Major Research Interests             short cv (pdf)

• Statistical physics
• Statistical properties of polymers and random walks
• Physics of disordered systems and fractals, optimization
• Percolation, transport in random systems
• Surface growth
• Chemical reactions
• Granular media, traffic flow
• Medical physics
• Statistical physics of biological and medical systems
• Comlex Networks

Prizes and Awards

• Lilienfeld Prize for a most outstanding contribution to physics, APS, USA (2010)
• Chaim Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences,(2009)
• Nicholson Medal, American Physical Society,(2006)
• Fellow, Institute of Physics, England,(1999)
• Fellow, American Physical Society,(1996)
• President, Israel Physical Society,(1996-1999)
• Director, Minerva Center for Fractals,(1994)
• Minerva Center Award,(1993)
• Director, Science Education Project,(1993)
• Humboldt Award - Germany,(1992)
• Editor: Europhys. Lett.,(2008- )
• Editor: New Journal of Physics,(2004- )
• Editor: International Journal of Fractals,(1991- )
• Editor: Physica A,(1991- )
• Editor: Reserch Letters in Physics,(2007- )
• Editor: Journal of Statistical Physics,(1991 - 1994)
• Landau Prize for Outstanding Research,(1988)
• Minerva Fellowship,(1988)
• Royal Society of England Fellowship,(1979)

Collaborative research sites

• Center for Polymer Studies (Boston University),BP Amoco
• Cardiac Dynamics
• MARGRET & H. A. REY Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine
• PhysioNet- PhysioNet offers free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software
• Dysonet
• Daphnet
• Network Research: Publications- from the Havlin and Stanley Groups
• Epiwork

Teaching

• New! Invited Talks - Video
• New! Scaling and Fractals, listen to a lecture accompanied by

     slideshow (Flash Player is needed)
• Fractals and Chaos in Nature(about course in hebrew)
• Complex Systems(about course in hebrew)
• Lectures: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Exercise 1, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Exercise 2, Lecture 8,
• Percolation in Complex Networks
• Percolation: Theory and Applications
• Lectures: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4,
  Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8, Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12,

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