Tel Aviv University
Physics Colloquium

FALL 2009 Schedule

The colloquium is held at Melamed Hall (Room 6) in the Shenkar Physics Building, every Sunday at 16:10. Light refreshments are served outside Melamed Hall at 15:50.

*Oct. 18*	*Dr. Meir Shimon* *Dept. of Physics, University of California, San Diego* *"Cosmic microwave background and fundamental physics"*	Abstract
*Oct. 25*	*Prof. Yaron Silberberg* *Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science* *"Tight-binding in a new light: Photons in periodic and disordered lattices"*	Abstract
*Nov. 1*	*Prof. Itamar Procaccia* *Dept. of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science* *Recipient of the 2009 Israel Prize in Physics* *"Statistical mechanics of the glass transition"* *This talk was postponed to the second semester*	Abstract
*Nov. 8*	*Prof. Ofer Lahav* *Astrophysics Group, University College London* *"Astro-statistics: from cosmology to exo-planets"*	Abstract
*Nov. 15*	*Dr. Tomer Volansky* *Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton* *"News from the dark world"*	Abstract
*Nov. 22*	*Dr. Henri Orland* *Director, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay* *Fellow of the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies* *"RNA folding: a physicist's perspective"*	Abstract
*Nov. 29*	*Prof. Leonard Susskind* *Dept. of Physics, Stanford University* *"What lies beyond the horizon?"*	Abstract
*Dec. 6*	*Special Colloquium in honor of Professor Itzhak Kelson's 70th birthday* *Prof. Marco Durante* *GSI Biophysics Department and Technical University of Darmstadt* *"Ion therapy for cancer treatment"*	Abstract
*Dec. 13*	*55^th Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society, Bar Ilan University* *No Colloquium*	Conference site
*Dec. 20*	*Bahcall Memorial Lecture* *Prof. Jeremiah P. Ostriker* *Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University* *"Formation of massive galaxies"*	Abstract
*Dec. 27*	*Dr. Guy Ron* *Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab* *"Nucleon form factors and their modification in the nuclear medium"*	Abstract
*Jan. 3*	*Prof. Allen Caldwell* *Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich* *"Proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration"*	Abstract
*Jan. 10*	*Prof. Barak Kol* *Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University* *"Solving the two body problem in Einstein's gravity"*	Abstract
*Jan. 17*	*Prof. Elisha Moses* *Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science* *"Computing with neurons"*	Abstract

Past Semesters

Fall 2000	Spring 2001	Fall 2001	Spring 2002
Fall 2007	Spring 2008	Fall 2008	Spring 2009

For more information or for directions to Melamed Hall please contact: Chava Balson 03-6408636

To suggest potential speakers or register feedback contact: Ron Lifshitz 03-6405145, Ehud Nakar 03-6405385, or Nissan Itzhaki 03-6406490.

Sponsored by: The Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics & Astronomy, The Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University.

Tel Aviv University Physics Colloquium

Tel Aviv University
Physics Colloquium