Michel Goemans | |
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![]() Michel Goemans at Oberwolfach, 2011. | |
Born | Michel Xavier Goemans December 1964 (age 59) |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Analysis of Linear Programming Relaxations for a Class of Connectivity Problems (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Dimitris Bertsimas [1] |
Doctoral students |
Jon Kleinberg
[1] David P. Williamson John Urschel |
Website |
www-math |
Michel Xavier Goemans (born December, 1964) is a Belgian- American professor of applied mathematics and the RSA Professor of Mathematics at MIT working in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization at CSAIL and MIT Operations Research Center. [2]
Goemans earned his doctorate in 1990 from MIT. [1] Goemans is the "Leighton Family Professor" of Applied Mathematics at MIT and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. He was also a professor at the University of Louvain and a visiting professor at the RIMS of the University of Kyoto.
In 1991 he received the A.W. Tucker Prize. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Sloan Research Fellow. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. [3] For the academic year 2007–2008 he Guggenheim Fellow.
Goemans is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008), [4] a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012), [5] and a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2013). [6] In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS Fulkerson Prize [7] for joint work with David P. Williamson on the semidefinite programming approximation algorithm for the maximum cut problem. In 2012 Goemans was awarded the Farkas Prize. [8] In 2022 he received the AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. [9]
His hobby is sailing. Goemans has Belgian and US citizenship.