General Information

Academic Work

Teaching

• Selected topics in condensed matter physics: Quasicrystals (Spring 2000).
• Analytical Mechanics (Fall 2000-Fall 2003, Fall 2007-Fall 2010, Fall 2014).
• Classical Physics 2 - E&M (Spring 2001-Spring 2005)
• Video recordings of the 2005 lectures (requires a TAU computer account).
• Quantum Physics 1 for Graduate Students (Fall 2004-Fall 2005).
• Mathematical Introduction for Physicists 2 (Spring 2006, Spring 2008-Spring 2010).
• Physics Projects for 3rd-year students (Spring 2008-Spring 2010).
• Quantum Physics 1 for Undergraduate Students (Spring 2011-Spring 2013).
• Waves, Light, and Optics (Fall 2011-Fall 2012).

• Physics Colloquium (Fall 2000, Spring 2002, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2011)
• Condensed Matter Theory Seminar (Fall 2003, Spring 2004)
• Supplementary Condensed Matter Seminar (Fall 2004, Spring 2005)
• Sundays@Noon (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, in Hebrew).
  

Conference Organization

• Quasicrystals - The Silver Jubilee (Chair), October 14-19, 2007, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 4th Indo-Israeli Meeting in Condensed Matter Physics (Chair), November 2-6, 2008, Zefat, Israel.
• 5th Workshop of the Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (Co-Chair), February 22-24, 2009, HaGoshrim, Israel. [Book of Abstracts]
  • Video recordings of the Workshop lectures (requires a TAU computer account).
• ICTP Workshop on Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems Approaching the Quantum Regime (Co-Director), September 6-10, 2010, Trieste, Italy.
• 56th Meeting of the Israel Physical Society (Chair), December 5, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Video recordings of the Plenary Sessions.
• Aperiodic 2012 - International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals (Chair of the Scientific Program Committee), September 2-7, 2012, Cairns, Australia.
• IUCr 2014 - 23rd Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (Member of the International Program Committee), August 5-12, 2014, Montreal, Canada.
• IUCr 2014 Satellite Workshop - Introduction to Aperiodic Crystals (Chair), August 5, 2014, Montreal, Canada.

Local Links

• Condensed Matter Physics home page.
• School of Physics and Astronomy home page.
• Tel Aviv University home page.

Other Links

• My Father's Home Page.
• Lab of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University - Where I was a graduate student.
• The Condensed Matter Physics group at Caltech - Where I was a postdoc.