TECHNION PHYSICS DEPARTMENT FACULTY - May 2001

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JOAN ADLER Biographical

Ph.D. 1980, University of New South Wales
Postdoc, Technion 1980-1984
Postdoc, Tel Aviv 1984-1988
At Technion since 1988
Senior Research Fellow since 2000.
Academic Head of the Technion Visualization Center, 1994.
Visiting Professor, Duke University, 1996-7.

Graduate Students:

7 MSc Students, 3 doctoral students

Research Interests:

Comp. stat. mechanics/condensed matter physics, especially disordered and alloy systems. Modeling materials such as helium, carbon, semiconductors using percolation, Ising and Potts models and solid-on-solid models. Development of techniques such as weighted matching, series expansions, Monte Carlo simulation, molecular dynamics (in particular off-lattice molecular dynamics/simulated annealing for solids) with emphasis on visualization and parallel algorithms.See website at: http://phycomp.technion.ac.il

ERIC AKKERMANS Biographical:

Ph.D., Grenoble University, 1986
Postdoctoral position at the Laue-Langevin Inst. 1986-1987
At Technion since: January 1st, 1990
Last academic appointments at Technion:
1. Associate professor at the Department of physics (Technion): 1995-
2. Senior Lecturer at the Department of physics (Technion): 1991- 1995.
Academic appointments abroad:
1. Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble (France), Summer 1992.
2. Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam (Holland), summer 1993.
3. Visiting scientist, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), Spring 1996.
4. Director of research CNRS-Orsay 1998-99

Number of graduate students since 1993:

5 PhD 4 MSc

Research interests:

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics including Quantum mesoscopic physics ,Anderson localization, Quantum Hall effects, Aharonov-Bohm effect, semiclassical methods for billiards in magnetic field and for Many-body systems. Superfluid helium and superconductivity. Geometric methods in field theory.

COLMAN ALTMAN Biographical

Ph.D., University of the Witwatersrand, 1951
At Technion since 1956
Last academic appointments at Technion:
Professor Emeritus 1994
Professor 1992
Last academic appointments abroad:
Visiting research scientist at CRPE (National Centre for Research on Terrestrial and Planetary Environment), Paris 1986, 1991-1992
Guest Professor, Physics Department, University of Düsseldorf 1985

Research interests:

1) Symmetry, time reversal and reciprocity in electromagnetics
2) Wave propagation in warm plasma with anisotropic pressure
3) Instabilities and wave phenomena in magnetospheric substorms

ASSA AUERBACH Biographical

Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1984
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Chicago 1985-1987
Appointments:
Joined Technion 1991
Senior Lecturer, Physics Department, Technion 1990-1994
Associate Professor, Physics Department, Technion 1995-2000
Professor,Physics Department, Technion 2000-present
Appointments: Abroad
1985-1987     Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Chicago.
1987-1988     Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
1988-1991     Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Boston University.
1997-1998     Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Stanford University.

Graduate Students since 1993:

3 M.Sc., 3 Ph.D.

Research Interest in Correlated Electron Systems

Highly correlated electron systems in condensed matter: Fractional Quantum Hall effect, quantum dot devices, high temperature superconductors, fullerenes, magnetism in low dimensions. Analytical techniques and numerical studies of quantum spin models.See website at: http://physics.technion.ac.il/~assa

JOSEPH ELISHA AVRON Biographical:

B.Sc. Physics, Technion 1970
D.Sc. Physics, Technion 1976
At Technion since: 1983
Last academic appointment: Professor since 1988
Administrative positions: Head, Institute of Theoretical Physics, 1992-
Senate representative in Harvey Prize Council
Committee for the appointments of Lecturers 1992-1994
Committee for the appointments of Senior Faculty and Tenure 1995-1996
Academic appointments abroad:
Visiting Associate Professor, Caltech 1987-1989
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Caltech 1982
Assistant Professor, Princeton 1980-1981
Awards: Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Physics, 1994
International Committees:
Executive Committee, International Association of Mathematical Physics 1990-1996
Session Organizer, the XI ICMP, Paris 1994
Program Organizer, the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, 1995
Advisory board, The Doppler Institute, Prague, 1994
Minerva Review Committee of the Landau Institute, HU Jerusalem, 1996.
Editorial Boards: MPEJ 1995-; J. Stat. Phys. 1997-

Graduate Students:

7 M.Sc., 5 D.Sc.

Research Interest:

Mathematical Physics, and in particular quantum mechanics. In recent years I focused on the adiabatic transport of charge in quantum systems undergoing various forms of deformations. The charge transport admits a geometric description in terms of the adiabatic curvature and is related to Berry's phase. This geometric point of view has applications to the theory of the quantum Hall effect and provides an insight on how sometimes ill defined materials can lead to precision experiments.

YACOB BEN-ARYEH Biographical

D.Sc., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1963
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Astrophysics, John Hopkins University, U.S.A. 1964-1965
Appointments at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Professor Emeritus, Physics Department
Professor, Physics Department, July, 1990
Associate Professor, Physics Department, 1976-1990
Academic Appointment Abroad In 1996
Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory
Astrophysics (JILA), Boulder
University of Colorado, U.S.A. March 1 - August 31, 1996.

Graduate Students:

5 PhD. and MSc.

Research Interests:

Various problems in Quantum Optics including especially measurement of the quantum phase, analysis of matter-radiation interactions and the reduction of quantum noise in optical systems.

L. GILLES BENGUIGUI Biographical

Doctorate in Sciences, University of Paris 1969
At Technion since: 1970
Last academic appointment at Technion: Professor from 1989
Academic positions abroad:
CNRS Strasbourg 1989, 1992, 1995, 1999
Lab. Leon Brillouin, CEN-Saclay, 1989, 1995
Physics Dep. University of Toronto, 1987, 1995
Academic honors, editorial board, etc:
Member of the organizing committee of the French-Israeli meetings on Complex fluids (Haifa 1992, St Malo, 1996) and of the Int. Meeting. on Surfactants in Solutions (Jerusalem, 1996)

Graduate students :

1 M.Sc. 1 PhD

Research interests:

1. Liquids Crystals. Phase transitions (theoretical studies). Elastic properties.
2. Polymer gels. Experimental studies of the elastic properties and determination of the structure by Small Angle Neutron Scattering.
3. Urban growth. Application of the concept of fractal to growth phenomena in urban geography.
4. Electric breakdown and fracture in disordered media.

