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2024 YDSEEP Seminars

Dat​​e Speaker Title
April 30 2024​​ Lioz Etgar, HUJI Chirality and piezoelectricity in low dimensional perovskite and Fully printable solar cells
May 7 2024 Yaron Amouyal, Technion New frontiers in thermoelectric materials design for waste heat harvesting
May 21 2024 Prof. Ofer Feinerman, Weizmann

 
June 4 2024 Brian Rosen, TAU Bridging Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Exploiting Phase Diagrams for Catalyst Design


June 25 2024
Yvgeny Rakita, BGU 
(Solar Energy)​​

Discovering order and its evolution at the nano-scale: lessons from 4DSTEM 
Dr. Evgeniy Boyko, Technion
(Environmental physics)​


July 2 2024
Amro Sweedan, BGU
(Solar Energy)​​

Concluding​ Ph.D seminar

​Mr. Shahar Feder, BGU
(Environmental physics)​​​
​Concluding​ Ph.D seminar


July 9 2024
Dr. Mohammad Abutoama  
(Solar Energy)
*Candidate seminar​
Enhanced photoenergy conversion by exploiting optical nanocavities exhibiting extreme light confinement
Dr. Hillel Aharoni, Weizmann
​(Environmental physics)​​​
July 16 2024 Tamar Makov, BGU  

Previous YDSEEP 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 

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 ​l​ecture​​​​

​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 ​l​ect​ure​​

 

​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

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

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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​

DATE & ABSTRACT

SPEAKER

TITLE

Oct. 29, 20 19 

Tabea Heckenthaler, ZIWR, BIDR, BGU

The Self-Cleaning Mechanism: Why Nanotexture and Hydrophobicity Matters

Nov. 5, 2019 

Yair Zarmi, YDSEEP, BIDR, BGU

SOME ASPECTS of PHOTOSYNTHESIS: A physicist view (Pulsed Light: A way to significantly increase photosynthetic efficiency in algae)

Nov. 12, 2019 

Arnon Karnieli, YDSEEP, BIDR, BGU

Was Drought Really the Trigger Behind the Syrian Civil War in 2011?

Nov. 19, 2019 

Nir Keren,

Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University

Cyanobacterial strategies for tuning the energy transfer efficiency in their light-harvesting antennae

Nov. 26, 2019 

Anoop KM, Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, SIDEER, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Stability, Degradation and Recovery Dynamics of Perovskite Solar Cells

(PhD lecture)

Dec. 3, 2019 

Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar

Weizmann Institute Department. of computer science and applied mathematics

On energy equilibration in slow fast systems

Dec. 10, 2019 

Oren Regev, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University

Nano-Reinforced Composites: Performance and Percolation

Dec. 17, 2019 

Shlomi Reuveni, Tel Aviv University, School of Chemistry

Restart: the physics of starting anew

Dec. 24, 2019 

Avshalom Offner, Technion, Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Programme

Acoustic energy conversion: recovering low-grade heat for various applications

Dec. 31, 2019 

Sagi Dalyot, Technion, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Route Planning for Blind Pedestrians - Using and Enriching Crowdsourced Maps

Jan. 7, 2020 

Efrat Lifshtiz, chulich Faculty of Chemistry, Solid State Institute, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute and the Helen Diller Quantum Information Center; Technion, Haifa, Israel

The effect of magnetism on the optical properties of bulk and confined perovskite structures

Jan. 14, 2020 

Beena Kalisky, Bar Ilan University, Dept. of Physics

beena@biu.ac.il

Imaging phase transitions with scanning SQUID

Jan. 21, 2020 

 

Yossi Rosenwaks, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978

Email: yossir@eng.tau.ac.il

Selective Molecular Sensing using CMOS Compatible

Nanowire Transistors

Jan. 28, 2020 

Dr. Aviv Solodoch, UCLA, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Density current and internal waves interactions - observations in the Louisiana Bight

May 12, 2020 

Zoom Seminar

Micha Silver, Dept. of Environmental physics and Solar Energy

J.Blaustein Institutes for Desert research, BGU

Improved Precipitation Grids Derived from Microwave Link Attenuation.

May 13, 2020 

Zoom Seminar

Prof. Lioz Etgar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Chemistry, Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel

Perovskite and their applications in photovoltaic cells, nanostructures, semitransparency and low dimensional perovskite

June 2, 2020 

Zoom seminar

Dr. Shimrit Maman, Geography department, BGU

Using a single band Nano Satellite for Earth Observations (EO): Lessons learnt from BGUSAT

June 3, 2020

Zoom seminar

Dr. Victor Yashunsky, from Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris

Multicellular Systems Organize as Active Nematic Liquid Crystals

June 9, 2020 

Zoom seminar

Oded Hod, Department of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Science, Tel Aviv University

Modeling Interlayer Interactions in Layered Materials

June 10, 2020 

Zoom seminar

Dr. Udi Stroba, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA

High-Frequency Oscillations and Submesoscale Frontal Dynamics at the Air-Sea Interface

June 16, 2020 

Zoom seminar

Eran Edri, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Core-Shell Micro-Tube Array for Closing the Artificial Photosynthesis Cycle on a Nanometer Scale

June 17, 2020 

Zoom seminar

Itamar Sela, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Theory of bacterial genome evolution

June 23, 2020 

Zoom seminar

Alex Furman, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geo-electrical investigations in soil and hydrological

June 24, 2020

Zoom seminar

Nava Leibovich, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

From the Stationary State to Transition Rates and Vice Versa: Resolving the Stationary Distributions for Competing Populations with Predefined Rates, and the Inverse Problem; Inferring Transition Rates from  Stationary Distributions

Date & Abstra​ct ​Speaker ​Title
16.10.2018  Omer Tzuk, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The Role of Self-Organized Spatial Patterns in the Design of Agroforestry Systems
23.10.2018  Oren Raz, Department of Physics, Weizmann Inst. of Science  The Markovian Mpemba effect
6.11.2018​  Gil Ariel, Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University ​Chaos and Levy walks in swarming bacteria
​13.11.2018  Moshe Deutsch, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University ​Liquid interfaces: where order emerges from disorder
​20.11.2018  Mark Schvartzman, Department of Materials   Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ​Nanodevices for the Study of Immune Cell Function
​27.11.2018  Ed Narevicius, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Inst. of Science ​Quantum Scattering Resonances in Cold Molecular Collisions
​4.12.2018  Yonatan Sivan, Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering Unit, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ​Non-Equilibrium theory of hot electron generation in plasmonic nanostructures under illumination – thermal vs. non-thermal effects
​11.12.2018  Shira Raveh-Rubin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Inst. of Science ​The role of dry air in frontal precipitation
​18.12.2018  Ofer Manor, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion ​Signatures of Van Der Waals and Electrostatic Forces in the Deposition of Nanoparticle Assemblies
​25.12.2018  Roy Mukamel, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University ​Neural networks mapping actions to their sensory consequences
​1.1.2019  Tal Schwartz, School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University ​Tailoring energy transport in molecules by confined photons
​8.1.2019  Yossi Paltiel, Department of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ​The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Effect (CISS)
Date & Abstract
​Speaker

​Title

Oct' 24th 

Dr. Maoz Shamir

Dept. of Physiology an​​d 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 Internat​ional 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

De​pt. 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

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