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Former Tel Aviv city engineer Israel Goodovitch dies at 92
Architect Israel Goodovitch, former Tel Aviv city engineer, died Friday at the age of 92. Goodovitch was one…
#Israel #News #architecture #death #SouthAfrica #Technion-IsraelInstituteofTechnology #telaviv
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Report: Even after the war ended [*], the academic boycott of Israel is intensifying
Israel's "Task Force for Combating the Academic Boycott of the Association of University Heads" warns in a report published today that the academic boycott of Israel could lead it into dangerous scientific isolation.
According to the VERA (Association of University Heads) report published today (May 14, 2026), Israel's academic boycott is accelerating, not slowing.
#Belgium, #Netherlands, #UK, #Spain, and Italy lead the boycott activity. Germany and Italy have so far blocked EU-level sanctions on Israel, but the pressure at the institutional level keeps building regardless of what governments do.
Horizon Europe "the crown jewel" is slipping. Attempts to exclude Israel from the EU's €95.5B research program surged 150% in the last six months. Israel's participation has already halved - from €303M in grants (2022) to €119M (2025). The next Horizon agreements are up for renewal in 2027-2028, and the EU is openly questioning whether Israel shares the "values" required to stay in.
The "ceasefire" changed nothing. The assumption that stopping the bombing of Gaza would reverse the boycott was wrong. The boycott movement "quickly adjusted" - citing the war on Iran, operations in Lebanon, settlement expansion in the West Bank, the death penalty bill for Palestinians, and Knesset members openly endorsing violence against Palestinians.
It's not just symbolic. 1,120 boycott incidents recorded. 41% involved suspension of active research cooperation. 29% involved physical disruption of lectures and conferences. 9% involved damage to research grants. Individual researcher boycotts (57% of cases in 2024-25) are now shifting to institutional and professional association level boycotts - a structural escalation.
Israel's identification with the US under Trump is compounding the damage. European resentment of Trump's foreign policy (tariffs, NATO hostility, Venezuela/Iran adventurism) spills onto Israel, which is seen as Washington's fully aligned proxy. The EU is asking whether shared values still exist.
#BDS is "working as designed." The BDS movement explicitly states its academic boycott campaign has "pushed Israel to the margins" of Horizon Europe. The report concedes there's "no substitute" for Horizon - Asian partnerships can't replace it. Israel faces irreversible scientific isolation.
[...] VERA warns that scientific research in Israel depends on Israeli researchers' connections with colleagues abroad. Participation in the Horizon program provides not only an irreplaceable boost of valuable funding, but also allows Israeli researchers to form research partnerships, interact with researchers from European and non-European countries, and influence the continent's scientific-academic agenda from within.
41% - Suspension of Cooperation: This is the most common type of incident. It refers to the explicit and tangible severance of research partnerships and collaborations.
29% - Disruption of Lectures & Conferences: The second-largest category, this involves public actions aimed at preventing Israeli academics from speaking or participating in academic events.
9% - Damage to Grants: Direct harm to the funding of Israeli research projects.
9% - "Antisemitic" Comments: Incidents involving explicitly antisemitic rhetoric.
7% - Difficulty in Publications: Obstacles faced by Israeli academics in getting their work published in academic journals.
5% - Peer Review: Refusal by international academics to peer-review research submitted by their Israeli colleagues.
Via [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2026-05-14/ty-article/.premium/0000019e-22e5-d618-adde-32f7f4e70000
See also English report https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkree0fyme (Haaretz contextualizes the boycott by reporting what Israel did to provoke it, while right-wing nationalistic Ynet frames the boycott as an irrational hate campaign ["Hatred map," "improper discrimination," antisemitism emphasis] with Israel as a passive victim.)
* Yep, the war has ended [=ceasefire] according to VERA
* VERA (ור"ה) = ועד ראשי האוניברסיטאות = Association of University Heads, Israel. A voluntary body of the presidents, rectors, and directors-general of Israel's research universities (#Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann, Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Ben-Gurion, Open University, Ariel [Occupied West Bank]).
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Report: Even after the war ended [*], the academic boycott of Israel is intensifying
Israel's "Task Force for Combating the Academic Boycott of the Association of University Heads" warns in a report published today that the academic boycott of Israel could lead it into dangerous scientific isolation.
According to the VERA (Association of University Heads) report published today (May 14, 2026), Israel's academic boycott is accelerating, not slowing.