ROBERT BESERMAN Biographical

Doctorate, University of Paris, December 1968
Research Associate, New York University 1970-1971
Aliyah 1975
Joined Technion Physics in 1975
Professor, Physics department 1977-
Invited Professor Strasbourg (France) 1995
Consultant Bell Communication (USA) 1990
Visiting research Prof. Univ. Illinois 1982-1983
Maitre de Recherches au CNRS (France) 1976-1979
Research Associate New-York Univ. 1970-1971

Research Interests:

The main research subjects are: 1) Study of the optical properties of Si/Ge heterostructures and superlattices for infrared detection. 2) Structure and composition of quantum dots and of epilayers grown on patterned substrates. 3) Metal-semiconductor interfaces. 4) Optical properties of II-VI semiconductors, study of natural order.

BORIS BLOK Biographical

Academic background:
M.Sc. 1978-1984, Theoretical Physics Department, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. Theoretical condensed matter physics.
Ph.D.$-$ 1987- 1989, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Theoretical Particle Physics.
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Technion, 1997-
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, Technion, 1993-1997
1991-1993 - postdoctoral position, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara. Research area- theoretical high energy physics.
1989-1991- postdoctoral position, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Research area-theoretical particle physics.

Graduate students

1 MSc., 2 PhD.

Research interests:

Theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory.

EREZ BRAUN Biographical

Ph.D. Weizmann Institute of Science 1990
Postdoctoral position at University of Chicago 1990-1991
At Princeton University from 1991-1993
Joined Technion Physics in 1993
Present Appointment:
Associate Professor at the Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Professional experience:
5/89-10/90: Post-Doctoral fellow, Physics Department, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
10/90-7/91: Post-Doctoral fellow, the James Franck Institute, the University of Chicago, Chicago Il. U.S.A.
7/91-8/93:Research Associate, Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton N.J., U.S.A.
Awards:
1985: A distinction prize for M.Sc. thesis.
1990: The Landau prize for Ph.D. thesis.
1990: The Weizmann fellowship.
1997: A prize for multidisciplinary research-Technion.
1998: David Ben-Aaron research prize
1998: Landau foundation prixze for excellance in research

Graduate Students: 4

Research Interest:

Experimental study of dynamics in biological systems.
Electrical processes in ensembles of ion-channels and cells. The dynamics of excitable cells and of networks of cells (heart cells and neurons). Self-assembly of nanometer scale electronics by recombinant DNA technology.

ELISHA COHEN Biographical

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1967
Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories 1967-1968.
Joined Technion Physics in December 1968
Professor of physics at Technion since 1981.
Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Head of the Barbara and Norman Seiden Advanced Optoelectronics Research Center at Technion since 1989-1998.

Graduate students:

21 Phd, 14 Msc.

Research Interests:

Spectroscopy of elementary electronic excitations of various semiconducting quantum structures: quantum wells,superlattices and microcavities. These excitations include excitons,electron and hole gases and confined photons. Using various optical techniques, charged excitons are investigated in quantum wells that contain a very dilute electron gas. The interaction between charged excitons and confined photons that are both confined in a planar microcavity subjected to an applied magnetic field is studied.

SHLOMO DADO Biographical

Ph.D. Technion 1972
Post-Doc at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 1973-1976
Joined Technion Physics in October 1976
Academic appointments at Technion:
Associate Professor 1986 --
Senior Lecturer 1979 - 1986
Lecturer 1976 - 1979
Academic appointments abroad:
Research Visitor, Stanford Linear accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford, California, U.S.A (1983-1984)
Visiting Professor, Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Bonn, Germany, 1994-1995
Administrative Position:
Member, Israel Commission for High Energy Physics, 1991--

Graduate Students: 1 Ph.D.

Research interests:

Work on $\tau$ physics with the OPAL detector at the CERN LEP Collider.
Measurement of the $\nu_\tau$ Mass from $\tau$ decays.

Study and construction of part of the ATLAS detector planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, centered on the endcap muon trigger and the triggering on golden channels for CP violation.

ARNON DAR Biographical

Ph.D. from Weizmann Institute/Hebrew University in 1963
Post-Doc at M.I.T. 1966-1968
Joined Technion Physics in 1968.
Academic Appointments:
Associate Professor from October 1, 1968 until September 31, 1971
Professor since October 1, 1972.
Short Term Academic appointments abroad during the past 5 years:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1994;
Institute For Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 1996/1997
Max Planck Institute For Physics, Heisenberg Institute, Munchen, 1997,CERN Geneva 1998/1999/2000
Academic honors: (past 5 years)
British Royal Society Award 1996/1997.
Humboldt Award 1997/1998.

Graduate students: 1 Ph.D 1 MSc.

Research interests:

High Energy Physics, Astrophysics And Cosmolgy Active Research In: Astrophysical Evidence/Constrints on Physics Beyond the Standard Models (General Relativity; Standard Particle Physics Model; Standard Big Bang Model). High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (Gamma Ray Bursts-GRBs; Blazars; Microquasars; The Cosmic Gamma Ray Background). Neutrino Astronomy (Solar Neutrinos; Supernova Neutrinos; Big Bang Neutrinos; Neutrinos From GRBs, Cosmic Rays Blazars and Microquasars). Astrophysical Mechanism of Life Extinctions.

