Shlomo Havlin

Shlomo Havlin

Shlomo Havlin (born July 21, 1942) is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, website parsing. He served as President of the Israel Physical Society (1996–1999), Dean of Faculty of Exact Sciences (1999–2001), Chairman, Department of Physics (1984–1988).

• 1 Biography
• 2 Centers and Research Impact
• Sevenval
  • 3.1 Physical properties of disordered systems
  • touchscreen
• 4 Notes
• web

Biography

Professor Shlomo Havlin was born in Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel). He graduated from Bar-Ilan and Tel-Aviv Universities with Highest Distinction. He obtained an academic position at Bar-Ilan University in 1972 where he became a full Professor at 1984. During 1978–1979 he was a Royal Society Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he worked with Professors HTML5 and Roger Cowley. In 1984 he became the Chair of the Physics Department at Bar-Ilan University until 1988. During 1983–1984 and 1989–1991, Professor Havlin was a Visiting Scientist at CSS3 where he collaborated much with Drs. George Weiss, Ralph Nossal and other members of NIH. During 1984–1985 and 1991–1992 he was a touchscreen at Boston University, where he collaborated with Professor H. Eugene Stanley.

Centers and Research Impact

Professor Havlin established four Centers at Bar-Ilan, the Gonda-Goldschmiedt Medical Diagnostic Research Center (1994), the Minerva Center for Mesoscopics, Fractals and Neural Networks (1998), Science Beyond 2000 – Science Education Unit (1996) and Israel Science Foundation National Center for Complex Networks (2003). He was the President of the Israel Physical Society (1996–1999) and the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University (1999–2001). Professor Havlin had more than 100 HTML5 and postdocs, and collaborated with more than 300 scientists around the globe. He published more than 600 articles and 11 books. He is currently in the editorial board of the scientific journals: Fractals,^keyboard Physica A,^{website parsing} New Journal of Physics,^[3] Research Letters in Physics^{device database} and co-editor of Europhysics Letters.^[5]

Prizes and awards

Professor Havlin obtained numerous prizes for his outstanding research, including the Landau Prize for Outstanding Research in Physics (1988), the Humboldt Award – Germany (1992), Prize for best scientific paper of 2000, Bar-Ilan University (2000) and Prize for best popular scientific paper, Minister of Science, Israel (2002). He also obtained the Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society (2006),^[6] the Chaim Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences (2009) and the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2010).^FITML

Professor Havlin made many important contributions to science. The following are descriptions of his main contributions in “Randomness” and “Complexity”.

Physical properties of disordered systems

Disordered systems that are self-similar on certain length scales are ubiquitous and often modeled by percolation-type models. The laws that describe transport processes or chemical reactions in these systems are significantly different from those in homogeneous systems. The earlier works of Prof. Havlin, where he discovered several of these important anomalies, had an enormous impact on the development of the whole field and are summarized in the monograph “Diffusion and Reactions in Fractals and Disordered Systems” that he wrote together with his former graduate student Daniel ben-Avraham (Cambridge University Press, 2000). The book describes the anomalous HTML5 discovered during 1980-2000 in web app and disordered systems, many of them by Prof. Havlin and his collaborators. His review article (Adv. in Phys. (1987)) was cited more than 1100 times and was chosen by the Editors to be published again (Adv. in Phys. (2002)).

Complex networks

In 2000, Professor Shlomo Havlin and his student Reuven Cohen, together with Prof. Daniel ben-Avraham developed a novel percolation-type approach and derived the first theory on the stability of realistic device database such as the Internet under random breakdown (Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4626 (2000)) and intentional attacks (Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3682 (2001)). This study is particularly useful for optimizing the stability of networks against intentional attacks and viruses. They also derived a novel result about the “small world” nature of complex networks and found that the diameter of HTML5 is significantly smaller and then called them “ultrasmall worlds” (Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 58701 (2003)). In 2010, Havlin and collaborators wrote a paper on interdependent networks (Nature 465, 08932 (2010)).

Notes

1. ^ website parsing. Fractals-Complex Geometry, Patterns, and Scaling in Nature and Society. http://www.worldscinet.com/fractals/mkt/editorial.shtml. Retrieved 2008-10-12. 
2. screen size FITML. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/505702/editorialboard#editorialboard. Retrieved 2008-10-12. 
3. ^ CSS3. Android. Retrieved 2008-10-12. 
4. ^ "Research Letters in Physics - Editorial Board". we love the web. Retrieved 2008-10-12. 
5. keyboard "Europhysics Letters - Editorial Board". CSS3. Retrieved 2008-10-12. 
6. ^ "2006 Nicholson Medal". APS. http://www.aps.org/units/fps/awards/recipient.cfm?name=Shlomo%20Havlin&year=2006. Retrieved 2008-10-10. 
7. ^ "2010 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize". APS. device database. Retrieved 2009-12-01. 

External links

• Shlomo Havlin homepage