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<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/">Computer Science Department</a><span lang=HE dir=RTL><br> <a href="http://www.bgu.ac.il/"><span lang=EN-US dir=LTR>Ben-Gurion University</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba">Beer Sheva</a>,<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel">Israel</a><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Email:&nbsp; neimano at cs dot bgu dot ac dot il <span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Phone: +972-8-6428113<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Office: building 37, room 215<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=right style='text-align:right'><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Teaching<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Fall 2011:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~appa121/Main">Approximation Algorithms</a> <span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Spring 2012:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dsc122/Main">Discrete Structures and Combinatorics</a> <span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Fall 2012:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~cc131/Main">Complexity</a>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span><a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~algot131/Main">Algorithms 2</a><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Spring 2013:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dsc132/Main">Discrete Structures and Combinatorics</a> <span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:16.0pt'>Research Interests</span></b><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>My<span class=apple-converted-space><span style='orphans: 2;widows: 2; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing: 0px'>&nbsp;</span>research&nbsp;focuses&nbsp;on&nbsp;&nbsp;theoretical&nbsp;computer&nbsp;science,&nbsp;more&nbsp;specifically&nbsp;combinatorics,&nbsp;discrete&nbsp;&nbsp;geometry,&nbsp;metric&nbsp;spaces,&nbsp;and&nbsp;their&nbsp;application&nbsp;to&nbsp;computer&nbsp;science&nbsp;and&nbsp;algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Postdoc Position Available<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p>Details are <a href="postdoc.htm">here</a><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h1><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Online Papers<o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p><strong><a href="thesis.pdf"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><!-- </A>-->Ph.d Thesis</span></a> </strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>: A Novel Approach to Embedding of Metric Spaces. </span></strong><span style='font-size: 11.0pt'><br> Ofer Neiman, The Hebrew university, Jerusalem, 2010.<br> <u>Ph.d committee</u>: Prof. Yair Bartal (advisor), Prof. Gil Kalai, Prof. Nati Linial. </span></p> <p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Journal Papers<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2> <p><strong><!-- </A>--><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Advances in Metric Embedding Theory</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> Advances in Mathematics, 228(6), pp. 3026-3126, 2011.<br> [<a href="adv_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [Journal version <a href="j37.pdf">pdf</a>]&nbsp;<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Assouad's Theorem with Dimension Independent of the Snowflaking</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Assaf Naor and Ofer Neiman.<br> Revista Matematica Iberoamericana</span> 28 (2012), no. 4, pages 1-21.<br> [<a href="assouad_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [Journal version <a href="Naor-Neiman.pdf">pdf</a>]<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Conference Papers<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2> <p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Metric Embeddings with Relaxed Guarantees</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> I. Abraham, Y. Bartal, T-H. Chan, K. Dhamdhere, A.Gupta, J. Kleinberg, O. Neiman and A. Slivkins.<br> 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, October 2005. (<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~FOCS05/">FOCS 2005</a>).<br> [<a href="relax_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [FOCS version <a href="slack_conf.pdf">pdf</a>]&nbsp;[talk: <a href="Slack_talk.ppt">ppt</a>]<br> <br> <strong><!-- </A>-->Advances in Metric Embedding Theory</strong>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> 38th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, May 2006. (<a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/stoc06/">STOC 2006</a>). <br> [<a href="adv_abs">abstract</a>] [STOC version <a href="advances-stoc.pdf">pdf</a>] [talk: <a href="advances_talk2.ppt">ppt</a>]<br> <br> <strong>Embedding Metrics into Ultrametrics and Graphs into Spanning Trees with Constant Average Distortion</strong>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> 18th ACM-Siam Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 2007. (<a href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/da07/">SODA 2007</a>). <br> [<a href="tree_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [SODA version <a href="tree33.pdf">pdf</a>][Talk <a href="Embedding%20Metric%20Spaces%20into%20Trees.ppt">ppt</a>] <br> <br> <strong>Local Embedding of Metric Spaces</strong>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> 39th Ann. