David P. Williamson

David Paul Williamson is a professor of operations research at Cornell University,[1] and the editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.[2] He earned his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Michel Goemans,[3] and is best known for his work with Goemans on approximation algorithms based on semidefinite programming, for which they won the Fulkerson Prize in 2000.[4] He also received the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 2013.

References

  1. Faculty profile, Cornell University, retrieved 2015-06-07.
  2. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics publisher web site, accessed 2015-06-07.
  3. David P. Williamson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "2000 Fulkerson Prize" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 47 (9): 1086, September 2000.


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