Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics
Gifted High-School Students Program

The Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics and the Department of Mathematics at BGU have a long tradition of supporting gifted and academically motivated high school students by encouraging them to enroll in undergraduate courses while still in high school. Among the first such high school students, who later completed their undergraduate studies with us, were Yossi Friedman (who went on to receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and is now a sponsor of the Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics), and Victor Vinnikov (who went on to receive a Ph.D. from our department, under the supervision of the late Moshe Livsic, and is now an associate professor in our department).

This special program for gifted high school students is important for two main reasons:

• It is a way in which we can do one of the things we do best, namely teach high-level mathematics, to help to maintain and advance scientific, social and cultural progress in Israel.
• Encouraging gifted high school students is the best way to ensure that we have a core of outstanding undergraduates, and ultimately excellent graduate students.

• Roy Blumberg
• Alex Cherniahovsky
• Yonatan Gradshtein
• Tal Kaglovsky
• Gal Kaplun
• Nir Ohad
• Tomer Shimoni
• Yevgenia Zelkind

• Ameer Abu-Frieha
• Ariel Davis
• Michael Huzman
• Vladimir Perelman