BE PART OF THE NEXT BIG IDEA
2018 BOARD OF GOVERNORS
PROGRAM
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
9:00am - 10:15am Finance Committee
Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Fredy and Jetty Strauss, Argentina, Conference Room (101)
10:15am - 11:30am Funds and Trusts Committee
Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Fredy and Jetty Strauss, Argentina, Conference Room (101)
10:15am – 11:45am TAU Global Campaign Cabinet Meeting
By invitation only
12:00pm – 3:00pm Presidents of Friends Associations Leadership Meeting
By invitation only
12:30pm – 2:00pm Student Affairs Committee
Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Fredy and Jetty Strauss, Argentina, Conference Room (101)
3:15pm – 4:00pm Inauguration of the Koret Foundation
Tel Aviv University–Bay Area Collaborative Initiative
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
7:00pm President’s Circle Dinner
By invitation only
THURSDAY, MAY 3
8:45am – 10:45am First Assembly of the Board of Governors
Chair
Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman, Board of Governors
• Opening Remarks, Welcoming New Governors
Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman, Board of Governors
• State of the University
Prof. Joseph Klafter, President
• Executive Summary
Dr. Giora Yaron, Chairman, Executive Council
• TAU Global Campaign Report
Mrs. Dafna Meitar-Nechmad, TAU Campaign Co-Chair
• Constitutional Amendment
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
11:00am – 12:30pm Symposium:
Stronger Society: Transforming TAU Academic Excellence
into Social Impact
Chair
Prof. Yaron Oz, Rector
Restoring Our Natural Resources: Turning Damaged Marine Ecosystems into Sustainable Assets for the Future
Prof. Avigdor Abelson, School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
Spreading Israeli Agritech in the Developing World for Sustainable Food Security
Dr. Ram Fishman, School of Social and Policy Studies, Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
Physical Therapy and Engineering Projects
Dr. Jason Friedman, Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions,
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
The Clinic for Social and Economic Change
Dr. Lia Levin, Bob Shapell School of Social Work
Social Impact Initiative
Ruth and Allen Ziegler Student Services Division
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
12:30pm – 1:45pm Welcome Lunch
By invitation only
2:00pm – 2:45pm Inauguration of the Chaoul Center for Nanoscale Systems
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
4:00pm – 4:45pm Inauguration of the Yandex Machine Learning Initiative
Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Fredy and Jetty Strauss, Argentina, Conference Room (101)
HONORARY DEGREES CONFERMENT CEREMONY
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa
*Registration closed, fully booked*
7:00pm Welcome Reception
Kuky and Sergio Grosskopf Family Foyer
8:00pm Ceremony
Miriam and Adolfo Smolarz Auditorium
2018 Recipients
Honorary Doctors
Dr. Ilana Dayan-Orbach, Israel, Journalist
Dr. Karnit Flug, Israel, Governor of the Bank of Israel
HE Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, Uruguay, Former President of
Uruguay
Prof. László Lovász, Hungary, Mathematician
Mr. Jack Ma, China, Founder and CEO of Alibaba Group
Prof. Knut W. Urban, Germany, Physicist
Dr. Dmitry Zimin, Russia, Founder of Vimpelcom Ltd.
Honorary Fellows
Batsheva Dance Company, Israel
Mrs. Lili Peyser, Israel
Response on behalf of the recipients
Artistic interlude
Dress code: Dark suit
Ceremony will be broadcast live: http://video.tau.ac.il/Board-of-Governors-18
By invitation only
FRIDAY, MAY 4
9:00am – 9:45am Inauguration of the Shlomo Shmeltzer Institute for Smart Transportation
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
10:00am – 10:45am Inauguration of the Zimin Institute for Engineering Solutions Advancing Better Lives
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
11:00am – 1:15pm Geopolitical Symposium:
Key Political and Economic Trends and the Evolving Role of the
Media
Moderator
Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman, TAU Board of Governors,
former Governor of the Bank of Israel
Speakers
HE Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, Former President of Uruguay
Dr. Karnit Flug, Governor of the Bank of Israel
Mr. Richard Quest, Anchor, “Quest Means Business”, and CNN
Money Editor-at-Large
Dr. Ilana Dayan-Orbach, Journalist
Inauguration of the Jacob Frenkel and Mort Zuckerman Institute
for Global Economics
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
1:15pm – 2:00pm Lunch
By invitation only
2:15pm – 3:15pm Awarding of the Hugo Ramniceanu Prize in Economics for 2018
Prize Recipient: Dave Waiser, Founder and CEO of Gett
Awarding of the Hugo Ramniceanu Scholarship in Economics for
2018
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
4:30pm – 6:00pm Sunset Cocktails by the Beach
Hilton Tel Aviv Hotel
8:00pm Shabbat Home Hospitality
Shabbat dinner with an intimate Israeli home ambiance
For overseas guests only
SATURDAY, MAY 5
8:30pm Campus Party for Israel's 70th!
