Open Day - 9 March 2018

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Open Day 2018

The Feinberg Graduate School - the academic arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science - is holding an open day for Master's and Ph.D. studies for the following faculties: Life Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics & Computer Science on Friday, March 9th, 2018.

You are invited to spend the day at the Weizmann Institute of Science, attending events, talking to staff and students and getting answers to all your questions.

For more information and registration (in Hebrew)

or contact: + 972-8-934-2924 | [email protected]

Forefront of Science

Fluorescence images show the development of an organoid over days 3-11, in which the emergence of wrinkles is clearly seen

“Brain on a Chip” Reveals How the Brain Folds

Life Sciences

Physics and biology meet in a new model of brain development

Optic nerves seen through xSPEN, in color (right)

The X-SPENdables: Addressing the Most Challenging Tissues in Magnetic Resonance

Chemistry
A new MRI method developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science improves our ability to study the brain and other non-homogeneous tissues

Profs. Dmitry Turaev and Vered Rom-Kedar are using the math of unusual billiard tables to solve long-standing problems in mechanics

The Notorious Piston and Other Problems

Math & Computer Science
New insight into the mathematics of fast- and slow-moving bodies

The Limits of Power

Space & Physics
Reflections on the motive power of fire, revisited

Dry but Fruitful: Semi-Arid Forests Could Offset Climate Change

Chemistry
Climate model simulations suggest that planting large-scale semi-arid forests could cool the planet

Cellular “selfie”: an mTEC cell viewed by means of the new method, called PLIC. The green dots reveal a protein interaction that helps prevent an autoimmune attack. scalebar: 7 µm

“Selfie” Cells Help Reveal Protein Secrets

Life Sciences

Cells that express nearly every protein may hold the key to rare protein research

Microcrystals formed by self-healing repaired a completely destroyed region inside a halide perovskite crystal

Solar Materials Found to Be Self-Healing

Chemistry
These materials can bring us one step closer to a sustainable future

Dr. Esther Bachar-Lustig and Prof. Yair Reisner want to improve the odds for mismatched bone marrow transplant

Immune Tolerance May Open New Horizons for Bone Marrow and Organ Transplants

Life Sciences

Reducing the need for immune suppression could extend to other biomedical advances

Barack Obama or the Tower of Pisa?

BDS | Building Dialogue through Science
Patients in New York advance Israeli study on perception and recall

Category selective visual responses recorded intracranially in patients undergoing epilepsy monitoring. Electrodes located in these brain region show selective responses to faces. When the patient attempted to recall these images later on, the same electrode showed a sustained increase in activity, both during memory search and recall. The plot on the right shows the location of the electrode in the inferior temporal cortex

Art Exhibition on Campus

Eye contact - art exhibition at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Eye Contact - Seeing “What’s There”

Open weekdays: Sunday to Wednesday, 09:00 – 16:00

Closed on Thursdays and weekends

The Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences and the Nehemiah and Naomi Cohen building, Faculty of Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

A Man Before his Time

Findings from a cave on Mt. Carmel indicate that modern man exited Africa tens of thousands of years before previously thought and evolved much earlier

The Woman behind Dark Matter

Vera Rubin, groundbreaking American astrophysicist who shed new light on the motion of galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of dark matter, has passed away