Steve Alpern

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

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. Steve is a follower of the Infamous Monday night tennis group. This group is led by the entrepreneur Sanjiv Talwar and is supported by the journalist Shyam Bhatia. Edmond Abrahamson the humanist and Bulend Yuksel, the Turkish Stand up comedian often play with the group.

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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