Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics

The Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics was established at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in March 2001, thanks to the generous donations of Mrs. Lis Gaines and the initiative and support of the late Prof. Beno Eckmann. Mr. Martin Blackman and the Skirball Foundation and Dr. Joseph Friedman have joined Mrs. Gaines in support of the Center, focusing on postdoctoral fellows and outstanding doctoral students.

The Center promotes research activity in Mathematics and its applications. The Center provides support for visiting lecturers, conferences and workshops, lecture series and postdoctoral fellows. The Center also presents the Friedman Prize for outstanding graduate students, and it sponsors a Special Program for Gifted High School Students promoting early enrollment in university courses.

The International Advisory Committee for the Center is composed of world-famous mathematicians from Israel and abroad, among them three winners of the Fields medal, the Mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize, two winners of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Mathematics, three winners of the Israel Prize in Mathematics and members of the Israel Academy of Science.

In Memoriam: Prof. Beno Eckmann.

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Conferences and Special Lectures:

• Batsheva seminar on Representation Growth, 21-26 June 2009.
• Lis Gaines Workshop: Action of Aut(F_n) on representation varieties, January 6-11, 2009.
• The Martin Blackman Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Financial Mathematics, December 2 and 3, 2008

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1. Dawn Archey, Ph.D. University of Oregon 2008, mentored by Dr. Ilan Hirshberg.
2. Erika Damian, Ph.D. University of Trento, Italy, mentored by Prof. Yoav Segev.
3. Dmitry Kerner, Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, 2007, mentored by Prof. Victor Vinnikov and Prof. Amnon Yekutieli.
4. Andrey Melnikov, Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University 2008, mentored by Prof. Victor Vinnikov.
5. Zachary Mesyan, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 2006, mentored by Prof. Miriam Cohen and Dr. Yair Glasner.
6. Amir Sapir, Ph.D. 2005 Ben Gurion University, mentored by Prof. Daniel Berend.
7. Ajadi Suraju, Ph.D. Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2005, mentored by Prof. Vladimir Goldstein
8. Gheorghe Tigan, Ph.D. West University of Timisoara, 2006 , mentored by Prof. Dmitry Turaev.
9. Arkady Tsurkov, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004, Prof. Ruvim Lypianski
10. Prasad Vegulla, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, 2007, mentored by Prof. Victor Vinnikov and Prof. Daniel Alpay
11. Marco Zunino, Ph.D. Université Louis Pasteur (France), 2002, mentored by Prof. Miriam Cohen.

Conferences and Special Lectures:

• Workshop on Linear System Theory: Model Reduction, Sde Boker, September 15–19, 2008

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1. Baskar Balasubramanyam, Ph.D. Brandeis University, 2007, mentored by Prof. Amnon Besser
2. Erika Damian, Ph.D. University of Trento, Italy, mentored by Prof. Yoav Segev.
3. Stanislav Dubrovskiy, Ph.D. 2004 Northeastern University, mentored by Prof. Vladimir Goldstein.
4. Rafal Filipow, Ph.D. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2004, mentored by Prof. Matti Rubin and Prof. Uri Abraham
5. Dmitry Kerner, Ph.D. 2007 Tel Aviv University, mentored by Prof. Victor Vinnikov and Prof. Amnon Yekutieli.
6. Christian Pech, Ph.D. Dresden University of Technology, 2003, Prof. Michael Klin
7. Amir Sapir, Ph.D. 2005 Ben Gurion University, mentored by Prof. Daniel Berend.
8. Ajadi Suraju, Ph.D. Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2005, mentored by Prof. Vladimir Goldstein
9. Shuichiro Takeda, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2006, mentored by Dr. Nadia Gurevich
10. Gheorghe Tigan, Ph.D. West University of Timisoara, 2006 , mentored by Prof. Dmitry Turaev.
11. Arkady Tsurkov, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004, Prof. Ruvim Lypianski
12. Prasad Vegulla, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, 2007, mentored by Prof. Victor Vinnikov and Prof. Daniel Alpay
13. Marco Zunino, Ph.D. Universitè Louis Pasteur (France), 2002, mentored by Prof. Miriam Cohen.

