Teaching

Currently teaching at the University of Miami

GSC 107: Natural disasters: Hollywood versus reality — This course will explore the causes, effects, and societal response to disasters. We will use the popular media as a starting point for discussions and development of tools for analyzing the causes of disasters. Using excerpted segments of "disaster films" in conjunction with scientific treatments, we can identify the causes, consequences and public perceptions of natural hazards. We will look at a variety of natural hazards and related disasters including flooding, volcanoes, landslides, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunami, and drought. By the use of laboratory exercises we will determine how damaging disasters can be, and what we can do to minimize their impact on society.

GSC 420: Geophysics — The class covers the following topics: Plate tectonics, Magnetism, Paleo-Mag, Past plate motion, Seismology, Earth's structure, Gravity, Heat, Mantle convection, Oceanic Lithosphere, Continental Lithosphere, Crustal Deformation, Exploration Geophysics (reflection, refraction seismicity, borehole), Environmental Geophysics and other methods (GPR, Electrical methods, Remote sensing)

MGG 550: Mathematical methods for geo-scientists — Background mathematics needed to solve problems in the geosciences. Applications in tectonics, geodynamics, structural geology, seismology, and hydrology. Topics include linear inverse problems, least squares, linear algebra, matrix theory, vectors, dimensional analysis, probability and scientific inference, continuum mechanics, transform and numerical methods to solve differential, and partial differential equations.

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Previously taught at Tel Aviv University (1994-2004)

Physics of the earth
Structural geology
Potential methods
Geodynamics
Tectonics Seminar
Principles and applications of GPS technology
Geology of Israel