Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond & Beverly Sackler

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Professor Yaron Oz is the coordinator of the Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond & Beverly Sackler

Current Year

Visitors for the Academic Year 2020/2021

Name	Institution	Period of Visit	Host
Prof. Douglas Stanford	Associate Professor of Physics Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Stanford University, CA, USA Email: julie.shih@stanford.edu	April 2021	Host: Prof. Amit Sever School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6408579 Email: asever@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Juna Kollmeier	Staff Member Carnegie Observatories Carnegie Institution for Science Pasadena, CA, USA Phone: +1 (626) 304 0220 Email: jak@carnegiescience.edu	May 2021	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Gian Francesco Giudice	Head Theoretical Physics Department CERN Geneva, Switzerland Email: Gian.Giudice@cern.ch	May 2021	Host: Prof. Tomer Volansky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6406373 Email: t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Giovani Passaleva	Head, LHCb collaboration in CERN Research Director INFN Firenze, Italy Email:Giovanni.passaleva@fi.inrn.it	June 2021	Host: Prof. Abner Soffer School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406091 Email: asoffer@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof: Elias Kiritsis	Department of Physics University of Crete Crete, Greece Email: kiritsis@physics.uoc.gr	May, 16-20,2020 postponed	Host: Prof. Jacob Sonnenschein School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6407782 Email: cobi@tauex.tau.ac.il

Name

Institution

Period of Visit

Host

Prof. Douglas Stanford

Associate Professor of Physics
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Stanford University, CA, USA

Email: julie.shih@stanford.edu

April 2021

Host: Prof. Amit Sever
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6408579
Email: asever@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Juna Kollmeier

Staff Member
Carnegie Observatories
Carnegie Institution for Science
Pasadena, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (626) 304 0220
Email: jak@carnegiescience.edu

May 2021

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Gian Francesco Giudice

Head
Theoretical Physics Department
CERN
Geneva, Switzerland

Email: Gian.Giudice@cern.ch

May 2021

Host: Prof. Tomer
Volansky
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6406373
Email: t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Giovani Passaleva

Head, LHCb collaboration in CERN
Research Director
INFN
Firenze, Italy

Email:Giovanni.passaleva@fi.inrn.it

June 2021

Host: Prof. Abner Soffer
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406091
Email: asoffer@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof: Elias Kiritsis

Department of Physics
University of Crete
Crete, Greece

Email: kiritsis@physics.uoc.gr

May, 16-20,2020
postponed

Host: Prof. Jacob Sonnenschein
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6407782
Email: cobi@tauex.tau.ac.il

