News from the Israel Physical Society
1. Quantum Science and Technology in Israel
The Israel council of science and education issued a call for a national effort in quantum science and technologies. The program has the focal points: Quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum simulations, quantum sensing, quantum materials and quantum foundations and aims to promote education and research in these areas. Following the call, universities in Israel will be offering specialised undergraduate and graduate programs in quantum science and technologies. The department is involved in physics, computer science, electrical, mechanical and material engineering and chemistry.
2. The Israel Physical Society elected four founding fellows:
- Prof. Guy Deutscher, Tel Aviv University: For his leadership in experimental and theoretical research in the theory of superconductivity and in particular the “proximity effect”. For his influential contributions to the research on percolation and localization in two dimensions and, for his leadership in building experimental condensed matter physics in Israel.
- Prof. David Horn, Tel Aviv University: For his ground breaking discovery of the Dolan-Horn- Schmidt Duality in hadronic physics, and pivotal role in creating a community of high energy theoretical physicists in Israel.
- Prof. Hagai Netzer, Tel-Aviv University: For initiating observational astronomy in Israel, and for ground breaking research especially, the measurements of the masses of black holes in quasars centers and active galaxies and for opening the gates to astronomy to the general public.
- Prof. Joshua Zak, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology: For his contribution to condensed matter physics and in particular for the discovery of the magnetic translation group and the KQ representation also known as Zak representation and for the discovery of the topological phase in the band theory of solids known as Zak phase.
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