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]
Monique Laurent | |
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 From left: Jens Vygen, Monique Laurent, Michel Goemans, 2011 at the MFO | |
| Born | Monique Laurent 1960 |
| Alma mater | Paris Diderot University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical optimization |
| Institutions | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tilburg University CNRS |
| Thesis | Geométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel 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]
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External links
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