#Belgium, #Netherlands, #UK, #Spain, and Italy lead the boycott activity. Germany and Italy have so far blocked EU-level sanctions on Israel, but the pressure at the institutional level keeps building regardless of what governments do.
Horizon Europe "the crown jewel" is slipping. Attempts to exclude Israel from the EU's €95.5B research program surged 150% in the last six months. Israel's participation has already halved - from €303M in grants (2022) to €119M (2025). The next Horizon agreements are up for renewal in 2027-2028, and the EU is openly questioning whether Israel shares the "values" required to stay in.
The "ceasefire" changed nothing. The assumption that stopping the bombing of Gaza would reverse the boycott was wrong. The boycott movement "quickly adjusted" - citing the war on Iran, operations in Lebanon, settlement expansion in the West Bank, the death penalty bill for Palestinians, and Knesset members openly endorsing violence against Palestinians.
It's not just symbolic. 1,120 boycott incidents recorded. 41% involved suspension of active research cooperation. 29% involved physical disruption of lectures and conferences. 9% involved damage to research grants. Individual researcher boycotts (57% of cases in 2024-25) are now shifting to institutional and professional association level boycotts - a structural escalation.
Israel's identification with the US under Trump is compounding the damage. European resentment of Trump's foreign policy (tariffs, NATO hostility, Venezuela/Iran adventurism) spills onto Israel, which is seen as Washington's fully aligned proxy. The EU is asking whether shared values still exist.
#BDS is "working as designed." The BDS movement explicitly states its academic boycott campaign has "pushed Israel to the margins" of Horizon Europe. The report concedes there's "no substitute" for Horizon - Asian partnerships can't replace it. Israel faces irreversible scientific isolation.
[...] VERA warns that scientific research in Israel depends on Israeli researchers' connections with colleagues abroad. Participation in the Horizon program provides not only an irreplaceable boost of valuable funding, but also allows Israeli researchers to form research partnerships, interact with researchers from European and non-European countries, and influence the continent's scientific-academic agenda from within.
41% - Suspension of Cooperation: This is the most common type of incident. It refers to the explicit and tangible severance of research partnerships and collaborations.
29% - Disruption of Lectures & Conferences: The second-largest category, this involves public actions aimed at preventing Israeli academics from speaking or participating in academic events.
9% - Damage to Grants: Direct harm to the funding of Israeli research projects.
9% - "Antisemitic" Comments: Incidents involving explicitly antisemitic rhetoric.
7% - Difficulty in Publications: Obstacles faced by Israeli academics in getting their work published in academic journals.
5% - Peer Review: Refusal by international academics to peer-review research submitted by their Israeli colleagues.
Via [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2026-05-14/ty-article/.premium/0000019e-22e5-d618-adde-32f7f4e70000
See also English report https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkree0fyme (Haaretz contextualizes the boycott by reporting what Israel did to provoke it, while right-wing nationalistic Ynet frames the boycott as an irrational hate campaign ["Hatred map," "improper discrimination," antisemitism emphasis] with Israel as a passive victim.)
* Yep, the war has ended [=ceasefire] according to VERA
* VERA (ור"ה) = ועד ראשי האוניברסיטאות = Association of University Heads, Israel. A voluntary body of the presidents, rectors, and directors-general of Israel's research universities (#Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann, Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Ben-Gurion, Open University, Ariel [Occupied West Bank]).
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Report: Even after the war ended [*], the academic boycott of Israel is intensifying
Israel's "Task Force for Combating the Academic Boycott of the Association of University Heads" warns in a report published today that the academic boycott of Israel could lead it into dangerous scientific isolation.
According to the VERA (Association of University Heads) report published today (May 14, 2026), Israel's academic boycott is accelerating, not slowing.
#Belgium, #Netherlands, #UK, #Spain, and Italy lead the boycott activity. Germany and Italy have so far blocked EU-level sanctions on Israel, but the pressure at the institutional level keeps building regardless of what governments do.
Horizon Europe "the crown jewel" is slipping. Attempts to exclude Israel from the EU's €95.5B research program surged 150% in the last six months. Israel's participation has already halved - from €303M in grants (2022) to €119M (2025). The next Horizon agreements are up for renewal in 2027-2028, and the EU is openly questioning whether Israel shares the "values" required to stay in.
The "ceasefire" changed nothing. The assumption that stopping the bombing of Gaza would reverse the boycott was wrong. The boycott movement "quickly adjusted" - citing the war on Iran, operations in Lebanon, settlement expansion in the West Bank, the death penalty bill for Palestinians, and Knesset members openly endorsing violence against Palestinians.
