IDC Herzliya Student Guide

IDC Herzliya
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The Efi Arazi School of Computer Science
The school organizes events and activities including a lecture series called “Computer
Science for Real (CS4Real)” featuring developers, scientists and entrepreneurs from leading
companies in various fields of the high-tech industry; Vision Day, the annual Israeli conference
for computerized vision during which research by leading researchers in the field from Israel
and abroad are presented to academics and professionals interested in hearing about
cutting-edge research on computer vision; the Siggraph Israel conference of the Siggraph
organization, in which many academics and professionals are active and which aims to
promote research and cooperation in computer graphics in Israel; conferences related to the
specialization in information and networks security organized in cooperation with OWASP, an
international organization of volunteers that promotes the issue of applied internet security;
and meetings of ILPMA, the leading Israeli organization of product managers, with an
emphasis on knowledge industries and high-tech companies.
The Sammy Ofer School of Communications
The school’s activities include an annual conference on Communications across Borders in
cooperation with Michigan State University. The conference provides a meeting point for
leading researchers from Israel and abroad who conduct research in different fields and who
represent a variety of theoretical approaches and methodologies. It aims to examine the role
that innovative communications systems and technologies can play in increasing cooperation
across geographic, social and cultural borders.
The New School of Psychology
The school convenes the annual Herzliya Symposium on Personality and Social
Psychology, in which social psychologists from leading universities abroad present their work
on a specific topic in the field (e.g. pro-social behavior, aggression and violence). In addition,
starting this year, the school will convene the Herzliya Symposium on Developmental
Psychopathology, at which developmental psychologists from leading universities abroad will
present their work on a specific developmental disorder (this year the conference will be
dedicated to understanding and treating anxiety disorder in preschoolers). In addition, the
school organizes a series of evening seminars on psychology and law in cooperation with
the Radzyner School of Law.
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