Celebrating 100 Years: Avi 70 + CSDM 30
Organizers: Irit Dinur (Betsey Lombard Overdeck Theory of Computing Professor, School of Mathematics) and Amir Shpilka (Tel Aviv University)
Dates: June 14-18, 2027
The Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics is pleased to announce a conference celebrating Avi Wigderson’s 70th birthday and retirement, together with 30 years of the Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics program (CSDM) at IAS. The conference will honor both Avi’s extraordinary scientific legacy and his transformative role in shaping the intellectual community around theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics at IAS.
Avi Wigderson has made foundational contributions across an exceptional range of areas in theoretical computer science and mathematics. His work has had a profound impact on complexity theory broadly, and especially on cryptography, circuit and proof complexity, communication complexity, pseudorandomness, and expander graphs; in recent years, he has also opened deep and unexpected connections to invariant theory. These contributions have shaped major research directions and influenced generations of mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists.
Confirmed Speakers (all alumni of CSDM):
Robert Andrews, University of Waterloo
Boaz Barak, Harvard University
Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University
Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Gil Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Yotam Dikstein, Tel Aviv University
Fernando Granha Jeronimo, University of Illinois
Pavel Hrubes, Charles University
Valentine Kabanets, Simon Fraser University
Tali Kaufman, Bar Ilan University
Subhash Khot, NYU
Swastik Kopparty, University of Toronto
Parvesh Kothari, Princeton University
Raghu Meka, University of California, Los Angeles
Dor Minzer, MIT
Ankur Moitra, MIT
Shay Moran, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University
Jinyoung Park, NYU
Noga Ren-Zewi, University of Haifa
Shubhangi Saraf, University of Toronto
Benjamin Sudakov, ETH Zurich
Avishay Tal, University of California, Berkeley
Salil Vadhan, Harvard University
Emanuele Viola, Northeastern University
Yuval Wigderson, ETH - ITS
R. Ryan Williams, MIT
Amir Yehudayoff, University of Copenhagen
Or Zamir, Tel Aviv University
Jeroen Zuiddam, University of Amsterdam
More information to come.