Colloquium schedule 2001/2
All colloquia are Thursday 330 pm (except where noted).
Winter Semester
October 25th, 2001
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The perception of complex sounds pitch: a nonlinear dynamics perspective.
- Professor Oreste Piro, Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados,
Universitat de Illes Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
CANCELLED
- November 1st, 2001
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- Accretion Disks - some basic problems.
- Professor Oded Regev, Department of Physics, The Technion, Haifa.
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- November 8th, 2001
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- Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities
- Professor Elisha Cohen, Department of Physics, The Technion, Haifa.
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- November 15th, 2001
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- String Theory, Branes and Gauge Theory Dynamics
- Professor Amihay Hanany, Physics Department, MIT, Mass., U.S.A.
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- November 22nd, 2001
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- New insights into the meteor phenomenon
- Dr. Noah Brosch, Director of the Wise Observatory,Tel Aviv University
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- November 29th, 2001
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- From solar system to solitons and vortices: Emergence of Coherent
Patterns by Synchronization
- Professor Lazar Friedland, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
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- December 6th, 2001
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- How the bacterium finds its waist
- Dr. Itzhak Fishov, The Biology Department, Ben Gurion University.
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- December 13th, 2001
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- bacterial cybernetic
- Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob, Physics Department, Tel Aviv University.
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- December 20th, 2001
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- Galaxy Formation: Crises and Possible Resolutions
- Professor Avishai Dekel, Racah Inst. of Physics, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem.
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- December 27th, 2001
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- The atom chip: Manipulation of ultra cold atoms on nano-fabricated
surfaces
- Dr. Ron Folman, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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- January 3rd, 2002
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- New variants and new calculations of the Casimir effect.
- Professor Shmuel Nussinov, Physics Department, Tel Aviv University.
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- January 10th, 2002
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- The Geometry of Fractures via Iterated Conformal Maps
- Professor Itamar Procaccia, The Wezmann Inst. of Science, Rehovoth.
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- January 17th, 2002
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- How do Solids Melt?
- Professor Emil Polturak, Department of Physics, The Technion, Haifa
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Spring Semester
- March 14th, 2002
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Counting Nodal Domains - from Chladni to Quantum Chaos
- Professor Uzy Smilanski,Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems.
Weizmann Inst., Rehovoth.
- March 21nd, 2002
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- Desert Story Patched Together
- Professor Ehud Meron, Dept. of Environmental Physics, Sde Boker
campus and Physics Dept. ,Ben Gurion University.
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- April 11th, 2002
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- Polymers: points, lines and ribbons
- Professor Yitzhak Rabin,Dept. of Physics, Bar-Ilan University.
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- April 18th, 2002
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- Curvature unveils information - in the WWW and other networks
- Professor Elisha Moses,Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems.
Weizmann Inst., Rehovoth.
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- April 25th, 2002
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- Probing giant Black Holes with Giant X-ray telescopes
- Professor Hagai Netzer,School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University.
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- May 2nd, 2002
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- Excitation spectrum of a Bose-Einstein condensate
- Dr. Nir Davidson,Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems.
Weizmann Inst., Rehovoth.
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- May 23st, 2002
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- Effects of the ionosphere on electromagnetic wave propagation
- Professor Nathan Blaunstein, Information System Engineering Dept.
Ben Gurion University
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- May 30th, 2002
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Semiconductor Industry Roadmap And Some Relevant Inspection Technologies
- Dr. Radel_Ben-Av, Applied Materials Ltd., Rehovoth.
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- June 6th, 2002
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- Nonlinear Quantum Resonances in Atom Optics
- Professor Samuel Fishman,Dept. of Physics, The Technion, Haifa.
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- June 13th, 2002
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- Extrasolar Planets
- Dr. Reem Sari, Theoretical Astrophysics Dept., Caltech, Passadena,CA., U.S.A.
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- June 20th, 2002
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Pulsar radio emission
- Professor Michael Gedalin, Physics Dept., Ben Gurion University.
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