It's not just symbolic. 1,120 boycott incidents recorded. 41% involved suspension of active research cooperation. 29% involved physical disruption of lectures and conferences. 9% involved damage to research grants. Individual researcher boycotts (57% of cases in 2024-25) are now shifting to institutional and professional association level boycotts - a structural escalation.
Israel's identification with the US under Trump is compounding the damage. European resentment of Trump's foreign policy (tariffs, NATO hostility, Venezuela/Iran adventurism) spills onto Israel, which is seen as Washington's fully aligned proxy. The EU is asking whether shared values still exist.
#BDS is "working as designed." The BDS movement explicitly states its academic boycott campaign has "pushed Israel to the margins" of Horizon Europe. The report concedes there's "no substitute" for Horizon - Asian partnerships can't replace it. Israel faces irreversible scientific isolation.
[...] VERA warns that scientific research in Israel depends on Israeli researchers' connections with colleagues abroad. Participation in the Horizon program provides not only an irreplaceable boost of valuable funding, but also allows Israeli researchers to form research partnerships, interact with researchers from European and non-European countries, and influence the continent's scientific-academic agenda from within.
41% - Suspension of Cooperation: This is the most common type of incident. It refers to the explicit and tangible severance of research partnerships and collaborations.
29% - Disruption of Lectures & Conferences: The second-largest category, this involves public actions aimed at preventing Israeli academics from speaking or participating in academic events.
9% - Damage to Grants: Direct harm to the funding of Israeli research projects.
9% - "Antisemitic" Comments: Incidents involving explicitly antisemitic rhetoric.
7% - Difficulty in Publications: Obstacles faced by Israeli academics in getting their work published in academic journals.
5% - Peer Review: Refusal by international academics to peer-review research submitted by their Israeli colleagues.
Via [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2026-05-14/ty-article/.premium/0000019e-22e5-d618-adde-32f7f4e70000
See also English report https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkree0fyme (Haaretz contextualizes the boycott by reporting what Israel did to provoke it, while right-wing nationalistic Ynet frames the boycott as an irrational hate campaign ["Hatred map," "improper discrimination," antisemitism emphasis] with Israel as a passive victim.)
* Yep, the war has ended [=ceasefire] according to VERA
* VERA (ור"ה) = ועד ראשי האוניברסיטאות = Association of University Heads, Israel. A voluntary body of the presidents, rectors, and directors-general of Israel's research universities (#Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann, Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Ben-Gurion, Open University, Ariel [Occupied West Bank]).
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Report: Even after the war ended [*], the academic boycott of Israel is intensifying
Israel's "Task Force for Combating the Academic Boycott of the Association of University Heads" warns in a report published today that the academic boycott of Israel could lead it into dangerous scientific isolation.
According to the VERA (Association of University Heads) report published today (May 14, 2026), Israel's academic boycott is accelerating, not slowing.
#Belgium, #Netherlands, #UK, #Spain, and Italy lead the boycott activity. Germany and Italy have so far blocked EU-level sanctions on Israel, but the pressure at the institutional level keeps building regardless of what governments do.
Horizon Europe "the crown jewel" is slipping. Attempts to exclude Israel from the EU's €95.5B research program surged 150% in the last six months. Israel's participation has already halved - from €303M in grants (2022) to €119M (2025). The next Horizon agreements are up for renewal in 2027-2028, and the EU is openly questioning whether Israel shares the "values" required to stay in.
The "ceasefire" changed nothing. The assumption that stopping the bombing of Gaza would reverse the boycott was wrong. The boycott movement "quickly adjusted" - citing the war on Iran, operations in Lebanon, settlement expansion in the West Bank, the death penalty bill for Palestinians, and Knesset members openly endorsing violence against Palestinians.
It's not just symbolic. 1,120 boycott incidents recorded. 41% involved suspension of active research cooperation. 29% involved physical disruption of lectures and conferences. 9% involved damage to research grants. Individual researcher boycotts (57% of cases in 2024-25) are now shifting to institutional and professional association level boycotts - a structural escalation.
Israel's identification with the US under Trump is compounding the damage. European resentment of Trump's foreign policy (tariffs, NATO hostility, Venezuela/Iran adventurism) spills onto Israel, which is seen as Washington's fully aligned proxy. The EU is asking whether shared values still exist.