YAKOV ECKSTEIN Biographical

Ph.D. University of Chicago 1962
Joined Technion Physics in 1970
Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, Technion 1999 Professor, Physics Department, Technion 1970-1999
Appointments:
Visiting Professor, Northwestern University and Argonne National Lab. 1996-1998
Head, Division of Continuing Education and External Studies 1991-todate
Head of Center for Superconductivity, Setting up General Laboratory for the Center 1989-1996
Chairman, Physics Department, Technion 1987-1990
Membership:
American Physical Society
Israel Physical Society

Research Interests:

High Temperature Superconductivity.

EITAN EHRENFREUND Biographical

Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1970
Member of Technical staff Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill 1970-1971
Reserch Associate, University of Pennsylvania, PA 1971-1972
Joined Technion Physics Department in 1972.
Last Academic Appointment: Present position: Professor, since 1986.
Holding the Dr. Harold L. Harris chair in Physics, since 1989.
Admininstrative positions: Head, Solid State Institute, 10/1994 to 12/1997.
Chairman, Physics department 12/1999-12/2001
Academic appointments abroad:
Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, since 1995.

Graduate students:

Since 1996: 9 finished (2 D.Sc and 7 M.Sc), 4 (2+2) still in progress.

Research interests:

(a) conducting and semiconducting polymers: electro-optical properties including studies of electro-luminescence, electro-absorption, photoluminescence, photo-modulation spectroscopy, and electro-optical devices such as light emitting diodes and photo-voltaic cells.
(b) heterostructures and superlattices: studies of semiconducting quantum wells and quantum dots, intersubband absorption, many exciton problem in quantum dots, photoluminescence.

GAD EILAM Biographical

At Technion since: 1974.
Last academic appointments at Technion: Professor (1990)
Administrative positions:
Dean of students (1.1986-12.1990) Chairman, Physics Dep. (1.1990-12.1992) Vice President for Development, Technion (1.1993-11.1993).
Member, Organizing Committee, Neutrino '94 (1994) Eilat, Israel.
Member, Organizing Committee, Beauty 2000, sea of Galilee (2000)
Co-ordinator, Graduate Studies Committee (1995-1997).(2000- )
Member, Organizing Committee, Heavy Flavors Workshop, Technion (1995).
Academic appointments abroad:(since 1997)
Univ. of California, Riverside (9.1997-6.1998).
University of Melbourne, Australia (7-8.1998)

Number of graduate students (since 1993): 3.

Research interests:

Rare decays. K, D, B and t physics. CP violation. Higher order corrections. Physics beyond the Standard Model. Higgs phenomenology. Implications of all the above to present and future accelerators.

DAN FEKETE Biographical

Academic Degrees:
Ph.D. in Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1977
Academic Appointments:
Research Fellow, Caltech, CA 1977-1979
Visiting Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 1979-1980
Joined Technion 1980
Assoc. Professor, Physics Dept., Technion, Haifa 1989-present
Visiting Scientist, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y. 1985-1986, 1995-1996
Scholarships and Honors:
David Dudi Ben-Aharon Award for Research 1985

Research Interests:

Growth fabrication and characterization of electronic and optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor quantum structures.

Graduate Students since 1993: 4 Ph.D. students, 2 M.Sc. students.

JOSHUA FELSTEINER Biographical

Ph.D. University of Toronto 1967
Joined Technion Physics in 1967
Last academic appointment at Technion: Professor since 1992
Administrative positions: Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies 1993-1997
Member of Israel Physical Society Council 1996-97
Academic appointments abroad:
Visiting Prof., Univ. of Dortmund July-Sept 93
Visiting Prof., Univ. of Paris VI Sept-Oct 94
Visiting Prof., Univ. of Paris VI Feb-Mar 95
Visiting Fellow, Univ. of Warwick Oct-Dec 97
Visiting Prof., Univ. of Konstanz Jan-Mar 98

Graduate students since 1995:

2 for Ph.D. and 3 for M.Sc.

Research interests:

1. Plasma Physics: Interaction of microwave radiation with glow discharge plasma; Plasma cathodes and plasma opening switches; High power pulsed microwaves.
2. Solid State Physics: Multiple scattering effects in inelastic X-ray scattering; Magnetic Compton scattering.

BERTINA FISHER Biographical

B.Sc (Technion) - 1959, MSc (Technion) - 1961, DSc (Technion) - 1965.
Staff member at Technion since February 1967
Last academic appointment: Professor Emeritus 2000-
Administrative Duties:
Member of various commitees: graduate and undergraduate studies, Organized Solid State Seminar Active in the project of "Information Technology for Technion Teaching".

Research Interests:

Electronic transport measurements on:
1. Materials from the families of the High Temperature Superconductors, with emphasis on the Metal-Non-Metal transition and on the mechanism of electronic transport in non-metals of the RBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$ family (R - Y or rare earth ions).
2. Materials exhibitting large negative magnetoresistance - Ln$_{1-x}$A$_x$MnO$_3$ (Ln-lanthanide and A - alkaline earth ions).
3. BaCoS$_2$. This is a layered Mott insulator which is antiferromagnetic (AF) below T$_N$=310 K. Upon Ni doping and depletion of sulfur, this material exhibits a most unusual phase transition from a high temperature AF non-metal to a low temperature paramagnetic metal.

SHMUEL FISHMAN Biographical

Ph.D. Tel Aviv University 1979
Post-Doc at Cornell University 1979-1981
Post-Doc University of Maryland 1981-1982
Joined Technion Physics in 1982
Professor Technion Physics since 1993.
Academic Appointments:
Visiting:
1. Member, Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara,1989, spring 1996,
2. IOP Fellow, Newton Institute, Cambridge, 1997.

Graduate Students since 1992:

(total 8), Completed: Ph.D. 3+$\frac{1}{2}$, M.Sc. 3+$\frac{1}{2}$
Under supervision: Ph.D. $1+2 \times \frac{1}{2}$, M.Sc. 1

Research Interests:

Quantum Chaos (Exploration of Quantum systems that are chaotic in the classical limit). Quantum Chaos effects in mesoscopic systems and in quantum and classical optics. Dissipation and dephasing. Application of the theory of dynamical systems to problems in Computer Science and in Medicine.

