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Heart Change Heart C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Summer 2005 CAUSINGCAUSING aa CHANGECHANGE of HEARTHEART NEWS S u m m e r 2 0 0 5 1 On Campus A gala concert conducted by Zubin Mehta launches Israel’s premier music school at TAU – p. 3. 5 Worldscene The 14th European Regional Conference of the Board of Governors took place in Berlin, which is undergoing a Jewish community revival – p. 8. On Campus 9 Research The first spacecraft ever to land on icy Titan did so safely due to atmospheric conditions predicted by a TAU 18 team – p. 12. Students TAU opens its doors to the first Palestinian student from Gaza – p. 18. Cover: A TAU medical team has introduced the first Israeli gene On Campus therapy technique for curing chronic coronary artery disease: 17 Impact Prof. Ran Kornowski (left) and Dr. Shmuel Fuchs (right) with On Campus patient Amos Ben-Yosef – story page 9. 21 Photos: The Department of Medical Photography, Newsmakers Beilinson Hospital; Science Photo Library On Campus Cover design: Pnina Wolinsky-Sissman 23 Friends Editor: Photography: Administrative Coordinator: Issued by the Publications Office Louise Shalev Development and Public Affairs Pauline Reich of the Development and Contributors: Division Photography Department/ Administrative Assistance: Public Affairs Division Rava Eleasari, Talma Agron, Michal Roche Ben-Ami, Edna Goldberger Tel Aviv University Pauline Reich, Ruti Ziv Michal Kidron Graphic Design: Ramat Aviv 69978 Translation Services: Additional Photography: TAU Graphic Design Studio/ Tel Aviv, Israel Sagir Translations, Offiservice ASAP/Israel Talby, Uri Roll, Michal Semo, Pnina Wolinsky-Sissman Tel. 03-6414653, 03-6408249 GPO/Avi Ohayon Printing: Fax 03-6407080 Illustration: Eli Meir Printing E-mail: [email protected] Pnina Wolinsky-Sissman www.tau.ac.il Bust of Albert Einstein by Tosia Malamud at the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences on the TAU campus TAU Rector and physics professor Shimon Yankielowicz reflects on the greatness of Einstein From about 1750 until the rise of Hitler and Nazism, the German Jewish community flourished and contributed significantly to all aspects of modern European life, producing great writers, poets, musicians, philosophers, political leaders and scientists. Tel Aviv University Marks Year Among them one figure stands out as both the greatest mind and paramount of Physics, Einstein’s Theories icon of our scientific and technological age, a figure whose name has become synonymous with genius, and who is An international symposium held by the Cohn Institute one of the 20th century’s most compelling personalities: Albert for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Einstein. debates the connection between cultural norms and During 1905, a year we now scientific developments remember as his “miraculous year,” Einstein wrote three papers that changed science forever. The first was on the photoelectric effect, for which hy did modern science – Philosophy of Science and Ideas and he was later to win the Nobel Prize, a global enterprise today the Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv, held an and the second was on Brownian – develop in Europe at a international conference on “Cultural motion. However, it was his third paper particular historical Relativity and the Scientific Enterprise: on the Special Theory of Relativity that juncture?W Which were the decisive Context and Contingency in the revolutionized conventional concepts factors that existed nowhere else? Why Development of Science.” Researchers of time and space. In it, he determined did the Babylonians with their from Germany, Austria, Hungary, the that time is relative – in other words, recognized mathematical abilities, or UK, the USA, India and Israel the rate at which the Greeks with all their theoretical gathered to discuss the time passes genius, stop short of some of the crucial cultural dimensions of depends on your steps in the direction of a science – the strengths frame of reference thoroughgoing empirical science? Why or weaknesses of certain – while the speed didn’t China, with all its technical cultural norms and of light is ingenuity, develop in that direction? traditions, tacit cognitive constant. Such questions occupy the attention and perceptual filters He later of historians and philosophers of operating in favor or went on to science, and on the occasion of the against the ideal of publish his centennial of Albert Einstein’s Annus modern science, and the General Theory of Relativity, which Mirabilis in 1905, the miraculous year moral implications of science. explained and tied gravity to the in which he published three Conference organizers were Dr. Leo geometry of space-time and paved the groundbreaking papers that stood at the Corry of the Cohn Institute and Dr. Eike way for space exploration. focus of 20th century