Luca Trevisan

I am an associate professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

I am from Rome, where I studied at the University "La Sapienza", advised by Pierluigi Crescenzi. Before coming to Berkeley, I was a post-doc at MIT (with theTheory of Computing Group) and at DIMACS and then an assistant professor at Columbia University.

I am interested in Theoretical Computer Science.

Office hours: Wednesdays, 2-3pm, 679 Soda [No office hours February 13]
Quick links [CS278] [PAPERS] [Lecture Notes] [Theory Lunch] [in theory]


research

[PAPERS by topic]

[PAPERS by year]

[SLIDES]

[BIO]

grant reports
Research supported by NSF Career award

current students
Omid Etesami
Grant Schoenebeck
Madhur Tulsiani
James Cook

past students
Hoeteck Wee (PhD. 2007), now at CUNY
Kenji Obata (PhD. 2006), now CEO of Code Systems
Andrej Bogdanov (Ph.D. 2005), now at CUHK
Beini Zhou (M.S.2002)
Kumar Saurabh (M.S. 2001)

post-docs
Irit Dinur (2003-04)

[Theory Lunch]

[ECCC] [ACM ToCT]

[TheoryMatters]

current program committees
NONE!!

past program committees
ICALP'08
TAMC'08
STOC'08
FOCS'07
TAMC'07
LATIN'06
TCC'06
RANDOM'05
CCC'05
APPROX'04
STOC'03
TCS'02
RANDOM'01
ICALP'00
CCC'00
FOCS'99


teaching

[Lecture notes]

Past, present and planned courses Short Courses



other stuff

[In theory]

[Where to eat and drink in Berkeley]

[Books and Movies]

[Quotes] on theory of computing and other [random quotes]

Well said

Links

Real Battles and Empty Metaphors (Susan Sontag, NYT,9/10/02) [link]
The Faith Factor (Barbara Ehrenreich, TheNation, 11/11/04)
On 'MoralValues' It's Blue in a Landslide (Frank Rich, NYT, 11/14/04)
The Torturers Accept Your Apology (The Fafblog, 6/21/2005)

news
[BBC]
[NY Times]
[SF Chronicle]
[The Nation]
[la Repubblica]
[il manifesto]

news commentary
[Fafblog]
[The Onion]

worthy causes
[EFF]
[Lambda]
[ACLU]

movies
[Internet Movie DB]
[Oscars]
[PFA]
[Castro theater]


How to contact me

Voice: ++1 (510) 642 8006
Fax: ++1 (510) 642 5775
Email: luca@eecs dot berkeley dot edu
Snail mail
Luca Trevisan University of California at Berkeley
Computer Science Division
679 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
USA

luca@eecs dot berkeley dot edu
visits since Dec. 4, 2002