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, June 2007. (<a href="http://www2.research.att.com/~dsj/stoc07.html">STOC 2007</a>)</span><br> [<a href="local_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [STOC version <a href="local-final.pdf">pdf</a>]<br> <br> <strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Embedding Metric Spaces in their Intrinsic Dimension</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> 19th ACM-Siam Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 2008. (<a href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/da08/">SODA 2008</a>). <br> [<a href="doubling_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [SODA version <a href="ABN-SODA08.pdf">pdf</a>]<br> <br> <strong>Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees</strong>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, October 2008. (<a href="http://focs2008.org/">FOCS 2008</a>). <br> [<a href="span_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [FOCS version <a href="ABN-FOCS08.pdf">pdf</a>] [Full version <a href="ABN-ARXIV08.pdf">pdf</a>]<br> <br> <strong>On Low Dimensional Local Embeddings</strong>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman.<br> 20th ACM-Siam Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 2009. (<a href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/da09/">SODA 2009</a>). <br> [<a href="dimlocal_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [SODA version <a href="dimlocal-soda.pdf">pdf</a>] </span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Volume in General Metric Spaces</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal, Ofer Neiman and Leonard Schulman.<br> 18th Ann. European Symposium on Algorithms, September 2010. (<a href="http://algo2010.csc.liv.ac.uk/esa/">ESA 2010</a>). <br> [<a href="volume_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [ESA version <a href="volume-esa.pdf">pdf</a>] </span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bandwidth and Low Dimensional Embedding</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Yair Bartal, Douglas Carroll, Adam Meyerson and Ofer Neiman.<br> 14th. International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, August 2011. (<a href="http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/2011/index.php">APPROX 2011</a>). <br> [<a href="BW_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [APPROX version <a href="BW-camera.pdf">pdf</a>] [Full version <a href="BW-APPROX3.pdf">pdf]</a></span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dynamic Inefficiency: Anarchy without Stability</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Noam Berger, Michal Feldman, Ofer Neiman and Mishael Rosenthal.<br> 4th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, October 2011. (<a href="http://sagt2011.dia.unisa.it/">SAGT 2011</a>). <br> [<a href="jobs_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [SAGT version <a href="job-camera.pdf">pdf</a>] [Full version <a href="job102.pdf">pdf</a>]</span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Near Linear Lower Bounds for Dimension Reduction in L1</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> Alexandr Andoni, Moses S. Charikar, Ofer Neiman and Huy L. Nguyen.<br> 52th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundation of Computer Science, October 2011. (<a href="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/FOCS11/">FOCS 2011</a>). <br> [<a href="dimension_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [FOCS version <a href="dim2-focs.pdf">pdf</a>]</span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>Using Petal-Decompositions to Build a Low Stretch Spanning Tree</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt; color:windowtext'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br> Ittai Abraham and Ofer Neiman.<br> 44th Ann. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, June 2012. (<a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/~stoc2012/default.htm">STOC 2012</a>). <br> [<a href="spanning_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [STOC version <a href="spanning-camera2.pdf">pdf</a>] [Full version <a href="spanning-full1.pdf">pdf</a>]<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>Beck s Three Permutations Conjecture: A Counterexample and Some Consequences</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br> Alantha Newman, Ofer Neiman and Alexandar Nikolov.<br> 53th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundation of Computer Science, October 2012. (<a href="http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/focs12/">FOCS 2012</a>).<br> [<a href="discrepancy_abs.txt">abstract</a>][FOCS version <a href="beck-conf.pdf">pdf</a>] [Full version <a href="beck-focs12.pdf">pdf</a>]</span><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext'>Simple Deterministic Algorithms for Fully Dynamic Maximal Matching</span></b><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;color:windowtext'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br> Ofer Neiman and Shay Solomon.<br> 45th Ann. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, June 2013. (<a href="http://theory.stanford.edu/stoc2013/">STOC 2013</a>). <br> [<a href="matching_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [STOC version <a href="matching-stoc.pdf">pdf</a>]</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> </body> </html>