Roger Wets

Roger Jean-Baptiste Wets (born February 20, 1937 in Uccle ) is a Belgian mathematician.

Education and career

Wets graduated from the University of Brussels with a degree (licentiate) in economics in 1961 , where he worked in the family business (cardboard) from 1955 to 1960, and received his doctorate in 1965 with George Dantzig and David Blackwell at the University of California, Berkeley (Programming under Uncertainty) . From 1964 to 1970 he was at the Boeing Research Laboratories, from 1970 to 1972 Ford Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago and then at the University of Kentucky . From 1980 to 1984 he was project manager at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg (and also from 1985 to 1987) and from 1984 professor at the University of California, Davis , where he became Distinguished Professor.

He was also at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and worked for the World Bank. In 1966 he was a visiting professor at the University of Washington , 1969 at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) in Paris and in 1970 at the Center de Recherches Mathématiques in Montreal. From the 1990s he also taught at the university in Chile.

He worked with Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar in stochastic programming since the mid-1960s and developed the progressive hedging algorithm with him in the 1980s and did research on convex analysis (metric theory of the convergence of epigraphs ). In addition, he pursued applications in the aircraft industry, telecommunications, finance, ecology (water resources, etc.), industry and in the energy sector.

In 1981/82 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

Awards and honors

• 1994: George B. Dantzig Prize
• 1997: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
• 2003: Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna
• 1993: Admission to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

Fonts

• with Rockafellar: Variational Analysis, Springer Verlag 1998, 2009

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Roger Wets in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
3. ^ 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.