Michele Conforti
Michelangelo "Michele" Conforti is an Italian mathematician who specializes in operations research , integer programming , graph theory, and combinatorial optimization .
Education and career
Conforti received his PhD in 1983 from Gérard Cornuéjols at Carnegie Mellon University (Essay in Combinatorial Optimization). He is a professor at the University of Padua .
research
In 2000 he and Cornuéjols and MR Rao received the Fulkerson Prize for their work Decomposition of balanced matrices on the characterization of balanced matrices , which also provides an algorithm to recognize such matrices in polynomial time. He also contributed to the strong theorem on perfect graphs .
Awards and honors
- 2000: Fulkerson Prize (with Gérard Cornuéjols and MR Rao )
- 2015: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
Fonts
- with Cornuejols: Balanced Matrices , in: K. Aardal, GL Nemhauser, R. Weismantel (editor) Discrete Optimization , Handbooks of Operations Research and Management Science, Volume 12, Elsevier 2005
- with G. Cornuéjols, K. Vušković: Square-Free Perfect Graphs , J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, Volume 90, 2004, pp. 257-307.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michele Conforti in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, Vol. 77, 1999, pp. 292-406
- ↑ 0.1 matrices without square sub-matrices of odd order with row or column sum 2
- ↑ Chvatal Strong Perfect Graph Theorem
- ^ 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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Conforti, Michele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conforti, Michelangelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |