for a postdoctoral student Dr. Valerie Fromkin. Dr. Frumkin developed the winning technology and wrote an article on this topic during his research in the laboratory of Prof. Moran Berkovich in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and so far two patents have been filed on the subject
The Defense Science and Technology Center at the Technion will grant the Gamunder Prize, given for an outstanding article for the development of technologies related to defense in space, to a postdoctoral student Dr. Valerie Fromkin. Dr. Frumkin developed the winning technology and wrote an article on this topic during his research in the laboratory of Prof. Moran Berkovich in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and so far two patents have been filed on the subject.
The professional judging committee, consisting of the director of the center Prof. Yaakov Nagel, a number of full professors at the Technion, a representative of the defense industry and a representative of the defense establishment, stated that this proposal stood out especially among all the excellent proposals that were submitted.
Dr. Frumkin and Prof. Berkovich developed a completely new concept: A space telescope based on liquid lenses. The two demonstrated the concept in laboratory experiments under conditions of neutral buoyancy, and the technology aroused interest in the American Space Agency (NASA), which will test the technology in conditions of lack of gravity (microgravity). Now the team is preparing for a series of parabolic flight tests expected to take place in the United States in a few months, after which they hope to demonstrate the technology on the International Space Station.
Dr. Edward Balaban, who leads the collaboration on behalf of NASA, estimates that the innovative technology has the potential to bring about a real revolution in the world of telescopes and allow dynamic telescopes to be built in space in the future with particularly large lenses or mirrors, and at a significantly lower cost than telescopes the existing space.
Defense development competition
As every year, the center also held the student competition for defense developments. He won first place in the competition Daniel Teitelman For his work on the topic: "War games using deep learning from reinforcements". Teitelman, an undergraduate student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Physics, will receive a prize of NIS 5,000. They won the second place Ofir Friedhi and Alantan Kader from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering for their joint work on the subject of "detection of unknown ships using radar signature". They won the third place Atara Amir and Tom Weitz From the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering for their joint work on the subject of "Safe Nazareth" to increase the safety of soldiers on the range.
The competition is held every year under the leadership of the Defense Science and Technology Center headed by Brigadier General (Res.) Prof. Yaakov Nagel, and is intended for undergraduate students.
