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. He informally introduced the
rendezvous problem as early as 1976. His collaborators include
Shmuel Gal, Vic Baston and Robbert Fokkink.