Boaz Tsaban

Short description: Israeli mathematician

Professor

Boaz Tsaban

בועז צבאן

Born| 6 February 1973

Or Yehuda

Nationality| Israeli
Awards| Nessyahu prize, Wolf Foundation Krill Prize
Scientific career
Fields| Mathematics
Institutions| Bar Ilan University
Doctoral advisor| Hillel Furstenberg

Boaz Tsaban (born February 1973) is an Israeli mathematician on the faculty of Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include selection principles within set theory and nonabelian cryptology, within mathematical cryptology.

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Academic career
* 3 Awards and recognition
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Biography

Boaz Tsaban grew up in Or Yehuda, a city near Tel Aviv. At the age of 16 he was selected with other high school students to attend the first cycle of a special preparation program in mathematics, at Bar-Ilan University, being admitted to regular mathematics courses at the University a year later. He completed his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D.[1] degrees with highest distinctions. Two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Hebrew University were followed by a three-year Koshland Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science before he joined the Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University in 2007.

## Academic career

In the field of selection principles, Tsaban devised the method of omission of intervals[2] for establishing covering properties of sets of real numbers that have certain combinatorial structures. In nonabelian cryptology he devised the algebraic span method[3][4] that solved a number of computational problems that underlie a number of proposals for nonabelian public-key cryptographic schemes (such as the commutator key exchange).

## Awards and recognition

Tsaban's doctoral dissertation, supervised by Hillel Furstenberg, won, with Irit Dinur, the Nessyahu prize[5] for the best Ph.D. in mathematics in Israel in 2003. In 2009 he won the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize[6] for Excellence in Scientific Research.

## References

1. ↑ Boaz Tsaban at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ Tsaban, Boaz (2009). "Menger's and Hurewicz's Problems: Solutions from "The Book" and refinements". arXiv:0909.5645 [math.GN].
3. ↑ Tsaban, Boaz (2015). "Polynomial-Time Solutions of Computational Problems in Noncommutative-Algebraic Cryptography". Journal of Cryptology 28 (3): 601–622. doi:10.1007/s00145-013-9170-9.
4. ↑ Ben-Zvi, Adi; Kalka, Arkadius; Tsaban, Boaz (2018). "Cryptanalysis via Algebraic Spans". Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 10991. pp. 255–274. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96884-1_9. ISBN 978-3-319-96883-4.
5. ↑ "Nessyahu prize". 20 January 2017. https://imudotorgdotil.wordpress.com/nessyahu-prize.
6. ↑ "Boaz Tsaban". 8 January 2020. https://wolffund.org.il/2020/01/08/boaz-tsaban/.

## External links

* Boaz Tsaban's homepage at Bar-Ilan University

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