Lecture by Steven Girvin, Deputy Provost

Please join us for an evening with Prof. Steven Girvin, Deputy Provost for Science and Technology

and

Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics; Professor of Applied Physics

When: Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 20:00

Where: Home of Pennina (Ph.D. '82) and Hershel ('81) Safer

Address: 20 Gorodeski Street, Apt. 11, Rehovot

Phone: Hershel 054-463-1977

Prof. Steve Girvin will speak both about Yale, from his perspective as Deputy Provost for Science and Technology, and about his research on quantum physics.

 Prof. Girvin has served as Deputy Provost for Science and Technology since September 2007. In that role, he has broad oversight for multiple natural sciences departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as several administrative units that contribute directly to activities in the sciences. In addition, Prof. Girvin is a member of the West Campus planning committee and is engaged in integrating the research facilities at this site into the scientific enterprises of the University.

 Dr. Girvin joined the Yale faculty in 2001, where he is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics. He has also served as director of graduate studies in physics, as well as associate director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering. After completing his undergraduate degree in physics from Bates College, Dr. Girvin earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University and the Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden. He went on to work as a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1979 to 1987 before joining the faculty of Indiana University in 1987.

 Throughout his career, Prof. Girvin's research has focused on theoretical studies of collective quantum behavior in many particle systems. Since coming to Yale, his interests have extended to quantum optics and quantum computation. In recognition of his research and contributions to the field, Prof. Girvin has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, and he was awarded the Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 2007.

 You can download directions to the Safers' in English or Hebrew from:

The Yale Club of Israel  and the Yale School of Management Club of Israel

Invite you to their first jointly hosted event:

"What Yale economists can teach us about the financial crisis"

Please join us for this talk by Yale-educated economist Ronel Elul (Ph.D. '94).  Ronel is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and teaches finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. This year he is a Visiting Professor at the Recanati School at Tel Aviv University.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 8:00pm

at the home of Libby & Moshe '59 Werthan, 24 Shimshon St., Baka, Jerusalem

RSVP Yale SOM Club of Israel President, Jonathan Weisberg (MPPM '93) at weisberg@aya.yale.edu

More about Prof. Elul

Ronel Elul is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He is also currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, has been Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University, and served as a visiting faculty member in Finance at the Wharton School and New York University's Stern School,  and as a consultant in fixed-income research at Kidder-Peabody & Co. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, a Diploma in Statistics from Cambridge University and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Berkeley. His research interests are in microeconomic theory and financial markets, particularly consumer credit, mortgage markets, and general equilibrium theory.