Sergiu Hart

Sergiu Hart (born 1949) is an Israeli mathematician and economist and the current President of the Game Theory Society (2008 – 2010). He is the Kusiel-Vorreuter University Professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

Hart was born in Bucharest, Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1963. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics (summa cum laude, 1967 – 1970) and an M.Sc. in Mathematics (summa cum laude, 1970 – 1971) from Tel Aviv University. His M.Sc. thesis was on the subject of “Values of Mixed Games” and was supervised by Prof. Robert Aumann, who was also his advisor in his doctoral thesis on “Cooperative Game Theory Models of Economic Equilibrium” (Ph.D., summa cum laude, 1972 – 1976).

In 1979 – 1991 he was at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University, as Professor since 1985. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Department of Operations Research, and Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University (1976 – 1979), and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of Harvard University (1984 – 1985 and 1990 – 1991). Since 1991 he is a member of the Departments of Economics and Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he was the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality (1991 – 1999) there.

Hart was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society (1985), was a member of the First Council of the Game Theory Society (2000 – 2005), President of the Israel Mathematical Union (2005 – 2006), Executive Vice-President of the Game Theory Society (2006 – 2008), and currently serves as the President of the Game Theory Society (2008 – 2010).

He is a recipient of the Israel Defense Prize (1975) and the Rothschild Prize (1998), and selected to give the Cowles Lecture at Yale University (2000) and the Walras-Bowley Lecture of the Econometric Society (2003). In 2006 he was elected Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

External links

* [http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/hart/ Hart’s homepage]