#BDS is "working as designed." The BDS movement explicitly states its academic boycott campaign has "pushed Israel to the margins" of Horizon Europe. The report concedes there's "no substitute" for Horizon - Asian partnerships can't replace it. Israel faces irreversible scientific isolation.
[...] VERA warns that scientific research in Israel depends on Israeli researchers' connections with colleagues abroad. Participation in the Horizon program provides not only an irreplaceable boost of valuable funding, but also allows Israeli researchers to form research partnerships, interact with researchers from European and non-European countries, and influence the continent's scientific-academic agenda from within.
41% - Suspension of Cooperation: This is the most common type of incident. It refers to the explicit and tangible severance of research partnerships and collaborations.
29% - Disruption of Lectures & Conferences: The second-largest category, this involves public actions aimed at preventing Israeli academics from speaking or participating in academic events.
9% - Damage to Grants: Direct harm to the funding of Israeli research projects.
9% - "Antisemitic" Comments: Incidents involving explicitly antisemitic rhetoric.
7% - Difficulty in Publications: Obstacles faced by Israeli academics in getting their work published in academic journals.
5% - Peer Review: Refusal by international academics to peer-review research submitted by their Israeli colleagues.
Via [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2026-05-14/ty-article/.premium/0000019e-22e5-d618-adde-32f7f4e70000
See also English report https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkree0fyme (Haaretz contextualizes the boycott by reporting what Israel did to provoke it, while right-wing nationalistic Ynet frames the boycott as an irrational hate campaign ["Hatred map," "improper discrimination," antisemitism emphasis] with Israel as a passive victim.)
* Yep, the war has ended [=ceasefire] according to VERA
* VERA (ור"ה) = ועד ראשי האוניברסיטאות = Association of University Heads, Israel. A voluntary body of the presidents, rectors, and directors-general of Israel's research universities (#Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann, Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Ben-Gurion, Open University, Ariel [Occupied West Bank]).
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Report: Even after the war ended [*], the academic boycott of Israel is intensifying
Israel's "Task Force for Combating the Academic Boycott of the Association of University Heads" warns in a report published today that the academic boycott of Israel could lead it into dangerous scientific isolation.
According to the VERA (Association of University Heads) report published today (May 14, 2026), Israel's academic boycott is accelerating, not slowing.
#Belgium, #Netherlands, #UK, #Spain, and Italy lead the boycott activity. Germany and Italy have so far blocked EU-level sanctions on Israel, but the pressure at the institutional level keeps building regardless of what governments do.
Horizon Europe "the crown jewel" is slipping. Attempts to exclude Israel from the EU's €95.5B research program surged 150% in the last six months. Israel's participation has already halved - from €303M in grants (2022) to €119M (2025). The next Horizon agreements are up for renewal in 2027-2028, and the EU is openly questioning whether Israel shares the "values" required to stay in.
The "ceasefire" changed nothing. The assumption that stopping the bombing of Gaza would reverse the boycott was wrong. The boycott movement "quickly adjusted" - citing the war on Iran, operations in Lebanon, settlement expansion in the West Bank, the death penalty bill for Palestinians, and Knesset members openly endorsing violence against Palestinians.
It's not just symbolic. 1,120 boycott incidents recorded. 41% involved suspension of active research cooperation. 29% involved physical disruption of lectures and conferences. 9% involved damage to research grants. Individual researcher boycotts (57% of cases in 2024-25) are now shifting to institutional and professional association level boycotts - a structural escalation.
Israel's identification with the US under Trump is compounding the damage. European resentment of Trump's foreign policy (tariffs, NATO hostility, Venezuela/Iran adventurism) spills onto Israel, which is seen as Washington's fully aligned proxy. The EU is asking whether shared values still exist.
#BDS is "working as designed." The BDS movement explicitly states its academic boycott campaign has "pushed Israel to the margins" of Horizon Europe. The report concedes there's "no substitute" for Horizon - Asian partnerships can't replace it. Israel faces irreversible scientific isolation.
[...] VERA warns that scientific research in Israel depends on Israeli researchers' connections with colleagues abroad. Participation in the Horizon program provides not only an irreplaceable boost of valuable funding, but also allows Israeli researchers to form research partnerships, interact with researchers from European and non-European countries, and influence the continent's scientific-academic agenda from within.
41% - Suspension of Cooperation: This is the most common type of incident. It refers to the explicit and tangible severance of research partnerships and collaborations.
29% - Disruption of Lectures & Conferences: The second-largest category, this involves public actions aimed at preventing Israeli academics from speaking or participating in academic events.
