Boaz Tsaban
Professor Boaz Tsaban | |
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בועז צבאן | |
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Born | 6 February 1973 Or Yehuda |
Nationality | Israeli |
Awards | Nessyahu prize, Wolf Foundation Krill Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Bar Ilan University |
Doctoral advisor | Hillel Furstenberg |
Boaz Tsaban (born February 1973) is an Israeli mathematician on the faculty of Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include selection principles within set theory and nonabelian cryptology, within mathematical cryptology.
Biography
Boaz Tsaban grew up in Or Yehuda, a city near Tel Aviv. At the age of 16 he was selected with other high school students to attend the first cycle of a special preparation program in mathematics, at Bar-Ilan University, being admitted to regular mathematics courses at the University a year later. He completed his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D.[1] degrees with highest distinctions. Two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Hebrew University were followed by a three-year Koshland Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science before he joined the Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University in 2007.
Academic career
In the field of selection principles, Tsaban devised the method of omission of intervals[2] for establishing covering properties of sets of real numbers that have certain combinatorial structures. In nonabelian cryptology he devised the algebraic span method[3][4] that solved a number of computational problems that underlie a number of proposals for nonabelian public-key cryptographic schemes (such as the commutator key exchange).
Awards and recognition
Tsaban's doctoral dissertation, supervised by Hillel Furstenberg, won, with Irit Dinur, the Nessyahu prize[5] for the best Ph.D. in mathematics in Israel in 2003. In 2009 he won the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize[6] for Excellence in Scientific Research.
References
- ^ Boaz Tsaban at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Tsaban, Boaz (2009). "Menger's and Hurewicz's Problems: Solutions from "The Book" and refinements". arXiv:0909.5645 [math.GN].
- ^ Tsaban, Boaz (2015). "Polynomial-Time Solutions of Computational Problems in Noncommutative-Algebraic Cryptography". Journal of Cryptology. 28 (3): 601–622. arXiv:1210.8114. doi:10.1007/s00145-013-9170-9. S2CID 2986069.
- ^ Ben-Zvi, Adi; Kalka, Arkadius; Tsaban, Boaz (2018). "Cryptanalysis via Algebraic Spans". Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 10991. pp. 255–274. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96884-1_9. ISBN 978-3-319-96883-4. S2CID 11586244.
- ^ "Nessyahu prize". 20 January 2017.
- ^ "Boaz Tsaban". 8 January 2020.
External links
- Boaz Tsaban's homepage at Bar-Ilan University