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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Overview

Assaf Naor is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has a research profile spanning both Mathematics and Computer Science, with a total of 24 and 12 publications respectively in these fields. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

The main topics addressed in Naor's research include:

  • Point processes and geometric inequalities
  • Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
  • Advanced Banach Space Theory
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Cellular Automata and Applications
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Advanced Harmonic Analysis Research

Naor has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Acta Mathematica
  • Geometry & Topology
  • Israel Journal of Mathematics
  • Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Foliated corona decompositions" (2022, Acta Mathematica)
  • "An average John theorem" (2021, Geometry & Topology)
  • "Cayley graphs that have a quantum ergodic eigenbasis" (2023, Israel Journal of Mathematics)
  • "Concentration of Markov chains with bounded moments" (2020, Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques)
  • "An integer parallelotope with small surface area" (2023, Journal of Functional Analysis)

In terms of collaboration, Naor has worked extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Oded Regev, Ashwin Sah, Mehtaab Sawhney, Yufei Zhao, and Robert M. Young.

Additionally, Naor has published a book titled Extension, Separation and Isomorphic Reverse Isoperimetry (2024) with the Memoirs of the European Mathematical Society.

Naor was recognized as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The two possible values of the chromatic number of a random graph

    Dimitris Achlioptas;Assaf Naor

  • On metric Ramsey-type phenomena

    Yair Bartal;Nathan Linial;Manor Mendel;Assaf Naor

  • Approximating the cut-norm via Grothendieck's inequality

    Noga Alon;Assaf Naor

  • Approximating the Cut-Norm via Grothendieck's Inequality

    Noga Alon;Assaf Naor

  • Rigorous location of phase transitions in hard optimization problems

    Dimitris Achlioptas;Assaf Naor;Yuval Peres

  • Euclidean distortion and the sparsest cut

    Sanjeev Arora;James R. Lee;Assaf Naor

  • A probabilistic approach to the geometry of the ℓᵨⁿ-ball

    Franck Barthe;Olivier Guedon;Shahar Mendelson;Assaf Naor

  • Solution of Shannon's problem on the monotonicity of entropy

    Shiri Artstein;Keith M. Ball;Franck Barthe;Assaf Naor

  • Nearest-neighbor-preserving embeddings

    Piotr Indyk;Assaf Naor

  • The surface measure and cone measure on the sphere of $ll_p^n$

    Assaf Naor;Assaf Naor

  • Nonembeddability theorems via Fourier analysis

    Subhash Khot;Assaf Naor

  • Extending Lipschitz functions via random metric partitions

    James R. Lee;Assaf Naor

  • Euclidean distortion and the sparsest cut

    Sanjeev Arora;James R. Lee;Assaf Naor

  • Projecting the surface measure of the sphere of ℓpn

    Assaf Naor;Dan Romik

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE RIBE PROGRAM

    Assaf Naor

  • Lower bounds on locality sensitive hashing

    Rajeev Motwani;Assaf Naor;Rina Panigrahi

  • Ramsey partitions and proximity data structures

    Manor Mendel;Assaf Naor

  • Poincaré inequalities, embeddings, and wild groups

    Assaf Naor;Lior Silberman

  • Planar Earthmover Is Not in $L_1$

    Assaf Naor;Gideon Schechtman

  • Measured descent: a new embedding method for finite metrics

    R. Krauthgamer;J. R. Lee;M. Mendel;Assaf Naor

  • Metric cotype

    Manor Mendel;Assaf Naor

Frequent Co-Authors

Subhash Khot
Subhash Khot Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
James R. Lee
James R. Lee University of Washington
Gideon Schechtman
Gideon Schechtman Weizmann Institute of Science
Oded Regev
Oded Regev Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Nathan Linial
Nathan Linial Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thomas Vidick
Thomas Vidick California Institute of Technology
Dimitris Achlioptas
Dimitris Achlioptas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Yair Bartal
Yair Bartal Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuomas Hytönen
Tuomas Hytönen Aalto University
János Pach
János Pach Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

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