Professor Steve Alpern is a professor of
Operational Research
Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...
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
In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in ...
and
ergodic theory
Ergodic theory (Greek: ' "work", ' "way") is a branch of mathematics that studies statistical properties of deterministic dynamical systems; it is the study of ergodicity. In this context, statistical properties means properties which are expres ...
, but his more recent research has been concentrated in the fields of
search game
A search game is a two-person zero-sum game which takes place in a set called the search space. The searcher can choose any continuous trajectory subject to a maximal velocity constraint. It is always assumed that neither the searcher nor the hide ...
s and
rendezvous. He informally introduced the
rendezvous problem
The rendezvous dilemma is a logical dilemma, typically formulated in this way:
:Two people have a date in a park they have never been to before. Arriving separately in the park, they are both surprised to discover that it is a huge area and conseq ...
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 ( he, שמואל גל, 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 ...
, Vic Baston and Robbert Fokkink.
External links
Author profilein the database
zbMATH
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References
Academics of the University of Warwick
Game theorists
Living people
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Princeton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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