Noga Alon
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Noga Alon
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| Born |
17 February 1956 Israel |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Fields |
Mathematics Theoretical computer science |
| Institutions |
Tel Aviv University Institute for Advanced Study Microsoft Research, Herzeliya |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Thesis | Extremal Problems in Combinatorics (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Micha Perles |
| Doctoral students |
Yossi Azar Eldar Fischer Gregory Z. Gutin Shai Gutner Michael Krivelevich Benny Sudakov Uri Zwick |
| Known for | Combinatorial Nullstellensatz |
| Notable awards |
George Pólya Prize (2000) Gödel Prize (2005) Israel Prize in Mathematics (2008) |
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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.
Alon is 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 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, and a lecture in the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians.
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.
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