Steve Alpern

{{Short description|American mathematician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}

{{Infobox scientist

|name=Steve Alpern

|nationality =American

|field=Mathematics
Game theory

|work_institutions = Warwick

|alma_mater = Princeton University
Courant Institute

|doctoral_advisor = Peter Lax

| known_for=Search Games
rendezvous problem

}}

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.S. Alpern and S. Gal (2003). The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous, Springer {{ISBN|0-7923-7468-1}}. He informally introduced the rendezvous problem as early as 1976.Steve Alpern (1976). Hide and Seek Games. Seminar, Institut fur Hohere Studien, Wien, 26 July His collaborators include Shmuel Gal, Vic Baston and Robbert Fokkink.