JAN (GRUNZWEIG) GENOSSAR Biographical

At Technion: since 1956
Last Academic appointments at Technion: Professor Emeritus, 1997.

Graduate Students since 1993: 1

Research Interests:

Actinide Compounds: electronic and magnetic properties
N.M.R.
High Temperature Superconductors
Hydrides
Thermoelectric Power

DAVID GERSHONI Biographical

At Technion since: March, 1991
Last academic appointments at Technion: Professor 1999
Academic appointments abroad:

1. Visiting scientist: Laboratoire de Physique des Semiconducteurs C.E.A.-CEN-Grenoble, France Aug-Sep. 1992
2. Visiting scientist: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A. July-Sept. 1993, July 1994 - Oct. 1995
3. Visiting professor: University of California , Santa Barbara, U.S.A. July - Sep, 97
4. International Advisory Group, "The Nanometer Structure Consortium." Lund, Sweden.

Number of graduate students since 1993:

9 M.Sc, 6 D.Sc

Research interests:

Experimental solid state physics. Optical and electronic properties of semiconductor systems of lower dimensionality such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. Experimental tools: mainly short-pulse lasers, and high spatial resolution optics.

GIDEON GILAT Biographical

Academic Appointment: Professor Emeritus 1997
Academic Honors:
A publiction of mine received a Citation Classic in 1984. (G.Gilat & L.J.Raubenheimer, Phys.Rev. 144, 390, 1966)

Research Interests:

Since 1984 I changed my main research interests from Solid State Physics to Biology. The main subject of my interest is Chirality. In this domain I deal with 2 subjects. 1.Chiral Interaction with amino acids and proteins. This interaction may cause a non-ergodic perturbation within the chiral molecule which may be the beginning of a dynamical organization within the molecule. This assumption recently has received experimental verification.The meaning of this is that biomolecules have negative entropy and do reach readily thermal eqquilibrium, which is a necesary condition for life. Another subject of interest is the possible quantification of chirality, which was considered a qualitative concept in the past.

JACQUES J. GOLDBERG Biographical

Ph.D. Universite de Paris (Sorbonne) 1966
Since 1960 until joined Technion in Fall 1968 - had been supported by the French Ministry of Defence (80% High Energy Physics, 20% weaponary R&D
Joined Technion Physics in 1968
Last academic appointments at Technion:
Professor Emeritus since 1997
Professor, 1981
Associate Professor 1968

Graduate Students since 1993 2 (1 PhD, 1 MSc)

Research interests:

High energy physics instrumentation and data analysis.
Neutrino mass oscillations (with accelerators).
Very thin scintillating glass fibers for neutrino Physics.
Experimental study of e+ e- collisions at 70-200 GeV.
Hadron collisions in the TeV range.

MICHAEL GRONAU Biographical

Ph.D. Tel Aviv University 1970
Post-Doc at Caltech 1970-1972
Joined Technion Physics 1.10.1972
Present position: Professor
Academic appointments abroad: (1993-1997): Visiting Professor appointments at Caltech - 1997/98, CERN - 1997 (July-October), Stanford University - 1992 (June-September), Caltech - 1992 (February-May)

Graduate Students: 1 MSc.

Research interests:

Theory of elementary particle physics - critical tests of the standard model of fundamental interactions in future experiments, and searching for physics beyond the standard model; heavy flavor physics, CP violation, the flavor problem and fermion masses.

YUVAL GROSSMAN Biographical

Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute 1996
M.Sc. Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute 1993
B.Sc. Physics and computer science, Bar Ilan 1990
Research positions:
- 1996-2000: Research Associate theoretical Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- 2000-present: Senior lecturer,Theoretical Physics, Technion.

Research interests:

Theo. High energy physics: B physics, neutrino physics, supersymmetry phenomenology, phenomenology of models with large extra dimensions.

RAFI KALISH Biographical

Education: M.Sc. (with distinction), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1962
Ph.D. Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, 1966
Post Doc at M.I.T. 1966-1968
Assistant Professor, M.I.T. 1968-1969
Joined Technion Physics in 1969
Last Appointment: Professor, 1978-present
Joan Arbuse Chair in Electronics, 1988-present
Visiting (Long-term) Appointments:
Dept of Electrical Engineering, UCSB., 1990-91
IBM Yorktown Heights USA
Bell Labs (Lucent) Murry hill USA
Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Graduate Student Supervision: 17 M.Sc., and 10 Ph.D students
Awards and Prizes:
Ben-Gurion University Applied Science Award, 1990
Lyle Fellowship, University of Melbourne, 1993
Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Uni of Melbourne, 1996

Graduate Students since 1993:

5 Ph.D. students; 4 M.Sc. students

Research Interests:

Ion-implantation and damage annealing of semiconductors: structural and electrical effects. Ion-Implantation doping of diamond and CVD diamond films. Ion-implantation doping and annealing of compound II-VI and III-V semiconductors. Various ion beam analysis techniques (RBS, PIXE, nuclear reaction analysis). SIMS and Auger profiling, SEM,TEM. Growth of Diamond by CVD (hot filament and microwave) Growth and post growth modification of a-C:H and DLC.
Impurity diffusion in diamond. Electron emission from diamond and other surfaces.

ALEX KAMENEV Biographical

M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the Moscow State University 1987.
Ph.D Solid State Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science 1996.
Post Doctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara 1996-1999.
Assistant professor at the Physics Department of the Technion since 1999.
Awards and Scholarships:
Career Development Chair at the Technion 2000
Allon Fellowship 1999
Fulbright award 1996
Rothschild Fellowship 1996
J. F. Kennedy Memorial prize 1995
Award of the Israel Physical Society 1994

Graduate Students: 1 Ph.D.

Research Interests:

Theoretical solid state physics, especially disordered systems, mesoscopic phenomena, electron interactions, transport and out of equilibrium processes, glasses.
Application of modern methods of the quantum field theory and functional integration to problems of condensed matter physics.

