About the Authors
Noga Alon
professor
Schools of Mathematics and Computer Science
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
nogaa[mailat]tau[maildot]ac[maildot]il
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nogaa
professor
Schools of Mathematics and Computer Science
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
nogaa[mailat]tau[maildot]ac[maildot]il
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nogaa
Noga Alon received his Ph. D. in Mathematics at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Micha Perles. He
is a Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at
Tel Aviv University, and visits frequently the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton. He works in Combinatorics, Graph
Theory and their applications to Theoretical Computer Science,
focusing on combinatorial algorithms, combinatorial geometry,
combinatorial number theory, algebraic and probabilistic methods
in Combinatorics, and has also been working on Circuit Complexity,
Streaming algorithms and topological methods in Combinatorics. He
published more than three hundred and fifty research papers, and
one book:
The
Probabilistic Method, coauthored by
Joel Spencer.
He is a member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences, and
received the
Erdös
prize, the Feher prize, the
Pólya
Prize, the Bruno Memorial Award, the Landau Prize and the
Gödel Prize.
Although he is not Hungarian, he likes Extremal problems, has
collaborated with 28 Hungarian coauthors, his favorite function is
log*, which appears in 11 of his papers, and he is, at the
moment, one of the Erdös number record holders, see
Erdös number
records. He is married to
Nurit and has
three daughters;
Nilli (who has
written her first paper at the age of 5),
Natalie and
Narkis. More
details can be found at
Noga Alon's Home Page.
Asaf Shapira
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
asafico[mailat]tau[maildot]ac[maildot]il
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~asafico
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
asafico[mailat]tau[maildot]ac[maildot]il
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~asafico
Asaf Shapira is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer
Science, Tel Aviv University. His main areas of research at present
are property-testing and extremal problems in graph
theory. He is a recipient of the
Clore
Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship and the
IBM
Ph.D. Fellowship.
Thanks to his joint papers with his advisor, he holds a (perhaps by now
optimal) Erdös number 2. He is also an avid traveler, skier and
gourmand. More details can be found at his
Home Page.