Invited speakers

There will be two invited talks at SIROCCO this year. The invited speakers will be Prof. David Peleg and Dr. Colin Cooper.

David Peleg is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences, and the present dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of David Harel. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals. Prof. Peleg is the recipient of this year's SIROCCO Award.

Colin Cooper is a senior lecturer at King's College London, at the Algorithms Design Group of the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include probabilistic combinatorics: random graphs, random boolean matrices, the probabilistic method, and random walks. He has published numerous notable research papers on mathematical models of information in web graphs, improving our understanding of the behaviour of dynamic networks.