Michel Goemans

Michel Goemans
Michel Goemans at the workshop MAPSP, La Roche-en-Ardenne, June 2015.
Born	Michel Xavier Goemans
Thesis	Analysis of Linear Programming Relaxations for a Class of Connectivity Problems (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Dimitris Bertsimas[1]
Doctoral students	Daniel Andrews András Benczúr Jose Correa Brian Dean Nicholas Harvey Jon Kleinberg Aleksander Madry Mohammad Mahdian Vahab Mirrokni V. Ramakrishnan Michael Rosenblum Jan Vondrák David P. Williamson[1]
Website www-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.

References

1. Michel Goemans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. Michel Goemans, ACM Fellows, United States 2008, retrieved 2015-10-19
3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
4. SIAM Fellows: Class of 2013, retrieved 2015-10-19.
5. Past Winners of the Fulkerson Prize, retrieved 2015-10-19.