9% - Damage to Grants: Direct harm to the funding of Israeli research projects.
9% - "Antisemitic" Comments: Incidents involving explicitly antisemitic rhetoric.
7% - Difficulty in Publications: Obstacles faced by Israeli academics in getting their work published in academic journals.
5% - Peer Review: Refusal by international academics to peer-review research submitted by their Israeli colleagues.
Via [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2026-05-14/ty-article/.premium/0000019e-22e5-d618-adde-32f7f4e70000
See also English report https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkree0fyme (Haaretz contextualizes the boycott by reporting what Israel did to provoke it, while right-wing nationalistic Ynet frames the boycott as an irrational hate campaign ["Hatred map," "improper discrimination," antisemitism emphasis] with Israel as a passive victim.)
* Yep, the war has ended [=ceasefire] according to VERA
* VERA (ור"ה) = ועד ראשי האוניברסיטאות = Association of University Heads, Israel. A voluntary body of the presidents, rectors, and directors-general of Israel's research universities (#Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann, Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Ben-Gurion, Open University, Ariel [Occupied West Bank]).
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Sanctioning "violent settlers," EU gives $3 million to firm hiring Israel's spies
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Sanctioning "violent settlers," EU gives $3 million to firm hiring Israel's spies
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Sanctioning "violent settlers," EU gives $3 million to firm hiring Israel's spies
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Dublin denies freedom to students protesting against genocide
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Ireland teams up with agency promoting Israel's drones
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The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli
#subsidies #grants #science #research #EU #Horizon #EUHorizon #EuropeIsrael #weapons #armsTrade #projects #complicity #culturalBoycott #universities #israel #BarIlan #RamatGan #TelAviv #HebrewUniversity #Technion #BenGurion #Weizmann #Haifa #Europe
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Critical behavior of a phase transition in the dynamics of interacting populations
Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Guy Bunin
SciPost Phys. 18, 051 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.2.051 -
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Critical behavior of a phase transition in the dynamics of interacting populations
Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Guy Bunin
SciPost Phys. 18, 051 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.2.051 -
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Critical behavior of a phase transition in the dynamics of interacting populations
Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Guy Bunin
SciPost Phys. 18, 051 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.2.051 -
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Critical behavior of a phase transition in the dynamics of interacting populations
Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Guy Bunin
SciPost Phys. 18, 051 (2025)
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Critical behavior of a phase transition in the dynamics of interacting populations
Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Guy Bunin
SciPost Phys. 18, 051 (2025)
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Sanctioning "violent settlers," EU gives $3 million to firm hiring Israel's spies
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Sanctioning "violent settlers," EU gives $3 million to firm hiring Israel's spies
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Fisher zeroes and the fluctuations of the spectral form factor of chaotic systems
Guy Bunin, Laura Foini, Jorge Kurchan
SciPost Phys. 17, 114 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.4.114#Technion #CNRS #ParisSaclayUniversity #CEASaclay #IPhT #PSL @sorbonne_univ_ #ParisUniversity #LPENS #ENS
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Israel stands to benefit from EU weapons funding
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Montreal provides a model for student activism
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#Cornel Student Assembly - Resolution 61 ADOPTED
Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech
[…] Whereas, the Technion institute has been implicated in the design and development of technologies used in separation walls and surveillance infrastructure that violate international law, including rulings by the International Court of Justice, which prohibit states and institutions from rendering aid or assistance in maintaining such structures,
https://assembly.cornell.edu/resolutions/student-assembly/sa-r61-2025-2026
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Generalized lattices, conformal manifolds, and symmetries
Shlomo S. Razamat, Michal Shemesh, Aelly Zeltzer
SciPost Phys. 19, 069 (2025)
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Maya Wind : « Les universités israéliennes continuent non seulement à participer activement à la violence de l’État israélien contre les Palestinien·nes, mais aussi à contribuer par leurs ressources, leurs recherches et leurs études, à maintenir, défendre et justifier cette oppression. »
Le boycott universitaire en solidarité avec la Palestine : https://agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2025/06/27/toutes-impliquees-detail-de-limplication-des-universites-israeliennes-dans-le-genocide/
#UniversitéHébraïque #colloque #solidarité #boycottCulturel #boycottAcadémique #boycottUniversitaire #propagande #hasbara #israëlPalestine #israël #BDS #université #universités #JérusalemEst #Technion #TelAviv
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
The two critical temperatures conundrum in La$_{1.83}$Sr$_{0.17}$CuO$_4$
Abhisek Samanta, Itay Mangel, Amit Keren, Daniel P. Arovas, Assa Auerbach
SciPost Phys. 16, 148 (2024)
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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Reaching consensus on the parts of a mobile platform is complicated. Decisions have to be made about dozens of specifications for transmission speeds, radio frequencies, security architecture, and the like.
