Two new Senior Fellows to join ETH-ITS in February, more to follow
Computer scientist Adi Shamir and mathematician Alex Lubotzky are the first new Senior Fellows joining the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies in 2015.
Adi Shamir, of the Weizmann Institute, co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem and of several other inventions in cryptography, has made several important contributions to cryptography and other areas of computer science. He just arrived to Zurich and will spend 6 months at the ETH-ITS both in 2015 and in 2016.
Alex Lubotzky, of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will join the ETH-ITS in February 2015 and remain until August. He is a leading researcher in discrete groups, combinatorics and expander graphs, with applications ranging from number theory to geometry and computer science. He will also return for a second period in 2016.
Both Shamir and Lubotzky will give a talk in the ITS Science Colloquium series. They are the first two new Senior Fellows of 2015. They will be followed by Harvard condensed matter physicist Eugene Demler, who will come in May and returning Senior Fellow Terry Hwa, who will spend part of the spring at the Institute. Robert Brandenberger, cosmologist at McGill University and financial mathematician Walter Schachermayer, of the University of Vienna, will both spend a year at the Institute starting in the summer 2015.