Laurence Wolsey
Laurence Alexander Wolsey (born May 14, 1945 in London ) is a British mathematician.
Education and career
Wolsey received his bachelor's degree from Oxford University in 1966 and received his PhD in 1969 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Jeremy Shapiro (Mixed Integer Programming: Discretization and the Group Theoretic Approach). From 1969 to 1971 he was visiting lecturer at the Manchester Business School and then professor at the Catholic University of Leuven ( Center for Operations Research and Econometrics , CORE, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics ). In 1993 he became President of the Catholic University of Leuven.
In 1978/79 he was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and in 1986/87 at the TH Lausanne.
research
He is known for contributions to integer and mixed-integer programming, including branch-and-cut methods. Here he is also known for some textbooks. He worked both theoretically and on large application projects, such as at BASF (production planning), France Telecom (multiplexer assignment) and at DASH, a company that produces commercial systems for mixed integer programming (MIP).
From 1989 he was co-editor of Mathematical Programming.
Awards and honors
- 1988: Orchard Hays Prize
- 1989: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
- 1994: EURO Gold Medal
- 2012: John von Neumann Theory Prize
Fonts
- with George Nemhauser : Integer and Combinatorial Optimization, Wiley 1988
- with Yves Pochet: Production planning by mixed integer programming, Springer Verlag 2006
- Integer Programming, Wiley 1998
- with George Nemhauser, Marshall Fisher: An analysis of approximations for maximizing submodular set functions I, Mathematical Programming, Volume 14, 1978, pp. 265-294
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Laurence Wolsey in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Frederick W. Lanchester Prize. (No longer available online.) Informs.org ( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ), archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ EURO Gold Medal Laureates. European Association for Operations Research Societies, accessed June 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolsey, Laurence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolsey, Laurence Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |