Professor David J. Bergman 

Department: School Of Physics And Astronomy
FACULTY OF EXACT SCIENCES
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Shenkar building, room 418
Tel: (972)-3-6408543
Fax: (972)-3-6429306
Email: bergman@post.tau.ac.il



Teaching

Research Interests

Condensed Matter Theory

§ Composite media: Magneto-transport, thermoelectricity, elasticity, meta-materials

§ Nano-plasmonics and nano-photonics

§ Critical phenomena

§ Macroscopic physical phenomena in Biology

Honors

§ Fellow American Physical Society

§ Fellow Electromagnetics Academy

Education

§ Hebrew University in Jerusalem; BSc in Physics 1962; MSc in Physics 1964. Thesis title: Radiative capture of medium energy nucleons by nuclei; Thesis supervisor: Gideon Rekhavi, 1959-1964

§ Weizmann Institure of Science in Rehovot; PhD in Physics 1968. Thesis title: Non-equilibrium states in large systems: 1. Statistical mechanics of local equilibrium. 2. Supercurrents in a condensed Boson gas; Supervisors: Amnon Katz, John M. Blatt., 1964-1967

§ Post-doctoral studies at UCSD in La Jolla, CA. Collaboration was mostly with Isadore Rudnick of UCLA., 1967-1969

Academic positions

Faculty member of School of Physics & Astronomy of Tel Aviv University: 1969 Lecturer; 1972 Senior Lecturer; 1974 Associate Professor; 1981 Full Professor; 1982 – 1986 Chairman, Dept. Condensed Matter Physics; 1994 – 2000 Director, Sackler Institute of Solid State Physics; 2002 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Chair in Solid State Theory and Thermodynamics; 2009 Professor Emeritus.

Visiting positions

§ 1974 – 1976 Resident visitor, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

§ 1979 – 1981 Science Consultant, Schlumberger – Doll Research Center, Ridgefield, CT

§ 1984 – 1986 Science Consultant, Exxon Research Center, NJ

§ 1992 – 1998 Science Consultant, Chevron Petroleum Technology Corp.

§ 1987 – 1988 Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University

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