Regular Weekly Seminars

Mathematics

Event: Dynamics and Probability Seminar
Title: "Random walks in Euclidean space, a local limit theorem"
Speaker: Peter Varju, HUJ
Date: Tuesday,  January 10 at 14:00   
Place: room 209, Mathematics  Building

Event: Topology and Geometry Seminar   
Title: "Stable bases for symplectic resolutions and their abelianizations"
Speaker: Daniel Shenfeld, Princeton University
Date:  Wednesday,  January 11 at 11:00   
Place: room 209, Mathematics  Building

Event: Group Actions Seminar
Title: "On measures invariant under diagonalizable groups on quotients of semi-simple groups"
Speaker: Elon Lindenstrauss, HUJ
Date:  Thursday,  January 12 at 10:00   
Place: room 209, Mathematics  Building

Computer Science

Event: Computer Science Theory Seminar
Title : "Quantum money from hidden subspaces"
Speaker : Scott Aaronson
Date:  Wednesday,  January 11 at 10:30   
Place: room 201, Ross  Building

Event: Quantum Reading Seminar
Title : "The structure of non-locality and contextuality"  
Speaker :  Samson Abramsky, Oxford University
Date:  Thursday, January 12 at 12:00   
Place: room 63, Ross  Building

Physics

Event: Astrophysics Seminar
Title: "Dark halo response and the stellar IMF in early- and late-type galaxies"
Speaker: Prof. Frank van den Bosch, Yale University
Date:  Tuesday, January 10 at 12:30   
Place: seminar room, Kaplun Building

Event: Special Soft Matter Seminar
Title: "The secret life of water: E=H2O"
Speaker: Prof. Gerald H. Pollack, University of Washington, Seattle
Date:  Wednesday, January 11 at 12:00   
Place: seminar room, Danciger B Building

Event: Condensed-Matter Physics Seminars
Title : "From the adiabatic to the anti-adiabatic regime of phonon-assisted tunneling"
Speaker: Prof. Avraham Schiller, HUJ
Date:  Thursday, January 12 at 12:00
Place: seminar room, Danciger B Building

Applied Physics

Event: Applied Physics Department Seminar
Title : "Highly conducting molecular junctions, atomic-chains and their hybrids"
Speaker : Dr. Oren Tal, WIS
Date:  Wednesday,  January 11 at 12:00   
Place: seminar hall, Bergman  Building

Chemistry

Event: Fritz Haber and Farkas Centers Seminar
Title: "Air flow within and above penetrable canopies"
Speaker: Dr. Yardena Bohbot-Raviv, Institute for biological research, Ness-Ziona
Date:  Thursday,  January 12 at 14:00   
Place: Auditorium, Los Angeles Building

Event: Chemistry Ph.D. Seminar
Title: "3D-printed scaffolds for tissue engineering"
Speaker: Eduardo Napadensky, HUJ   (supervisor: Prof. Daniel Cohn)
Date:  Thursday,  January 12 at 16:00   
Place: Auditorium, Los Angeles  Building

Life Sciences

Event: Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Seminar
Title: "The story of a simple idea"
Speaker:  Prof. Ronen Kadmon, HUJ
Date:  Tuesday,  January 10 at 12:00   
Place:  seminar room, Berman  Building

Event: Cellular and Developmental Biology Seminar
Title: "Gene expression in space and time"
Speaker: Dr. Yaron Shav-Tal, BIU
Date:  Tuesday,  January 10 at 12:00   
Place:  Faculty club, Silberman  Building

Event: Genetics Seminar
Title: "The DNA damage response: from protein-protein interaction to new insights on homologous recombination"
Speaker:  Or Shahar, HUJ   (supervisor: Dr. M. Goldberg)
Date:  Wednesday, January 11 at 09:00   
Place:  Faculty club, Silberman  Building

Event: Special Bio-Engineering Seminar
Title: "Success and failure of the CD8+ T cell response against Hepatitis C virus (HCV)"
Speaker:  Prof. Jorg Timm, University Hospital, Essen
Date:  Wednesday, January 11 at 11:00   
Place:  Faculty club, Silberman  Building

Event: Special Life Sciences Seminar
Title: "Gene regulation in 4D during cellular response and differentiation"
Speaker:  Dr. Ofir Hakim, NIH
Date: Wednesday, January 11 at 12:45 
Place:  Faculty Club, Silberman  Building

Event: Biotechnology Today Seminar - Guest Speaker     (an hour and a half talk)
Title: "TBA"
Speaker:  Dr. Hagai Karchi, Evogene
Date:  Wednesday, January 11 at 13:30
Place:  room 1-502, Silberman  Building

Brain Sciences

Event: ELSC-ICNC Seminar
Title: "Skill learning : the composition of several cognitive processes"
Speaker:  Eli Vakil, BIU
Date:  Thursday,  January 12 at 17:00 
Place: ELSC-ICNC lecture hall, Silberman  Building

Environmental Science

Event: Environmental Science Seminar
Title: "The future of Lake Kinneret and the Dead Sea, can the two exist together?"
Speaker: Dr. Doron Markel, The Water Authority
Date:  Tuesday, January 10 at 13:00   
Place: room 102, Earth Sciences  Building

Earth Sciences

Event: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Seminar
Title: "Tide gauge location and the measurement of global sea level"
Speaker: Prof. Michael Beenstock, HUJ
Date: Thursday,  January 12 at 14:30   
Place: room 102, Earth Sciences  Building

Rationality Research Center and IAS

Event: Research Workshop on Advanced Topics in Game and Economic Theory
Title : "Evolutionary stability in multiple-move games"
Speaker : Zibo Xu
Date:  Thursday, January 12 at 12:00
Place: Elath Hall, Feldman  Building

Event: Rationality on Friday Seminar
Title: "Sovereigns as trustees of humanity: The minimal other-regarding obligations"
Speaker: Eyal Benvenisti, NYU
Date:  Friday,  January 13 at 10:00
Place: Elath Hall, Feldman  Building