| New Horizons |
| With the opening of the 2009-10 academic year at Technion City, new discoveries are underway on a cosmic scale. New initiatives to protect the planet, international ventures, and the burgeoning fields in which to discover, understand, and apply the science and technologies of tomorrow are bringing an atmosphere of excitement and anticipation to the New Year. |
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| Sound of Silence |
| Dr Jeff Steinhauer recently created an artificial black hole in his lab in the Faculty of Physics, paving the way for proving Stephen Hawkins’ prediction of radiation that is said to be emitted by black holes due to quantum effects. The groundbreaking finding was published on the physics Web site arXiv.org in June 2009. Steinhauer followed a suggestion made in 1981 by William Unruh of the University of British Columbia and created an analogue of a real black hole in the laboratory, using an extremely cold form of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate. This analogue is dubbed a “dumb hole” because it swallows sound rather than light. Read more |
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| Meet the President |
| Prof. Peretz Lavie was inaugurated as the 16th president of Technion on October 1, 2009. Lavie, a world-renowned authority on the psychophysiology of sleep and sleep disorders, heads the Technion Sleep Laboratory. He is the incumbent of the André Ballard Chair in Biological Psychiatry. Between 1993 and 1999, Lavie served as dean of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, and more recently, between 2001 and 2008, as Technion’s vice president for resource development and external relations. Lavie is the author of the acclaimed books, The Enchanted World of Sleep, and Restless Nights: Understanding Sleep Apnea and Snoring. Lavie is one of the founders and directors of Itamar Medical Ltd., SLP Ltd., and Sleep Health Centers Ltd. For an exclusive interview with incoming President Lavie, Read more |
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| Energy Flow |
| The ultimate solution to diminishing fossil-fuel reserves, and their increasing cost, is the development of non-carbon-based energy cycles and improved utilization of existing hydrocarbons. Read more |
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