Past Research Groups

number	Group	year
1	Talmudic Studies, Jewish Philosphy and Mysticism	1975-76
2	Ergodic Theory	1975-76
3	Jewish Philosophy and Jewish History	1976-77
4	Monetary Economics	1976-77
5	Banach Spaces	1976-77
6	History of Rabbinical Literature of the Middle Ages	1977-78
7	Human Capital	1977-78
8	Associative Rings	1977-78
9	Biblical Research and Ancient Near Eastern History	1978-79
10	Changes in Middle Eastern Society and Institutions in the Last 300 Years	1978-79
11	Chemical Dynamics	1978-79
12	Historical Lexicography of Hebrew	1979-80
13	From Jahiliyya to Islam	1979-80
14	Game Theory and Mathematical Economics	1979-80
15	Methods and Principles of Scholarly Editions of Talmudic Texts	1980-81
16	Demography of the Jews	1980-81
17	National and Social Radicalism in Modern Times	1980-81
18	Model Theory	1980-81
19	Origins of Modern Jewish Nationalism	1981-82
20	Cultural Links between Jewish and Christian Scholars in the 15th and 16th Centuries	1981-82
21	Contemporary Arab Ideologies	1981-82
22	Algebraic Topology	1981-82
23	Trends and Methods in the Present Study of the Bible	1982-83
24	Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Native Language Acquisition	1982-83
25	Social Choice and Group Decisions	1982-83
26	Biblical Israel in the Light of Historical and Archaeological Research	1983-84
27	Masora: Language Traditions and Medieval Grammatical Theory	1983-84
28	The Crusades and the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem	1983-84
29	Jewish Societies under the Nazi Regime	1984-85
30	The "Ulama": Their Sociopolitical Role and Religious Thought	1984-85
31	Market Structure and Imperfect Competition	1984-85
32	Targum and Cognate Studies	1985-86
33	Absence and Negation in Literature and Literary Theory	1985-86
34	Laterality and Emotionality	1985-86
35	East European Jews between the World Wars: History, Culture, Society	1986-87
37	Radicalism as a Response to Modernization	1986-87
38	Grammar of Mishnaic Hebrew	1987-88
39	Spin Glass Theory and Application in Physics, Biology and Mathematics	1987-88
40	Automorphic Forms and L-functions	1987-88
41	Jewish Exegesis of the Bible	1988-89
42	International Economics and Market Structure	1988-89
43	Enigmatic Modes of Culture with Special Reference to India	1988-89
44	Qumran Studies	1989-90
45	Ecoratio: Application of Game Theory to Ecology, Evolution and Behavior	1989-90
46	The Formation of Large-Scale Structure in the Universe	1989-90
47	Comparative Codicology and Paleography	1990-91
48	Living Semitic Languages and Comparative Semitics	1990-91
49	Time-Resolved Spectroscopy	1990-91
50	The Jewish World after the Expulsion from Spain	1991-92
51	Society and Religion in Contemporary Judaism	1991-92
52	The Arithmetic of Fields	1991-92
53	Jewish History in the Mishna and Talmud Period	1992-93
54	Interreligious Polemics	1992-93
55	Computer Simulation Methods in Chemical Physics	1992-93
56	Urbanism in Palestine and the East in the Roman and Byzantine Periods	1992-93
57	East European Jewry between Tradition and Renewal	1993-94
58	The Criminal Justice System	1993-94
59	Aspects of Rational Behavior in Philosophy, Economics and Psychology	1993-94
60	Leibnitz the Polemicist	1994-95
61	Sa'adia Gaon: Continuity and Change among the Jews of Islamic Lands	1994-95
62	Hebrew Linguistic Literature and Theory	1994-95
63	Meeting of Cultures in the Hellenistic Roman World	1995/96
64	Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society	1995/96
65	Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition	1995/96
66	Signal Transduction in Health and Disease	1996/97
67	Randomness and Dynamical Systems	1996/97
68	The Beginnings of Jewish Prayer	1996/97
69	Semantics	1997/98
70	Orthodoxy Through the 19th Century	1997/98
71	The Foundations of Physics	1997/98
72	The Historicity of Emotion	1997/98
