Monique Laurent

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Monique Laurent
Born Monique Laurent
Residence Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fields Mathematical optimization
Institutions Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Tilburg University
CNRS
Alma mater Paris Diderot University
Thesis Geométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques (1986)
Doctoral advisor Michel Deza

Monique Laurent is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a professor at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she leads the Networks and Optimization group.[1][2] Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.[3]

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.[1]

With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of cuts and metrics (Springer, 1997).[5]

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Employee profile, CWI, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  2. ↑ https://www.cwi.nl/research-groups/Networks-and-Optimization
  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), MR 1460488.
  6. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2016-07-02.

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