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. Review of Geometry of cuts and metrics by Alexander Barvinok (1998), MR1460488.
  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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