Monique Laurent

Monique Laurent (born 1960)[1] is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she is also a member of the Management Team.[2] Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.[3]

This article is about the mathematician. For the colorist, see Studios Hergé.
Monique Laurent
From left: Jens Vygen, Monique Laurent, Michel Goemans, 2011 at the MFO
Born
Monique Laurent

1960 (1960)
Alma materParis Diderot University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical optimization
InstitutionsCentrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Tilburg University
CNRS
ThesisGeométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques (1986)
Doctoral advisorMichel Deza

Education and career

Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.[4] She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.[2]

Book

With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Algorithms and Combinatorics 15, Springer, 1997).[5]

Awards and honors

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[6] She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete and polynomial optimization and revealing interactions between them".[7] She has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018.[8]

References
  1. Birth year from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. Employee profile, CWI, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  3. Faculty profile, Tilburg University, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  4. Monique Laurent at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Reviews of Geometry of cuts and metrics: Alexander Barvinok (1998), MR1460488; Robert Dawson, Zbl 0885.52001.
  6. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  7. SIAM Fellows: Class of 2017, retrieved 2017-04-25.
  8. Monique Laurent, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2019-01-05

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