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Colloquia   

Event: Mathematics Colloquium
Title: "Approximate groups and expanders"
Speaker: Emmanuel Breuillard, Université Paris-Sud II
Date: Thursday, March 11 at 16:00   (coffee at 15:30 in faculty lounge)
Place: Lecture hall 2,  Mathematics Building

Event: Chemistry Colloquium - Professor Chava Lifshitz Memorial Lecture
Title: "Is there anything new in electron-pair bonding? The nature of the charge-shift bond"
Speaker: Prof. Sason Shaik, HUJ
Date: Sunday, March 14 at 14:00  
Place: Auditorium,  Los Angeles Building 

Event: Physics Colloquium
Title: "Einstein, Hilbert and the tortuous way to General Relativity"
Speaker: Prof. Leo Corry, TAU
Date: Monday, March 15 at 12:00  
Place: Lecture hall 8,  Levin  Building

Event: Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium
Title: "Computer applications in archaeological research"
Speaker: Uzi Smilansky
Date: Monday, March 15 at 14:00  
Place: room 201,  Ross Building

Event: Special Life Sciences Institute Lecture
Title: "The evolution of malaria"
Speaker: Prof. Francisco Ayala, University of California at Irvine
Date: Monday, March 15 at 14:00  
Place: Raschal lecture hall,  Silberman  Building

Event: Special Chemistry Colloquium
Title: "Ligand and cluster size effects in metal-mediated activation of methane: A cold approach to a hot problem"
Speaker: Prof. Helmut Schwarz, Technical University, Berlin
Date: Monday, March 15 at 14:00  
Place: Auditorium,  Los Angeles Building

Event: Earth Sciences Institute Lecture
Title: "The role of surface discontinuities in earth-atmosphere gas exchange in general and evaporation and salt precipitation in particular"
Speaker: Prof. Noam Weisbrod, BGU
Date: Wednesday, March 17 at 10:00  
Place: room 102,  Earth Sciences Building

Event: Chemistry Colloquium
Title: "New insights from diffusion MR: From molecular capsules to porous materials and beyond"
Speaker: Prof. Yoram Cohen, TAU
Date: Wednesday, March 17 at 14:00  
Place: Auditorium,  Los Angeles Building

Event: Mathematics Colloquium
Title: "Lipschitz maps from metric spaces with many rectifiable curves"
Speaker: Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute
Date: Thursday, March 18 at 16:00   (coffee at 15:30 in faculty lounge)
Place: Lecture hall 2,  Mathematics Building

Event: Special Faculty of Science Nobel Laureate Lecture
Title: "The wondrous Ribosome, its activity, enemies and sources"
Speaker: Prof. Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry 2009
Date: Sunday, March 21 at 14:00  
Place: Wise Auditorium,  Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem




Schools, Symposia, Conferences, Courses

Event:  4th Meeting of the Israel Live Imaging Forum
Date:  Monday, March 15, 2010
Place: Faculty Club, Silberman (Life Sciences) Building
Registration: Please register by March 10.  contact:  live.imaging1@gmail.com
link for program

Event:  13th Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium
Date:  April 6, 2010
Place: Technion Med School Campus
N.B. registration is free, but required
link for registration, poster deadlines, etc.  

Seminars  

Computer Sciences and Computer Engineering

Event: Computer Vision  Seminar
Title: "Diffusion Maps for Edge-Aware Image Editing dge-aware operations, such as edge-preserving smoothing and edge-aware interpolation, require assessing the degree of similarity between pairs of pixels, typically defined as a simple monotonic function of the Euclidean distance between pixel values in some feature space"
Speaker:  Zeev Farbman, HUJ
Date: Sunday,  March 14  at 10:15
Place:  room 201,  Ross  Building 

Event: Computer Science Theory Seminar
Title: "TBA"
Speaker:  Oded Regev, TAU
Date:  Wednesday,  March 17  at 10:30   (coffee at 10:20)
Place:  room 201,  Ross  Building

Event: Learning Seminar
Title: "TBA"
Speaker:  Roie Kliper, HUJ
Date: Thursday, March 18  at 10:15
Place:  room 63, Ross  Building

