Steve Alpern is a professor of

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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

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and

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, but his more recent research has been concentrated in the fields of search games and rendezvous. He informally introduced the

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as early as 1976.Steve Alpern (1976). ''Hide and Seek Games''. Seminar, Institut fur Hohere Studien, Wien, 26 July His collaborators include

Shmuel Gal Shmuel Gal (; born 1940) is a mathematician and professor of statistics at the University of Haifa in Israel. He devised the Gal's accurate tables method for the computer evaluation of elementary functions. With Zvi Yehudai he developed in 1993 ...

, Vic Baston and Robbert Fokkink.

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