Visitors:

• Prof. Prof. Aalt Dijksma, University of Groningen, Holland
• Prof. Mboup Mamadou, Universite Rene Descartes, France
• Prof. Popov Mykhaylo, Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine
• Dr. Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University, USA
• Prof. Andrey Vladimirov, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany
• Prof. Willam Kantor, University of Oregon, USA
• Dr. Alexander Stasinski, University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr. Sergey Zelik, University of Surrey, UK
• Prof. Aleksander Pelczynski, Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Clemente Zanco, Universita' degli Studi, Italy
• Prof. Stanislav Molchanov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
• Prof. Victor Nikonenko, Kuban State University, Russia
• Prof. Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield, UK
• Prof. Michael Goldshtein, University of Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Dmitry Kaluzniy-Verbovetskii, Drexel University, USA
• Dr. Pioter Kowalski, Wroclaw University, Poland

Conferences and Special Lectures:

• Characteristic Functions and Transfer Functions in Operator Theorem and System Theory: a conference dedicated to Paul Fuhrmann on his 70th anniversary and to the memory of Moshe Livsic on his 90th anniversary, July 9-13 2007
• Dynamic of Lie group actions on parameter spaces, Jan. 1-6, 2007
• The Sixth Israeli Mini-Workshop in Applied Mathematics, dedicated to the Memory of Lee Segel, Jan. 1, 2007

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1. Eliot Brenner, Ph.D. 2005 Yale University, mentored by Dr. Barak Weiss.
2. Stanislav Dubrovskiy, Ph.D. 2004 Northeastern University, mentored by Prof. Vladimir Goldstein.
3. Dr. Dmitry Kerner, Ph.D. 2007 Tel Aviv University, mentored by Prof. Victor Vinnikov and Prof. Amnon Yekutieli.
4. Frederick Leitner, Ph.D. 2005 University of Arizona, mentored by Prof. Amnon Yekutieli.
5. Irena Lerman, Ph.D 2006 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, mentored by Prof. Garik Belitskii.
6. Henryk Michalevski, Ph.D. 2002, Warsaw University, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman.
7. Elina Moldavskaya, Ph.D. 2004, University of Kiev, mentored Professors M. Lin, D. Turaeev, M. Braverman.
8. Andrzej Nagorko, Ph.D. 2007 Warsaw University, mentored by Prof. Michael Levin.
9. Amir Sapir, Ph.D. 2005 Ben Gurion University, mentored by Prof. Daniel Berend.
10. Yossi Strauss, Ph.D, Tel-Aviv University, mentored by Prof. Paul Fuhrmann.
11. Gheorghe Tigan, Ph.D. 2006 West University of Timisoara, mentored by Prof. Dmitry Turaev.
12. Yoav Yaffe, Ph.D. 2004, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman.

Visitors:

• Joseph Ball, Virginia Tech, USA
• Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA
• Tadeusz Dobrowolski, Pittsburg University, USA
• Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
• Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State University, USA
• Lubomir Gavrilov, Toulouse University, France
• Sergey Gonchenko, Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russia
• Issac Gorelic, University of Toronto, Canada
• Leif Jorgensen, Alborg University, Denmark
• Alexander Kirillov, Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russia
• Istvan Kovacs Janus Pannonius University of Pécs, Hungary
• Rodman Leiba, College of William and Mary, USA
• Pierre Milman, University of Toronto, Canada
• Yair Minsky, Yale University, USA
• Evgeny Pechersky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• Clemente Zanco, Univesita Degli Studi Di Milano, Italy

Conferences and Special Lectures:

