Elchanan Mossel

אלחנן מוסל

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I am from Jerusalem where I was awarded a PhD in Math at the Hebrew University, advised by Yuval Peres.

Before starting my position, I was a post-doc at the Theory Group of Microsoft Research , Redmond and a Miller fellow in Statistics and Computer Science here at U.C. Berkeley. During the years 2008-2010 I was at the Weizmann Institute.

Research Interests: Combinatorial Statistics, Discrete Fourier Analysis and Influences, Randomized Algorithms, Computational Complexity, MCMC, Markov Random Fields, Social Choice, Game Theory, Evolution.

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Graduate Students:

Sebastien Roch (graduated 2007; Currently at UCLA)

Allan Sly (graduated 2009; back at U.C. Berkeley)

Arnab Sen (graduated 2010; advised jointly with Steve Evans; currently at Cambridge)

Omer Tamuz (Weizmann Institute)

Miklos Z. Racz (U.C. Berkeley)

Joe Neeman (U.C. Berkeley)

PostDocs mentored:

Jan Arpe (currently at Bertelsmann Foundation)

Nathan Keller (at Weizmann institute; currently at Bar Ilan University)

Tamir Tuller (at Weizmann institute; currently at Tel-Aviv University)

Grants and Awards:

I am currently supported by NSF (DMS 1106999 ) and ONR (DOD ONR grant N000141110140)

In the past I was supported by NSF (DMS 0528488 & 0504245 Career award 0548249)and ONR (N0014-07-1-05-06) BSF(2004105 - this grant was also awarded the ``Bergman prize''), by a Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics and by a Miller fellowship.

At Weizmann I received grants from ISF (710279), EU (PIRG04-GA-2008-239317) and the Minerva Foundation

Recent Professional Activity:

Winter 2012: Winter School on Discrete Fourier Analysis

Simons Symposia on Analysis of Boolean functions - new directions and applications

I am a member of the editorial board of Electronic Journal of Probability and Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse

Teaching:

Spring 2012: I am a member at MSRI Random Spatial Process Program

Old Seminars:

Neyman Seminar (Sp 08) Probability Seminar (Fa 06) Neyman Seminar (Fa 05)

Old courses:

FA11: [CS 174 - Randomized Algorithms (FA 11)]

FA10: [CS 294 (063) / Econ 207 A / Math C223A / Stat 206 - Social Choice and Networks]