Past Fellows

Name	Institution	Period of Visit	Host
Academic Year 2018/2019 Lecturers:
Prof. Yifang Wang	Director, The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) Chinese Academy of Science Beijing, China Email: yfwang@ihep.ac.cn	October 25, 2018 - November 2, 2018	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Sydney Gales	Director of Research Institute de Physique Nucleaire Orsay Orsay, France Email: sydney.gales@eli-np.ro	April 26-28, 2019	Host: Prof. Ishay Pomerantz School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6407845 Email: ipom@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Yuval Grossman	Department of physics Cornell University Ithaca, New York, USA Email: yg7373@gmail.com	May 17 -19, 2019	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. David Weinberg	Department of Astronomy Ohio State University McPherson Laboratory Columbus, Ohio, USA Email: weinberg.21@osu.edu	May 29 - June 3, 2019	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2017/2018 Lecturers:
Prof. Raja GuhaThakurta	Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Santa Cruz, USA Phone: +1 (831) 459 -5169 Email: raja@ucolick.org	January 13-18, 2018	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Gerald Miller	Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Phone: +1 - (206) 543-2995 Email: miller@uw.edu	March 1 - April 1, 2018	Host: Prof. Eliazer Piasetzky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-9428 Email: eip@tauphy.tau.ac.il
Prof. Michael Green	Department of Mathematics Cambridge University Phone: +44 - 1223 - 330884 Email: m.b.green@damtp.cam.ac.uk	March 23-31, 2018	Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-7782 Email: cobi@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Vadim Kaplunovsky	Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences The University of Texas at Austin Texas, USA Phone: +1 (512) 471-4918 Email: vadim@physics.utexas.edu	May 27 - June 11, 2018	Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-7782 Email: cobi@post.tau.ac.
Academic Year 2016/2017 Lecturers:
Prof. Anthony Zee	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA Phone: +1 (805) 893-4213 Email: zeeitp@gmail.com	May 24-26, 2017	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6409579 Email: marek@post.tau.ac.il
Prof David Hogg	Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Department of Physics New York University New York, NY 10003, USA Email: david.hogg@nyu.edu	April 1-4, 2017	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Philip Candelas	Mathematical Institute University of Oxford Woodstock Road Oxford , UK Phone: +44 (0)1865 - 615179 Email: candelas@maths.ox.ac.uk	May 25-30, 2017	Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-7782 Email: cobi@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Janet Conrad	Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA Email: conrad@mit.edu	June 6-15, 2017	Host: Prof. Eliazer Piasetzky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-9428 Email: eip@tauphy.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2015/2016 Lecturers:
Prof. Brice Menard	Department of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy Baltimore, MD, USA Email: menard@jhu.edu	December 18-22 2015	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Beate Heinemann	Department of Particle Physics University of California Berkeley, CA, USA Email: bheheinemann@lbl.gov	April 27 - May 3 2016	Host: Prof. Abner Soffer School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-6091 Email: asoffer@tau.ac.il
Prof. Michael Peskin	HEP Theory Group, MS 81 SLAC National Accelerator Lab. Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Phone + 1-(650)-926-3250 Email: mpeskin@slac.stanford.edu	May 5-8, 2016	Host: Prof. Abner Soffer School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-6091 Email: asoffer@tau.ac.i
Prof. David Pine	Chair, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Silver Professor of Physics NYU College of Arts & Science New York University Phone 212-998-7744 (Manhattan) Email: pine@nyu.edu	May 24- June 7, 2016	Host: Prof. David Andelman School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-6091 Email: andelman@post.tau.ac.il Host: Dr. Yael Roichman School of Chemistry Phone: +972-3-640-5848 Email: roichman@tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2014/2015 Lecturers:
Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik	Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor in Applied Physics Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials McCullough building Stanford University Stanford, California, USA Email: aharonk@stanford.edu	December 20, 2014 January 4, 2015	Host: Prof. Alexander Palevski Chairman, Department of Condensed Matter Physics School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-9428 Email: apalev@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Tim de Zeeuw	Director General of the ESO European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen Germany Email: tdezeeuw@eso.org	January 24 - 26, 2015	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Brian Foster	Department of Physics University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory Parks Road Oxford England Email: Brian.Foster@phisics.ox.ac.uk	March 12-16, 2015	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Jonathan Rosner	Physics Department The Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, University of Chicago Chicago Il., USA Email: rosner@hep.uchicago.edu	May 2-4, 2015	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2013/2014 Lecturers:
Prof. Frank Shu	Department of physics National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu City, Taiwan Email: shu@phys.nthu.edu.tw	January 11- 17, 2014	Prof. Avraham Carmeli Coller School of Management Phone: +972-3-640-6335 Email: a vic@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Ludwik Leibler	Soft Matter and Chemistry Laboratory Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) Paris, France Email: Ludwik.Leibler@espcifr	February 20-28, 2014	Host: Prof. David Andelman Head, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6407239 Email: andelman@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Nicholas Manton	Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge Center for Mathematical Sciences Cambridge, UK Email: N.S.Manton@damtp.cam.ac.uk	May 2-8, 2014	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Gerald Gabrielse	Department of Physics, University of Harvard Cambridge, USA Email: gabrielse@physics.harvard.edu	May 9-15, 2014	Host: Prof. Abner Soffer Head of the Department of Particle Physics Phone: +972-3-640-6091Email: asoffer@tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2012/2013 Lecturers:
Prof. Claudio Bunster	Director Centro de Estudios Cienti´ficos (CES) Valdivia Chile Email: bunster@cecs.cl	May 2013	Host: Prof. Yaron Oz School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6406373 Email: yaronoz@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Krishna Rajagopal	Department of Physics, and Associate Head for Education, MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Email:krishna@MIT.EDU	May 2013	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Csaba Csaki	Department of Physics Cornell University Ithaca USA Email:csaki@cornell.edu	May 2013	Host: Prof. Tomer Volansky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6406373 Email: t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Andrew Gould	Thomas Jefferson Professor for Discovery and Space Exploration Department of Astronomy Ohio State University USA Email:gould@astronomy.ohio-state.edu	May 2013	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2011/2012 Lecturers:
