting Room (307), Trubowicz Building of Law
5:00 p.m.-7:00p.m. Herman Robbins Lecture in Orthopaedics
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Lecturers:
John Herzenberg MD, FRCS, Head of Pediatric Orthopaedics,
Director of the International Center for Limb Lengthening, Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopaedics, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Keeping an Open Mind to Innovation in Orthopaedics -
Lengthening in Dwarfism: Ethical, Medical and Orthopaedic Issues
Lola Beer-Ebner Hall, Sackler Faculty of Medicine