Dance the hora, savor local delights and soak up the Israeli spirit as we celebrate TAU's key contribution to the Israeli success story
*Registration closed, fully booked*
Dress code: Blue and white
The Jacob and Shoshana Schreiber Square, TAU campus
By invitation only
SUNDAY, MAY 6
9:00am – 9:45am Symposium:
Science Fiction for Real: Adapting the Campus to the 21st Century
Chair Dame Shirley Porter
Speakers
Arch. Etan Kimmel, Co-founder, Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
Stimulating Learning: Designing New Study Environments
Libraries of Tomorrow
Dr. Tomer Goodovitch, Special advisor for the TAU campus master plan; CEO, Egis Rail Israel Futuristic Campus Transportation
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
10:00am – 12:00pm Second Assembly of the Board of Governors
Chair
Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman, Board of Governors
• Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research and Presentations by the 2018 Award Recipients
Chair
Prof. Yoav Henis, VP for Research and Development
2018 Award Recipients:
Prof. Dana Ron-Goldreich, School of Electrical Engineering, Iby and
Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Assaf Pinkus, Department of Art History, David and Yolanda
Katz Faculty of the Arts
Prof. Iftach Haitner, Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
Dr. Erez Ben Yosef, Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology
and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of
Humanities
State of the Student Union, Mr. Ron Tene, Chairman, Student Union
• Committee Reports and Resolutions
• Open Floor
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
12:15pm – 1:15pm Annual John Gandel Symposium on the Middle East:
Maintaining Israel's Technological Supremacy
Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Danny Gold, Head, Defense Directorate of
Research and Development (DDR&D)
Prof. Uzi Rabi, Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle
Eastern and African Studies, and a senior researcher at TAU's Center for Iranian Studies
George S. Wise Senate Building
Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium
1:15pm – 2:30pm Lunch
By invitation only
2:45pm – 3:30pm Inauguration of the Shmunis Family Anthropology Institute
Fabian-Cyril Boisson Auditorium Donated by Nathalie Kerber
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies
3:45pm – 4:30pm Inauguration of the Genomics Research Unit supported by the
Alfredo Federico Strauss Center for Computational Neuro- Imaging
Jack Green Building of Biotechnology
Ephraim Katzir Biotechnology Club (006)
THE 2018 DAN DAVID PRIZE RECEPTION AND AWARD CEREMONY
6:45pm – 8:00pm Welcome Reception
Kuky and Sergio Grosskopf Family Foyer
8:00pm - 10:00pm Award Ceremony
Miriam and Adolfo Smolarz Auditorium
Prizes will be conferred in three categories:
Past Time Dimension – History of Science
Prof. Lorraine Daston, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
Prof. Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Present Time Dimension – Bioethics
Prof. Ezekiel Emanuel, Universityof Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,USA
Prof. Jonathan Glover, Kings College London, United Kingdom
Baroness Mary Warnock, London, United Kingdom
Future Time Dimension – Personalized Medicine
Prof. Carlo Croce, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Prof. Mary-Claire King, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Prof. Bert Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
By invitation only
Dress code: Dark suit
MONDAY, MAY 7
7:30am - 8:00pm Exclusive Tour: Treasures of the Dead Sea
*Registration closed, fully booked*
From NASA’s fascination with its hardy, salt-tolerant bacteria
to its unique healing properties, the Dead Sea is of seminal
global importance and represents a treasure trove for the
research of life under extreme conditions.
Join us on an exclusive exploration of the Dead Sea region in
the company of TAU experts. See the newest discoveries on top
of Masada, the site of the Great Jewish Revolt, with TAU's Dr.
Guy D. Stiebel, Head of the Masada Expedition. Visit TAU’s
new Porter University Research Institute for Life under Extreme
Conditions and learn about discoveries taking place in the
region, with TAU's Prof. Noga Kronfeld-Schor, Chair of the
School of Zoology and Head of the Ecological and Evolutionary
Physiology Laboratory, and TAU's Prof. Noam Mizrahi, Chair of
the Department of Biblical Studies.
The bus will leave from the Hilton Hotel at 7:30am and will
return at 8:00pm.
Full Tour Schedule
• Depart Tel Aviv
• Arrive at the Dead Sea Research Institute
• Refreshments
• Cable car to the top of Masada
• Tour with Dr. Guy D. Stiebel, Head, Masada Expedition,
Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near
Eastern Cultures, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
Something New Under the Sun: Recent Discoveries at Masada
• Cable car down from Masada
• Prof. Noga Kronfeld -Schor, Chair, School of Zoology and Head,
Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology Laboratory, George S.
Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
The Biological Clock: Findings from the Desert
• Lunch on the terrace of the Dead Sea Research Institute
• Prof. Noam Mizrahi, Chair, Department of Biblical Studies, Lester
and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
Out of the Caves: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Transformation of the
Bible
• Reception on the terrace of the Dead Sea Research Institute
• Depart for Tel Aviv
• Arrival in Tel Aviv
Dress code: Comfortable shoes
***Pre-registration required for Dead Sea event and registration for
Dead Sea event is closed***