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Noga Alon at the 2006 ICM in Madrid.
Noga Alon (Hebrew: נוגה אלון) is an Israeli mathematician noted for his prolific contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and is currently on the faculty of Tel Aviv University.
Alon is the principal founder of the powerful Combinatorial Nullstellensatz which has many applications in combinatorics and number theory.
Alon is a 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 Laboratories, 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 invited lectures in many conferences, including plenary addresses in the 1996 European Congress of Mathematics and in the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians, and an invited lecture in the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians. He published more than three hundred research papers, mostly in Combinatorics and in Theoretical Computer Science, and one book. He is a member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences since 1997 and received the Erdös prize in 1989, the Feher prize in 1991, the Polya Prize in 2000, the Bruno Memorial Award in 2001, the Landau Prize in 2005, the Gödel Prize in 2005, and the Israel Prize in 2008.
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