science, TAU’s Gebhardt, a sociologist of culture from Albert Einstein’s scientific career was Cohn Institute for the History and Berlin. a constant quest for the universal and immutable laws that govern the physical world. His theories spanned TAU Holds Nationwide Conference for High School Students the fundamental elements of nature – TAU’s Unit for Science-Oriented Youth at the Constantiner School of Education, from the entire cosmos to subatomic together with other TAU units and the Ministry of Education, invited advanced high particles. Einstein was a true theoretical school students from across the country to a scientific conference marking the physicist. His only true tools were a Einstein festivities. The students enjoyed 12 lectures by TAU scientists during the penetrating and intuitive grasp of the day-long event. workings of the universe. Summer 2005 1 NEWS New Signal Processing and Multimedia Laboratory Porter School he Signal Processing and Multimedia Laboratory was established at the School Active Nationally, Tof Electrical Engineering of TAU’s Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, in Internationally collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor Israel (formerly Motorola Semiconductor, Israel.) The laboratory, which is equipped with the company’s Porter School Debates Land Rights specialized signal processing chips, will be used by students and faculty working in Land resources in Israel are extremely the fields of signal and video processing and scarce and are constantly threatened by communications applications. Freescale also the pressures of development. In awarded a master’s scholarship at the faculty. addition to their environmental At the inauguration ceremony, Ronen significance, the access to and control Shtayer, CEO of Freescale Israel, said that over these resources is fraught with the laboratory illustrated how social, economic and political collaboration between industry and problems. To this end, the Porter School academia benefits all parties concerned. of Environmental Studies held a series Also attending were President of of symposia focusing on the topic of Freescale Israel, Israel Kashat; Dean of open space and land rights in Israel as Engineering Prof. Touvia Miloh; and part of its activities within the From left: Ronen Shtayer, Prof. Touvia Miloh academic head of the new laboratory, framework of the National Forum of the and Israel Kashat Prof. David Burshtein. Environment. The first symposium, “Municipal Borders,” held together with the Architect David Reznik: Modernist and a Humanist Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow-New Discourse, focused on the allocation of he first-ever retrospective of works Born in Brazil in 1924, Reznik land to local authorities; “Land, Capital Tby Israeli architect David Reznik studied architecture there and worked and Governance,” held jointly with the was displayed at TAU’s Genia Schreiber under the renowned Modernist architect Knesset Commission for Future University Art Gallery. A 1995 Israel Oscar Niemayer. He immigrated to Generations, discussed the issue of land Prize laureate, Reznik was one of the Israel with his wife Rachel in 1949 and ownership and policy in Israel; and foremost architects of Israel’s founding eventually settled in Jerusalem where “Environment, Planning and Human generation. The 20 works featured in he opened his own firm. Rights in Israel,” held with the Israel the exhibition were selected for how Among the many distinctive buildings Union for Environmental Defense, dealt they illustrate the development of designed by Reznik in Jerusalem are the with planning issues from the Reznik’s architectural language and University Synagogue at the Givat Ram perspective of social and human rights, the unique characteristics of his work – Campus of the Hebrew University, the including the right to a decent at once modernist and humanistic, Van Leer Institute, the Israel National environment. The series was organized said exhibition curator Sophia Dekel- Academy of Sciences and the Hyatt by Dr. Arie Nesher, Professional Caspi. “Reznik incorporated stark and Regency Hotel. His projects overseas Director of the Porter School. clean elements of Modernism in his include the Israeli pavilion at Expo ’67 Israeli-Italian Environmental designs, but never at the expense of in Montreal, Canada, and the Israeli Cooperation was the coherence with the surroundings; or the Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil. topic of an event held comfort and ease of use by people,” The exhibition was selected by the by the Italian-Israeli she said. Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture Forum for The exhibition was accompanied by and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Environmental R&D a detailed catalogue featuring research represent Israel at the Biennale
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