Academic Achievements
School of Mathematical Sciences
Tel Aviv University
(1996-2010)
In the last decade or so, the faculty of Tel Aviv University's School of Mathematical Sciences has amassed a considerable number of achievements, and a boost to its world standing. Below are categorized lists of the most important of these achievements.
Members of Academies
Prizes, Prestigious Fellowships and Honorary Doctorate Degrees
Plenary/Invited Talks at Important Recurring Conferences
International Conferences Organized at Tel Aviv University
Prizes and Fellowships of our Graduate Students
Academic (Tenured or Tenure-Tracked) Positions at Universities Held by the School's PhD Graduates (1996-2009)
Members of Academies
Noga Alon
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Academia Europaea
Joseph Bernstein
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities;
National Academy of Sciences (USA)
Israel Gohberg
Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova;
Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
David Schmeidler
Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gregory Sivashinsky
Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
Prizes, Prestigious Fellowships and Honorary Doctorate Degrees
Semyon Alesker
European Mathematical Union Prize (2000);
Erdős Prize (2004)
Noga Alon
Pólya Prize (2000);
Bruno Memorial Award (2002);
Landau Prize (2005);
Goedel Prize (2005);
Israel Prize (2008);
EMET Prize (2011)
Shiri Artstein-Avidan
Krill Prize (2008)
Yoav Benjamini
Israel Prize (2012)
Joseph Bernstein
Israel Prize (2004)
Paul Biran
European Mathematical Union Prize (2004);
Erdős Prize (2006);
Oberwolfach Prize in Geometry and Topology (2004)
Israel Gohberg
Honorary Doctorate, Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt (1997);
Honorary Doctorate, Technische Universitt Wien (2001);
Honorary Doctorate, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara (2002);
Honorary Doctorate,Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Cisinau (2002);
Honorary Doctorate, Universitatea de Stat "Aleco Russo" din Balti, Balti, Moldova (2002);
Honorary Doctorate, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (2008);
M.G. Krein Prize of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (2008)
SIAM Fellow (2009)
Moshe Jarden
L. Meitner-A.v.Humboldt Research Prize (2001)
Boaz Klartag
Clay Research Fellowship (2005-2008)
Salem Prize (2008)
European Mathematical Union Prize (2008)
Erdős Prize (2010)
Vitali Milman
Landau Prize (2002);
EMET Prize (2007)
Humboldt Research Award (2009)
Leonid Polterovich
European Mathematical Union Prize (1996);
Erdős Prize (1998);
Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2003)
Phillip Rosenau
L. Meitner-A.v.Humboldt Research Prize (2003)
Saharon Rosset
KDD Cup (2000);
KDD Cup (2007);
KDD Best Paper Award (2011)
Zeev Rudnick
Erdős Prize (2001)
David Schmeidler
Honorary Degree, Torino University (2004)
Yehuda Shalom
Levitzki Prize (2005);
Erdős Prize (2007)
Evgenii Shustin
F.W. Bessel-- Humboldt Research Award (2002)
Gregory Sivashinsky
Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London (2004)
Ya.B. Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute (2006)
David Steinberg
Frank Wilcoxon Prize (1999)
Uri Yechiali
ORSIS Award for Life Achievement (2004)
Plenary/Invited Talks at Important Recurring Conferences
(ICM=International Congress of Mathematicians, ECM=European Congress of Mathematics)
Semyon Alesker
ECM Barcelona (2000);
ICM Beijing (2002)
Noga Alon
ECM Budapest (1996);
ICM Beijing (2002)
Joseph Bernstein
ICM Berlin (1998)
Paul Biran
ECM Barcelona (2000);
ICM Beijing (2002);
ECM Stockholm (2004);
Nira Dyn
ICM Madrid (2006)
Moti Gitik
ICM Beijing (2002)
Boaz Klartag
ICM Madrid (2006)
ECM Amsterdam (2008)
Ehud Lehrer
Plenary talk in the World Congress of the Game Theory Society (2004)
Vitali Milman
ECM Budapest (1996);
ICM Berlin (1998)
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
ICM Beijing (2002)
Leonid Polterovich
ECM Budapest (1996);
ICM Berlin (1998)
Zeev Rudnick
ECM Barcelona (2000)
Yehuda Shalom
ECM Stockholm (2004);
ICM Madrid (2006)
Mikhail Sodin
ECM Stockholm (2004)
ICM Hyderabad (2010)
David Soudry
ICM Madrid (2006)
David Steinberg
International Conference on Design of Industrial Experiments (2008)
Marc Teboulle
1st International Conference on Continuous Optimization ICCOPT- I (2004)
Boris Tsirelson
ICM Berlin (1998)
Eli Turkel
International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM) (2004)
International Conferences Organized at Tel Aviv University
- 1st Multiple Comparison Procedures Conference (1996)
- Entire Functions in Modern Analysis (1997)
- ICOSAHOM98 (1998)
- Visions in Mathematics, Towards 2000 (1999)
- Workshop on Convex Geometric Analysis (2000)
- Representation Theory, Geometry and Automorphic Forms (2004)
- Workshop on Linear Algebraic Groups, Quadratic Forms and Related Topics (2004)
- Asymptotic Geometric Analysis (2005)
- Automorphic Forms and L-Functions (2006)
- Random Structures and Algorithms (2007)
- The State of Geometry and Functional Analysis (a conference in honor of Vitali Milman) (2009)
- Game Theory Conference: International Conferences Organized at Tel Aviv (2011)
Highly Cited Researchers
Noga Alon
Highly cited researcher, ISI Thomson
Yoav Benjamini and Daniel Yekutieli
The control of the false discovery rate in multiple testing under dependency, Annals of Statistics 29 (2001)
7th most cited paper in mathematics in 1998-2008, according to ISI Thomson
Israel Gohberg
Highly cited researcher, ISI Thomson
Yosef Hochberg
Highly cited researcher, ISI Thomson
Eli Turkel
Highly cited researcher, ISI Thomson
Prizes and Fellowships of our Graduate Students
The name of the student's advisor is in parenthesis.
