Steve Alpern

Steve Alpern
Steve Alpern
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University; Courant Institute
Known for	Search Games; rendezvous problem
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics ; Game Theory
Institutions	Warwick
Doctoral advisor	Peter Lax

Steve Alpern is a professor of Operational Research at the University of Warwick, where he recently moved after working for many years at the London School of Economics. His early work was mainly in the area of dynamical systems and ergodic theory, but his more recent research has been concentrated in the fields of search games and rendezvous.^[1] He informally introduced the rendezvous problem as early as 1976.^[2] His collaborators include Shmuel Gal, Vic Baston and Robbert Fokkink.

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Author profile in the database zbMATH

References

^ S. Alpern and S. Gal (2003). The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous, Springer ISBN 0-7923-7468-1.
^ Steve Alpern (1976). Hide and Seek Games. Seminar, Institut fur Hohere Studien, Wien, 26 July

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[1] S. Alpern and S. Gal (2003). The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous, Springer ISBN 0-7923-7468-1.

[2] Steve Alpern (1976). Hide and Seek Games. Seminar, Institut fur Hohere Studien, Wien, 26 July

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