The James (Jimmy) Hugh Belfer Symposia series, honoring his legacy, is organized by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion.
Jimmy Belfer was an extraordinary young man, intelligent, kind, sensitive, with a fine sense of humor. He was a loving and beloved son and a dear brother. When he was only 20 years old, he was hit and killed by a drunk boat driver while swimming in a reservoir in Colorado.
Looking for a fitting way to commemorate the memory of their son and brother, his family awarded the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering the James (Jimmy) Hugh Belfer Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and the James (Jimmy) Hugh Belfer Symposium Fund. Their choice was based on Jimmy’s love of Israel and his great interest in the mechanical world.
Since the fund’s establishment in 1989, over 20 symposia have been organized on a variety of mechanical-engineering topics. Each symposium features keynote speakers and state-of-the-art tutorials by leading international scientists. In addition, short thematic lectures and reports are presented by Israeli scientists.
The fund is managed by a representative of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
Contact:
Prof. Izhak Bucher
James (Jimmy) Hugh Belfer Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel 32000
Tel: +972-4-829-3153
Email: bucher@technion.ac.il
List of Past James H. Belfer Memorial Symposia
- Artificial Hands for Robotics and Rehabilitation, 18.12.1991 (organizers: Y. Mizrahi and M. Shoham)
- Heat Transfer in the Living Body and its Environment, 15.6.1989 (organizer: A. Shitzer)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics, 9.6.1993 (organizer: D. Degani)
- Modeling of Structures and Mechanical Systems, 8-10.5.1995 (organizer: Y. Ben-Haim)
- Recent Developments in Cryosurgery, 24.5.1995 (organizer: A. Shitzer)
- Nonlinear Systems, 12.6.1996 (organizer: M. B. Rubin)
- Nonlinear Mechanics, 16.6.1997 (organizer: A. Oron)
- Heat and Mass Transfer within the Living Body and with its Environment, 1.4.1998 (organizer: A. Shitzer)
- Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics and Medical Imaging, 4.5.1998 (organizer: M. Shoham)
- Nonlinear Mechanics, 26.10.1998 (organizer: M. Shapiro)
- Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics and Medical Imaging, 18.5.2000 (organizer: M. Shoham)
- Nonlinear Mechanics, 11.6.2000 (organizers: M. B. Rubin and E. Tadmor)
- MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems) Day in Israel, 15.11.2001 (organizers: G. Grossman, J. M. Lifshitz and Y. Nemirovsky)
- Measurements and Uncertainty Evaluation in Coordinate Measuring Machines an Scanners and their Implication on Design and Reverse Engineering, 29-30.11.2004 (organizers: A. Fischer and M. Shpitalni)
- New Technologies and Visualization Methods for Product Development in Design and Reverse Engineering, 6-7.11.2005, (organizers: A. Fischer, M. Hee Kim, S. Park, and A. Shamir)
- Control of the Indoor Air Quality for Improving Human Well Being, Comfort and Productivity, 7.11.2005 (Organizer: A. Shitzer).
- Cryogenic Engineering and Applications,4.4.2006 (organizers:G.Grossman and B-Z.Maytal).
- Nonlinear Mechanics, 12.6.2006 (organizer: O. Gottlieb)
- Aerosols – Environment, Measurement and Health, 19.12.2006 (organizers:M. Shapiro and D. Broday)
- Nano-Bio Mechanics Workshop, 17/18.12.2008 (organizers: E. Zussman and H.D. Wagner)
- Neuro-Mechanics, Dynamics and Decision Making, 15-16.2.2009, organizer: M. Zacksenhouse.
- Medical and Biomedical Applications of Thermal and Non-Thermal Processes, 27.4.2010, organizers: A. Shitzer and Y. Halevi.
- Atmospheric Aerosols, 23.2.2011, organizers: D. Broday and M. Shapiro.
- Structural Dynamics Systems – Design, Control and Energy Harvesting, 29.2.12, organizers: I. Bucher and Y. Halevi.
- Risk Assessment of Nuclear Accidents, 29.10.2012, organizers: E. Elias and M. Shapiro
- Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty, 21.1.2013, organizers: Y. Ben-Haim and I. Erev
- Nonlinear Wave Phenomena: From weak nonlinearity to sonic vacuum, 13.01.2014, Organizers: Prof. Yuli Starosvetsky and Prof. Oleg Gendelman
Past holders
Past holder of the James (Jimmy) H. Belfer Chair in Mechanical Engineering: Prof. Avraham Shitzer, Prof. Yoram Halevi.
