ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME: RESEARCH COMPETENCE FORMATION

Academic and Research Staff

Our general objectives are concerned with the study of atomic and molecular processes and with the transport of charged particles in weakly ionized collision-dominated plasmas. During the past year our efforts in this field have been on a rather modest scale. The research that we have conducted was concerned with the effects of pipe turbulence on the electrical conductivity and on the diffusion...

Academic and Research Staff

In an earlier study Gruberg and Solish showed that salamander somatosensory spino-tectal fibers took the same course and ended in the same layer of the intermediate tectal neuropil as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT or serotonin) fibers as seen by Falck-Hillarp fluorescence. In order to determine whether the spino-tectal fibers are themselves serotonergic, we have carried out anatomical, biochemical,...

Viii. Gravitation Research Academic and Research Staff

In this region of the electromagnetic spectrum there is some important astrophysics, such as the spectral peak of the alleged 2.7" K isotropic cosmic black-body radiation, thermal radiation by interstellar and possibly intergalactic dust, as well as intense radiation from galactic centers, and doubtless other information concerning the early history of an evolving universe. An experiment carrie...

Systematic Program Development Academic Staff

Ii. Microwave Spectroscopy Academic and Research Staff

It is fairly evident that one should be able to observe nonlinear effects in the interaction of lasers with matter. A 1-MW laser can create an electric field a few volts per angstrom in matter. Since this is on the order of atomic fields, it is not surprising that nonlinear interactions are observable in matter not possessing a center-of-inversion symmetry. In contrast, it is certainly not evid...