Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar
Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar , called Terry, (born February 10, 1935 in Milwaukee ) is an American mathematician.
Education and career
Rockafellar received his bachelor's degree in mathematics summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1957 , received a Fulbright scholarship from the University of Bonn in 1957/58, and received his doctorate from Garrett Birkhoff at Harvard in 1963 ( convex functions and dual extremum problems ). From 1963 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1966 Associate Professor and from 1971 Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2003 he retired and was adjunct professor at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
He was visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen (1964), visiting professor at Princeton University (1965/66), the University of Colorado (1978), the University of Grenoble (1973/74), in Pisa (1991), Paris-Dauphine (1996 ), Pau (1997) and at the IIASA in Laxenburg near Vienna (1980/81). In 1992 he was John von Neumann Lecturer ,
He is very distantly related to the Rockefeller financial tycoon. Rockafellar has been married since 1964 and has three children.
research
He deals with optimization, variation methods and convex analysis with applications in stochastic programming, optimal control theory, economics, financial mathematics.
1973 to 1978 he was editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 1990 to 1995 of the SIAM Journal on Optimization and from 1993 he was co-editor of Convex Analysis.
Prizes and awards
- 1997: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
- 1982: George B. Dantzig Prize
- 1999: John von Neumann Theory Prize
Rockafellar also holds honorary doctorates from the University of Groningen (1984), the University of Montpellier (1995), the University of Chile (1998) and the University of Alicante (2000).
Fonts
- Convex Analysis , Princeton University Press 1970
- with Asen Dontchev Implicit functions and solution mappings: a view from variational analysis , Springer Verlag 2009
- with Roger J.-B. Wets Variational Analysis , Springer Verlag 1998, 2009
- The theory of subgradients and its applications to problems of optimization: convex and nonconvex functions , Berlin, Heldermann 1981 (French edition Presse de l´Université de Montreal 1979)
- Network flows and monotropic optimization , Wiley 1984
- Conjugate duality and optimization , SIAM 1974
- Montone processes of convex and concave type , American Mathematical Society 1967
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth dates and career dates according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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 | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rockafellar, Ralph Tyrrell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rockafellar, Terry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |