Yuval Ne'eman Distinguished Lectures in Geophysics, Atmosphere and Space Sciences Endowed by Raymond and Beverly Sackler

Professor Eyal Heifetz is the coordinator of the Distinguished Lectures in Geophysics, Atmospheric and Space Sciences Endowed by Raymond & Beverly Sackler

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Name	Institution	Period of Visit	Host
Academic Year 2019/2020 Lecturers:
Prof. Paul Segall	Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California Email: segall@stanford.edu	April 15-25, 2020 postponed	Prof. Shmulik Marco Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Tel:972-3- 6405689 Email: shmulikm@tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2018/2019 Lecturers:
Prof. Richard Salmon	Professor Emeritus The Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego, USA Email: rsalmon@ucsd.edu	March 22 - April 3, 2019	Prof. Eyal Heifetz Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Phone: 972-3-6408398 Email: eyalh@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2017/2018 Lecturers:
Prof. Jun-Ichi Yano	Directeur de Recherche CNRM, Météo-France Email: j.yano@reading.ac.uk	November 11-23, 2017	Prof. Shimon Krichak, School of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-5086 Email: shimonk@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Nader Haghighipour	Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii-Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii Phone: +1 (808) 956-6098 Email: naderh@hawaii.edu	April 8-22, 2018	Prof. Morris Podolak, Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Phone: +972-3-640-8620 Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2016/2017 Lecturers:
Prof. Jonathan F. Fortney	Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.	December 4-10, 2016	Prof. Morris Podolak, Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Phone: +972-3-640-8620 Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Jean-François Ritz	Director de Recherche CNRS Géosciences Montpellier Université de Montpellier France Phone : +33 (4) 67 14 39 07 Email: jean-francois.Ritz@gm.univ-montp2.fr	April 1-8, 2017	Prof. Shmulik Marko Head, School of Geoscience Professor of Planetary Sciences Dept. of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-5689 Email: shmulikm@tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2015/2016 Lecturers:
Prof. R. Giles Harrison	Department of Meteorology, University of Reading Reading, Berks, UK Phone: +44 (118) 378 8950 Email: r.g.harrison@reading.ac.uk	November 23 - December 4, 2016	Prof. Colin Price Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-6029 Email: cprice@flash.tau.ac.il
Prof. Yochanan Kushnir	Lamont Research Professor Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University Palisades, NY, USA Phone: +1 (845) 365-8669 Email: kushnir@ldeo.columbia.edu	December 17- 30, 2015	Prof. Pinhas Alpert Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-7380 Email: pinhas@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2014/2015 Lecturers:
Prof. Dimitar Sasselov	Perkin Lab, P-336 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street, MS-16 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Phone: +1 (617) 495-7451 Email: dsasselov@cfa.harvard.edu	November 18-26, 2014	Prof. Morris Podolak Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Phone: +972-3- 640-6359 Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Adam Sobel	Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University, New-York, USA Phone: +1 (212) 854-6587 Email: ahs129@columbia.edu	December 21, 2014 -January 9, 2015	Prof. Nili Harnik Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3- 640-6359 Email: harnik@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Jen-Ping Chen	Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan Email: jpchen@as.ntu.edu.tw	January 5-15, 2015	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2013/2014 Lecturers:
Prof.Richard Allen	Director, Berkeley Seismology Lab Class of 1954 Professor Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science UC Berkeley, CA, USA Email: rallen@berkeley.edu	March 30 - April 5, 2014	Prof. Alon Ziv Department of Geophysics Phone: +972-3-640-8302 Email: zivalon@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2012/2013 Lecturers:
Prof. Drew Shindell	Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Phone: +1 (919) 681-8467 Email: drew.shindell@duke.edu	December 11-20, 2012	Prof. Colin Price Department of Geophysics Phone: +972-3-640-5714 Email: cprice@flash.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2011/2012 Lecturers:
Prof. Raul Madariaga	Laboratoire de Geologie Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France Phone: + 33 (1) 44 32 22 16 Email: madariag@geologie.ens.fr	March 12, 2011	Prof. Shmulik Marko Professor of Planetary Department of Geophysics Phone: +972-3-640-5689 Email: shmulikm@tau.ac.il
Prof. William I. Newman	Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences UCLA, CA, USA Phone: + 1 (310) 825-3880 Email: win@ucla.edu	April 16-29, 2012	Prof. Morris Podolak Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Phone: +972-3- 640-6359 Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Roy Rasmussen	Senior Scientist Section Head NCAR Research Applications Laboratory Boulder, CO, USA Phone: + 1 (303) 497-8430 Email: rasmus@ucar.edu	May 18-23, 2012	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2010/2011 Lecturers:
Prof. Johannes (Jos) Lelieveld	Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department Managing Director of the MPI for Chemistry Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI), Mainz, Germany Phone: +49 6131 305 4000 Email: bettina.krueger@mpic.de	November 8-19, 2010	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Theodore Shepherd	Grantham Professor of Climate Science University of Reading, UK Phone: +44 0118 378 8957 Email: theodore.shepherd@reading.ac.uk	April 25 - May 6, 2011	Prof. Nili Harnik Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3- 640-6359 Email: harnik@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2009/2010 Lecturers:
Dr. Alan Boss	Staff Scientist Earth & Planets Laboratory Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, USA Phone: +1 (202) 478-8858 Email: aboss@carnegiescience.edu	May 7-17, 2010	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2008/2009 Lecturers:
Dr. Leonard Barrie	Professor emeritus for Climate and Atmospheric Science Faculty of Science Stockholm University, Sweden Email: leonard.barrie@geo.su.se	February 28 -March 14, 2009	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Paul Weissman	Senior Scientist Emeritus Planetary Science Institute Tucson, AZ, USA Email: pweissman@psi.edu	April 19 - May 2, 2009	Prof. Dina Prialnik Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-6051 Email: dina@planet.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:
Prof. David Dritschel	Professor of Applied Mathematics School of Mathematics and Statistics North Haugh, St Andrews, UK Phone: +44 01334 463721 Email: david.dritschel@st-andrews.ac.uk	March 30 - April 12, 2008	Prof. Eyal Heifetz Department of Geophysics Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science Phone: +972-3-6408398 Email: eyalh@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Umran Inan	President Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 212 338 12 13/15 Email: president@ku.edu.tr Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering - STAR Laboratory Stanford University, CA, USA Email: http://inan@stanford.edu	April 26 - May 3, 2008	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2006/2007 Lecturers:
Prof. Joseph Egger	Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Meteorology Meteorological Institute Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany Phone: +49 089 2180 4572 Email: J.Egger@lrz.uni-muenchen.de	October 22 - November 1, 2006	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Brant Foote	Associate Director National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA	January 20 - February 1, 2007	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. William Cotton	Professor Emeritus Atmospheric Science Department Colorado State University, CO, USA Email: Cotton@atmos.colostate.edu	April 13-20, 2007	Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-8274 Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2004/2005 Lecturers:
Prof. Peter Bodenheimer	Professor Emeritus of Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomy & Astrophysics Department University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Phone: +1 (831) 459-2064 Email: pbodenhe@ucsc.edu	March 28 - April 4, 2005	Prof. Dina Prialnik Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-6051 Email: dina@planet.tau.ac.il
Prof. Huw Davies	Professor Emeritus Atmospheric Dynamics Former Head, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Former Head, Department of Environmental Sciences ETH Zurich University, Zürich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 633 35 06 Email: huw.davies@env.ethz.ch	April 10-20, 2005	Prof. Dina Prialnik Department of Geosciences Phone: +972-3-640-6051 Email: dina@planet.tau.ac.il