• Workshop on the Urysohn space, May 21-24, 2006

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1. Eliot Brenner, Ph.D. 2005, Yale University, mentored by Dr. Barak Weiss.
2. Sudipta Dutta, Ph.D Indian Statistical Institute, mentored by Prof. Vladimir Fonf.
3. Yuval Gabay, Ph.D Cornell University, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman
4. Natalya Gulko, Ph.D Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, mentored by Prof. Yitzchak Rubinstein
5. Henryk Michalevski, Ph.D. 2002, Warsaw University, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman.
6. Elina Moldavskaya, Ph.D. 2004, University of Kiev, mentored Professors M. Lin, D. Turaeev, M. Braverman
7. Frederick Leitner, Ph.D. 2005, University of Arizona mentored by Prof. Amnon Yekutieli.
8. Irena Lerman, Ph.D 2006, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, mentored by Prof. Yitzchak Rubinstein
9. Akira Sano, Ph.D University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mentored by Prof. Amnon Besser and Dr. Nadya Gurevich.
10. Yossi Strauss, Ph. D Tel-Aviv University, mentored by Prof. Paul Fuhrmann.
11. Yoav Yaffe, Ph.D. 2004, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman.

Visitors:

• Robert Bonnet, Universite de Savoie, France
• Alexander Brudnyi, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University, U.S.A.
• Henk de Snoo, Gorningen University, Netherlands
• Aad Dijksma, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, U.S.A
• Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State University, U.S.A
• Gennadiy Feldman, Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Kharkov, Ukraine
• Hillel Gauchmann, Eastern Illinois University, U.S.A
• Stefan Geschke, Freje University, Berlin, Germany
• Eknath P. Ghate, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
• Michael Goldshtein, University of Toronto, Canada
• Sergey Gonchenko, Nizhny Novgorod University, Russia
• Peter Grabner, Graz University, Austria
• C.K. Gupta, University of Manitoba, India
• James Hirschon, Kobe University, Japan
• Pat Hooper, Northwestern University, U.S.A
• Vadim Kaimanovitch, International University, Bremen, Germany
• Dmytro Kaliuzhny, Drexel University, U.S.A
• Yefiem Katsov, Hanover College, U.S.A
• Alexander Kirillov, Nizhny Novgorod University, Russian
• Heinz Langer, Technical University, Vienna, Austria
• David Lehavi, Princeton University, U.S.A
• Daniel Markiewicz, Technion, Israel
• Francois Maucourant, University of Rennes I, France
• Pierre Milman, University of Toronto, Canada
• Stanislav Molchanov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A
• Vladimir Pestov, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Vera Pless, Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A
• Alexander Ramm, Kansas State University, U.S.A
• Leiba Rodman, College of William and Mary, U.S.A
• Mikael Rørdam, Syddansk Univresitet, Denmark
• David Joseph Saltman, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A
• Georgy Shabat, Moscow State University and Independent University of Moscow, Russia
• Ivan Shestakov, University of California San Diego, U.S.A
• Leonid Shilnikov, Nizhny Novgorod University, Russia
• Eugene Srahov, Hebrew University, Israel
• Andrey Vladimirov, Wias University, Germany
• Wilhelm Winter, Munster University, Germany
• Przemyslaw Jacek Wojtaszczyk, Warsaw University, Poland
• Tamar Ziegler, Institute of advanced study, Princeton, U.S.A

Conferences and Special Lectures:

• Honourary colloquium: Prof. Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, April 2005
• Workshop on Linear System Theory, September 2005
• Miniworkshop on Operator Theory, System Theory and Scattering Theory: Multidimensional Generalizations and Related Topics, June 26-July 1, 2005

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1. Sudipta Dutta, Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute, mentored by Prof. Vladimir Fonf.
2. Yuval Gabay, Ph.D. Cornell University, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman.
3. Natalya Gulko, Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, mentored by Prof. Yitzchak Rubinstein
4. Dmitry Kalyuzhnyi-Verbovetzki, Ph.D. University of Kharkov, mentored by Prof. Daniel Alpay and Dr. Victor Vinnikov.
5. Owen Patashnick, mentored by Dr. Amnon Besser.
6. Dvora Peretz, mentored by Prof. Theodore Eisenberg.
7. Akira Sano, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mentored by Prof. Yoav Segev, Prof. Miriam Cohen, Prof. Ronen Peretz, Dr. Amnon Yekutieli and Dr. Nadya Gurevich.
8. Kobi Snitz, Ph.D. University of Maryland, mentored by Dr. Nadya Gurevich
9. Gia Vuong Nyuyen Chu, Ph.D University Paris, mentored by Dr. Nadya Gurevich

Visitors:

• Y. Bilu, University Bordeaux I, France
• A. Dijksma, Groningen University, Netherlands
• I. Fesenko, University of Nottingham, England
• Y. Flicker, Ohio State University, U.S.A
• S. Gonchenko, Nizhny Novgovod University, Russia
• A. Kirillov, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Russia
• P. Milman, University of Toronto, Canada
• M. Moeller, University of Essen, Germany
• A. Shilnikov, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Russia
• L. Shilnikov, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Russia
• A. Shouman, University New Mexico, U.S.A.