AMIT KEREN Biographical

Appointments:
(1997-present) Senior Lecturer: Technion
(1994-1997) Post Doc: Universite Paris-Sud, France
Subject: Superconductivity and Frustrated Magnets Awards:
excellent research project ZSF, 1998

Graduate Students

2 Ph.D, 1 M.Sc.

Research Interests:

NMR and muSR experiments
Superconductivity
Magnetic quantum tunneling
Frustrated magnets
Spin glasses.

GAD KOREN Biographical

Ph.D. Hebrew University 1974
Post-Doc IBM, Zurich, Switzerland 1974-1975
Joined Technion Physics in 1975
Appointments:
Associate Professor, Physics, Technion, 1987.
Professor, Physics, Technion, 1997.
Awards
1. IBM Research Division Award - for work on the development of pulsed laser deposition for the growth of epitaxial oxide films. Given by IBM Research T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, 1993.
2. Academic Excellence Award - Given by the New England branch of the American Society for Technion, 1993.
3. Minerva Center for High $T_c$ Superconductivity (together with Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan Universities) - established by a grant of DM 4 million from Germany, 1994.
4. Excellence Center for Research and Applications of High Temperature Superconductors (together with Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan Universities) - awarded by The Israel Science Foundation, 1994-1997. Extended for one more year 1998.
5. Excellance center in tunneling in Nanostructures, supported by the ISF 2000-2003 (Together with Tel-Aviv and the Hebrew University), The Technion part is 430,000 dollars.

Graduate Students

13, 5 in the last 5 years (3 are in progress).

Research Interests:

High temperature superconductivity in thin films, Josephson junctions and SQUIDs. Investigation of Tomasch oscillations, the energy gap, and the symmetry of the order parameter. Giant magnetoresistance manganites. Passive microwave devices. Website: http://Physics.technion.ac.il/~gkoren

CHARLES G. KUPER Biographical

Ph.D. Cambridge, 1954
D.Sc. University of Witwatersrand 1964
ICI Fellowship, Liverpool University 1952-1956
Lectures, St. Andrews Univ. 1956-1965
Reads, St. Andrews Univ. 1965-1967
Joined Technion Physics in 1967
Degrees: M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab), D.Sc. (Rand)
Academic Appointments:
Professor, 1967 - 1995
Lidow Chair, 1988 - 1995
Professor Emeritus, 1995 - present
Honours, Public Activities:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, since 1965
President, Israel Physical Society, 1976 - 1979
Member: IUPAP Commission on Stat. Mech. and Thermodynamics, 1972- 1978
Joint Series Editor, Annals of the Israel Physical Society, 1979-1993
Member: Low Temp. Sectional Board, Condensed Matter Divn, Europ. Phys. Soc, 1971-1975
Member: Editorial Board, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 1969-1991
Member: Editorial Board, Collective Phenomena, 1972-1976
Invited Lecturer: International Spring School in Theoretical Physics, Naples, 1960.
Secretary: 3rd and 8th Scottish Universities' Summer Schools, St Andrews (1962 and 1967).
Chairman: Bat-Sheva Seminar: ``Quantum Fluids'', Haifa (1968).

Graduate Students:

1 M.Sc.

Research Interests

Solid-state and low-temperature theoretical physics, and the ground state and collective excitations of many-particle systems: more particularly the Peierls - Fröhlich transition and charge-density waves; problems of superfluidity and of the solidification of liquid helium; problems in superconductivity, especially mechanisms for high-temperature superconductivity and the competition between superconductivity and magnetic order; hopping conductivity.

ARI LAOR Biographical

Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 1990
Postdoctoral position IAS, Princeton, 1990-1993
Postdoctoral position, Caltech, 1993-1995
Senior lecturer at the Technion: 1/10/95
Associate Professor at the Technion from 5/2000
Research Interests:

Physical processes in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs).

Current projects:

1. Effects of shocks in the narrow line region.
2. The signature of dust scattering and polarization.
3. The nature of X-ray weak quasars.
4. Implications of optical absorption lines in NGC 4151.
5. Exploring the UV and X-ray properties of a complete quasar sample using HST, ASCA and SAX.
6. Stellar orbits near a binary blackhole.

DOV LEVINE Biographical

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

Academic Appointments

1. Sept. 1986 - August 1988: Postdoctoral Member,

Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara
2. August 1988 - Dec. 1991: Assistant Professor of Physics,

University of Florida
3. Oct. 1988 - August 1989: Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics,

Weizmann Institute of Science
4. Commencing Oct. 1990: Senior Lecturer in Physics,

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
5. Sept. 1997 - Aug. 1998: Visiting Member and Associate Professor,

Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara

Graduate Students:

2 MSc. 1 Phd.

Research Interests

I am interested in soft condensed matter systems, particularly those comprised of macroscopic particles, such as emulsions and granular materials (e.g., sand). Although these are classical systems, their properties, both static and dynamic, reflect their collective, many-body nature. One problem of current interest is the way in which forces propagate in such materials, which is radically different from that of conventional solids. Specifically, analogs to multiple scattering of light and mesoscopic systems are very promising, and are being actively pursued.

STEPHEN G. LIPSON Biographical

Ph.D. Cambridge University, UK 1965
Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Cambridge 1965-1966
Joined Technion Physics in 1966
Professor since 1981;
El-Op Chair in Electro-optics since 1989
Dean of Physics Faculty 1983-4
Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle 1987-8

Graduate Students since 1993:
6 M.Sc. students (two yet to finish); 4 D.Sc. student (two yet to finish).

Research interests:

Applications of optical techniques, interferometry in particular, to problems of crystal growth (including cryogenic helium isotope crystals), roughening and pattern formation; high resolution optical imaging.

