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אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב > Ben-Gurion University of the Negev > The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research > The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research > Alexandre Yersin Department of Environmental Physics > YDSEEP SEMINARS 2017-2018

YDSEEP SEMINARS 2017-2018

Date & Abstract	Speaker	Title
Oct' 24th	Dr. Maoz Shamir Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, BGU	Emergence of oscillatory activity via spike timing dependent plasticity
Oct' 31st	Dr. Yoni Toker Dept. of Physics, BIU	Watching isolated molecules change their shape
Nov' 7th	The International Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification (DDD)
Nov' 14th	Prof. Kinneret Keren Dept. of Physics, Technion	Mechanical Aspects of Hydra Morphogenesis
Nov' 21st	Prof. Bob Weisberg College of Marine Science, University of South Florida at St. Petersburg, USA	Power Generation Potential for Florida by Mechanical and Solar Means
Nov' 28th	Prof. Avi Marmur Dept. of Chemical Engineering Technion	There is plenty of room at the bottom
Dec' 5th	Dr. Liran Goren Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, BGU	Tectonics, climate and fluvial relief: forward and inverse problems and solutions
Dec' 12	Prof. Sefik Suzer, Chemistry Department, Bilkent Univ., 06800 Ankara, Turkey	X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), a Chemical Analysis Tool for Electrical Characterization of Materials and Devices
Dec' 19th	Prof. Michael Urbakh Dept. of Chemistry, TAU	Atomic Scale Friction: From Understanding to Control
Dec' 26th	Prof. Eytan Katzav Dept. of Physics, HUJI	Stability and roughness of crack paths in 2D heterogeneous brittle materials
Jan' 2nd	Prof. Elisha Moses Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann	The structure of a brain: Percolation in space and oscillations in time
Jan' 9th	Dr. Idan Hod Dept. of Chemistry, BGU	Metal-Organic Frameworks as an Heterogeneous Platform for Electrocatalytic Reactions
Jan' 16th	Prof. Dan Oron Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann	From quantum dots and halide perovskite nanoparticles to hybrid quantum dot-perovskite solar cells

March 6, 2018	Symposium on Solar Electricity Production 2018
March 13, 2018	Einat Aharonov, The Hebrew University, Institute of Earth Sciences	A steady-state physics-based rock-friction constitutive law: predicting friction dependence on temperature, stress and slip rate.
March 20, 2018	Itamar Procaccia, Weizmann, Dept. of Chemical Physics	Training, Memory and Universal Scaling in Amorphous Frictional Granular Matter
March 27, 2018	Koby Rubinstein, Technion, Dept. of Mathematics	Two applications of caustics
April 10, 2018	Arik Yochelis, YDSEEP	Electrically charged self-assembly: Gradient flow media with non-equilibrium properties
April 17, 2018	Shahaf Armon, Stanford, Dept. of Bioengineering, USA	Ultra-fast contractility dynamics in an ancient epithelium, and the “active cohesion” hypothesis
April 24, 2018	Dan Gorbonos, Weizmann, Dept. of Chemical Physics	Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms - An Adaptive Gravity Model
May 1, 2018	Saar Rahav, Technion, Faculty of Chemistry	The copying fidelity of a polymerase facing an obstacle
May 6, 2018 special Seminar	Vladimir Dyakonov, University of Wurzburg, Germany	Charge Carrier Recombination and Trap States in Perovskite Solar Cells
May 8, 2018	Michal Leskes, Weizmann, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces	Probing bulk materials properties and the electrode-electrolyte interface with high sensitivity solid state NMR spectroscopy
May 15, 2018	Yasmine Meroz, Tel-Aviv University, School of Plant Sciences &Food Security, The Center for Physics and Chemistry of Living Systems	Uncovering Organismal Memory Phenomena: From Cellular Chemotaxis to Plant Tropisms”
May 22, 2018	Leeor Kronik, Weizmann, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces	Understanding Molecular and Hybrid Crystals from First Principles
May 29, 2018	Erez Gilad, Ben-Gurion University, The Unit of Nuclear Engineering	The challenge of designing safe experiments for future nuclear reactors
June 5, 2018	Haim Suchowski, Tel-Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy	Broadband and ultrafast near-field spectroscopy and imaging
June 7, 2018	Prof. Vladimir Oliker, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Freeform multifocal lenses designed with the supporting quadric method
June 12, 2018	Anne Bernheim, BGU, Dept. of Chemical Engineering	Spontaneous buckling of contractile poroelastic actomyosin sheets
June 19, 2018	Paul Ben Ishai, Ariel, Dept. of Physics	Water in the ultra-confinement of natural minerals - Evidence of a 1D structural glass transition