Physics 

Event: Joint High Energy Physics Seminar I
Title: "Small hairy black holes in global AdS"
Speaker: Prof. Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Date:  Tuesday, March 16  at 10:30
Place:  The White Dove Conference Hall at Nave Shalom (Wahat al-Salaam)

Event: Joint High Energy Physics Seminar II
Title: "Two dimensional fermions in four dimensional gauge theory"
Speaker:  Prof.  Herbert Neuberger,  Rutgers State University, USA
Date: Tuesday, March 16  at 11:45
Place:  The White Dove Conference Hall at Nave Shalom (Wahat al-Salaam)

Event: Astrophysics Seminar
Title: "TBA"
Speaker:  Dr. Rennan Barkana, TAU
Date: Tuesday,  March 16  at 12:30
Place:  seminar room 200 , Kaplun  Building

Event: High Energy Theory Group Meeting
Title: "Integrability of some AdS3 backgrounds"
Speaker:  Dr. Andre Babichenko, WIS
Date:  Wednesday,  March 17 at 14:00
Place:  seminar room 200 , Kaplun  Building

Event: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Title: "Population switching and charge sensing in quantum dots: A case for quantum phase transitions"
Speaker:  Dr. Moshe Goldstein, BIU
Date:  Thursday,  March 18  at 12:00
Place:  seminar room , Danciger B  Building  

Event: Basic Notions Seminar
Title: "How useful is it to endow a field with the trivial norm?"
Speaker:  Francois Loeser
Date: Thursday,  March 11  at 17:15 
Place:  Lecture hall 2 Mathematics  Building

Event: Infinity Categories Seminar
Title: "Infinity-1 categories and the coherent nerve functor"
Speaker:  Asaf Horev
Date: Sunday,  March 14  at 11:00 
Place:  room 209, Mathematics  Building

Event: Arithmetic Progressions Seminar
Title: "Introduction to the theorem of Ben Green and Terrance Tao, continued"
Speaker:  Hillel Furstenberg, HUJ
Date: Sunday,  March 14  at 14:00 
Place:  room 213, Sprinzak  Building

Event: Dynamics and Probability Seminar
Title:      see Global Analysis and Automorphic Forms Conference
Speaker:  Fritz Grunewald
Date: Tuesday,  March 16  at 14:30 
Place:  lecture hall 2,  Mathematics  Building

Event: Large Sieve Seminar
Title: "Sieving and expanders"
Speaker:  Chen Meiri
Date: Tuesday,  March 16  at 12:00 
Place:  room 209,  Mathematics  Building

Event: Groups and Dynamics Seminar
Title: "Simplicial  volume and Milnor-Wood inequalities"
Speaker:  Michelle Bucher
Date:   Thursday,  March 18  at 10:00 
Place:  room 209,  Mathematics  Building

Event: Analysis and PDEs Seminar
Title: "TBA"
Speaker:  Richard Melrose, MIT
Date:  Thursday,  March 18  at 14:30 
Place: lecture hall 2,  Mathematics  Building

Life Sciences

Event: Biological Chemistry Seminar
Title: "Splicing factors as a new type of oncogene"
Speaker:  Dr. Rotem Karni, HUJ
Date:  Sunday, March 14  at 09:00  
Place:  Faculty Club, Silberman  Building

Event: Plant and Environment Seminar
Title: "A skeptic's view of climate change and arid land vegetation"
Speaker:  Prof. Joe Gale,  HUJ
Date:  Sunday, March 14  at 13:00  
Place:  Faculty Club, Silberman  Building

Event: Joint Biology and Computer Science Seminar
Title: "Modeling gene content evolution in microbes"
Speaker:  Dr. Tal Pupko, TAU
Date:  Sunday, March 14  at 16:15  
Place:  room 63, Ross  Building

Event: Biological Chemistry Research Seminar
Title: "The influenza M2 channel dynamics and inhibition"
Speaker:  Hadas Leonov, HUJ
Date:  Monday,  March 15  at 1200  
Place:  room 1-502,  Silberman  Building

Event: Cellular and Developmental Biology Seminar
Title: "Dynamic fate map and early fate restrictions of the avian Neural Crest"
Speaker:  Yuval Crispin  HUJ
Date:  Tuesday,  March 16  at 12:00  
Place:  Faculty Club, Silberman  Building