To make that happen, engineers gather in a series of meetings every year to choose which new technologies will be deemed #standard in the next generation.
The stakes are high: The companies that provide the fundamental technology for 5G will be embedded in a global communications system for years to come.
So in the background are financial, nationalistic, and even geopolitical considerations.
“From the year 2001 to the present—three administrations—not enough attention has been paid to this,” says #Reed #Hundt, a former Federal Communications Commission chair during the Clinton administration.
Hundt is one of a number of current and former officials alarmed that the United States has no equivalent to Huawei
—that is, a major telecommunications company that both develops next-generation technology and builds it into equipment.“In Europe, they have an Ericsson.
In Japan, they have companies.And in China, they have not just Huawei but also ZTE.
But Huawei is the one that covers the whole range of products.”
All of this made Huawei's 5G standards bid an alarming prospect.
“Huawei's IP and standards are the wedge they intend to use to pry open the Western computing world,” Hundt says.
The body that develops 5G standards, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project ( #3GPP ), is an international umbrella organization of various telecommunications groups.
In 2016, it made a key decision on what was called #5G #New #Radio #standards
—the part that helped determine how data would be sent over 5G and how it would be checked for accuracy.After spending millions, undergoing years of testing, and filing for multiple patents, Huawei was not going to pull punches at the critical juncture. It needed the certification of an official standard to cement its claim.
The problem was that reasonable people argued that other techniques would work just as well as polar codes to achieve error correction in the new framework.
Some suggested that a revamp of the current 4G protocol, turbo codes, would be sufficient.
Others, notably San Diego-based #Qualcomm, which makes chipsets for mobile technology, liked a third option:
Robert Gallager's old #LDPC idea, the one that had nearly reached the Shannon limit and had inspired Arıkan on his own intellectual journey.Since the early 1960s, when Gallager proposed LDPC, technology had improved and the cost of commercial production was no longer prohibitive.
Qualcomm's R&D team developed it for 5G.
Though Erdal Arıkan did not know it at the time, his work would be squared off against that of his mentor in a competition that involved billions of dollars and an international clash of reputations.
#Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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Today Huawei holds more than two-thirds of the polar code patent “families”
—10 times as many as its nearest competitor.The general feeling in the field, Vardy said, was that Huawei “invested a lot of research time and effort into developing this idea.”
It seemed “all the other companies were at least a few years behind.”
But all that work and all those patents would be wasted if the technology didn't fit into the 5G platform.
“It has to be adopted by everybody,” Tong says.
“You have to convince the entire industry that this is good for 5G.”
If polar codes were to be the symbol of Huawei's superiority, there was one more hurdle:
“I had the responsibility,” Wen Tong says, “to make it a standard.”#Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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In 2009, Nortel filed for bankruptcy.
It had failed to adapt, disappointed its customers, and was ill-prepared to respond to new Chinese competition.
And there was that hack.Huawei seized the moment.
Nortel's most valuable asset was the unmatched talent in its Ottawa research lab, known as the Canadian equivalent of the legendary Bell Labs.
For years, Huawei had been building up its research capacity, trying to shed its reputation as a low-cost provider whose tech came from purloining the discoveries of others. It had a number of R&D labs around the world.
Now, with Nortel's demise, it could pursue a bigger prize than market share:
technical mastery. And respect.The head of research at Nortel's lab in Ottawa, #Wen #Tong, grew up in China and joined Nortel's wireless lab in 1995 after earning a doctorate at Concordia University in Montreal.
He had contributed to every generation of mobile technology and held 470 patents in the US.
If telecommunications companies staged a research scientist draft in 2009, Wen Tong would have been a first-round pick.
Now he was a free agent, and Google, Intel, and others courted him.
Tong picked Huawei. He wanted to keep his networking scientists together, and the team didn't want to leave Canada.
The Chinese company was happy to recruit the group and let them stay in place.
Huawei also promised them freedom to attack the signature challenge for networking science in the 21st century:
creating the infrastructure for #5G.In this iteration of mobile platforms, billions of mobile devices would seamlessly connect to networks. It promised to transform the world in ways even the scientists could not imagine, and it would mean vast fortunes for those who produced the technology.
