Dr. Yonit Hochberg was selected to join the Israel Young Academy
6 July, 2020
The Racah Institute congratulates Dr. Yonit Hochberg, along with five outstanding scholars to join the Israel Young Academy, for more detaisl see here.
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"Take your Professor to Lunch: Faculty-Students Meetings" are back!
4 November, 2019
After a successful pilot, the Faculty-Students meetings are back!
In an attempt to strengthen the connections between students and professors, last year the Racah Institute launched a pilot “Take your Professor to Lunch: Faculty-Students Meetings”.
In this series of meetings, small groups of undergrad students and professors gathered at the Physics Students Club in a relaxed and informal environment to chat over lunch on scientific and non-scientific subjects.
Launching the Physics Colloquium: "The Origin of Gold" Prof. Tsvi Piran
23 October, 2019
The Racah Institute is honored to launch this year's colloquium series on Monday, Oct. 28 at 12:00 in the Levin Hall with Prof. Tsvi Piran's talk on "The Origin of Gold (and other R-process elements)".
Congratulations to Dima Farfurnik for winning the Chorafas prize
10 September, 2019
Warm greetings to Dima Farfurnik, a Ph.D student at the Bar-Gill Lab, for winning this year's Chorafas prize.
Each year the prize is awarded to a single student at the Hebrew University. Dima is the first Physics student receiving it.
"The mechanism for gamma-ray bursts from space is decoded" - Prof. Tsvi Piran
6 August, 2019
Prof. Tsvi Piran, working with a group of other researchers, decoded the mechanism for gamma-ray bursts following an eruption observed last January. Now, in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, he describes how a stream of particles moving toward us at close to light speed emits the gamma radiation.
"Multi-filament gas inflows fuelling young star-forming galaxies" Prof. Avishai Dekel.
15 July, 2019
גז קר ולא חם: פריצת דרך בהבנת אופן היווצרות גלקסיות
חוקרים מהאוניברסיטה העברית הצליחו לאשש תצפיתית תיאוריה שמנבאת היווצרות גלקסיות על ידי זרמים של גז קר. פרופ' אבישי דקל, הוגה התיאוריה וחבר בצוות שאישש אותה: "מדובר במהפכה בתחום, המספקת הבנה חדשה לחלוטין של איך נוצרות גלקסיות"
