Group news

May 2003: Noam Eliaz receives with other co-authors, from The Institute of Corrosion and Pergamon, the T.P. Hoar Award for the best paper published in the journal Corrosion Science during 2001 (S.-B. Hong, N. Eliaz, E.M. Sachs, S.M. Allen and R.M. Latanision, Corrosion behavior of advanced Ti-based alloys made by three-dimensional printing (3DP™) for biomedical applications).                       
June 2003: Noam Eliaz is elected as chair of the Israel section of NACE International.
June 2003: Noam Eliaz co-chairs Biomaterials and Medical Devices 2003: Science, Technology &
Business – The 1st Israel Biomaterials Conf. & Exhibition.
December 2003: Congratulations to Dr. Thanjavur-Madhavakumar Sridhar for completing his postdoctoral work and returning to India.
May 2004: Noam Eliaz chairs The 6th Biannu. Conf. of the Corrosion Forum – NACE Israel.
May 2004: Congratulations to Lior Budic for completing his BSc project.
October 2004: Congratulations to Ayelet Evron for completing her MSc magna cum laude.
November 2004: Congratulations to Ronen Verker for completing his MSc magna cum laude.
December 2004: Congratulations to Kalia Mendel for completing her MSc magna cum laude.
December 2004: Noam Eliaz is nominated as an Editor-in-Chief (jointly with Ron Latanision) of Corrosion Reviews.
December 2004: Congratulations to Oded Nissan for completing his MSc.
March 2005: Congratulations to Moshe Eliyahu for completing his MSc.
November 2005: The talk of T.M. Sridhar, Noam Eliaz and Eliezer Gileadi, entitled "Characterization of initial stages of electrodeposited Ni-W alloys," wins the best oral presentation award at CORCON 2005 Int. Conf. on Corrosion, held in Chennai, India.
March 2006: Congratulations to Vadim Kalmanovich for completing his MSc magna cum laude.
April 2006: Conratulations to Noam Eliaz for receiving his tenure.
April 2007: Congratulations to Ronen Verker for representing Israel (awarded) at the 2007 SAMPE Europe Int. Student Conf. held in Paris, France.
May 2007: Congratulations to Dr. Dror Lakstein for completing his Basic Sciences research in medicine in our lab.
June 2007: Congratulations to Ronen Verker for passing the PhD candidacy exam.
December 2007: Congratulations to Sharon Shmueli Hadad for completing her MSc.
April 2008: Noam Eliaz is nominated as chairman of the Central Committee 300 for Chemistry Standards at The Standards Institutution of Israel.
July 2008: Conratulations to Noam Eliaz for his promotion to Associate Professor.
July 2008: Press Report on “Taking the Hazards out of Space Debris: Tel Aviv University Researcher Advises on Protection Against Dangerous Space Debris,” American Friends of Tel-Aviv University.
September 2008: Congratulations to William Kopelovitch for completing his MSc magna cum laude.
November 2008: Congratulations to Adi Naor for being accepted for the direct track to PhD.
December 2008: Congratulations to Prof. A. Chitharanjan Hegde for completing his visiting scientist work and returning to NITK, India.
December 2008: Congratulations to Ofer Levi for completing his MSc magna cum laude.
December 2008: Congratulations to Oshrit Ritman for completing her MSc summa cum laude.
February 2009: Press Report on “Material to Protect Against Collisions in Space,” Ynet.
June 2009: Noam Eliaz is elected as Head of the multifaculty Materials and Nanotechnologies Program at Tel-Aviv University.
June 2009: Press Report on “Can a New Implant Coating Technique Create a New Six Million Dollar Man? TAU develops superior method for coating orthopaedic and dental implants,” American Friends of Tel-Aviv University.
July 2009: Press Report on “Electrochemical Technique Improves Hydroxyapatite Coatings on Implants,” The American Ceramic Society.
December 2009: Noam Eliaz chairs The 14th Israel Materials Engineering Conf. – IMEC-14 (more than 650 attendees from 13 countries).
December 2009: Cover of IMEC-14 by the Association of Engineers, Architects and Graduates of Technological Sciences in Israel.
