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lang=HE><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p>I am a faculty member at the <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 <span class=SpellE>Sheva</span></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; <span class=SpellE>neimano</span> at <span class=SpellE>cs</span> dot <span class=SpellE>bgu</span> dot ac dot <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>il</span></span> <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 dir=RTL style='text-align:left;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed'><span lang=HE><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=right dir=RTL style='text-align:left;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><span dir=LTR style='font-size:16.0pt'>Teaching</span></b><b><span lang=HE style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></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 <span class=SpellE>Combinatorics</span></a> <span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=right dir=RTL style='text-align:left;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed'><span dir=LTR><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=right dir=RTL style='text-align:left;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed'><span class=SpellE><b><span lang=HE style='font-size:16.0pt'>Research</span></b></span><b><span lang=HE style='font-size:16.0pt'> <span class=SpellE>Interests</span></span></b></p> <p align=right dir=RTL style='text-align:left;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed'><span class=SpellE><span lang=HE>My</span></span><span lang=HE> <span class=SpellE>research</span> <span class=SpellE>focuses</span> <span class=SpellE>on</span> &nbsp;<span class=SpellE>theoretical</span> <span class=SpellE>computer</span> <span class=SpellE>science</span>, <span class=SpellE>more</span> <span class=SpellE>specifically</span> <span class=SpellE>combinatorics</span>, <span class=SpellE>discrete</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class=SpellE>geometry</span>, <span class=SpellE>metric</span> <span class=SpellE>spaces</span>, <span class=SpellE>and</span> <span class=SpellE>their</span> <span class=SpellE>application</span> <span class=SpellE>to</span> <span class=SpellE>computer</span> <span class=SpellE>science</span> <span class=SpellE>and</span> <span class=SpellE>algorithms</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=right dir=RTL style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left;direction: rtl;unicode-bidi:embed'><span lang=HE><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h1><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Online Papers<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1> <p><strong><a href="thesis.pdf"><span class=SpellE><!-- </A>--><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Ph.d</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> 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> <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> Neiman, The Hebrew university, Jerusalem, 2010.<br> <span class=SpellE><u>Ph.d</u></span><u> committee</u>: Prof. <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> (advisor), Prof. Gil <span class=SpellE>Kalai</span>, Prof. <span class=SpellE>Nati</span> <span class=SpellE>Linial</span>. </span><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> <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> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> Neiman.<br> Advances in Mathematics, 228(6), pp. 3026-3126, 2011.<br> [<a href="adv_abs.txt"><span class=GramE>abstract</span></a>] [Journal version <a href="j37.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>]&nbsp;<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Assouad's</span></strong></span></span><span class=GramE><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Theorem with Dimension Independent of the <span class=SpellE>Snowflaking</span></span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br> <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Assaf</span></span><span class=GramE> <span class=SpellE>Naor</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> Neiman.</span><br> <span class=SpellE>Revista</span> <span class=SpellE>Matematica</span> <span class=SpellE>Iberoamericana</span></span> 28 (2012), no. 4, pages 1-21.<br> [<a href="assouad_abs.txt"><span class=GramE>abstract</span></a>] [Journal version <a href="Naor-Neiman.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></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<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Metric <span class=SpellE>Embeddings</span> with Relaxed Guarantees</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> I. Abraham, Y. <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span>, T-H. Chan, K. <span class=SpellE>Dhamdhere</span>, <span class=SpellE>A.Gupta</span>, J. Kleinberg, O. Neiman and A. <span class=SpellE>Slivkins</span>.<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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>]&nbsp;[talk: <a href="Slack_talk.ppt"><span class=SpellE>ppt</span></a>]<br> <br> <strong><!-- </A>-->Advances in Metric Embedding Theory</strong>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] [talk: <a href="advances_talk2.ppt"><span class=SpellE>ppt</span></a>]<br> <br> <strong>Embedding Metrics into <span class=SpellE>Ultrametrics</span> and Graphs into Spanning Trees with Constant Average Distortion</strong>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>][Talk <a href="Embedding%20Metric%20Spaces%20into%20Trees.ppt"><span class=SpellE>ppt</span></a>] <br> <br> <strong>Local Embedding of Metric Spaces</strong>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></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> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>]<br> <br> <strong>Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees</strong>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] [Full version <a href="ABN-ARXIV08.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>]<br> <br> <strong>On Low Dimensional Local <span class=SpellE>Embeddings</span></strong>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] </span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Volume in General Metric Spaces</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham, <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span>, <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] </span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bandwidth and Low Dimensional Embedding</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<br> <span class=SpellE>Yair</span> <span class=SpellE>Bartal</span>, Douglas Carroll, Adam <span class=SpellE>Meyerson</span> and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] [Full version <a href="BW-APPROX3.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span>]</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, <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> Neiman and <span class=SpellE>Mishael</span> 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"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] [Full version <a href="job102.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></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> <span class=SpellE>Alexandr</span> <span class=SpellE>Andoni</span>, Moses S. <span class=SpellE>Charikar</span>, <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> Neiman and <span class=SpellE>Huy</span> 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="dim-lower_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [FOCS version <a href="dim2-focs.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></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> <span class=SpellE>Ittai</span> Abraham and <span class=SpellE>Ofer</span> Neiman.<br> 44th Ann. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, June 2012. <span class=GramE>(<a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/~stoc2012/default.htm">STOC 2012</a>).</span> <br> [<a href="spanning_abs.txt">abstract</a>] [STOC version <a href="spanning-camera2.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>] [Full version <a href="spanning-full1.pdf"><span class=SpellE>pdf</span></a>]<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]></span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>