Shahar Hadar (The University of Haifa at Oranim) | Resolving the Photon Ring |In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first close-up interferometric images of two…

Hillel Aharoni (Weizmann Institute of Science) | Tunable Architecture of Nematic Disinclination Lines | In this talk, I will introduce a theorethical framework to tailor three-dimensional defect line architecture in nematic…

Elisabetta Boaretto (Weizmann Institute of Science) | Plants-Climate-Atmosphere: Understanding Rapid Fluctuations in Radiocarbon Recorded in Archaeology | When: May 3, 2023 2:00 PM (Israel Standard Time). Where: Room 223, Multipurpose Bldg.…

Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota) | 50 Years of Supersymmetry | Abstract: I present a broad non-technical review of supersymmetry in our world from its inception to the current status. Related…

Eran Sharon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Self-Morphing of frustrated sheets - from the lab to the real world and from statics to locomotion |Abstract:Humanity spends huge amounts of time, energy…

Yuval Garini (Technion) | The multi-scale structure of chromatin in the nucleus | Abstract: The DNA in a human cell which is ~2 meters long is packed in a ~10 μm…

Yossi Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science) | The Jewels in the Crown of the LHC | Abstract: The ATLAS and CMS experiments have made several major discoveries: The discovery of an elementary…

Ray Rivers (Imperial College London) | Entropology: an information-theoretic approach to understanding archaeological data |In collaboration with: Paula Gheorghiade (U of Helsinki), Vaiva Vasiliauskate (ETH Zurich), Henry Price (ICL), Sasha Diachenko…

Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University) | Ecosystem responses to climate change across different levels of organization |Abstract:Understanding the response of dryland vegetation to climate extremes, such as severe droughts, is of utmost…

Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute of Science) | How low can electronic resistance go? |Abstract:Electronic resistance is a fundamental notion both in condensed matter physics and in everyday life, where it is…