Andrzej Piotr Ruszczyński

Andrzej P. Ruszczyński

Ruszczyński in 2012
Residence New Jersey, United States
Citizenship United States
Fields Mathematical optimization
Alma mater Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland
Doctoral advisor Jacek Szymanowski
Known for Stochastic programming, Risk-Averse Optimization
Influences R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Stephen M. Robinson, Darinka Dentcheva

Andrzej Piotr Ruszczyński (born July 29, 1951) is a Polish-American applied mathematician, noted for his contributions to mathematical optimization, in particular, stochastic programming and risk-averse optimization.

Schooling and positions

Ruszczyński was born and educated in Poland. In 1969 he won the XX Polish Mathematical Olympiad.[1] After graduating in 1974 with a MsC degree from the Department of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, he joined the Institute of Automatic Control at this school. In 1977 he received his PhD degree for a dissertation on control of large-scale systems, and in 1983 Habilitation, for a dissertation on nonlinear stochastic programming.[2] In 1992 the President of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, awarded Ruszczyński the state title of Professor. In 1984-86 Ruszczyński was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Operations Research, University of Zurich. In 1986-87 he was the Vice-Director of the Institute of Automatic Control, and in 1987-1990 he was the Vice-Dean of the Department of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology.[3] In 1992 Ruszczyński was a visiting professor at the Department of Operations Research, Princeton University, in 1992-96 he led the project Optimization under Uncertainty at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, in 1996-97 he was a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and since 1997 he has been with Rutgers University, where he holds a position of Distinguished Professor at the Rutgers Business School.[4]

Main achievements

Ruszczyński developed decomposition methods for stochastic programming problems, the theory of stochastic dominance constraints (jointly with Darinka Dentcheva), contributed to the theory of coherent, conditional, and dynamic risk measures (jointly with Alexander Shapiro), and created the theory of Markov risk measures.[5][6][7][8][9] He authored 5 books and more than 80 research papers.[10]

Ruszczyński lead a project Optimization under Uncertainty at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (pictured).

Selected books

Most influential papers

Chess composition

Piotr Ruszczyński
2nd Prize, Szachy, 1972
abcdefgh
8
g8 white knight
b7 white pawn
d7 white rook
f7 black pawn
a6 black knight
b6 black pawn
f6 black pawn
g6 black pawn
c5 black pawn
e5 black king
h5 black knight
b4 white knight
d4 black pawn
e4 white pawn
h4 black bishop
b3 black pawn
f3 white king
d2 white queen
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
abcdefgh
Mate in three moves
Piotr Ruszczyński
1st Prize, M. Vukcevich Mem. Ty., 2004
abcdefgh
8
b7 black bishop
c6 black rook
d6 black pawn
e6 black pawn
d5 black pawn
g5 white queen
h5 black pawn
b4 black bishop
e4 black pawn
g3 black pawn
b2 white rook
f2 white pawn
g2 white pawn
b1 white rook
c1 white bishop
e1 white knight
f1 black king
g1 white knight
h1 white king
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
abcdefgh
Mate in three moves

Under the name Piotr, Ruszczyński is known as an author of chess problems holding the title of International Master of Chess Composition of FIDE[11] (since 1988). 29 his problems of all genres were selected to FIDE Albums by the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions.

To the left is one of early Ruszczyński's problems.[12] The key 1. Qh6! threatens 2. Qf8 and 3. Qd6#. After 1 ... Ke6 white still plays 2. Qf8 Kxd7 3. Qe7#. The two main variations present the idea of half-pin: 1 ... f5 2. Rd5+ Ke6 3. exf5# (using the pinning of Pg5), and 1 ... g5 2. Re7+ Kd6 3. e5# (using the pinning of Pf5). All variations end with model mates; the main two variations have identical mate pictures on different squares.

To the right is one of Ruszczyński's best known strategic threemovers.[13] The key is 1.Qf6! with the threat 2. fxg3+ Kxe1 3. Bd2#. In the two main variations, black Grimshaw intersection on the square c3 is exploited with anticipatory shut-offs from a white half battery. After 1. ... Bc3 white plays 2. Nc2! (threatening 3. Bd2#), and then 2. ... Bxf6 3. Be3# (using the anticipatory shutoff on c2), 2. ... Bxb2 3. Bxb2#, and 2. ... Be1 3. Ne3#. After 1. ... Rc3 white plays 2. Bd2! (threatening 3. Nc2#), and then 2. ... Rf3 3. Nd3# (using the anticipatory shutoff on d2), 2. ... Re3 3. fxe3#, and 2. ... Rc1 3. fxg3#.

With Jan Rusinek, Ruszczyński co-authored the book: 64 Polish Chess Compositions. Warszawa: Polski Związek Szachowy. 1989. 

External links

References

  1. XX Olimpiada Matematyczna (rok szk. 1968/69), http://om.edu.pl/stara_wersja/20.html
  2. "Niektóre własności i metody rozwiązywania nieliniowych zadań programowania stochastycznego," Prace Naukowe - Politechnika Warszawska: Elektronika, Wydawnictwa Politechniki Warszawskiej, 1982.
  3. History / About us / Faculty / FEIT - The Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology home page
  4. http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2009-09-21.7408167606/article.2009-10-27.4005924954
  5. Birge, John; Louveaux, Francois (2011). Introduction to stochastic programming. New York, NJ: Springer. pp. xxvi+485. ISBN 978-1461402367. MR 2807730.
  6. Kall, Peter; Mayer, János (2011). Stochastic Linear Programming: Models, Theory, and Computation. New York, NJ: Springer. pp. xx+426. ISBN 978-1441977281. MR 2744572.
  7. Higle, J. L., Stochastic programming: Optimization when uncertainty matters, Tutorials in Operations Research, INFORMS 2005, ISBN 1-877640-21-2.
  8. Rockafellar, R. T., Coherent approaches to risk in optimization under uncertainty, Tutorials in Operations Research, INFORMS 2007, ISBN 978-1-877640-22-3.
  9. Sagastizabal, C., Divide to conquer: decomposition methods for energy optimization. Mathematical Programming, Ser. B, 134, 2012, 187-–222.
  10. Andrzej Ruszczyński - Google Scholar Citations
  11. International masters
  12. Problem 285, FIDE Album 1971-1973, Sahovska Naklada, Zagreb, 1978
  13. Odette Vollenweider, "Gleiche Inhalte in Zwei- und Dreizügern", Die Schwalbe, Deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach, Heft 223, Februar 2007 (http://www.dieschwalbe.de/schwalbe223.htm).
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