Congratulations to my graduate student Itai Danieli
Today, I want to specially congratulate my graduate student Itai Danieli for his newly accepted paper. This was one of the toughest professional adventures I experienced, but every round of reviews and rejections prompted Itai do improve the paper until this last version where one could not comment but accept. The process took some 14 months! To which I will add that the original idea and the mathematical developments are 100% Itai's, which is indeed an outstanding achievement.
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June 21, 2026
Evgeni Viluska defended his master's thesis
This afternoon, Evgeni Viluska, co advised by Dr. Yonatan Rotbaum, defended his master's thesis on the static and dynamic properties of printed PA66, and got a 94 as final grade.
The good thing about conferences is the friendly atmosphere, meeting friends, giving a talk about Tamir Albik's work (Gleb Gil Goviazin), and of course back to gorgeous NYC.
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May 20, 2026
Warm congratulations to Asher John Joshua
(and Orel Guetta) who has been admitted in the direct PhD track! Best wishes of success AJJ!
May 13, 2026
Congratulations to my two students
Asher John Joshua (with Dr. Orel Guetta) and Itai Danieli who participated to the Faculty Graduate Research day. Moreover, Asher John Joshua was selected together with 2 other graduates to represent the department at the all-Technion Research day.
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April 26, 2026
D. Rittel has been elected fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
February 26, 2026
Today, Itai Danieli passed his candidacy exam
He is now an official PhD student. Warm congratulations!
February 8, 2026
Warm congratulations to Aharon Zaritzky,
co-advised with Dr. Zev Lovinger, who defended today his masters's thesis:
"Investigating failure characteristics of metals at high strain rates using magnetically driven expanding cylinders"
with flying colors.
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January 11, 2026
A new paper in JMPS
with Dr. Juan Carlos Nieto Fuentes, Adeline Wihardja and Prof. K. Bhattacharya. The paper reports on the dynamic mechanical behavior of liquid crystal elastomers.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mQHf57ZkGmAD
January 1, 2026
The Dynamic Fracture Lab team
(Ofri Rosenthal, Amit Mann, Yuval Berenstein-Melamed, Hadas Katz, Ariel Siloni) is preparing for a new round of exciting experiments, under the guidance of Dr. G.G. Goviazin.
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