Michel Goemans

Michel Goemans

Michel Goemans at the workshop MAPSP, La Roche-en-Ardenne, June 2015.
Born Michel Xavier Goemans
December 1964 (1964-12) (age 52)
Thesis Analysis of Linear Programming Relaxations for a Class of Connectivity Problems (1990)
Doctoral advisor Dimitris Bertsimas[1]
Doctoral students Daniel Andrews
András Benczúr
Jose Correa
Brian Dean
Nicholas Harvey
Jon Kleinberg
Aleksander Madry
Mohammad Mahdian
Vahab Mirrokni
V. Ramakrishnan
Michael Rosenblum
Jan Vondrák
David P. Williamson[1]
Website
www-math.mit.edu/~goemans

Michel Xavier Goemans (born December, 1964) is a Belgian-American professor of applied mathematics at MIT working in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization. Goemans is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008),[2] a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012),[3] and a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2013).[4] In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS Fulkerson Prize[5] for joint work with David Williamson on the maximum cut problem.

References

  1. 1 2 Michel Goemans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Michel Goemans, ACM Fellows, United States 2008, retrieved 2015-10-19
  3. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
  4. ↑ SIAM Fellows: Class of 2013, retrieved 2015-10-19.
  5. ↑ Past Winners of the Fulkerson Prize, retrieved 2015-10-19.


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