Noga Alon

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Noga Alon
Herzeliya
Thesis Extremal Problems in Combinatorics  (1983)
Doctoral advisorMicha Perles
Doctoral students
Websitewww.math.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/

Noga Alon (Hebrew: נוגה אלון; born 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers.

Education and career

Alon was born in 1956 in

summa cum laude from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1979, earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1980 from Tel Aviv University,[1] and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 with the dissertation Extremal Problems in Combinatorics supervised by Micha Perles.[2]

After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he returned to Tel Aviv University as a senior lecturer in 1985, obtained a permanent position as an associate professor there in 1986, and was promoted to full professor in 1988. He was head of the School of Mathematical Science from 1999 to 2001, and was given the Florence and Ted Baumritter Combinatorics and Computer Science Chair,[1] before retiring as professor emeritus and moving to Princeton University in 2018.[3]

He was editor-in-chief of the journal Random Structures and Algorithms from 2008 through 2023.[4]

Research

Alon has published more than five hundred research papers, mostly in combinatorics and in theoretical computer science, and one book, on the probabilistic method. He has also published under the pseudonym "A. Nilli", based on the name of his daughter Nilli Alon.[5]

His research contributions include the combinatorial Nullstellensatz, an algebraic tool with many applications in combinatorics; color-coding, a technique for fixed-parameter tractability of pattern-matching algorithms in graphs; and the Alon–Boppana bound in spectral graph theory.

Selected works

Book

  • The Probabilistic Method, with Joel Spencer, Wiley, 1992. 2nd ed., 2000; 3rd ed., 2008; 4th ed., 2016.[6]

Research articles

Awards

Alon has received a number of awards, including the following:

Alon gave plenary addresses in the 1996

honorary doctorate by ETH Zurich in 2013[20] and by the University of Waterloo in 2015.[21]

In addition, Alon has been a member of the

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[24] In 2019 he was named an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  2. ^ Noga Alon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Short CV". Princeton University. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  4. ^ a b c d "Noga Alon". Members. Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  5. S2CID 125447782
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  6. ^ Reviews:
  7. ^ "The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  8. ^ "George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics". Major Prizes & Lectures. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  9. ^ "Bruno Laureates". iias.huji.ac.il.
  10. ^ "Gödel Prize – 2005". European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  11. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Recipient's C.V."
  12. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient".
  13. ^ "Haaretz photographer Miki Kratsman among new recipients of Emet Prize". News in brief. Haaretz. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  14. ^ "Noga Alon". Award recipients. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  15. ^ "News from the AMS". American Mathematical Society.
  16. ^ "The Shaw Prize". www.shawprize.org.
  17. ^ "2022 Knuth Prize Awarded to Noga Alon" (PDF). ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  18. ^ "Paul Turán Memorial Lectures". old.renyi.hu.
  19. ^ "S.Lojasiewicz Lecture 2015". Institute of Mathematics of the Jagiellonian University. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  20. ^ "Honorary doctors". ETH Zurich Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  21. ^ "Noga Alon to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate". University of Waterloo Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. 2 June 2015. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  22. ^ "Noga Alon". Members. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  23. ^ "2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2015-11-16..
  24. S2CID 31701275
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  25. ^ "Prof. Noga Alon has been elected an Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences". School of Mathematical Sciences Newsroom. Tel Aviv University. 8 September 2019. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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