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Michel Goemans

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Michel Goemans
Michel Goemans at the workshop MAPSP, La Roche-en-Ardenne, June 2015.
Born
Michel Xavier Goemans

December 1964 (1964-12) (age 59)
Scientific career
Thesis Analysis of Linear Programming Relaxations for a Class of Connectivity Problems  (1990)
Doctoral advisorDimitris Bertsimas[1]
Doctoral studentsJon Kleinberg[1]
David P. Williamson
Websitewww-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.

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