The Lowy International School I The Global Connection

The Global Connection - Episode #22: Sensing Earth from Space

Professor Eyal Ben-Dor is from the Department of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University and is currently involved in an international project helping to revolutionize the type of information we can gather about earth from space. In this episode of the Global Connection, Ben-Dor talks with Anna Sajecki about this international project and the future of hyperspectral remote sensing.
 
Learn more about some of the international projects The Lowy International School is supporting: www.international.tau.ac.il/Lowy-new-global-projects

The Global Connection - Episode #21: What Palestinians and Israelis Really Think

Corey Gil-Shuster is the Director of the International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University; he is also the person behind The Ask Project – a YouTube video project where he solicits questions from around the world and takes them to the street, asking Israelis and Palestinians across Israel and the West Bank. In this episode of The Global Connection, Anna Sajecki talks to Gil-Shuster about his experience running The Ask Project, and what keeps him going after more than 1,100 videos and 275,000 subscribers.
Watch The Ask Project:    / @coreygilshusteraskproject  
Learn more about TAU's International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation: international.tau.ac.il/conflict_resolution

The Global Connection - Episode #20: The Cancer Cells That Don’t Behave How You Think

Dr. Yaara Oren is a cancer researcher at Tel Aviv University who recently won a European Research Council grant for her work on persister cells – cancer cells that don’t respond to traditional cancer treatments and remain in the body even after a patient enters remission. In this episode of The Global Connection, Oren speaks with host Anna Sajecki about this rising field of research and its overall significance for cancer research and treatments.
Interested in cancer research? Learn more about TAU’s international MSc in Medical Sciences as well as the international MSc in Life Sciences.

TAU Unbound - Episode #36: Ido Aharoni & Uzi Rabi: The Future of the Middle East

Professor Uzi Rabi, who obtained his Ph.D from Tel Aviv University in 2000, is the energetic Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and a senior researcher at the Center for Iranian Studies, both at Tel Aviv University.
In this episode of TAU Unbound, Prof. Rabi is sharing with us some of his vast knowledge about the Middle East, providing an analysis of the actions of the regions main “actors, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel.
Formerly, he was the Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. From 2004-2005, he held a visiting professorship at the Lipinski Institute of San Diego State University.
His research focuses on the modern history and evolution of states and societies in the Middle East, Iranian-Arab relations, oil and politics in the Middle East, and Sunni-Shi’i dynamics; within this framework he has supervised the dissertations of numerous doctoral candidates in this field over the years.

TAU Unbound - Episode #35: Ido Aharoni & Aeyal Gross: Possible Legal Scenarios for Israel

Prof. Aeyal Gross is a member of the Faculty in Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law where he teaches International Law and Constitutional Law. He regularly teaches as Visiting Professor at SOAS, University of London. Prof. Gross, who is a leading voice against the proposed
judicial overhaul in Israel, holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University (1990) and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (1996). In 1998 he was awarded the Diploma in Human Rights from the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, in Florence. He has also served as a member of the Board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and a founding member of TAU’s LGBT & Queer Studies Forum. He also contributes to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. In this episode of TAU Unbound he discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff various legal scenarios for Israel’l political system.

TAU Unbound - Episode #34: Ido Aharoni & Itai Ater: the Economic Implications of Israel’s Judicial Overhaul

some observations about the state of global economy. Prof. Ater earned his bachelor (law and economics) and Master's degrees, both Cum Laude, from the Hebrew University. Before pursuing his Ph.D. studies in Economics at Stanford University, he also worked at the Israeli Antitrust Authority. His research examines the sources of the high cost of living in Israel. In particular, he studies how government policies, consumer behavior and firm actions contribute to market outcomes in the food, automobile and real-estate markets.

TAU Unbound - Episode #33: Ido Aharoni & Idit Adler: Education is key to Inequality Reduction

Dr. Adler is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Math, Science and Technology at Constantiner School of Education at Tel Aviv University. In this episode of TAU Unbound, she discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, the meaning of "Teaching and learning within socio-constructivist environments”, a system she advocates based on her research and experience. Dr. Adler is a great believer in the community-based approach to learning and studied "Leveraging opportunities for self-regulated learning in the science classroom”. Here she elaborates on the Difference Between Education and Learning and points to the centrality of education in bridging social and economic inequalities.

TAU Unbound - Episode #32 :Ido Aharoni & Itzhak Ben-Israel- Space, Cyber Security, AI

Major Gen. (Res.) Professor Isaac Ben-Israel is one of the most influential people in Israel in recent decades: he is one of the architects of Israel’s cyber-security prowess, a longstanding advocate of Israel’s increasing role in space as, as the 17-year Chair of the country’s space agency and, of course, as the Director of the Blavatnik ICRC and Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security at Tel Aviv University, one of the driving forces behind the annual Cyber Week. In this conversation with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, Isaac Ben-Israel is covering a wide range of issues: space and satellites, cyber security and global preparedness and of course the impact of artificial intelligence.

TAU Unbound - Episode #31: Ido Aharoni & Neta Erez: how to turn cancer into a chronic disease

Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Neta Erez is the Head of the laboratory of tumor biology and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Her research centers around ways to understand and combat the spread of breast cancer and melanoma, all the while trying to decode th interaction between the tumor and its environment. In this episode Prof. Erez discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff the early stages of her career, her involvement in the mentoring of young scientists and her ground breaking scientific work.

TAU Unbound - Episode #30: Ido Aharoni & Nadav Cohen: what is AI and why should we learn more

Tel Aviv University’s Dr. Nadav Cohen as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a rising star in the field of artificial intelligence and data analytics. Dr. Cohen’s research focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of deep learning, analyzing aspects of expressiveness, optimization and generalization. The goal of his research is to derive theoretically founded procedures and algorithms that will improve practical performance. Here Dr. Cohen discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff the meaning of neural networks and the pros and cons of the AI revolution.