Israeli-American Symposium

Israel Academy of Science and Humanities – U.S. National Academy of Sciences

February 13-15, 2017
Irvine, California

Sessions:

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Artificial Organs and Bioprinting

Organizers: Avi Schroeder and Rachaela Popovtzer

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Personalized Nanotechologies
Avi Schroeder, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

SPEAKERS:
Advanced Biofabrication Inspired by Developmental Biology of the Heart
Adam Feinberg, Carnegie Mellon University

Fighting Cancer with an Artificially Enhanced Immune System
Cyrille Cohen, Bar-Ilan, Tel-Aviv University

Deep Ocean Exploration

Organizers: Tessa Hill and Liran Goren

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Secrets of the Sea Floor
Julie Huber, Marine Biological Laboratory

SPEAKERS:
Ancient Tsunami Signatures
Beverly Goodman, University of Haifa

Chemical Signals of Life on Water Worlds
Jill McDermott, Lehigh University

Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Organizers: David Schuster, Netanel Linder and Ramon van Handel

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Barak Kol, Hebrew university of Jerusalem

SPEAKERS:
LIGO's Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
Daniel Holz, The University of Chicago

Exciting Vistas Through the Gravitational Wave Window
Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute

Microbiomes and the hosts around them

Organizers: Anna Selmecki and Adi Stern

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
We Are Not Alone: The Invisible World of the Microbiome
Omry Koren, Bar-Ilan University

SPEAKERS:
The Tale of the Rumen Microbiome - From Interaction with the Host to Plasmid Mediated Gene Mobility
Itzhak Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Immune Regulation of Microbial Biogeography in the Gut
Shipra Vaishnava, Brown University

Numbers and Fractals

Organizers: Ramon van Handel and Tamar Ziegler

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Numbers and Fractals
Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University

SPEAKERS:
Dynamical Methods in Fractals and Number Theory
Uri Shapira, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

The Abelian Sandpile and Apollonian Circle Packings
Charles K. Smart, University of Chicago

Reprogramming Memory Engrams to Heal the Brain

Organizers: Amar Sahay and Ella Daniel

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Manipulating Memory Traces in the Hippocampus
Brian Wiltgen, University of California, Davis

SPEAKERS:
Artificially Activating Memories to Alleviate Psychiatric Disease-Related States
Steve Ramirez, Harvard University

Optical Imaging of Neural Codes for Long-term Memory
Yaniv Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Science

Studying Human Evolution using Ancient DNA

Organizers: Nikki Traylor-Knowles and Adi Stern

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
The Stories behind Ancient DNA Studies
Hila May, Tel-Aviv University

SPEAKERS:
Looking in Modern and Archaic DNA to find Clues about our Evolutionary History
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, University of California, Merced

Investigating Events in Early Human Evolution using Individual Genome Sequences and Ancient DNA
Ilan Gronau, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Will Solar Cells Ever be Big (Enough)?

Organizers: Matt Kanan and Aharon Blank

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Will Solar Cells Ever be Big (Enough)?
Shane Ardo, University of California, Irvine

SPEAKERS:
Reflections on Rust: Iron Oxide Photoelectrodes for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage
Avner Rothschild, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Game-changer for Solar Energy: Perovskite Semiconductors
Tomas Liejtens, Stanford University

The Israeli-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation with additional support from the National Academy of Sciences.

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