STUDENT PRIZEWINNERS

NADAV KATZ

Nadav Katz is a doctoral student at the Weizmann Institute in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems under the supervision of Nir Davidson. He completed his army service in the Engeneer Corps with several awards and a B.Sc. in Physics and computer Science at HUJ. His research interests include Bose-Einstein condensation and its excitations, laser cooling and trapping of atoms, atom optics in ordered and quasiperiodic systems, classical and quantum chaaos, decoherence and dephasing of many-body Bosonic systems, quantum phase transitions, and quantum information processing. He volunteers for youth education activites and has had twelve scientific papers published, including five in Physical Review Letters.


ERAN OFEK

Eran Ofek is studying for his doctorate at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Dan Maoz. He has received several prizes including recently a Dan David Scholarship. He has 27 publications in refereed journals, and is interested in topics ranging from one of the largest surveys ever done for quasars gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxy clusters, to issues of large imaging databases and scheduling algorithms.

Since he was a teenager he has been active in public outreach and eduction in astronomy. His homepage at http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~eran has a rich collection of links to astronomical maps and calendars.