Eyal Shimoni (WIS) – Chair, Yaron Kauffmann (Technion) – Secretary, Zahava Barkay (TAU) – Treasurer, Reut Hershenhoren (WIS) – Head of Conferences Unit, Dganit Danino (Technion), Maya Bar-Sadan (BGU), Amit Kohn (BGU), Inna Popov (HUJI), Edith Suss-Toby (Technion), Aryeh Weiss (BIU)

Scientific committee:

Edith Suss-Toby (Technion), Aryeh Weiss (BIU), Dganit Danino (Technion), Eyal Shimoni (WIS), Amit Kohn (BGU), Yossi Lereah (TAU), Tzipi Cohen-Hyams (Technion)

Lev Margulis prize committee:

Prof. Jordi Arbiol (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), Prof. Chris Boothroyd (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany), Prof. Valeria Nicolosi (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

• Prof. Angus Kirkland, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

• Prof. Clare M. Waterman, NIH, Bethesda Maryland, USA.

Materials Science:

• Prof. Dominique Chatain, CNRS, France.

• Prof. Ilan Goldfarb, Tel-Aviv University.

• Prof. Wayne D. Kaplan, Technion, Haifa.

• Prof. Daniel H. Rich, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er-Sheva.

Life Science:

• Prof. Sergio Marco, Institute Curie, Campus Universitaire d’Orsay, France.

• Prof. Eran Meshorer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

• Prof. Mira Barda-saad, Bar-ilan University.

• Prof. Danny Porath, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

• Prof. Alexander D. Bershadsky, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot. Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Full program with abstracts (~6MB)

Congratulations to:

• Adi Pantzer, Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize for her work titled: “Quantitative dopant mapping in silicon nanostructures by off axis electron holography”.

• Lior Embon, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, , recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize for his work titled: “Novel scanning SQUID-on-tip microscope for the imaging of magnetic phenomena at the nanoscale”.

• Hadas Sternlicht, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the recipient of the Best poster Prize in Materials Sciences, for her poster titled: “The Mechanisms of Grain Boundary Motion”.

• Dvir Gur, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, the recipient of the Best poster Prize in Life Sciences, for his poster titled: “When Bright Becomes Brighter: Amplification of the Structural Colors in the Koi Fish”.

• Eran Gross, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the recipient of the Best Micrograph Prize for his micrograph “Lava”.