Ely Merzbach
Ely Merzbach | |
|---|---|
עלי מרצבך | |
| Born | February 11, 1950 |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Probability theory, stochastic processes |
| Institutions | Bar-Ilan University |
| Thesis | Multi-parameter stochastic processes and martingales (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Giacomo Della Riccia |
Ely Yissachar Merzbach (Hebrew: עלי יששכר מרצבך; born 11 February 1950) is an Israeli mathematician and emeritus professor at Bar-Ilan University's Department of Mathematics and the Gonda Brain Research Center.
Biography
[edit]Ely Merzbach was born in 1950 in Paris, where he attended École Yabné. He immigrated to Israel at the age of 17, studying for a year at Yeshivat Be'er Ya'akov and then enlisting in the Nahal Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. He obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and statistics and an M.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed his doctoral studies in 1979 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Academic career
[edit]After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Paris 6 and the École Polytechnique, Merzbach joined the faculty at Bar-Ilan University in 1980, becoming full professor in 1993.
His research focuses on point processes theory, measure theory, stochastic geometry, and applications thereof.[1][2]
He served as head of the Bar-Ilan's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1991, academic head of Ariel University from 1996 to 1997, and was elected dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan in 1997.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Merzbach, Ely; Singer, Boris (1994). "How to construct a partition when preference sets are given". Computers & Operations Research. 21 (10): 1061–1068. doi:10.1016/0305-0548(94)90036-1. ISSN 0305-0548.
- ^ "Ely Merzbach". Studia Humana. Rzeszów: University of Information Technology and Management.
- ^ "Ely Merzbach". Bar-Ilan University. Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