ADY MANN Biographical

Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1969
Post Doctorate at Indiana University and University of Oxford 1970-1973
Joined Technion Physics in 1973
Last academic appointments at Technion: Professor
Visiting Professorships held since 1995:
Gakushuin University and Meigi University, Tokyo, Japan
McGill University (Summer 1998) Montreal, Canada
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Summer '97)
Theoretical Physics Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Summer '96)
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India (Feb. 1995)

Graduate Students:

7 obtained their degree since 1995, 3 currently under supervision

Research Interests:

Quantum optics, Casimir effect, properties of He, Bose-Einstein condensation, thermofield dynamics, mathematical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics.

MOSHE MOSHE Biographical

Army service: 1963-65
Studies and Academic Degrees:
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology:
B.Sc. - Summa Cum Laude 1969; M.Sc. - 1971
Ph.D. Tel Aviv University 1974
Places of Employment:
Assist. Physicist University of California (San Diego, Santa Cruz) 1974-77
Research Associate CERN - Geneva, Switzerland 1977-78
Tel Aviv University 1976-80  -  Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (leave 1976-78)
Technion - I. I. T. since 1980, Professor since 1991
Department Chairman 1997-1998
Fermilab - Theory Group - Illinois 1982-83, 2000  - Visiting Scientist
Max Planck Institute , Munich, Germany 1985-86  - Visiting Professor
Research Inst. for Fund. Physics , Kyoto University 1987  - Visiting Prof.
Washington University, St. Louis 1989-90  - Visiting Professor
Tokyo Inst. of Tech. - JSPS fellow 1999

Graduate Students (last 5 years):

2 M.Sc.

Research Interests:

High Energy Physics-Theoretical, Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics, Approximation methods, Quantum field theory, Quantization and symmetries.

ADI NUSSER Biographical:

Ph.D. 1991, Hebrew University
Postdoctoral positions: UC Berkeley, Institute of Astronomy Cambridge UK, Max-Planck Insttute Munich
Joined the Technion as a senior lecturer in 1998.

Graduate Students: 1

Research Interests:

Cosmology. Dynamics of large scale structure in the universe since the Big Bang until the present. Galaxy formation.
phone: 04-8293576
e-mail: adi@physics.technion.ac.il
Webpage: http://physics.technion.ac.il/~adi/

URI PHILIP OPPENHEIM Biographical:

Appointments:
Professor 1984-1994
Professor Emeritus since 1994

Graduate Students:

3 MSc.

Research Interests:

After 1992 worked on polarization properties of rough materials in the infrared, using CO$_2$ Lasers. In 1993 spent 5 months with W.L. Wolfe at the University of Arizona working on infrared polarization.
In 1994 retired from Technion and continued experimental work with IR lasers as professor emeritus.

AMOS ORI Biographical:

Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1989
Post-Doc at Caltech 1989-1992
Joined Technion Physics September 1992
Last Academic Appointment at Technion: Associate Professor since 4.8.97

Graduate Students: 7

Research Interests:

General Relativity, black holes, spacetime singularities; Inner structure of black holes, particularly realistic spinning BHs; gravitational radiation, the radiation-reaction problem (in the gravitational and electromagnetic contexts); Break-down of causality: spacetimes with closed timelike curved.

ASHER PERES Biographical

D.Sc. Technion 1959
Appointed Lecturer at Technion in 1959
Associate Professor 1962
Professor 1967
Distinguished Professor 1988

Research Interests:

Various aspects of fundamental theoretical physics. In recent years, research was focused on quantum information and communication theory. Quantum theory in the presence of gravitation

EMIL POLTURAK Biographical

Ph.D. Physics, Tel Aviv University 1981
Post Doc at Cornell University 1979-1981
Jointed Technion Physics in 1981
Positions Held:
Professor, Physics Dept., Technion 1999-present Associate Professor, Physics Dept., Technion 1990-1999

Graduate Students since 1995

3 Phd, 3 MSc present: 2 Phd, 3 MSc.

Research Interests:
I maintain two independent research programs; one on Low Temperature Helium physics, and the other one on High Tc Superconductivity. The main theme of the Helium research is the use of solid He as a model system for elucidating some basic phenomena in solid state physics. During the 80's, my work was on Surface and Interface physics ( wetting, roughening, layer by layer growth of solid He films, etc. ) while during the last several years the problem which I have focused on is the understanding of the properties of point defects in solid He and their relation with bulk melting.In High Tc superconductivity , I do research on thin films and devices made thereof. The way to obtain meaningful physical results necessitates having good devices, and that in turn means one has to master the relevant thin film technology .I worked a lot on this aspect. The basic physics questions which were addressed along the way involve mechanisms of transport between indirectly coupled superconductors ( proximity effect, Andreev reflections ), the interplay of nonequilibrium superconductivity and anisotropic (d-wave ) pairing, and the basic symmetry of the order parameter.

ODED REGEV Biographical

Ph.D. Tel Aviv University 1980
Post Doc University of Florida 1980-1982
Joined Technion Physics in 1982
Last Academic Appointements:
Associate Professor 1991-1996
Professor 1996-
Academic Apointments Abroad:
Visiting Assoc. Prof., Columbia Univ 1987-1989
Visits of over 1 month: Space Telescope, Institute d'Astrophysique - Paris, Leicester University, Columbia University.

Research Interests:

Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics and Magnetofluid Dynamics: Star Formation, Accretion. Nonlinear Dynamics: Dissipative Chaos and Pattern Formation.

Graduate Students:

M.Sc.- 5 completed, 1 in progress, PhD - 2 completed, 1 in progress.

MICHAEL REVZEN Biographical

Ph.D. University of Alberta, Canada 1962
Post Doctoral position at University of Illinois 1962-1964
Joined Technion in 1964
Lecturer 1964
Professor 1977
Professor Emeritus 1999
Department Chairman 1993-1995.

Graduate Students:

In the last 5 years I supervised 5 graduate students (for M.Sc. Degree).

Research Interest

1. Foundation of Quantum Mechanics: Nonlocality.
2. The Vacuum State in Quantum Field Theory: Casimir Effect
3. Superfluidity: Doppler Shift.

