The Institute for Advanced Studies

Research Groups 2010-11

     

  • ENCOUNTERING SCRIPTURE IN OVERLAPPING CULTURES: EARLY JEWISH, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM STRATEGIES OF READING AND THEIR CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS

    September 1, 2010 - February 28 ,2011

    Mordechai Z. Cohen (Yeshiva University)
    Meir Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University)

    Fellows
    Adele Berlin (University of Maryland)
    Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)
    Sidney Griffith (The Catholic University of America)
    Jon D. Whitman (The Hebrew University)
    James Kugel (Bar-Ilan University)
    Meira Polliack (Tel Aviv University)

  • LANGLANDS DUALITY IN REPRESENTATION THEORY AND GAUGE THEORY

    September 1, 2010 - February 28 ,2011

    David Kazhdan (The Hebrew University)

    Fellows
    Joseph Bernstein (Tel Aviv University)
    Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
    Alexander Braverman (Brown University)
    Michael Finkelberg (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
    Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard University)
    Sergei Gukov (Caltech)
    Anton Kapustin (Caltech)
    Yakov Varshavsky (The Hebrew University)


  • ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY: THE NEXT DECADE

    March 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011

    Noam Nissan (The Hebrew University)
    Michal Feldman (The Hebrew University)

    Fellows
    Amos Fiat (Tel Aviv University)
    Nicole Immorlica (Northwestern University)
    Ehud Kalai (Northwestern University)
    Anna Karlin (University of Washington)
    Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University)
    Yoav Shoham (Stanford University)
    Eva Tardos (Cornell University)


  • COMPUTATION AND THE BRAIN

    March 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011

    Oron Shagrir (The Hebrew University)
    Eli Dresner (Tel Aviv University)

    Fellows
    William Bechtel (UC San Diego)
    Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
    Robert J. Matthews (Rutgers University)
    Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri – St. Louis)
    Hilla Jacobson-Horwitz (Ben-Gurion University)
    Itamar Pitowsky (The Hebrew University)

  • CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWS AND SLAVS: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JUDEO-SLAVIC INTERACTION AND CROSS-FERTILIZATION

    March 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011

    Moshe Taube (The Hebrew University)
    Alexander Kulik (The Hebrew University)

    Fellows
    Anatolii A. Alekseev (St. Petersburg University)
    Andrei Orlov (Marquette University)
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University)
    Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath (Stockholm University)
    Judith Kalik (The Hebrew University)
    Dan Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)


  • SOVEREIGNTY, GLOBAL JUSTICE AND THE ETHICS OF WAR

    March 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011

    Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University)
    Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv University)

    Fellows
    Judith Lichtenberg (Georgetown University)
    David J. Luban (Georgetown University)
    Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)
    Michael Walzer (Princeton University)
    Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan University)
    Chaim Gans (Tel Aviv University)