Name

Institution

Period of Visit

Host

Academic Year 2019/2020 Lecturers:

Prof. Paul Segall 

Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,
Stanford, California
Email: segall@stanford.edu

April 15-25,
2020

postponed

Prof. Shmulik Marco
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science
Tel:972-3- 6405689

Email: shmulikm@tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2018/2019 Lecturers:

Prof. Richard Salmon

Professor Emeritus
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography
of the University of California, San Diego, USA

Email: rsalmon@ucsd.edu

March 22 - April 3,
2019

Prof. Eyal Heifetz
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science

Phone: 972-3-6408398
Email: eyalh@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2017/2018 Lecturers:

Prof. Jun-Ichi Yano

Leora Batnitzky

Directeur de Recherche CNRM, Météo-France

Email: j.yano@reading.ac.uk

November 11-23, 2017

Prof. Shimon Krichak,
School of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-5086
Email:
shimonk@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Nader Haghighipour

Chi-Wang Shu

Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii-Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

Phone: +1 (808) 956-6098
Email: naderh@hawaii.edu

April 8-22, 2018

Prof. Morris Podolak,
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science

Phone: +972-3-640-8620
Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2016/2017 Lecturers:

Prof. Jonathan F. Fortney

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.

December
4-10,
2016

Prof. Morris Podolak,
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science

Phone: +972-3-640-8620
Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Jean-François Ritz

Director de Recherche CNRS
Géosciences Montpellier
Université de Montpellier
France

Phone : +33 (4) 67 14 39 07
Email: jean-francois.Ritz@gm.univ-montp2.fr

April 1-8,
2017

Prof. Shmulik Marko
Head, School of Geoscience
Professor of Planetary Sciences Dept. of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-5689
Email: shmulikm@tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2015/2016 Lecturers:

Prof. R. Giles Harrison

Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Reading, Berks, UK

Phone: +44 (118) 378 8950
Email: r.g.harrison@reading.ac.uk

November 23 - December 4,
2016

Prof. Colin Price
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-6029 Email: cprice@flash.tau.ac.il

Prof. Yochanan Kushnir

Lamont Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
Palisades, NY, USA

Phone: +1 (845) 365-8669
Email: kushnir@ldeo.columbia.edu

December 17- 30,
2015

Prof. Pinhas Alpert
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-7380 Email: pinhas@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2014/2015 Lecturers:

Prof. Dimitar Sasselov

Perkin Lab, P-336
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, MS-16
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Phone: +1 (617) 495-7451
Email:
dsasselov@cfa.harvard.edu

