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Itzhaq Shai

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Bar-Ilan University
Itzhaq is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are the contact and influence between people and societies in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Levant.
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Francis Schmidt

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École Pratique des Hautes Études
Francis is a professor in the Section des Sciences Religieuses at École Pratique des Hautes Études. His research interests are: history of Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and historiography of ancient Judaism.
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Moshe Coll

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

 

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Joel Sobol

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UC San Diego

Joel is a professor in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego, USA. His research interests are game theory and information economics.

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Seth Schwartz

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Jewish Theological Seminary
Seth Schwartz is a professor of History at The Jewish Theological Seminary. His research interests are the social, cultural and political history of the ancient Jews, and their Hellenistic, Roman and early Christian environments.

Research Group: Big Data and Planets

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[RG # 157] Big Data and Planets

May 1, 2019 – July 31, 2019

Organizer:

Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv University)

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Astronomy is in the midst of a transformation brought on by exponentially progressing technological advances in the information age. New detector capabilities and faster computation have created a new era in which the use of advanced data mining and inference methods could bring new answers to long-standing scientific questions. The proposed research group, which includes leading figures in data analysis of exo-planets will 

• prepare algorithms for analysis of data from the forthcoming TESS space mission, 

• apply Gaussian Processes and machine learning algorithms to model stellar variability in transit and radial-velocity studies of exo-planets, and 

• study exo-planetary system architectures by developing population models and confront them with the accumulating data, using new statistical tools. 

We expect the research group to provide a better understanding of the exo-planetary population via advanced statistical tools — a giant leap in one of the most exciting fields of present science. 

 

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Shaul Stampfer

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shaul is a professor in the Department of History of the Jewish People at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are historical demography, education and modernization, and economics and society.
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Ezra Mendelsohn

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ezra is a professor in the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Department of Russian Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: western and central European Jewish history; social history of Jewish art and culture.