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The
Weizmann CS Research Day for Prospective Students |
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Weizmann Institute of Science
Computer science is an exciting and growing field, spanning a broad selection
of topics. Roughly speaking, it deals with the power of computing systems, both
artificial and natural and their inherent limitations. A Computer Science
Research day
will be held at the Weizmann Institute of Science on Friday, May 1st, 2009. The aim is to
introduce recent research developments to people who are about to start their
research in the area. The intended participants are exceptional students
interested in graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute. The official
language of the day is English.
Poster of the Day
Lecturers:
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Moni Naor, Welcome
and Overview, Slides (ppt)
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Robi Krauthgamer, Similarity searching, or how to find your neighbors efficiently, Slides (ppt)
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Anat Levin, Computational Photography,
Slides (ppt)
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Oded Goldreich, Probabilistic Proof Systems,
Slides (pdf)
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Irit Dinur,
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs, Slides (ppt)
Registration and Location
Organizers
Program of Workshop
Faculty Members in Computer Science
Ronen Basri
Computer Vision, Visual Object Recognition, Robot Navigation
Irit Dinur
Computational Complexity, , Probabilisitically Checkable Proofs, Hardness of
approximation, Combinatorics, Analysis of Boolean functions.
Uriel Feige:
Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Coping With NP-hardness.
Tamar Flash
Robotics, Motor Control, Computational Neuroscience
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, Program Logics, Systems/Software Engineering, Visual Languages,
CS Education
Michal Irani:
Vision motion analysis, Compact video representations, Multi-sensor image
alignment.
Robert Krauthgamer:
Analysis of Algorithms.
Anat Levin: Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Machine Learning
Elchanan Mossel:
Combinatorial Statistics, Discrete Fourier analysis and Influences, Randomized
Algorithms, Computational Complexity, MCMC, Markov Random Fields, Social Choice,
Game Theory, Evolution.
Moni Naor:
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.
Eran Segal:
Computational Biology, and more specifically
in developing quantitative models for all levels of gene regulation, including
transcription, chromatin, and translation
Adi Shamir: Cryptography and cryptanalysis, Complexity Theory,
Algorithms.
Ehud Shapiro:
Computational Models of Living Systems, High-Level Programming Languages
Amos Tanay:
Synthesis of evolution and molecular function.
Shimon Ullman:
Vision, Computer Vision, Brain Modelling