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Manor Mendel, Professor

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The Open University of Israel Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 1 University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-9-778-1453 Email:manorme@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Algorithms and geometry in discrete metric spaces
  • Metric geometry
  • Nonlinear geometry of Banach spaces
  • Optimization algorithms
  • Data structures
  • Online algorithms

Manor Mendel is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
His scientific interests include metric geometry and its applications for algorithms, Banach spaces, metric measure theory and differential geometry

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2002
Ph.D.  School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University
1991
B.Sc.  Mathematics and Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude), School of Mathematics & Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University
2014 - present
Full Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science Departmant, The Open University of Israel
2010 - 2014
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, The Open University of Israel
2012 - 2013
Member, Institute for Advanced Study
2012
Visiting Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Washington
2011
Visiting Researcher, Theory Group, Microsoft Research Redmond
2007 - 2010
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Division, The Open University of Israel
2005 - 2007
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Division, The Open University of Israel
2004 - 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow at The California Institute of Technology's Information Science and Technology
2003 - 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2001 - 2003
Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hebrew University

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Alexandros Eskenazis, Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal. Invent. Math. 217 (2019), no. 3, 833–886

​Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Expanders with respect to Hadamard spaces and random graphs. Duke Math. J. 164 (2015), no. 8, 1471–1548

Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Nonlinear spectral calculus and super-expanders. Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS 119 no. 1, 1-95, 2014

Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Ultrametric skeletons.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(48): 19256-19262, 2013

Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Ultrametric subsets with large Hausdorff dimension. Inventiones mathematicae 192(1): 1-54, 2013

Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Metric cotype, Annals of Mathematics 168 (2008), no. 1, 247-298

Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor, Ramsey partitions and proximity data structures, Journal of European Mathematical Society 9, no. 2 253-275, 2007

Sariel Har-Peled and Manor Mendel, Fast construction of nets in low dimensional metrics and their applications, SIAM Journal on Computing 35 (2006), no. 5, 1148-1184

Robert Krauthgamer, James R. Lee, Manor Mendel, and Assaf Naor, Measured descent: A new embedding method for finite metric spaces, Geometric and Functional Analysis 15, no. 4, 839-858, 2005

Yair Bartal, Nathan Linial, Manor Mendel, and Assaf Naor, On metric Ramsey-type phenomena, Annals of Mathematics 162 (2005), no. 2, 643-709

Manor Mendel, Introduction to Expander graphs. The Open University of Israel, 2020 (Hebrew, 232 pages)