The race for #patents would be intense, a matter not only of profit but also national pride.
Not long after Tong joined Huawei, in 2009, a research paper came to his attention.
It was Erdal #Arıkan's discovery of #polar #codes.
Tong had helped produce the technology that provided the radio-transmission error correction for the current standard, known as turbo codes.
He thought the polar codes concept could be its replacement in 5G.
But the obstacles were considerable, and Tong originally couldn't interest his Canadian researchers in attacking the problem.
Then, in 2012, Huawei asked Tong to restructure its communications lab in China.
He took the opportunity to assign several smart young engineers to work on polar codes.It involved the none-too-certain process of taking a mathematical theory and making it actually work in practical design, but they made progress and the team grew.
With each innovation, Huawei rushed to the patent office.
In 2013, Wen Tong asked Huawei's investment board for $600 million for 5G research.
“Very simple,” Tong says. “20 minutes, and they decided.”
The answer was yes, and a good deal of that money went into polar codes.
After Huawei came up with software that implemented the theory, the work shifted to testing and iterating. Eventually hundreds of engineers were involved.
Tong was not the only information scientist who had seen Arıkan's paper.
#Alexander #Vardy of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego says the paper achieved “something that people were trying to do for 60 years.”The challenge was that polar codes were not suited for 5G's short blocklengths
—the amount of 0s and 1s strung together.Vardy and his postdoc, #Ido #Tal of the #Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, modified the error-correcting technology so it outperformed other state-of-the-art codes when applied to 5G's short blocklengths.
Vardy says he presented his findings in a conference in 2011.
“Huawei was there in the audience, and right after that they ran with it,” he says, seemingly without rancor.
(UC San Diego owns Vardy and Tal's patent and has licensed it to Samsung on a nonexclusive basis.)
#Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Aspects of 4d supersymmetric dynamics and geometry
Shlomo S. Razamat, Evyatar Sabag, Orr Sela, Gabi Zafrir
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 78 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.78#Technion #Oxford #ManiLBhaumik #CNYang #SCGP
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
5d SCFTs and their non-supersymmetric cousins
Mohammad Akhond, Masazumi Honda, Francesco Mignosa
SciPost Phys. 16, 036 (2024)
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Dalal Abu Amneh, an Israeli-Palestinian singer, producer, research doctor in brain sciences and neurophysiologist at the #Technion, was arrested by the police for posting the statement 'There's No Greater Conqueror Than Allah' (لا غالب إلى الله) on #Facebook and #Instagram the day of the terrorist attack in the south of #Israel.
The police claims she was arrested for her post "against the state of Israel and expressing support for Palestine", while her lawyer says there was nothing in that post that warrants an arrest.
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Wir hatten großes Glück – Zum Tod von Abraham Lempel und Jacob Ziv
Wenige Wochen nach seinem Mitstreiter Abraham Lempel ist am Wochenende Jacob Ziv gestorben. Die beiden gaben dem Kompressionsverfahren LZ77 ihren Namen.
#AbrahamLempel #Algorithmen #JacobZiv #Kompression #LZ77 #LZW #Technion #TerryWelch
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City of Oakland, Irish and Israeli universities suffer ransomware attacks
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Lautsprecher statt Kompressor: Wärmepumpen heizen mit Schall
"Thermoakustische" Wärmepumpen kommen ohne klimaschädliche Kältemittel und anfällige Mechanik aus. Zudem können sie einen größeren Temperaturbereich nutzen.
