Zeev Dvir is currently a postdoc in the school of mathematics at the IAS in Princeton NJ. He got his Ph. D. from the Weizmann Institute in Israel in 2008. His advisors were Ran Raz and Amir Shpilka. He is interested mainly in questions in computational complexity that have a connection with pure mathematics. He likes to play the guitar and do yoga.

Avi Wigderson was born in Haifa, Israel in 1956, and received his Ph. D. in 1983 at Princeton University under Dick Lipton. He enjoys and is fascinated with studying the power and limits of efficient computation, and the remarkable impact of this field on understanding our world. Avi's other major source of fascination and joy are his three kids, Eyal, Einat, and Yuval.