Name: Noam Soker
Place and Date of Birth: Israel, 2.9.1958
Marital
Status: Married + 3
Permanent Home
Address: Shimshit, Israel
Home Telephone
Number:
+972-54-5925995
Office Address and
Phone:
Department of Physics
Technion, Haifa 32000,
Israel
Tel.: +972-4-8293858
Electronic
Address:
soker@physics.technion.ac.il
Telefax
Number:
+972-4-8295755
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Dates |
Name of Institution and Department |
Degree |
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1975-1977 |
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Oranim, University of Haifa |
Beginning of Bachelor Degree in Physics |
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1980-1982 |
Department of Physics, Technion |
Finishing Bachelor in Physics Awarded: 4th May 1983 - Summa Cum Laude |
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1982-1986 |
Department of Physics, Technion |
Doctoral studies Awarded: 20th April 1986 |
3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutions of Higher Education
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Dates |
Name of Institution and Department |
Rank |
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July-August 1984 |
Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Holland |
Visiting Researcher |
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September 1986 - August 1989 |
Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. |
Post-doctoral |
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September 1989 - September 1992 |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. |
Post-doctoral |
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October 1992 - May 1994 |
Oranim - University of Haifa, Science Education Department |
Senior Lecturer |
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May 1994 - December 1998 |
Oranim - University of Haifa, Science Education Department |
Associated Professor |
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December 1998-September 2003 |
Oranim - University of Haifa, Science Education Department |
Full Professor |
| October 2003- | Department of Physics, Technion, Israel | Full Professor |
4. Offices in University Academic Administration
October 1994 - Chairman of the Mathematics-Physics Department,
October 1998 Oranim - University of Haifa
High School Teaching:
1982-1986 Half Time Teaching: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry:
Grades 7-12: Naaman High School
Oranim College (1992-2003): Electromagnetism, Waves and Optics; Introduction to Statistical Mechanics;
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics; Special Relativity; Astrophysics
Introduction to Nuclear Physics
Univeristy of Haifa (from 1993): Several courses to liberal art students:
Technion (from 2003): Physics 1M (Mechanics); Physics 2M (Electromagnetism)
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1981 |
Awards from the Israel Association of Physics |
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1983 |
President's List Honor Student Scholarship, Technion |
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1985 |
Moshe Ben-Sira Fellowship received as an honor student, Technion |
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1992-1995 |
Allon Fellowship |
Supervision of graduate students:
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Student’s Name |
Title of Thesis/ Dissertation |
Degree |
Date |
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David L. Blank |
Seyfert Galaxy Evolution |
Master |
May 1989 |
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Philip C. Plait |
The Electron Density Profile of the Planetary Nebula NGC 6826 |
Master |
May 1990 |
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Essam Zoabi |
The Intracluster Medium (supervision in collaboration with Prof. Oded Regev in the Technion) |
Ph.D. |
May 1998 |
| Muhammad Akashi | X-Ray Emission From Colliding Winds In Planetary Nebulae | Ph.D. | Not finished yet |
| Assaf Sternberg |
Shaping of
Planetary Nebulae and Radio Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters |
Ph.D. | Not finished yet |
| Amit Kashi | Radio Emission from the Binary Star Eta Carinae | Ph.D. | Not finished yet |
"Accretion from an Inhomogeneous Medium", 153 pages, in Hebrew.
Superviser: Prof. Mario Livio.
Submitted to the Senate of the Technion in January 1986.