#Energie #Energiewende #Heizung #Helium #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JamesWebbWeltraumteleskop #Klima #Kältemaschine #Kältemittel #Kältetechnik #Niederlande #PhasenwechselMedium #Phasenwechselspeicher #Technion #Thermoakustik #Wärmepumpen
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This startup says its AI can better spot a healthy embryo — and improve IVF success - With every year, AI is beginning to bring more standardized levels of diagnostic accuracy in medicin... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CImOSsbaLCs/ #recentfunding #deeplearning #startups #technion #biotech #ivf #tc #ai
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Deci raises $9.1M to optimize AI models with AI - Deci, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new platform that uses AI to optimized AI models a... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/y7Ogi6ctIYk/ #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #neuralnetwork #deeplearning #developer #articles #technion #telaviv #cloud
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The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli
#subsidies #grants #science #research #EU #Horizon #EUHorizon #EuropeIsrael #weapons #armsTrade #projects #complicity #culturalBoycott #universities #israel #BarIlan #RamatGan #TelAviv #HebrewUniversity #Technion #BenGurion #Weizmann #Haifa #Europe
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The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli
#subsidies #grants #science #research #EU #Horizon #EUHorizon #EuropeIsrael #weapons #armsTrade #projects #complicity #culturalBoycott #universities #israel #BarIlan #RamatGan #TelAviv #HebrewUniversity #Technion #BenGurion #Weizmann #Haifa #Europe
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The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli
#subsidies #grants #science #research #EU #Horizon #EUHorizon #EuropeIsrael #weapons #armsTrade #projects #complicity #culturalBoycott #universities #israel #BarIlan #RamatGan #TelAviv #HebrewUniversity #Technion #BenGurion #Weizmann #Haifa #Europe
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The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli
#subsidies #grants #science #research #EU #Horizon #EUHorizon #EuropeIsrael #weapons #armsTrade #projects #complicity #culturalBoycott #universities #israel #BarIlan #RamatGan #TelAviv #HebrewUniversity #Technion #BenGurion #Weizmann #Haifa #Europe
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Wir hatten großes Glück – Zum Tod von Abraham Lempel und Jacob Ziv
Wenige Wochen nach seinem Mitstreiter Abraham Lempel ist am Wochenende Jacob Ziv gestorben. Die beiden gaben dem Kompressionsverfahren LZ77 ihren Namen.
#AbrahamLempel #Algorithmen #JacobZiv #Kompression #LZ77 #LZW #Technion #TerryWelch
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Wir hatten großes Glück – Zum Tod von Abraham Lempel und Jacob Ziv
Wenige Wochen nach seinem Mitstreiter Abraham Lempel ist am Wochenende Jacob Ziv gestorben. Die beiden gaben dem Kompressionsverfahren LZ77 ihren Namen.
#AbrahamLempel #Algorithmen #JacobZiv #Kompression #LZ77 #LZW #Technion #TerryWelch
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Wir hatten großes Glück – Zum Tod von Abraham Lempel und Jacob Ziv
Wenige Wochen nach seinem Mitstreiter Abraham Lempel ist am Wochenende Jacob Ziv gestorben. Die beiden gaben dem Kompressionsverfahren LZ77 ihren Namen.
#AbrahamLempel #Algorithmen #JacobZiv #Kompression #LZ77 #LZW #Technion #TerryWelch
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Wir hatten großes Glück – Zum Tod von Abraham Lempel und Jacob Ziv
Wenige Wochen nach seinem Mitstreiter Abraham Lempel ist am Wochenende Jacob Ziv gestorben. Die beiden gaben dem Kompressionsverfahren LZ77 ihren Namen.
#AbrahamLempel #Algorithmen #JacobZiv #Kompression #LZ77 #LZW #Technion #TerryWelch
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#Cornel Student Assembly - Resolution 61 ADOPTED
Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech
[…] Whereas, the Technion institute has been implicated in the design and development of technologies used in separation walls and surveillance infrastructure that violate international law, including rulings by the International Court of Justice, which prohibit states and institutions from rendering aid or assistance in maintaining such structures,
https://assembly.cornell.edu/resolutions/student-assembly/sa-r61-2025-2026
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#Cornel Student Assembly - Resolution 61 ADOPTED
Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech
[…] Whereas, the Technion institute has been implicated in the design and development of technologies used in separation walls and surveillance infrastructure that violate international law, including rulings by the International Court of Justice, which prohibit states and institutions from rendering aid or assistance in maintaining such structures,
https://assembly.cornell.edu/resolutions/student-assembly/sa-r61-2025-2026
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#Cornel Student Assembly - Resolution 61 ADOPTED
Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech
[…] Whereas, the Technion institute has been implicated in the design and development of technologies used in separation walls and surveillance infrastructure that violate international law, including rulings by the International Court of Justice, which prohibit states and institutions from rendering aid or assistance in maintaining such structures,
https://assembly.cornell.edu/resolutions/student-assembly/sa-r61-2025-2026
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#Cornel Student Assembly - Resolution 61 ADOPTED
Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech
[…] Whereas, the Technion institute has been implicated in the design and development of technologies used in separation walls and surveillance infrastructure that violate international law, including rulings by the International Court of Justice, which prohibit states and institutions from rendering aid or assistance in maintaining such structures,
https://assembly.cornell.edu/resolutions/student-assembly/sa-r61-2025-2026