I would definitely try to invite Ron Shamir. But if you're worried about his appeal as a speaker, we could go for one of his former students, e.g. Amos Tanay (now has his own group at Weizmann). Or why not use our Broad connection to invite Aviv Regev ? S Yves Van de Peer wrote:
If it has to be someone from Europe, my first thought would be to round up the usual suspects from Israel, Uri Alon, Ron Shamir, etc., but that's not very original ... Well, we have never invited Ron Shamir. The problem is that he would be very interesting for our team to invite, but the last talk I've seen was not totally thrilling :-) But maybe it was just me ...
Tom
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