January 2010: Noam Eliaz is elected as representative of the Faculty Council in the Faculty Governing Board.
January 2010: Congratulations to Adi Naor for passing the PhD candidacy exam.
March 2010: Congratulations to Keren Hakshur for completing her MSc magna cum laude.
March 2010: Noam Eliaz vice-chairs the Environmentally Assisted Cracking Symp. at CORROSION 2010 held in San Antonio, TX, USA.
March 2010: Congratulations to Noam Eliaz for receiving the prestigious Herbert H. Uhlig Award by NACE International at CORROSION 2010, San Antonio, TX, USA. This award is granted in recognition of outstanding effectiveness in postsecondary corrosion education. Noam is the first Israeli to receive this award (or any other NACE International award).
May 2010: Noam Eliaz is nominated by the President of Tel-Aviv University to serve on the institute's Conferences Committee.
May 2010: Two projects to which Noam Eliaz has contributed are selected as having the second and third highest impact on the Israel Air Force among all engineering projects carried out in the materials area during 60 years. These projects are the use of ferrography in condition monitoring and failure analysis of F-16 engines, respectively.
June 2010: Noam Eliaz is nominated as member of the Academic Council of The Jerusalem College of Engineering.
June 2010: Noam Eliaz co-chairs the Int. Conf. & Course on Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics and Clinical Applications, held in West London, UK.
August 2010: De Gruyter (Germany) buys Corrosion Reviews from Freund Publishing House (Israel).
September 2010: Noam Eliaz is nominated as vice-chair of the TEG 186X committee on Environmentally Assisted Cracking by NACE International.
September 2010: Congratulations to Adi Naor-Pomerantz, a PhD student (direct track) of Noam Eliaz and Eliezer Gileadi, for winning the third best poster presentation award at EMNT 2010 – The 8th Int. Symp. on Electrochemical Micro & Nanosystem Technologies, held in Cannes Mandelieu, France. The title of her poster: Electrodeposition of alloys of rhenium with the iron-group metals: Mechanism study.
November 2010: Press Report on “Monitoring Wear in Helicopters -- and Hips, Knees and Ankles, too,” American Friends of Tel-Aviv University.
December 2010: Israel Broadcast Authority, Reshet Bet, radio report on “From Maintenance of Helicopters to Repair of Human Joints”.
January 2011: Congratulations to Yigal Weinberger for completing his MSc.
February 2011: Congratulations to Ronen Verker for being awarded a PhD!
March 2011: Noam Eliaz will chair the Environmentally Assisted Cracking Symp. at CORROSION 2011 held in Houston, TX, USA.
April 2011: Congratulations to Adi Naor-Pomerantz, a PhD student (direct track) of Noam Eliaz and Eliezer Gileadi, for winning the David and Paulina Trotzki scholarship for excellent graduate students.
May 2011: Congratulations to MaayanCohen-Sagiv, a MSc student of Noam Eliaz and Eliezer Gileadi, for being awarded a scholarship for excellence by the Faculty of Engineering.
May 2011: Noam Eliaz will chair the Scientific Committee at The 4th Int. Scientific Conf. on Environmental Degradation of Engineering Materials & The 5th Scientific Conf. on Materials Engineering and Technologies – EDEMET 2011, held in Gdańsk, Poland.
June 2011: Congratulations to Ronen Verker for receiving his PhD in the annual ceremony!
October 2011: Congratulations to Noam and his wife Billie for giving birth to Shalev!
March 2012: Congratulations to Noam Eliaz for being nominated as Fellow of NACE International. He received the award during CORROSION 2012 held in Salt Lake City, UT, for "outstanding achievements in corrosion research and education, with key contributions in industry and defense organizations in electrodeposition of special materials, biomaterials corrosion, and failure analysis". Noam is the first Israeli to receive this award.
April 2012: Congratulations to Alla Duhin for passing the PhD candidacy exam.
May 2012: Congratulations to Maayan Cohen-Sagiv for completing her MSc.
June 2012: Congratulations to Noa Metoki for being awarded a BSc.