Prof. Christopher McKee	Interim Dean, Professor Emeritus Department of Physics Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Physics Department of Astronomy Berkeley, CA, USA Phone: +1 (510) 642-0805 Email: cmckee@berkeley.edu	December 15-21, 2011	Host: Prof. Tomer Volansky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6406373 Email: t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Tom Banks	Professor of Physics UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA Phone: +1 (831) 459-4297 Email: banks@scipp.ucsc.edu Professor of Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Phone: +1 (848) 445-9064 Email: tibanks@ucsc.edu	March 24-27, 2012	Host: Prof. Tomer Volansky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6406373 Email: t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Gabriele Veneziano	Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation, and Cosmology Professor of Physics College de France Paris, France Email: Gabriele.Veneziano@college-de-france.fr	April 24-30, 2012	Host: Prof. Yaron Oz School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6406373 Email: yaronoz@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2010/2011 Lecturers:
Prof. Hans Walter Rix	Director, Department Galaxies and Cosmology Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany Phone: +49 6221 528-210 Email: rix@mpia.de	December 11-15, 2010	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Berndt Mueller	James B. Duke Professor Director of the Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Duke University, Durham, USA Phone: +1 (919) 660-2570 Email: muller@phy.duke.edu Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York, USA Phone: +1 (631) 344-5397 Email: bmueller@bnl.gov	May 28-31, 2011	Host: Prof. Benjamin Svetitsky School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6408870 Email: bqs@julian.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2009/2010 Lecturers:
Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker	Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus Department of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Phone: +1 (609) 258-4267 Email: ostriker@princeton.edu	December 18-24, 2009	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Wolfram Weise	TUM Emeritus of Excellence Faculty of Physics Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany Phone: +49 (0)89 289-12351 Email: weise@ph.tum.de	April 20 - May 2, 2010	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Herbert Neuberger	Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Phone: +1 (848) 445-8966 Email: neuberg@physics.rutgers.edu	May 7-17, 2010	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2008/2009 Lecturers:
Prof. Shrinivas R. Kulkarni	The George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA Phone: +1 (626) 395-4010 Email: srk@astro.caltech.edu	December 19-22, 2008	Host: Prof. Dan Maoz, Chair, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6408636 Email: maoz@astro.tau.ac.il
Prof. Erich Vogt	Professor of Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia, Canada Email: vogt@triumf.ca	January 16-27, 2009	Host: Prof. Daniel Ashery School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6407417 Email: ashery@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Louis Lyons	Professor Emeritus in Physics Department in Physics Oxford University, Oxford, UK Email: Louis.Lyons@physics.ox.ac.uk	March 11-25, 2009	Host: Prof. Erez Etzion School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406546 Email: ereze@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Dan Thanh Son	University Professor in Physics Deptartment of Physics Enrico Fermi Institute James Franck Institute Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics The College University of Chicago, IL, USA Phone: +1 (773) 834-9032 Email: dtson@uchicago.edu	May 2-6, 2009	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:
Prof. Nathan Seiberg	Professor of Mathematical Physics School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA Phone: +1 (609) 734-8237 Email: seiberg@ias.edu	April 6, 2008	Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein, School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-640-7782 Email: cobi@post.tau.ac.
Prof. Chris Quigg	Theoretical Physicist Theoretical Physics Department Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL, USA Phone: +1 (630) 840-3578 Email: quigg@fnal.gov	April 10-16, 2008	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Horst Stöcker	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. in Theoretical Physics Department of Theoretical Physics Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Phone: +49 069 798-47889 Email: stoecker@uni-frankfurt.de Senior Fellow, Board of Directors Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Phone: +49 174 328-1445 Email: stoecker@fias.uni-frankfurt.de	May 1-5, 2008	Host: Prof. Marek Karliner School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6406373 Email: marek@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2005/2006 Lecturers:
Prof. Allen Caldwell	Managing Director Max-Planck Institute for Physics, München, Germany Phone: +49 89 32354-529 Email: caldwell@mpp.mpg.de	January 4-9, 2001	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Neta Bahcall	Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics Director, Undergraduate Program in Astrophysics Department of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Phone: +1 (609) 258-6065 Email: neta@astro.princeton.edu	April 24-30, 2006	Host: Prof. Rennan Barkana School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405993 Email: barkana@tau.ac.il
Prof. Stefan Pokorski	Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chair of Theory of Particles and Elementary Interaction University of Warsaw, Poland Phone: +48 22 55 32 917 Email: Stefan.Pokorski@fuw.edu.pl	May 8-16, 2006	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2004/2005 Lecturers:
Prof. Peter Lepage	Tisch Family Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics The Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Phone: +1 (607) 255-5151 Email: g.p.lepage@cornell.edu	April 16-19, 2005	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev	Distinguished Professor Director of Center for Nuclear Theory Stony Brook University, NY, USA Phone: +1 (631) 632 8118 Email: Dmitri.Kharzeev@stonybrook.edu Head of the RIKEN-BNL Theory group Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY, USA Phone: +1 (631) 344 7231 Email: kharzeev@bnl.gov	May 12-17, 2005	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Christopher McKee	Interim Dean, Professor Emeritus Department of Physics Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Physics Department of Astronomy Berkeley, CA, USA Phone: +1 (510) 642-0805 Email: cmckee@berkeley.edu	May 22 - June 5, 2005	Host: Prof. Amiel Sternberg School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3- 6407590 Email: amiel@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2003/2004 Lecturers:
Prof. John Dainton	Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics (Emeritus) Department of Physics University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Phone: +44 (0)151 794 3427 Email: Jbd@liverpool.ac.uk	May 22 - June 13, 2004	Host: Prof. Aharon Levy School of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +972-3-6405173 Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il

Name

Institution

Period of Visit

Host

Academic Year 2018/2019 Lecturers:

Prof. Yifang Wang

Director, The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP)
Chinese Academy of Science
Beijing, China

Email: yfwang@ihep.ac.cn

October 25, 2018 - November 2, 2018

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Sydney Gales

Director of Research
Institute de Physique Nucleaire Orsay
Orsay, France

Email: sydney.gales@eli-np.ro

April 26-28, 2019

Host: Prof. Ishay Pomerantz
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6407845
Email:
ipom@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Yuval Grossman

Department of physics
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

Email: yg7373@gmail.com

May 17 -19, 2019

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. David Weinberg

Department of Astronomy Ohio State University
McPherson Laboratory
Columbus, Ohio, USA

Email: weinberg.21@osu.edu

May 29 - June 3, 2019

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2017/2018 Lecturers:

Prof. Raja GuhaThakurta

Leora Batnitzky

Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
The University of California
Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Santa Cruz, USA

Phone: +1 (831) 459 -5169
Email: raja@ucolick.org

January 13-18, 2018

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Gerald Miller

Chi-Wang Shu

Department of Physics,
University of Washington,
Seattle, USA

Phone: +1 - (206) 543-2995
Email: miller@uw.edu

March 1 - April 1,
2018

Host: Prof. Eliazer Piasetzky
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-9428
Email:
eip@tauphy.tau.ac.il

Prof. Michael Green

Department of Mathematics
Cambridge University

Phone: +44 - 1223 - 330884
Email:
m.b.green@damtp.cam.ac.uk

March 23-31, 2018

Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein,
School of Physics and
Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-7782
Email:
cobi@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Vadim Kaplunovsky

Department of Physics,
College of Natural Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Texas, USA

Phone: +1 (512) 471-4918
Email: vadim@physics.utexas.edu

May 27 - June 11, 2018

Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein,
School of Physics and
Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-7782
Email:
cobi@post.tau.ac.

Academic Year 2016/2017 Lecturers:

Prof. Anthony Zee

Kavli Institute
for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (805) 893-4213
Email: zeeitp@gmail.com

May 24-26,
2017

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6409579
Email:
marek@post.tau.ac.il

Prof David Hogg

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
Department of Physics
New York University
New York, NY 10003, USA

Email: david.hogg@nyu.edu

April 1-4,
2017

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Philip Candelas

Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Woodstock Road
Oxford , UK

Phone: +44 (0)1865 - 615179
Email: candelas@maths.ox.ac.uk

May 25-30,
2017

Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein,
School of Physics and
Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-7782
Email:
cobi@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Janet Conrad

Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

Email: conrad@mit.edu

June 6-15,
2017

Host: Prof. Eliazer Piasetzky
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-9428
Email:
eip@tauphy.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2015/2016 Lecturers:

Prof. Brice Menard

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Baltimore, MD, USA

Email: menard@jhu.edu

December
18-22
2015

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Beate Heinemann

Department of Particle Physics
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA

Email: bheheinemann@lbl.gov

April 27 - May 3
2016

Host: Prof. Abner Soffer
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-6091
Email: asoffer@tau.ac.il

Prof. Michael Peskin

HEP Theory Group, MS 81
SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA

Phone + 1-(650)-926-3250
Email: mpeskin@slac.stanford.edu

May 5-8,
2016

Host: Prof. Abner Soffer
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-6091
Email: asoffer@tau.ac.i

Prof. David Pine

Chair, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Silver Professor of Physics
NYU College of Arts & Science
New York University