Event:
Title: "Adaptive and process-based explanations in the study of parent-offspring communication: Experiments and game theoretical modeling"
Speaker:  Dr. Uri Grodzinski, University of Cambridge
Date:  Tuesday,  March 16  at 12:00   
Place:  seminar room, Berman  Buildingg

Event:
Title: "Studying human recombination as a phenotype"
Speaker:  Prof. Molly Przeworski, University of Chicago
Date:  Wednesday,  March 17 at 09:00    (coffee after the seminar)
Place:  Faculty Club, Silberman  Building

Earth Science

Event: Geology Seminar
Title: "The damage zone around faults - observations and implications"
Speaker: Neta Wechsler, USC
Date: Thursday, March 11  at 14:30  
Place:  room 125, Earth Sciences Building 

Event: Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Title: "From cooling to heating: Influence of aerosol sky cover on the critical single scattering Albedo"
Speaker: Neta Wechsler, USC
Date: Thursday,  March 11  at 14:30  
Place:  room 102, Earth Sciences Building 

Event: Geology Seminar
Title: "Clumped isotopes in speleothem carbonate and atmospheric CO 2"
Speaker: Prof. Hagit Affek, Yale University
Date: Monday,  March 22  at 13:30  
Place:  room 102,  Earth Sciences Building 

Event: Geology Seminar
Title: "Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica: regional and global tectonic consequences"
Speaker: Dr. Roie Granot, IPGP, France
Date:  Tuesday,  March 23  at 11:00  
Place:  room 125,  Earth Sciences Building 

Event: Neural Computation Seminar
Title: "Measuring strategic uncertainty and risk in coordination, entry games and lotteries with fMRI"
Speaker:  Giorgio Coricelli, CNRS, Université Lyon, France
Date: Thursday, March 11  at 17:00  
Place:  ICNC seminar room,  Silberman Building

Event: Neural Computation Seminar
Title: "Watching action potential generation in neocortical neurons"
Speaker:  Mike Gutnik, HU Rehovot
Date: Thursday, March 18  at 17:00  
Place:  ICNC seminar room,  Silberman Building

Environmental Sciences Program

Event: Environmental Science Seminar
Title: "TBA"
Speaker:  Prof. Hezi Gildor, WIS
Date:  Tuesday, March 16  at 13:00   
Place:  room 102, Earth Sciences  Building

Applied  Physics

Event: Applied Physics Seminar
Title: "Optical metamaterials and plasmonic nano-structures"
Speaker:  Dr. Guy Bartal, UC
Date:  Thursday,  March 11  at 15:00    (note changes in time and day)
Place:  seminar room (208),  Bergmann  Building

Applied Chemistry

Applied Chemistry Seminar
Title: "Metal-air batteries: Opportunities and limitations";
Speaker:  Prof. Yair Ein-Eli, Technion
Date:  Tuesday, March 16  at 12:00   
Place:  lecture hall,  Casali  Building

Event: Game Theory and Mathematical Economics Seminar
Title: "Regularity and stability of equilibria in an overlapping generations growth model L"
Speaker:  Jean-Francois Mertens, CORE
Date:  Sunday,  March 14  at 16:15
Place:  Elath Hall,  Feldman Building

Event: Computation and Economics Seminar
Title: "Not invisible anymore?"
Speaker:  Jacob Goldenberg, HUJ
Date:  Sunday,  March 21  at 14:00
Place:  Rationality Center Library (next to Elath hall),   Feldman Building

Chemistry

Event: Chemistry PhD Lecture 
Title: "Immobilized phospholipids chromatography for the determination of partition coefficients of pharmacologically related compounds"
Speaker:  Tail Godard, HUJ
Date: Monday,  March 15  at 10:00 
Place:  Auditorium,  Los Angeles  Building

Nanotechnology

Event: Nano center Seminar
Title: "Stacking and registry effects in layered materials: The case of hexagonal boron nitride"
Speaker:  Dr. Oded Hod, TAU
Date:  Sunday,  March 21  at 16:00 
Place:  Auditorium,  Los Angeles  Building