Noga Alon
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Noga Alon is an Israel
Israel
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i mathematician
Mathematician
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 noted for his contributions to combinatorics
Combinatorics
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 and theoretical computer science
Theoretical computer science
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, having authored hundreds of papers.

Academic background

Alon is a Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science in Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

, Israel
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. He received his Ph. D. in Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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 in 1983 and had visiting positions in various research institutes including MIT, The Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study
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 in Princeton
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, IBM Almaden Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Bellcore and Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
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. 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
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, and a lecture in the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians
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. He published more than four hundred research papers, mostly in Combinatorics
Combinatorics
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures. Aspects of combinatorics include counting the structures of a given kind and size , deciding when certain criteria can be met, and constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria ,...

 and in Theoretical Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science
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, and one book.

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

Awards

Alon has received a number of awards, including the following:
  • the Erdős Prize
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     in 1989;
  • the Feher prize in 1991;
  • the Pólya Prize
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     in 2000;
  • the Bruno Memorial Award in 2001;
  • the Landau Prize in 2005;
  • the Gödel Prize
    Gödel Prize
    The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...

     in 2005;
  • the Israel Prize
    Israel Prize
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    , for mathematics, in 2008; and
  • the EMET Prize
    EMET Prize
    The Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture is an annual Israeli prize given for excellence in academic and professional achievements that have far reaching influence and significant contribution to society....

    , for mathematics, in 2011.


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

See also

  • Necklace splitting problem
    Necklace splitting problem
    In mathematics, and in particular combinatorics, the necklace splitting problem arises in a variety of contexts including exact division; its picturesque name is due to mathematicians Noga Alon and Douglas B. West....

  • Color-coding
    Color-coding
    In computer science and graph theory, the method of color-coding efficiently finds k-vertex simple paths, k-vertex cycles, and other small subgraphs within a given graph using probabilistic algorithms, which can then be derandomized and turned into deterministic algorithms...

  • List of Israel Prize recipients

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