2001-2002 members
The program is led by Avi Wigderson. This page lists members and visitors that took an active part in this year's activities.
Members and Visitors
(people who were in residence for at least one term. The name is followed by a brief description of research interests (highlighted in green); home pages and/or links at the end of the description provide more information)
Combinatorics, Graph Theory and their applications in Theoretical Computer Science
- Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Spring term only)
Quantum Computation, Computational Complexity
- Andris Ambainis, Institute for Advanced Study
Biocomputing, Computational Complexity
- Richard Beigel, Temple University
Expander Constructions, GraphTheory, Combinatorial Structures
- Michael Capalbo, Institute for Advanced Study
Computational Complexity, PCP and Hardness of Approximation
- Irit Dinur, Institute for Advanced Study
Applications of Topology and Fourier Analysis to Combinatorics and Linear Algebra
- Roy Meshulam, Institute for Advanced Study (Fall term only)
Proof Complexity, Computational Complexity
- Alexander Razborov, Institute for Advanced Study/Steklov Mathematical Institute
Scheduling and Load Balancing, Complexity Theory and Lower Bounds, Quantum Computation, Approximation Methods
- Oded Regev, Institute for Advanced Study
Foundations of Cryptography, Pseudorandomness, Derandomization and Explicit Combinatorial Constructions
- Omer Reingold, AT&T Research Labs/Institute for Advanced Study
Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Discrete Geometry
- Clifford Smyth, Institute for Advanced Study
Algebraic and Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Extremal Graph Theory, Ramsey Theory, Random Structures, Application of Combinatorics to Theoretical Computer Science
- Benny Sudakov, Institute for Advanced Study
Short-Term Visitors
- Boaz Barak, Weizmann Institute of Science (09/15-10/31/01)
- Michael Elkin, Weizmann Institute of Science (09/21-9/25/01)
- Ehud Friedgut, Hebrew University (09/30-10/14/01)
- Ron Livne, Hebrew University (10/2-10/16/01)
- Bela Bollobas, University of Memphis (11/10-11/17/01)
- Vladlen Koltun, Tel-Aviv University (01/12-01/20/02)
- Pavel Pudlak, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic (02/03-02/16/02)
- Vojtech Rodl, Emory University (02/03-02/16/02)
- Michael Krivelevich, Tel-Aviv University (02/17-02/23/02)
- Van Vu, University of California at San Diego (03/10-03/17/02)
- Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology (04/02-04/08/02)
- Tibor Szabo, ETH Zurich (04/07-04/19/02)