Random-Turn Hex and Other Selection Games

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsYuval PeresYUVAL PERES works in probability theory and fractal geometry, especially on problems involving Brownian motion, probability on trees, percolation, and projections of fractals. After graduating from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1990, he has taught at Stanford, Yale, the Hebrew University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in summer 2006.Oded SchrammODED SCHRAMM was born in December 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University (BSc and MSc) and completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the direction of William Thurston. After a two-year postdoc at U.C. San Diego, he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science and remained there until 1999, at which time he moved to Redmond, Washington, to join the Theory Group of Microsoft Research. Among the prizes he has received are the Salem Prize (2001), the Clay Research Award (2002), the Henri Poincaré Prize (2003) and the Loeve Prize (2003).Scott SheffieldSCOTT SHEFFIELD earned his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2003 and his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard in 1998. He completed postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research and U.C. Berkeley and is currently an assistant professor in the Courant Institute at New York University, where he teaches probability and mathematical finance. He has held numerous internships and short-term research positions in government and industry, and his primary research interests are mathematical physics and probability theory.David B. WilsonDAVID B. WILSON works in probability theory, especially in statistical physics and random walks. He studied at MIT where he earned three S.B. degrees in 1991 and his Ph.D. in 1996 under the direction of Jim Propp. After postdocs at U.C. Berkeley, DIMACS at Rutgers, and the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Theory Group of Microsoft Research.

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