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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 SPRING SEMINARS 2020-2021

YDSEEP SPRING SEMINARS 2020-2021

SPRING SEMINARS

DATE & ABSTRACT	SPEAKER	TITLE
March 2, 2021 Zoom Seminar	Prof. Sam Safran, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science	Nonlinear dynamics of spontaneously beating heart cell
March 9, 2021 Recorded lecture	Dr. Izzy Ron, Department of Physical Chemistry and Environmental Sciences Division at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR). izharron@gmail.com	On-site chemical and biological sensing: challenges in sampling, sensor design, and data analysis
March 16, 2021 Recorded lecture	Prof. Avinoam Rabinovich, School of Mechanical Engineering, The lby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, avinoamr@post.tau.ac.il	Impact of small-scale capillary heterogeneity effects on large-scale multiphase flow in geological formations
April 6, 2021	Dr. Barak Akabayov, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University akabayov@bgu.ac.il	Using NMR-fragment based and computational chemistry for the development of novel antibacterial agents targeting the ribosomal PTC of M. tuberculosis
April 20, 2021 at 16:00 Recorded lecture	Abigail Bodner, PhD candidate, Dept. of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University abodner.github.io	Stir and mix: studying upper ocean dynamics from theory to application
April 27, 2021	Prof. David Cahen, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science david.cahen@weizmann.ac.il	Can protein electronic conduction be a quantum effect?
May 11, 2021 Recorded lecture	Dr. Hillel Aharoni Faculty of Physics Department of Physics of Complex Systems Weizmann Institute of Science	Universal Inverse Design of 2D Nematic Elastomers
May 18, 2021 Recorded lecture	Prof. Daniel Grave, Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University dgrave@bgu.ac.il	Metal-oxide photoelectrodes for solar energy conversion and storage
May 20, 2021	Prof. Efrat Morin, The Hydrometeorology Lab, the Fredy & Nadine Hermann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University	Changes in the Levant precipitation over the past 4500 years from reconstructed Dead Sea levels and their modern implications
May 25, 2021	Dr. Ran Holtzman Fluids and Complex Systems Research Centre, Coventry University, UK ran.holtzman@coventry.ac.uk	Non-equilibrium flows in porous media
June 3, 2021 Zoom Meeting at 13:00	Dr. Tamara Polebesova, The Dept. of Soil and Water Sci., The Faculty of Agri. Food and Environ	Transformation of dissolved organic matter and organic pollutants by redox-ac tive mineral surfaces
June 8, 2021 Recorded lecture	Gilad Mozes. Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Swiss Inst. for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Photovoltaic operation at extreme temperatures
June 15, 2021 Recorded lecture	Prof. Diana Golodnitsky, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Wolfson Applied Materials Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 6997801 golod@tauex.tau.ac.il	Towards smart flexible batteries
June 17, 2021 Special lecture in Hebrew	Eviatar Mordechai, The Dept. of Soil and Water Sci., The Faculty of Agri. Food and Environ, The Hebrew University	Pharmaceuticals in the agroecosystem: Fate in irrigation water, soils, and crops
August 2nd, 2021	Dr. Erez Aghion from University of Massachusetts	Direct detection of the origins of anomalous diffusion in experimental time-series

Fall 2020-2021

DATE & ABSTRACT	SPEAKER	TITLE
Oct. 22, 2020 Recorded lecture	Mr. Ido Frenkel, Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, BGU	Addressing Three Challenges of Photovoltaics: Passive Tracking, Light Traps and The Thermodynamics of Radiation (Ph.D. seminar)
Nov. 10, 2020 Recorded lecture	Prof. Hagai Cohen, Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science	The Hidden Electrical information in XPS Compositional Analyses: Why, How, and What?
Nov. 24, 2020 Recorded lecture	Prof. Michael Moshe, The Racah Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Mechanical Meta-Materials as lattices of quadrupolar elastic charges Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83765915283?pwd=SmQ4OVZOY1hBNk95U1RVajlVSmU0dz09 Meeting ID: 837 6591 5283 Passcode: 345123 Please find below a link regarding all our AYDSEEP Fall Seminars 2020-2021 https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/bidr/SIDEER/DSEEP/Pages/YDSEEP-FALL-SEMINARS.aspx
Dec. 1st, 2020 Recorded lecture	Prof. Maya Bar-Sadan, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	A place where everyone matters – interfaces in functional nanostructures
Dec. 8, 2020 Recorded lecture	Dr.Gil Shalev, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Surface arrays of subwavelength semiconducting structures for light trapping and broadband absorption of the solar radiation
Dec. 15, 2020	Luigi Catacuzzeno, Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy	Extracting and harvesting energy from a biological cell
Dec. 22, 2020	Alon Shapira	TBA
Dec. 29, 2020	Ido Braslavsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science, and Nutrition Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, & Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ido.braslavsky@mail.huji.ac.il http://braslab.weebly.com/	Ice-binding-proteins and their interaction with ice crystals
Jan. 5, 2021	Gili Bisker Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University	Optical Nanoprobes for the Nonequilibrium Features of Life
Jan. 12, 2021 Recorded lecture	Prof. Daniel Hexner, Faculty of Mechanical Enjineering, Technion	Teaching an old foam new tricks: material design, memories and learning in aging solids

Seminar coordinators: Dr. M. Bashouti & Dr. L. Orlovsky Time: 11:00 Place: Lecture Room - Physics building (entrance floor) / Zoom meeting