Noga Alon

Noga Alon
Noga Alon
Born	17 February 1956 (1956-02-17) Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Fields	Mathematics Theoretical computer science
Institutions	Tel-Aviv University Institute for Advanced Study Microsoft Research, Herzeliya
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisor	Micha Perles
Doctoral students	Yossi Azar Michael Krivelevich Benny Sudakov Uri Zwick
Known for	Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
Notable awards	Israel Prize in Mathematics (2008)

Noga Alon (Hebrew: נוגה אלון‎; born 17 February 1956) is an Israeli mathematician noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers.

Academic background

Alon is a Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He received his Ph. D. in Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and had visiting positions in various research institutes including MIT, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, IBM Almaden Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Bellcore and Microsoft Research. He serves on the editorial boards of more than a dozen international journals, since 2008 he is the editor-in-chief of Random Structures and Algorithms. He has given lectures in many conferences, including plenary addresses in the 1996 European Congress of Mathematics and in the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians, and a lecture in the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians. He published more than four hundred research papers, mostly in Combinatorics and in Theoretical Computer Science, and one book.

Alon is the principal founder of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz which has many applications in combinatorics and number theory.

Awards

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

• the Erdős Prize in 1989;
• the Feher prize in 1991;
• the Pólya Prize in 2000;
• the Bruno Memorial Award in 2001;
• the Landau Prize in 2005;
• the Gödel Prize in 2005;
• the Israel Prize, for mathematics, in 2008; and
• the EMET Prize, for mathematics, in 2011.

In addition, Alon has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1997.

See also

• Necklace splitting problem
• Color-coding
• List of Israel Prize recipients

External links

• Noga Alon's home page
• Noga Alon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.