All aboard for the professor’s lecture

TEL AVIV — Passengers on the Tel-Aviv Haifa train were treated to an intriguing lecture titled “Breakthrough: Light Rays in Service of the Brain” by Professor Idan Segev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The lecture, on February 1, was part of the new “Scientists on the Train” series of lectures initiated recently by the Hebrew University on various topics of interest to the general public.

Professor Segev gave his first lectures on the train leaving the Tel Aviv University station for Haifa at 9.25am and again on the 10.20am train from Haifa back to Tel Aviv.

Professor Segev is the former head of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Hebrew University and is currently working on the ‘Blue Brain’ project to shed new light on the workings of the human brain.