Oct.
30 |
Prof. John C. Howell
Dept. of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
"Entropy, entanglement, and compressive sensing"
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Nov.
6 |
Dr. Roee Ozeri
Dept. of
Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute
"Open quantum system dynamics with trapped ions and flying photons"
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Nov.
13 |
Ceremony for the New Dean of Exact Sciences
No Colloquium
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Nov.
20 |
Prof. Todd Ditmire
Dept. of Physics,
University of Texas at Austin
"Petawatt to exawatt lasers: The science and technology of the brightest
light sources in history"
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Nov.
27 |
Prof. Ido Braslavsky
Dept. of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Ohio and Faculty of
Agriculture, The Hebrew University
"Superheating of ice crystals in the presence of antifreeze proteins"
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Dec.
4 |
Dr. Guy Ron
Racah Institute of Physics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"The proton radius — Nuclear physics' newest puzzle"
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Dec.
11 |
Dr. Eytan
Katzav Dept. of Mathematics,
King's College London "Packing problems — A statistical physics approach" |
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Dec.
18 |
The 2012 John Bahcall Lecture in Astrophysics
Prof. Christopher F. McKee
Depts. of
Astronomy and of Physics,
University of California, Berkeley
"The formation of massive stars"
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Wed. Dec.
21 14:00 |
Special Colloquium - Note the special date and time
Prof. Robert P. Kirshner
Clowes Professor of Science,
Harvard University
Guest of
the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Harvard-TAU Astrophysics Initiative
Distinguished Lecturer of the Lewiner Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Technion
"The Nobel surprise: How exploding stars led to dark energy"
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Dec.
25 |
57th Annual Meeting of the Israel
Physical Society, The Technion
No Colloquium
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site
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Jan.
1 |
Dr. Dvir Yelin
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Technion
"Optical nano-manipulations of malignant cells"
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Jan.
8 |
Prof. Yasushi Ishii
Dept. of Physics,
Chuo University, Tokyo
"Phasons in quasicrystals: From statics to dynamics"
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Jan.
15 |
Prof. Gerald H. Pollack
Dept. of Bioengineering,
University of Washington, Seattle
"The Secret Life of Water: E = H2O"
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Jan.
22 |
Prof. Yuval Oreg
Dept. of
Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute
"What are Majoranas and where to find them"
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Jan.
29 |
Prof. Issachar
Unna
Racah Institute
of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Albert Einstein and the birth of the quantum measurement problem"
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