73	Computational Aspects of Protein Folding	1998/99
74	Studying the Zohar	1998/99
75	Narratives of Rituals	1998/99
76	String Theory	1998/99
77	Law and the State in Classical Islam	1999/2000
78	Mechanisms of Canon Making in Ancient Societies	1999/2000
79	Asymptotic Group Theory	1999/2000
80	The Interaction of Nomadic Conquerors with Sedentary Peoples: Turco-Mongolian Nomads in China and the Middle East	2000/2001
81	From Hellenistic Judaism to Christian Hellenism	2000/2001
82	Molecular Medicine in the Service of Mankind toward the 2000s	2000/2001
83	Millennial Pursuits - Apocalyptic Traditions and Expectations of the End among Medieval Jews and their Neighbors	2000/2001
84	The Apocryphal Texts from Qumran and their Place within the Literature and Religious Ideas of Early Judaism	2001/2002
85	The Narrative Turn in the Social Sciences: Implications and Promise for the 21st Century	2001/2002
86	Biblical Hebrew in its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives	2001/2002
87	Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor	2001/2002
88	Exploring Stress Responses at the Cellular and the Organismal Levels	2001/2002
89	Judaism and Sufism	2002-2003
90	Exclusivity and Universality in Shi'ite Islam	2002-2003
91	Greeks, Romans, Jews and Others in the Near East from Alexander to Muhammad: A Civilization of Epigraphy	2002-2003
92	The Russian Context of Modern Jewish Culture	2002-2003
93	Formation of Structure in the Universe	2002-2003
94	Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry	2003-2004
95	A Study of Palestinian Arabic Dialects	2003-2004
96	On the Nature of Jewish Belonging in Contemporary Times	2003-2004
97	Law and Pluralism	2003-2004
98	One People, Scattered: The Role of Communication in Holding the Jewish Diaspora Together, 200-2000 AD	2004-2005
99	Foundations of Technology-Assisted Trading	2004-2005
100	Literary Dimensions of Medieval Jewish Religious Discourse	2004-2005
101	Mu'tazilism within Islam and Judaism	2005-2006
102	Religion and Nationalism in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Hindu Worlds	2005-2006
103	Ethnography and Literature: Theory, History and Interdisciplinary Practice	2005-2006
104	Occult Powers and Officiants in Near Eastern Cultures	2005-2006
105	Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism Movements	2006-2007
106	The Interface between Evolutionary Biology and Game Theory	2006-2007
107	Charity and Piety in the Middle East in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Continuity and Transformation	2006-2007
108	Transmission and Appropriation of the Secular Sciences and Philosophy in Medieval Judaism: Comparative Perspectives, Universal and National Aspects	2006-2007
109	Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra	2006-2007
110	Toward a New History of Hasidism	2007-2008
111	Neurons and Cognitive Processes	2007-2008
112	Moral Psychology, Moral Motivation and Moral Realism	2007-2008
113	Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical Analysis	2007-2008
114	Ancient Arabia and its Relations with the Surrounding Cultures	2009-2010
115	Personal Versus Established Religion	2009-2010
116	Behavioral Decision Making	2009-2010
117	Encountering Scripture in Overlapping Cultures: Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Strategies of Reading and their Contemporary Implications	2010-2011
118	Langlands Duality in Representation Theory and Gauge Theory	2010-2011
119	Algorithmic Game Theory: The Next Decade	2010-2011
120	Computation and the Brain	2010-2011
121	Cultural Archaeology of Jews and Slavs: Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic Interaction and Cross-Fertilization	2010-2011
122	Sovereignty, Global Justice and the Ethics of War	2010-2011

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