Three Hebrew U. Researchers Awarded EMET Prize

| December 4, 2016 |  Three researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will be awarded prizes in three of the five award categories of the prestigious EMET Prize, accounting for three of the eight total prizes awarded in 2016. The awarding of the prizes will take place this evening at the Jerusalem Theater with the participation of the Prime Minister of Israel.  The Hebrew University winners are: Professor Yehuda Bauer  in Humanities (Holocaust Research) for his multifaceted research that raised public awareness of the Holocaust and influenced the study of the Holocaust and the public discourse in Israel and worldwide on antisemitism, the Holocaust and genocide; Professor David Kazhdan, winner in Exact Sciences (Mathematics) for major contributions in the design of representation theory and its uses in algebra, algebraic geometry and number theory; and Professor Haim Sompolinsky, winner in Life Sciences (Brain Research) for establishing the theoretical framework for understanding the principles of brain function and the behavior of neuronal networks, and for shaping brain theories into a systematic discipline using methods borrowed from statistical mechanics.