This academic year's greetings

• Congratulations to Prof. Avi Schiller, who received the Michael Milken Prize for continuing excellece in teaching.
  The prize was awarded to him at the Rector Prize ceremony on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.






• Congratulations to Prof. Jacob Bekenstein who won the Wolf Prize in physics for 2012. He received the prize for his revolutionary work on the entropy of black holes, that shed new light on the fundamental connections between gravity, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. The prize will be awarded to him in a ceremony in the Knesset on May 13, 2012.



• Congratulations to Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, who was awarded the Schwartz Prize for theoretical and computational neuroscience of the Society for Neuroscience.

  The prize was awarded to him in recognition of his contributions to theoretical neuroscience, where he established innovative methods and set rigorous standards for advancing the field.
  Sompolinsky's research helped to shape system-level brain theory using principles and methods of statistical physics and dynamical systems.
  Sompolinsky’s “ring” model has served as a key paradigm for modeling neural circuits and has been the basis of countless studies of short-term memory, decision-making, selectivity, and receptive fields.




• Congratulations to Prof. Jacob Bekenstein who received the Weizmann Prize for research in the natural sciences. The prize, awarded by the city council of Tel Aviv, is given to him for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the thermodynamics of black holes and quantum gravity.