Noga Alon

Noga Alon
File:Noga Alon (22-03-2008).jpg Noga Alon
Born	(1956-02-17) 17 February 1956 Israel
Nationality	Israel
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known for	Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
Awards	George Pólya Prize (2000) Gödel Prize (2005) Israel Prize in Mathematics (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Theoretical computer science
Institutions	Tel Aviv University Institute for Advanced Study Microsoft Research, Herzeliya
Thesis	Extremal Problems in Combinatorics  (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Micha Perles
Doctoral students	Gregory Gutin Michael Krivelevich Benny Sudakov Uri Zwick
Website	www.math.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/

Noga Alon (Hebrew: נוגה אלון; born 17 February 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.

Academic background

Alon is a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and a Baumritter Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1974 and 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 Labs, 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, the 2009 Turán Memorial Lectures, and a lecture in the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Research

Alon has published more than five hundred research papers, mostly in combinatorics and in theoretical computer science, and one book. He has also published under the pseudonym "A. Nilli".

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

Selected works

Books

• 1992. The Probabilistic Method. (with Joel Spencer) Wiley.

2nd, 2004. ISBN 978-0-471-65398-1

3rd, 2008. ISBN 978-0-470-17020-5

Articles

• 1996. The space complexity of approximating the frequency moments. (with Yossi Matias and Mario Szegedy) ACM STOC '96.

won their Gödel Prize in 2005.

• 1987. The monotone circuit complexity of Boolean functions. (with Ravi B Boppana). Combinatorica 1987, Volume 7, Issue 1
• 1986. Eigenvalues and expanders. Combinatorica 1986, Volume 6, Issue 2.

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 (with Yossi Matias and Mario Szegedy);

for their foundational contribution to streaming algorithms.

• 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. In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on the "Signrank and its applications in combinatorics and complexity") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

See also

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

External links

• Noga Alon's home page
• Noga Alon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Author profile in the database zbMATH
• ml40wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Noga Alon's Google Scholar, h-index is 98.