Irit Dinur
Israeli computer scientist
Irit Dinur (Hebrew : אירית דינור) is an Israeli computer scientist. She is professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science .[ 1] In 2024 she was appointed a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study .[ 2] Her research is in foundations of computer science and in combinatorics , and especially in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation .[ 3]
Biography
Irit Dinur earned her doctorate in 2002 from the school of computer science in Tel Aviv University , advised by Shmuel Safra ; her thesis was entitled On the Hardness of Approximating the Minimum Vertex Cover and The Closest Vector in a Lattice .[ 4] She joined the Weizmann Institute after visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey , NEC , and the University of California, Berkeley .
Dinur published in 2006 a new proof of the PCP theorem that was significantly simpler than previous proofs of the same result.[ 5]
Awards and recognition
In 2007, she was given the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in Computer Science by Yad Hanadiv .[ 6] She was a plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians .[ 7] In 2012, she won the Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics , given by the Israel Mathematical Union .[ 8] She was the William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at Harvard University in 2012–2013.[ 9] In 2019, she won the Gödel Prize for her paper "The PCP theorem by gap amplification".[ 10]
References
^ Faculty listing , Weizmann Institute Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, retrieved 2014-06-18.
^ "Three World-Leading Mathematicians Join IAS Faculty - Press Release | Institute for Advanced Study" . July 2024.
^ Research interests of faculty members , Weizmann Institute Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, retrieved 2014-06-18.
^ School of Computer Science Thesis Repository , Tel Aviv University, accessed 2014-06-18.
^ Radhakrishnan, Jaikumar; Sudan, Madhu (2007), "On Dinur's proof of the PCP theorem", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , New Series, 44 (1): 19–61, doi :10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01143-8 , MR 2265009 .
^ Michael Bruno Memorial Award recipients Archived 2018-10-12 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2014-06-18.
^ ICM2010 — Avila, Dinur, plenary lectures , Tim Gowers , August 30, 2010.
^ EMS e-News 4, September 2012 Archived 2013-06-12 at the Wayback Machine , European Mathematical Society , retrieved 2014-06-18.
^ Irit Dinur , Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, retrieved 2014-06-18.
^ EATCS 2019 Gödel Prize , retrieved 2019-09-11.
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