Micha Sharir
Micha Sharir (born June 8, 1950 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist who deals with algorithmic and combinatorial geometry and geometric optimization with applications in robotics . He is Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University .
As a teenager, Sharir won a mathematics competition at the Weizmann Institute and received the Grossman Prize of the Technion. After graduating in 1970, he did his military service in a research unit that received the 1975 Israel Defense Prize. In 1976 he received his doctorate with Aldo Lazar at Tel Aviv University (Extreme Operators Between Banach Spaces). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Courant Institute at New York University with Jacob T. Schwartz . From 1980 he taught at Tel Aviv University, where he is Isaias Nizri Professor of Algorithmic Geometry and Robotics. He was also visiting professor at the Courant Institute, where he was deputy director of the robotics laboratory from 1985 to 1989. He is one of the founders of the Minerva Center for Geometry at Tel Aviv University and was head of the computer science department twice and head of the mathematics department from 1997 to 1999.
In 1997 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , received the Landau Prize in 2002 and the Feher Foundation Prize in Computer Science in 1999. In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht . In 2007 he received the EMET award .
Fonts (selection)
- with Jacob T. Schwartz (Ed.): Planning, geometry, and complexity of robot motion, Norwood: Ablex Publ. 1987
- with Pankaj K. Agarwal: Davenport-Schinzel Sequences and Their Geometric Applications, Cambridge UP 1995
- with P. Agarwal: Algorithmic techniques for geometric optimization, in: J. van Leeuwen (Ed.), LN Computer Science 1000, Springer 1995, pp. 234-253
- Motion planning, in: JE Goodman, J. O'Rourke (Eds.), Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, CRC Press, 1997, pp. 733-754
- with D. Halperin: Arrangements, in: JE Goodman, J. O'Rourke, CD Toth (Ed.), Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, CRC Press, 3rd edition, 2017
- with P. Agarwal: Efficient algorithms for geometric optimization, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 30, 1998, pp. 412-458.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Micha Sharir in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharir, Micha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician and computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |