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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 2016-17

YDSEEP Seminars 2016-17

Date & Abstract	Speaker	Title
November 1st	Shaul Sorek (BGU)	Modeling porous media hydrodynamics at different spatial scales
November 8th	Avi Niv (BGU)	High intensity microparticle propulsion with light
November 15th	Amos Zemel (BGU)	The many faces of the devil: Environmental policy under catastrophic threats
November 22nd	Ido Regev (BGU)	Reversibility and Criticality in Amorphous Solids
November 29th	Edo Bar-Zeev (BGU)	Energy—Water Nexus: Viability of Pressure Retarded Osmosis
December 6th	Corrado Rainone (WIS)	Following the evolution of metastable glasses under external adiabatic perturbations: compression and shear-strain
December 13th	Roy Bernstein (BGU)	Exploring charge balanced polyampholyte hydrogels as a non-fouling coating for polymeric membranes
December 20th	Guy Ramon (Technion)	Sustainable production of water and energy: advanced membranes and cool sounds
December 27th	Michael Chertkov (LANL)	Challenges in Modeling, Optimization and Control of Energy Networks (Transmission and Distribution of Power and Natural Gas)
January 3rd	Avraham Beer (BGU)	Physics of swarming bacteria: Levy walks, anomalous statistics and intricate flow regimes
January 10th	Doron Cohen (BGU)	Percolation, sliding, localization and relaxation in topologically closed circuits
January 11th	Dr. Tomer Lewi, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara	Widely Tunable Semiconductor Meta-atoms for Science and Technology: Towards Programmable Optics and Metasurfaces
January 17th		GFD Days
January 24th	Avi Niv (BGU)	High intensity microparticle propulsion with light - 2nd part

March 14th	Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv Department of Materials and Interfaces Weizmann Institute of Science	Programmable On-Chip DNA Compartments as ‘Artificial Cells’
March 21st	Prof. Eran Bouchbinder Department of Chemical Physics Weizmann Institute of Science	Cellular Mechanosensitivity in Driven Systems
March 28th	Gili Greenbaum Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology BIDR, BGU	Mathematical models in population genetics
April 4th	Yuval Zelnik, Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, CNRS – Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station	Disturbances and stability in spatial ecosystems
April 6-7	The Negev Physics Fete
BIDR SEMINAR SERIES
April 19th 2017 11:30refreshments, 12:00 lecture Evans Auditorium	Prof. Brian Berkowitz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science	Measurements and models of chemical transport in porous media: Fact, fantasy and wishful thinking
April 25th	Dr. Yair Shokef, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University	Geometrically frustrated mechanical metamaterials
May 9th	Augusto Visintin (Trento, Italy)	Hysteresis and Ferromagnetism
May 16th	Prof. Yariv Kafri, Physics Department, Technion	Forces in nonequilibrium systems
May 23rd	Prof. Pinhas Alpert, Department of Geophysics, School of Geosciences, Tel Aviv University	Challenges in Climate Modeling and Observations “over the Mid-East”
June 6th	Dr. Eilon Sherman, The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Resolving mechanisms of protein organization at the cell membrane in single molecule detail
June 13rd	Dr. Ori Adam, Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem	The dynamics of Inter Tropical Convergence Zones in present and past climates
June 20th	Dr. Yotam Avital Yosef Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, BIDR, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev	Iron Oxide (Rust) for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Insights into Semiconductor Electrolyte Interface via Dynamical Systems Approach
June 27tn	Prof. Menny Shalom, Chemistry Department, Ben-Gurion, Univ.	Carbon nitride materials for artificial photosynthesis