MICHAEL REZNIKOV Physics of mesoscopic systems (experimental) Current research interests:

Metal - Insulator transition in 2 dimensional electron gas.
Shot Noise in mesoscopic systems.

Experiment is demanding.
Student should master following skills:
* Experimental Low temperature physics.
* Sample preparation (includes microelectronic technology).
* Technique of very low noise measurements.
The last two skills are also useful for heading to Industry
Research group consists of myself, Ph.D. student and laboratory engineer.
Personal data as well as description of the projects can be found on http://physics.technion.ac.il/~ssmisha
Tel: 2440 office, 4837 lab.

EREZ RIBAK Biographical

At Technion since: 1988
Last academic appointments at Technion: Senior Research Fellow.
Academic appointments abroad:
1992,97 Visiting scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
1994,97 Visiting scientist, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona.
1994 Visiting scientist, Meudon Observatory, University of Paris.
Academic honors:
2000 Invited speaker Atmospheric optics, Barcelona
1995 Invited speaker, Eleventh Annual Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics, Gainesville, FL.
1993 Invited speaker, NATO Advanced Study Institute summer school on Adaptive Optics for Astronomy, Cargese, Corsica.

Number of graduate students since 1995: 3

Research interests:

Adaptive optics: flexible mirrors and sensitive detectors. Imaging into the eye
Atmospheric imaging: fractal wave-fronts for turbulence prediction; scintillation effects; real-time tomography of atmospheric layers.
Statistical physics: simulated annealing hardware for phasing of telescopes; simulation of the large-scale structure in the universe; critical current in superconductors; motility of biological cells. Microscopy.

ILAN RIESS Biographical

Ph.D. in Physics, Technion 1972
Postdoctoral position NRC Ottawa, Canada 1973 and UC Riverside, USA 1974-1975
Joined the Technion in 1975.
Last academic appointment at the Technion: Professor
Since 1993, Editorial board: J. Electroceramics, Director of meetings: 2, Member organizing committee of meetings: 2; Member Intl. advisory committee of meetings: 7.

Number of graduate students, since 1993: 7.

Research interests, experimental and theory:

Solid State Ionics, Solid state electrochemistry, Point defects in solids and their contribution to electrical properties, nonstoichiometry in solids and its contribution to electrical properties of solids, Mixed ionic electronic conductors (MIECs), Solid oxide fuel cells, Oxygen sensors, Experimental technique of coulometric titration, methods for determining the partial conductivities in MIECs, methods for determining charge transfer and diffusion at electrodes.

AMIRAM RON Biographical

D.Sc Physics, Technion, 1960
Post Doc in Princeton 1961-1963
Post Doc in La Jolla University of California, San Diego, 1963-1964
Joined Technion Physics in October 1964
Academic Positions: Professor Emeritus 1998 Professor of Physics, Technion, 1968.
Dean of Physics, Technion, 1979-81
Head of Solid State Institute, Technion, 1974-76
F. Ollendorff Chair in Science, Technion, 1987
Recent appointments abroad:
Visiting Scientist, Applied physics, Columbia University 1994-95
Visiting Professor, Physics Dept. Univ California, Irvine 1995
Visiting Scientist, Physics Dept. Free University Berlin 1997

Students in last 5 years: 6 D.Sc, 3 M.Sc.

Research Interests:

Plasma Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Radiation Theory.

BARUCH ROSNER Biographical

At the Technion since: 1968
Associate Professor 1968-1978
Professor of Physics 1979-
Professor Emeritus since 2000
Academic appointments abroad:
Visiting Research Professor at ORNL 1996
Visiting Research Professor at PUC Univ. 1988
Visiting Research Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh 1975
Administrative duties:
Head of V.D. Graaff accelerator laboratory
Editor of the Annals of the IPS
Member of the Senate Committee for undergraduate & graduate studies
Organizer of the Demonstrations in Physics for High School students
Responsible for the Classification Examination in Physics at the Technion.

Graduate Students: 3

Research Interests:

Formation and decay of fast moving, doubly charged Molecular ions.
Properties of radiation detectors
Elemental analysis by PIXE, RBS, etc. methods.

YORAM ROZEN Biographical

Ph.D. Syracuse University 1993
Post Doc CERN 1994-1996
Joined Technion Physics in 1996
Last academic appointments at Technion: Senior lecturer 1996
Academic appointments abroad: Scientific Associate, CERN (European Center for Particle Research) 1994-1996.

Graduate Students:

3 M.Sc. 2 Phd.

Research interests:

Work on $b$ quark physics with the OPAL detector at the CERN LEP Collider, including $B \overline{B}$ oscillations. Also work on gluon splitting into heavy quark pairs.

Preparation work for the ATLAS detector planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, centered on the endcap muon trigger and the triggering on golden channels for CP violation.

MORDECHAI SEGEV Biographical
B.Sc. Technion 1985
D.Sc. Technion 1990
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Caltech 1991
Senior research Fellow, Clatech 1992-1994
Assistant Professor, Princeton 1994
Associate Professor, Princeton 1997
Professor , Princeton 1999
Joined the Technion in 1998
Currently a professor both at the Technion and at Princeton
Professor of Physics at the Technion 1998.
Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Fellow the American Physical Society.
Sloan Research award in Physics.

Graduate Students:

Ph.D.: 7 completed, 4 in Progress, M.Sc.: 2 in progress

Research interests:
Nonlinear Optics, Solitons, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Dynamics, basketball and hiking.

BORIS SHAPIRO Biographical

Ph.D. Institute of Semiconductors of USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad 1970
Joined Technion Physics in 1973
Professor since 1989

Academic appointments abroad (since 1993):
March-Sep.1993- Researcher at CNRS, LMM, Bagneux, France
Oct97-Feb98- Visiting professor at the University of Koeln, Germany.

Graduate Students

since 1993: 4 (2 Ph.D and 2 M.Sc.)

Research interests:

Physics of disordered electronic systems, Wave propagation in random media, Mesoscopic physics.

