PUBLIC OUTREACH

I have recently been volunteering and giving talks in various outreach programs including: “Astronomy on tap”, “Astronomy on the mall” and “Project Entropy”.

During my PhD I have initiated (with Mor Nitzan and Amir Weissbein) an outreach program, “bite-size science” that focuses on PhD students returning to their high schools and talking with the high school students about their research in an informal fashion, providing them with better understanding of scientific questions and methods and hopefully inspiring them to pursue science studies at university. The program was adopted as an official Hebrew university program and had great success, reaching 16 different cities, 29 schools and 3,568 high school students in the first year only. The program has been received very well by the schools and has grown much wider since.

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In addition, together with another PhD student, Almog Yalin, I have established an online source (“Theoretical Physics Digest”) aimed at enabling graduate students smoother access into active research topics in Physics. The site is “Wikipedia”-like in style and its goal is to bridge the gap between the Physics learned at course levels and that necessary to conduct high level research. It aims to address essential topics and “back of the envelope” calculations in a concise yet easy to follow fashion as well as clarify important yet complicated scientific papers. It currently has over 180 such topics and it is growing rapidly.

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I also gave popular talks on behalf of Noar Shoher Mada to teenagers in Jerusalem and another talk for a Yuri Gagarin night event in a pub in Jerusalem.