Johan Håstad

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Email: My user name is johanh and this should be followed by the at sign and then nada.kth.se
Phone:+46 8 790 62 89
Fax:+46 8 790 09 30
Address:Nada, KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address:Osquars backe 2, floor 4, room 1435
Home address:Högstigen 16, 182 73 Stocksund, +46-8-755 2111


I am professor in computer science in the theoretical computer science group at CSC, the school of Computer Science and Communication at KTH. The safest way to reach me is by email but otherwise you can try phone number +46-(0)70-5655211.

Open Positions

I am currently looking for at least one post doc and one graduate student in my project on approximation of NP-hard optimization problems. Deadline for applications is February 15 2010.

Teaching

During fall 2009 and spring 2010 I will teach a graduate course named the Theoreticians toolkit.

During the second half of spring I will teach complexity theory.

Professional activities

I am a member of the program committees of Theory of Cryptography Conference 2010 and Crypto 2010.

I am deputy direction of CIAM an center of excellense sponsored by SSF, the foundatin for strategic research.

I am an editor for the journals Theory of Computing, Computational Complexity, Random Structures and Algorithms and ACM Transactions on Computation Theory.

Some links


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