Biography:Michel Goemans
Michel Goemans | |
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 Michel Goemans at Oberwolfach, 2011. | |
| Born | Michel Xavier Goemans December 1964 (age 59) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Analysis of Linear Programming Relaxations for a Class of Connectivity Problems (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dimitris Bertsimas[1] |
| Doctoral students | Jon Kleinberg[1] David P. Williamson John Urschel |
| Website | www-math |
Michel Xavier Goemans (born December, 1964) is a Belgian-United States professor of applied mathematics and the RSA Professor of Mathematics at MIT working in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization at CSAIL and MIT Operations Research Center.[2]
Career
Goemans earned his doctorate in 1990 from MIT.[1] Goemans is the "Leighton Family Professor" of Applied Mathematics at MIT and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. He was also a professor at the University of Louvain and a visiting professor at the RIMS of the University of Kyoto.
Recognition
In 1991 he received the A.W. Tucker Prize. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Sloan Research Fellow. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[3] For the academic year 2007–2008 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Goemans is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008),[4] a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012),[5] and a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2013).[6] In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS Fulkerson Prize[7] for joint work with David P. Williamson on the semidefinite programming approximation algorithm for the maximum cut problem. In 2012 Goemans was awarded the Farkas Prize.[8] In 2022 he received the AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.[9]
Personal life
His hobby is sailing. Goemans has Belgian and US citizenship.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Michel Goemans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships" (in en). November 2021. https://news.mit.edu/2021/school-science-appoints-faculty-named-professorships-1101.
- ↑ Goemans, Michel X. (1998). "Semidefinite programming and combinatorial optimization". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 657–666. https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011620000.
- ↑ Michel Goemans, ACM Fellows, United States 2008, retrieved 2015-10-19
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ↑ SIAM Fellows: Class of 2013, retrieved 2015-10-19.
- ↑ Past Winners of the Fulkerson Prize, retrieved 2015-10-19.
- ↑ "Michel Goemans is selected as the winner of the 2012 INFORMS Optimization Society Farkas Prize". https://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes/farkas-prize/2012.
- ↑ AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research 2022
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