Semyon Alesker
(Milman), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (1999)
Yaron Azrieli
(Lehrer) Best Paper Award, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Hamburg (2007)
Shiri Artstein
(Milman), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2006)
Paul Biran
(Polterovich), Landau Research Award (1998)
Hovav Dror
(Steinberg), Putter Prize of the Israel Statistical Association (2007)
Nir Gavish
(Fibich), winner of SIAM Student Paper Competition (2007)
Nir Halman
(Tamir), ORSIS excellence Prize (2008)
Shachar Kaufman
(Rosset), Best paper award, KDD2011, San Diego (2011)
Boaz Klartag
(Milman), Clore Fellowship (2003);
Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2005)
Gady Kozma
(Olevskii), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2002)
Asaf Levin
(Hassin), ORSIS excellence Prize (2004)
Sigal Levy
(Steinberg), Putter Prize of the Israel Statistical Association (2008)
Eyal Lubetzky
(Alon), Clore Fellowship
Einat Neumann Ben Ari
(Steinberg), Putter Prize of the Israel Statistical Association (2005)
Yaron Ostrover
(Polterovich), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2008)
Elad Paran
(Haran), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2010)
Omri Sarig
(Aaronson), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2002)
Asaf Shapira
(Alon), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2007)
Amit Singer
(Schuss), Nessyahu Prize for PhD Thesis (2007)
Sasha Sodin
(Milman), Adams Fellowship (2007)
Inna Zaslavsky-Paltiel
(Steinberg), Best Student Paper Award, Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security of the American Statistical Association (2004)
Academic (Tenured or Tenure-Tracked) Positions at Universities Held by the School's PhD Graduates (1996-2009)
Semyon Alesker
(Milman), Full Professor, TAU
Shiri Artstein-Avidan
(Milman), Senior Lecturer, TAU
Yaron Azrieli
(Lehrer), Assistant professor, Ohio State University
Amir Beck
(Teboulle), Senior Lecturer, Technion
Roman Bezrukavnikov
(Bernstein), Full Professor, MIT
Alexander Braverman
(Bernstein), Associate Professor, Brown University
Maxim Braverman
(Farber), Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Alina Chertock
(Abarbanel), Associate Professor, NC State
Adi Ditkowski
(Abarbanel), Senior Lecturer, TAU
Dennis Gaitsgory
(Bernstein), Full Professor, Harvard
Lilach Hadany
(Eshel), Senior Lecturer, TAU
Nir Halman
(Tamir), Lecturer, the Hebrew University (since Fall, 2009)
Ruth Heller
(Abramovich, Benjamini), Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
Boaz Ilan
(Fibich) Assistant Professor, University of California at Merced
Boaz Klartag
(Milman) Associate Professor, TAU
Igor Kliakhandler
(Sivashinsky), Associate Professor, Michigan Technological University
Gady Kozma
(Olevskii), Senior Lecturer, Weizmann Institute
Michael Krivelevich
(Alon), Full Professor, TAU
Alexander Kurganov
(Tadmor), Associate Professor, Tulane University
Vsevolod Lev
(Freiman), Associate Professor, University of Haifa at Oranim
Asaf Levin
(Hassin), Senior Lecturer, Technion
Doron Levy
(Tadmor), Associate Professor, University of Maryland at College Park
Alexander Litvak
(Gluskin, Milman), Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Boaz Nadler
(Schuss), Senior Researcher, Weizmann Institute
Israel Parmet
(Steinberg), Lecturer, Ben Gurion University
Anat Reiner-Ben Naim
(Benjamini), Senior Lecturer, Haifa University
Dan Romik
(Gilat), Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University
Omri Sarig
(Aaronson), Associate Professor, Penn State University
Guy Sella
(Eshel), Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University
Danny Segev
(Hassin), Lecturer, University of Haifa (since Fall 2009)
Eran Shmaya
(Lehrer), Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Amit Singer
(Schuss), Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Rann Smorodinsky
(Lehrer), Assistant Professor, Technion
Benjamin Sudakov
(Alon), Full Professor, UCLA
Roee Teper
(Lehrer), Assistant Professor, Pittsburgh University
Ilya Tyomkin
(Shustin), Lecturer, Ben Gurion University
Danny Yekutieli
(Benjamini), Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Last update: October 2009
