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Name:Ido Kanter, Professor
Website:http://idokanter.ph.biu.ac.il/index.htm
Email:kanter@mail.biu.ac.il
Room:415, building 202
Phone:(03) 03-5318467
Courses
27-437: Theory of information and methods of learning
86-821: Advanced statistical mechanics
Students
Efraim, Hadar
Peleg, Yitzhak
Kopelowitz, Evi
Zigzag, Meital

Research interests
  • Theoretical studies of condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, phase transitions, physics of disordered systems, theory of neural networks, optimization problems, information theory of complexity, quantum spin systems.

Activities
  • Theory of neural networks,
  • Cryptography,
  • Error-correcting codes,
  • Optimization problems
  • syncronization of chaotic lazers

CV
  • Eduational background:
  • B.Sc.,summa cum laude, Bar - Ilan University
  • Physics and Computer Science, 1983
  • Ph.D., Bar - Ilan University, Physics, 1987
  • Thesis topic: Theory of Spin Glasses and its Applications to Complex Problems in Mathematics and Biology
  • Thesis advisor: Professor H. Sompolinsky
  • Academic Positions:
  • 1996 - Professor, Bar - Ilan University
  • 1991 – 1996 Associate Professor, Bar - Ilan University
  • 1989 – 1991 Senior Lecturer, Bar - Ilan University
  • 1989 Visiting Research Fellow, Bell Laboratories
  • 1988 – 1989 Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University

Links
(c) Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University