Ely Merzbach
{{Short description|Israeli mathematician}}
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| native_name=עלי מרצבך
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| fields=Probability theory, stochastic processes
| workplaces=Bar-Ilan University
| alma_mater=Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
| thesis_title=Multi-parameter stochastic processes and martingales
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| thesis_year=1979
| doctoral_advisor=Giacomo Della Riccia
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Ely Yissachar Merzbach ({{langx|he|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
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
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.{{cite journal | last=Merzbach | first=Ely | last2=Singer | first2=Boris | title=How to construct a partition when preference sets are given | journal=Computers & Operations Research | volume=21 | issue=10 | year=1994 | issn=0305-0548 | doi=10.1016/0305-0548(94)90036-1 | pages=1061–1068}}{{cite web|url=http://studiahumana.com/author,Ely-Merzbach.html|title=Ely Merzbach|website=Studia Humana|publisher=University of Information Technology and Management|location=Rzeszów}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~merzbach/|title=Ely Merzbach|access-date=23 February 2019|website=Bar-Ilan University|archive-date=3 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203061924/http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~merzbach/|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
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Category:Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
Category:Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
Category:French emigrants to Israel
Category:Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni
Category:Israeli mathematicians
Category:Israeli Orthodox Jews