Conferences and Special Lectures:

• Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Percy Deift, Courant Institute, U.S.A., March 04, 2004
• Honorary Colloquium: Prof. Beno Eckmann, ETH, Switzerland, May 2004.
• Honorary Colloquium: Prof. Gene Golub, Standford University, U.S.A., May 2004
• Workshop on Observation and Estimation, July 12-16, 2004
• A Short Conference in General Topology, Apr. 29-30, 2004
• Conference on Operator Theory, System Theory and Scattering Theory: Multidimensional Generalizations, June 30-July 3, 2003
• FurstenFest 2003: Conference on Probability in Mathematics, held in honor of Hillel Furstenberg, June 22-24, 2003
• Fifth Negev Workshop on Applied Mathematics, June 17-21, 2003
• Lecture Series - The PCP theorem and its applications, Irit Dinur, Jan. 13-14, 2003

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1. Guy Cohen, Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, was mentored by Prof. Michael Lin and Prof. Paul Fuhrmann.
2. Christophe Cuny, Ph.D. University of Rennes, mentored by Prof. Michael Lin and Prof. Yossi Francos.
3. Dmitry Kalyuzhnyi-Verbovetzki, Ph.D. University of Kharkov, mentored by Prof. Daniel Alpay and Dr. Victor Vinnikov.
4. Henryk Michalewski, Ph.D. University of Warsaw, mentored by Prof. Menachem Kojman.
5. Owen Patashnick, Ph.D. University of Chicago, mentored by Dr. Amnon Besser.
6. Dvora Peretz, Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was mentored by Prof. Theodore Eisenberg.
7. Kobi Snitz, Ph.D. University of Maryland, mentored by Dr. Nadya Gurevich.
8. Dan Volok, Ph.D. Weizmann Institute, mentored by Prof. Daniel Alpay and Dr. Victor Vinnikov.
9. XiaoXiang Yu, Ph.D. Purdue University was mentored by Dr. Nadya Gurevich.

Visitors:

• B. Balcar, Institute for Advanced Studies of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• V. Bergelson, Ohio State University, U.S.A
• R. Boneh, Univesite' de Savoie, France
• A. Bufetov, Princeton University, USA
• Z. Clemente, Milano University, Italy
• P. Deift, Courant Institute, NY, USA
• I. Dinur, The Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A
• B. Eckmann, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
• A. Filippov, Moscow State University, Russia
• G. Golub, Stanford University, California, USA
• S. Gulko, Tomsk University, Russia
• F. Hidekazu, Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) in Kyoto, Japan
• A. Iserles, Cambridge, England
• V. Kaimanovich, CNRS, Rennes University, France
• G. Kolesnik, California State University, U.S.A
• W. Kubish, University of Katovice, Poland
• M. Kulikov, Moscow State University, Russia
• B. Lin, University of Iowa, USA
• P. Milman, University of Toronto, Canada
• T. Mills, Latrobe University, Bendigo, Australia
• S. Moltchanov, University of North Carolina of Charlotte, U.S.A
• M. Mustafa, Taurida National University, Ukraine
• D. Nikolova , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• S. Raianu, Cal State University, California, USA
• A. Ramm, Kansas State University, U.S.A
• L. Rodman, Wiiliam and Mary, USA
• B. Shapira, Technion, Israel
• M. Shapiro-Fishman, IPN, Mexico city, Mexico.
• D. Sternheimer, CNRS, Dijon, France
• G. Surdotovich, Institute of Radifisik and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• D. Yakobov, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain