Foundations of Computer Science at The Weizmann Institute of Science

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Foundations of computer science is an exciting and growing field, spanning a broad selection of topics from mathematics to engineering. The Foundations of Computer Science group at Weizmann Institute is one of the most active in the world, consisting of ten full-time faculty, several visitors and post-docs and many graduate students. Current areas of research which are represented at Weizmann include:

• Algorithms
• Combinatorial Games
• Computational Complexity
• Computational Number Theory
• Cryptography
• Database Theory
• Distributed Computing
• Program Semantics and Logic
• Probabilistic Methods

Faculty in Foundations of Computer Science

• Irit Dinur: Computational Complexity, , Probabilisitically Checkable Proofs, Hardness of approximation, Combinatorics, Analysis of Boolean functions.
• Uriel Feige: Computational Complexity, Interactive Proofs, Approximation Algorithms, Cryptography, Random Walks.
• Aviezri Fraenkel: Combinatorial Games, Combinatorics, Information Retrieval.
• Oded Goldreich: Randomness and Computation, Pseudorandomness, Probabilistic Proofs, Foundations of Cryptography, Complexity Theory, Distributed Computation.
• Shafi Goldwasser : Probabilistic Proofs, Complexity of Approximation, Cryptography, Computational Number Theory, Fault Tolerant Distributed Computation.
• David Harel: Computability, Automata Theory, Logics of Programs, Database Theory, Complexity Theory, Systems Engineering, Visual Languages.
• Robert Krauthgamer: Analysis of Algorithms.
• Moni Naor: Randomness in Computation, Cryptography, Concrete Complexity and Combinatorial Algorithms.
• David Peleg: Distributed Computing, Theory of Communication Networks, Graph Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms.
• Amir Pnueli : Temporal Logic. Specification, Verification, and Development of Reactive, Real-Time, and Hybrid Systems. Algorithmic and Deductive Verification.
• Ran Raz : Circuit Complexity, Communication Complexity, Arithmetic Complexity, Proof Theory.
• Omer Reingold : Complexity Theory.
• Adi Shamir: Cryptography and cryptanalysis, Complexity Theory, Algorithms.

More Information

• On-going Seminars:
 Foundations of Computer Science Seminar  on Sundays at 11:00, Room 261, Ziskind.
• Some Past Workshops:

1998 Workshop on Randomized Algorithms Dec 1998.
1998 Weizmann Workshop on Cryptography - Multi-Party Computation. June 1998.
Adapting Economic Models to the Internet
• Books and Classnotes by Weizmann Faculty
• Technical Reports in Computer Science and Mathematics
• The Puzzler page containing puzzles, games and other recreations reflecting our research.
• The Foundations of Computer Scince on the Web page containing links for bibliographies, conferences, journals, societies, classnotes and other pages regarding Foundations of Computer Science.

• Adi Shamir  has been named the recipient of the Israel Prize (2008) in Computer Science.
• Congratulations: The Association of Computing Machinery has announced Professor Adi Shamir, along with Professors Len Adleman from USC and Ron Rivest from MIT, as the recipients of the 2002 A. M. Turing Award, the top honor in computer scie nce, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for their contributions to cryptography. In particular, the popular RSA algorithm (named after them) allows secure , private and authenticated communication over public data networks. More details.

Graduate Studies

All graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute are administrated by the Feinberg Graduate School. Applications should be made using the school's forms which can be obtained together with more detailed information from the Feinberg Graduate School, P.O.B 26, Rehovot, Israel. E-mail: see nfhasday@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il. The Feinberg Graduate School has a homepage.

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