November 18-26, 2014

Prof. Morris Podolak
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science

Phone: +972-3- 640-6359
Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Adam Sobel

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University,
New-York, USA

Phone: +1 (212) 854-6587
Email: ahs129@columbia.edu

December 21,
2014 -January 9, 2015

Prof. Nili Harnik
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3- 640-6359
Email: harnik@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Jen-Ping Chen

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
and the International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan

Email: jpchen@as.ntu.edu.tw

January 5-15,
2015

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2013/2014 Lecturers:

Prof.Richard Allen

Director, Berkeley Seismology Lab
Class of 1954 Professor
Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science
UC Berkeley, CA, USA

Email: rallen@berkeley.edu

March 30 - April 5,
2014

Prof. Alon Ziv
Department of Geophysics

Phone: +972-3-640-8302
Email:
zivalon@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2012/2013 Lecturers:

Prof. Drew Shindell

Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science
Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Phone: +1 (919) 681-8467
Email: drew.shindell@duke.edu

December 11-20,
2012

Prof. Colin Price
Department of Geophysics

Phone: +972-3-640-5714
Email: cprice@flash.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2011/2012 Lecturers:

Prof. Raul Madariaga

Laboratoire de Geologie
Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris, France

Phone: + 33 (1) 44 32 22 16
Email: madariag@geologie.ens.fr

March 12,
2011

Prof. Shmulik Marko
Professor of Planetary Department of Geophysics

Phone: +972-3-640-5689
Email: shmulikm@tau.ac.il

Prof. William I. Newman

Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
UCLA, CA, USA

Phone: + 1 (310) 825-3880
Email: win@ucla.edu

April 16-29,
2012

Prof. Morris Podolak
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science

Phone: +972-3- 640-6359
Email: morris@post.tau.ac.il

Dr. Roy Rasmussen

Senior Scientist Section Head
NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
Boulder, CO, USA

Phone: + 1 (303) 497-8430
Email: rasmus@ucar.edu

May 18-23,
2012

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2010/2011 Lecturers:

Prof. Johannes (Jos) Lelieveld

Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department
Managing Director of the MPI for Chemistry
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI), Mainz, Germany

Phone: +49 6131 305 4000
Email: bettina.krueger@mpic.de

November 8-19,
2010

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Theodore Shepherd

Grantham Professor of Climate Science
University of Reading, UK

Phone: +44 0118 378 8957
Email:
theodore.shepherd@reading.ac.uk

April 25 -
May 6,
2011

Prof. Nili Harnik
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3- 640-6359
Email: harnik@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2009/2010 Lecturers:

Dr. Alan Boss

Staff Scientist
Earth & Planets Laboratory
Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, USA

Phone: +1 (202) 478-8858
Email:
aboss@carnegiescience.edu

May 7-17,
2010

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2008/2009 Lecturers:

Dr. Leonard Barrie

Professor emeritus for Climate and Atmospheric Science
Faculty of Science
Stockholm University, Sweden

Email: leonard.barrie@geo.su.se

February 28 -March 14,
2009

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Dr. Paul Weissman

Senior Scientist Emeritus
Planetary Science Institute
Tucson, AZ, USA

Email: pweissman@psi.edu

April 19 -
May 2,
2009

Prof. Dina Prialnik
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-6051
Email: dina@planet.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:

Prof. David Dritschel

Professor of Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics and
Statistics
North Haugh, St Andrews, UK

Phone: +44 01334 463721
Email: david.dritschel@st-andrews.ac.uk

March 30 -
April 12,
2008

Prof. Eyal Heifetz
Department of Geophysics
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science

Phone: +972-3-6408398
Email: eyalh@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Umran Inan

President
Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Phone: +90 212 338 12 13/15
Email: president@ku.edu.tr

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering - STAR Laboratory
Stanford University, CA, USA
Email: http://inan@stanford.edu

April 26 -
May 3,
2008

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2006/2007 Lecturers:

Prof. Joseph Egger

Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Meteorology
Meteorological Institute
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Phone: +49 089 2180 4572
Email: J.Egger@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

October 22 - November 1, 2006

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Brant Foote

Associate Director
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

January 20 - February 1, 2007

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. William Cotton

Professor Emeritus
Atmospheric Science Department
Colorado State University, CO, USA

Email:
Cotton@atmos.colostate.edu

April 13-20, 2007

Prof. Zev Levin
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-8274
Email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2004/2005 Lecturers:

Prof. Peter Bodenheimer

Professor Emeritus of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (831) 459-2064
Email: pbodenhe@ucsc.edu

March 28 - April 4,
2005

Prof. Dina Prialnik
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-6051
Email: dina@planet.tau.ac.il

Prof. Huw Davies

Professor Emeritus Atmospheric Dynamics
Former Head, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Former Head, Department of Environmental Sciences
ETH Zurich University, Zürich, Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 633 35 06
Email: huw.davies@env.ethz.ch

April 10-20, 2005

Prof. Dina Prialnik
Department of Geosciences

Phone: +972-3-640-6051
Email: dina@planet.tau.ac.il