Phone 212-998-7744 (Manhattan)
Email: pine@nyu.edu

May 24-
June 7,
2016

Host: Prof. David Andelman
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-6091
Email:
andelman@post.tau.ac.il

Host: Dr. Yael Roichman
School of Chemistry

Phone: +972-3-640-5848
Email:
roichman@tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2014/2015 Lecturers:

Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik

Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor in Applied Physics
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials McCullough building
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

Email: aharonk@stanford.edu

December
20, 2014
January 4,
2015

Host: Prof. Alexander Palevski
Chairman, Department of Condensed Matter Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-9428
Email:
apalev@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Tim de Zeeuw

Director General
of the ESO European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen
Germany

Email: tdezeeuw@eso.org

January
24 - 26,
2015

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Brian Foster

Department of Physics
University of Oxford
Clarendon Laboratory
Parks Road
Oxford
England

Email:
Brian.Foster@phisics.ox.ac.uk

March
12-16,
2015

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email:
levyaron@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Jonathan Rosner

Physics Department
The Enrico Fermi Institute,
and the College,
University of Chicago
Chicago Il., USA

Email: rosner@hep.uchicago.edu

May
2-4,
2015

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email:
levyaron@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2013/2014 Lecturers:

Prof. Frank Shu

Department of physics
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Email: shu@phys.nthu.edu.tw

January
11- 17,
2014

Prof. Avraham Carmeli
Coller School of Management

Phone: +972-3-640-6335
Email:
a vic@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Ludwik Leibler

Soft Matter and Chemistry Laboratory
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI)
Paris, France

Email: Ludwik.Leibler@espcifr

February 20-28, 2014

Host: Prof. David Andelman
Head, School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6407239
Email:
andelman@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Nicholas Manton

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
Center for Mathematical Sciences
Cambridge, UK

Email: N.S.Manton@damtp.cam.ac.uk

May
2-8,
2014

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Gerald Gabrielse

Department of Physics,
University of Harvard
Cambridge, USA

Email: gabrielse@physics.harvard.edu

May
9-15,
2014

Host: Prof. Abner Soffer
Head of the Department of Particle Physics

Phone: +972-3-640-6091Email: asoffer@tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2012/2013 Lecturers:

Prof. Claudio Bunster

Director
Centro de Estudios
Cienti´ficos (CES)
Valdivia
Chile

Email: bunster@cecs.cl

May 2013

Host: Prof. Yaron Oz
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6406373
Email:
yaronoz@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Krishna Rajagopal

Department of Physics,
and Associate Head for
Education,
MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA

Email:krishna@MIT.EDU

May 2013

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Csaba Csaki

Department of Physics
Cornell University
Ithaca
USA

Email:csaki@cornell.edu

May 2013

Host: Prof. Tomer
Volansky
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6406373
Email:
t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Andrew Gould

Thomas Jefferson Professor
for Discovery and Space
Exploration
Department of Astronomy
Ohio State University
USA

Email:gould@astronomy.ohio-state.edu

May 2013

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2011/2012 Lecturers:

Prof. Christopher McKee

Interim Dean, Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Physics Department of Astronomy Berkeley, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (510) 642-0805
Email: cmckee@berkeley.edu

December 15-21, 2011

Host: Prof. Tomer
Volansky
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6406373
Email:
t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Tom Banks

Professor of Physics
UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone: +1 (831) 459-4297 Email: banks@scipp.ucsc.edu

Professor of Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Phone: +1 (848) 445-9064 Email: tibanks@ucsc.edu

March 24-27,
2012

Host: Prof. Tomer
Volansky
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6406373
Email:
t omerv@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Gabriele Veneziano

Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Professor of Physics
College de France
Paris, France

Email: Gabriele.Veneziano@college-de-france.fr

April 24-30,
2012

Host: Prof. Yaron Oz
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6406373
Email:
yaronoz@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2010/2011 Lecturers:

Prof. Hans Walter Rix

Director, Department Galaxies and Cosmology
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

Phone: +49 6221 528-210
Email: rix@mpia.de

December 11-15, 2010

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Berndt Mueller

James B. Duke Professor
Director of the Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences
Duke University, Durham, USA

Phone: +1 (919) 660-2570
Email: muller@phy.duke.edu

Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York, USA

Phone: +1 (631) 344-5397
Email: bmueller@bnl.gov

May 28-31, 2011

Host: Prof. Benjamin Svetitsky
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6408870
Email:
bqs@julian.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2009/2010 Lecturers:

Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker

Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus Department of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

Phone: +1 (609) 258-4267
Email: ostriker@princeton.edu

December 18-24, 2009

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Wolfram Weise

TUM Emeritus of Excellence
Faculty of Physics
Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Phone: +49 (0)89 289-12351
Email: weise@ph.tum.de

April 20 - May 2, 2010

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Herbert Neuberger

Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Phone: +1 (848) 445-8966
Email: neuberg@physics.rutgers.edu

May 7-17, 2010

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2008/2009 Lecturers:

Prof. Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

The George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (626) 395-4010
Email: srk@astro.caltech.edu

December
19-22,
2008

Host: Prof. Dan Maoz,
Chair, School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6408636
Email:
maoz@astro.tau.ac.il

Prof. Erich Vogt

Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia, Canada

Email: vogt@triumf.ca

January
16-27,
2009

Host: Prof. Daniel Ashery
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6407417
Email:
ashery@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Louis Lyons

Professor Emeritus in Physics
Department in Physics
Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Email: Louis.Lyons@physics.ox.ac.uk

March
11-25,
2009

Host: Prof. Erez Etzion
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406546
Email:
ereze@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Dan Thanh Son

University Professor in Physics
Deptartment of Physics
Enrico Fermi Institute
James Franck Institute
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics
The College
University of Chicago, IL, USA

Phone: +1 (773) 834-9032
Email: dtson@uchicago.edu

May
2-6,
2009

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:

Prof. Nathan Seiberg

Professor of Mathematical Physics
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA

Phone: +1 (609) 734-8237
Email: seiberg@ias.edu

April 6,
2008

Host: Prof. Cobi Sonnenschein,
School of Physics and
Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-640-7782
Email:
cobi@post.tau.ac.

Prof. Chris Quigg

Theoretical Physicist
Theoretical Physics Department
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, IL, USA

Phone: +1 (630) 840-3578
Email: quigg@fnal.gov

April 10-16,
2008

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Horst Stöcker

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. in Theoretical Physics
Department of Theoretical Physics
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Phone: +49 069 798-47889
Email: stoecker@uni-frankfurt.de

Senior Fellow, Board of Directors
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Phone: +49 174 328-1445
Email: stoecker@fias.uni-frankfurt.de

May 1-5,
2008

Host: Prof. Marek Karliner
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6406373
Email:
marek@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2005/2006 Lecturers:

Prof. Allen Caldwell

Managing Director
Max-Planck Institute for Physics, München, Germany

Phone: +49 89 32354-529
Email: caldwell@mpp.mpg.de

January 4-9,
2001

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Neta Bahcall

Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics
Director, Undergraduate Program in Astrophysics
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Phone: +1 (609) 258-6065
Email: neta@astro.princeton.edu

April 24-30, 2006

Host: Prof. Rennan Barkana
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405993
Email: barkana@tau.ac.il

Prof. Stefan Pokorski

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chair of Theory of Particles and Elementary Interaction
University of Warsaw, Poland

Phone: +48 22 55 32 917
Email: Stefan.Pokorski@fuw.edu.pl

May 8-16, 2006

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2004/2005 Lecturers:

Prof. Peter Lepage

Tisch Family Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics
The Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Phone: +1 (607) 255-5151
Email: g.p.lepage@cornell.edu

April 16-19, 2005

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev

Distinguished Professor
Director of Center for Nuclear Theory
Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Phone: +1 (631) 632 8118
Email: Dmitri.Kharzeev@stonybrook.edu

Head of the RIKEN-BNL Theory group Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY, USA
Phone: +1 (631) 344 7231
Email: kharzeev@bnl.gov

May 12-17, 2005

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Christopher McKee

Interim Dean, Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Physics Department of Astronomy Berkeley, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (510) 642-0805
Email: cmckee@berkeley.edu

May 22 - June 5, 2005

Host: Prof. Amiel Sternberg
School of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3- 6407590
Email:
amiel@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2003/2004 Lecturers:

Prof. John Dainton

Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics (Emeritus)
Department of Physics
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Phone: +44 (0)151 794 3427
Email: Jbd@liverpool.ac.uk

May 22 - June 13,
2004

Host: Prof. Aharon Levy
School of Physics
and Astronomy

Phone: +972-3-6405173
Email: levyaron@tauex.tau.ac.il

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Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond & Beverly Sackler

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Professor Yaron Oz is the coordinator of the Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond & Beverly Sackler

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Visitors for the Academic Year 2020/2021

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