Fifth Israeli-American Symposium
Israel Academy of Science and Humanities – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center - Irvine California
October 19-21, 2022
Sessions:
- Brain-Machine Interfaces
- Breaking the Law: Probes of Physics beyond the Standard Model
- Emptied Ecosystems
- Immune Metabolism: What you (and your cells) eat is what you fight
- Ionic Materials
- Microbiomes in Selective Environments
- Twist and Shout: the rise of moiré two-dimensional materials
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Brain-Machine Interfaces
Organizers: Yaniv Ziv and Alex Huth
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Brain-Machine Interfaces
Alexander Huth, University of Texas at Austin
SPEAKERS:
Active and Passive Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Theory to Practice
Oren Shriki, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Spoken Language Communication
Gopala Anumanchipalli, University of California, Berkeley
Breaking the Law: Probes of Physics beyond the Standard Model
Organizers: Jon Simon and Doron Chelouche
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Breaking the Law: Probes of Physics beyond the Standard Model
Ranny Budnik, Weizmann Institute
SPEAKERS:
Searching for the Rarest Particles
Isobel R. Ojalvo, Princeton University
New directions in Particle Physics and Cosmology
Michael Geller, Tel Aviv University
Emptied Ecosystems
Organizers: Beverly Goodman, Asa Rennermalm and Adrienne Correa
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Emptied Ecosystems - Introduction
Haldre Rogers, Iowa State University
Florencia Sangermano, Clark University
The Challenges of Apex Marine Predators Research and Conservation in Israel: 2 Case Studies
Aviad Scheinin, University of Haifa
Immune Metabolism: What you (and your cells) eat is what you fight
Organizers: Cyrille Cohen, and Wendy Gordon
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
An introduction to Immunometabolism
Noga Ron-Harel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS:
Generating Metabolically Superior T Cells as a Novel Immunotherapy to Treat Solid Tumor
Michael Berger, The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Impaired Immune and Metabolic Function during Aging
Christina Camell, Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism; Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology; University of Minnesota
Ionic Materials
Organizers: Sharon Ruthstein and Shane Ardo
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Marco Rolando, University of California, Santa Cruz
SPEAKERS:
Ionic Conduction in Solids
Kimberly See, California Institute of Technology
Ionic Bio-Materials
Nadav Amdursky, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Microbiomes in Selective Environments
Organizers: Eyal Privman, Oren Kobiler and Adrienne Correa
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
New Age Microbiome Science: Studying Viruses as Missing Links In Microbiomes
Karthik Anantharaman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
SPEAKERS:
Functional Plasticity in gut microbe-host interactions
Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Rapapport Technion Integrated Cancer Center, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
Twist and Shout: the rise of moiré two-dimensional materials
Organizers: Rafael Fernandes and Doron Chelouche
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Designing Strongly Correlated Electronic Phases: Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene And Beyond
Stevan Nadj-Perge, California Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS:
2D moiré quantum materials
Jie Shan, Cornell University
Exotic Superconductors, One Atomic Layer at a Time
Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute of Science
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.