Dr Shmuel Balberg Title: Senior Lecturer Office: Popick 112 Phone: (972-2) 6586851 Fax: (972-2) 6584461 Email: shmuel.balberg at mail dot huji dot ac dot il Research interests Theoretical Astrophysics Hydrodynamics and Radiation-Hydrodynamics Supernovae Recent (2023-2024) Publications I. Giron, S. Balberg and M. Kreif Solutions of the converging and diverging shock problem in a medium with varying density, Physics of Fluids 35, 066112 2023 S. Balberg and G. Yassur Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Impact on Destructive Events Near a Supermassive Black Hole, Astrophysical Journal 952, 149, 2023 S. Balberg, Segregation and Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Rates of Destructive Events Near a Supermassive Black Hole, Astrophysical Journal 962, 150, 2024 Y. Brutman, E. Steinberg and S. Balberg, The Primary Flare Following a Stellar Collision in a Galactic Nucleus, Atrophysical Journal Letters 974, L22, 2024 N. Derei, S. Balberg, S. I. Heizler, E. Steinberg, R. G. McClarren and M. Kreif The non-equilibrium Marshak wave problem in non-homogeneous media, Physics of Fluids 36, 127149 2024 Y. Ashkenazy and S. Balberg, The S2 orbit and tidally disrupted binaries: indications for collisional depletion in the Galactic center, Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics 2024 Teaching Introduction to Statistical Physics Radiative Processes in Astrophysics Thermal Physics Fluid Dynamics