GIORA SHAVIV Biographical

Ph.D. Technion 1965
Post Doc in Caltech 1965-1976
Assistant Professor at Cornell 1976-1978
Tel Aviv University, 1969-1981
Joined Technion Physics in 1981
Present position: Professor
Administrative positions:
1990-93 Vice President of the Israel Physical Society
1993-96 President, Israel Physical Society
1994-96 Head, Minerva Center for Non Linear Phenomena
1995-97 Dean, Faculty of Physics, Israel Institute of Technology
1994-97 Member of Permanent Committee for Technion Senior Faculty Promotion
Director of Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) at the Technion.
Awards:
von Humbolt prize for research 1995
von Humbolt prize 1996
The Shwartzmann-Medvedi Chair in Space Sciences

Graduated students 3 Ph.D

Research interests:

Theoretical Astrophysics. Stellar Structure and Evolution. Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables. Stellar Hydrodynamics. Physical Processes in Stars. Galactic Hydrodynamics. Physics of Shocks. Accretion Discs. Radiative Transfer. Physics of X Ray Sources. Computational Physics Computer Graphics and Animation.

HANAN SHECHTER Biographical

At Technion since 1965
Present Status: Professor Emritus since 2000
Visiting Professor in France and the U.S.A.

Research Interests:

Solid State. Surface physics: Adsorbed monolayers, structure and thermodynamics: Techniques: Mossbauer, neutron diffraction, X-rays, XAFS. Since 1994, adsorbed species on diamond surface: Degradation and restoration of various diamond facets. Techniques: Auger, LEED, TPD.

PAUL SINGER Biographical

D.Sc. Technion 1961
Post Doc at Northwestern University and Columbia University (New York)
Joined Technion Physics in 1964.
Academic appointments:
Professor : since 1969
Charles Wolfson Professor of Physics : since 1990
Administrative and Professional appointments:
Senior Vice President of Technion, 1.1.1991 - 31.12.1994
Chairman of Executive Board, Israel Science Foundation, since 1.10.1995
Academic appointments abroad:
Royal Society Visiting Professor, Oxford University, Feb - Aug. 1990
Visiting Sceintist, CERN ,Geneva, Sept-Oct 1990
Visiting Professor, University College London, July - September 1995
Academic honors:
Royal Soc. Visiting Prof., Oxford Univ. (see above)

Research interests:

Nonleptonic Electroweak Interactions and QCD Corrections; Radiative Decays of Mesons and Baryons: Physics of Heavy Quarks; Exchange Currents in Nuclear Processes and Nuclear Excitation. Search for physics beyond the Standard Model.

URI SIVAN Biographical

Ph.D. Tel Aviv University 1988
Watson Research Center, NY 1988-1991
Joined Technion Physics in 1991
Professor Since 1999
Academic honors:
The C. Weizmann fellowship
Bergmann prize (Israeli Academy of Sciences)
Miriam and Ray Klein Award

Graduate Students since 1993: 5

Research interests

Application of Biotechnology to the self assembly of molecular scale electronics. Physics of quantum dots with an emphasis on the role of Coulomb interactions. Strongly correlated, low dimensional Fermion systems. Coupled electron-hole layers.

DAVID S. TANNHAUSER Biographical

Ph.D. University of Chicago 1958
Post Doc at M.I.T. 1958-1960
International Rectifiers Inc. 1960-1961
Joined Technion Physics in 1961
Positions Held:
At Technion since 1961
Professor since 1977
Prof. Emeritus since 1996
Academic appointments abroad:
Brown University (R.I.), 1967, University of Goettingen (Germany), 1974
Imperial College (London), 1983, Toulouse University (France) 1990.

Graduate Students: two (both for M.Sc.)

Research Interests:

Electrical properties of transition metal oxides, properties of thin films, meteorology.

SHLOMIT TAREM Biographical

At Technion since: September 1995.
Last academic appointment at Technion: Senior lecturer 1995.
Academic appointments abroad: Scientific Associate, CERN (European Center for Particle Research) 1993-1995.

Graduate Students: 1

Research interests:

Work on $b$ quark physics with the OPAL detector at the CERN LEP Collider, including $B \overline{B}$ oscillations and other CKM related measurements.
Preparation work for the ATLAS detector planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, centered on the endcap muon trigger and the triggering on golden channels for CP violation.
Detector control system design and lab for testing TGC detector for ATLAS Muon trigger.

RAOUL WEIL Biographical

Ph.D. University of California 1961-1965
Research Physicist at Monsanto Company 1965-1969
Associate Professor at Washington University 1969-1971
Joined Technion Physics in 1971
Education:
BsEE, High Honors, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1949
PhD Physics, University of California, 1996.
PhD Thesis: Ultrasonic Studies in Normal and Superconducting Thallium Employment:
Research Associate, then Assistant Director, Loboratorio de Fisica Cosmica de Chacaltaya, High Energy Cosmic Rays 1957-1960.
Project Leader, Monsanto Co. St. Louis, Electro-Optics, Ultrasonics 1965-1969.
Assoc. Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Electro-Optics 1969-1971.
Assoc. Professor then Full Professor, Technion.
From 1996 Prof. Emeritus, Electro-Optics, Ionic Conductivity, Ultrasonics, Amorphous Semiconductors, II-VI Semiconductors, Ferroelectricity.
Sabbaticals:
University of Illinois, Champaign;
University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg;
Solar Energy Institute, Golden.

Graduate Students

2 Phd. 5 Ms.c

JOSHUA ZAK Biographical

D.Sc. Technion 1960
Joined Technion Physics in 1960
Last academic appointment: Professor of Physics 1970
Professor Emeritus since 1997
Academic Honor: New England Academic Award 1994

Graduate Students since 1993: 2

Research Interests:

Group Theory in Solids, Semiconductor Physics, Theoretical Solid State Physics, Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Optics, Surface Physics, Magneto-Optics, Autoionization, Berry Phase.