Ten Years Collaboration with Jos Sturm
– A Tribute with Personal Memories
Speaker: Shuzhong ZhangHPOPT 2004
June 24, 2004
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Biography of Jos F. Sturm
• Born in Rotterdam, August 13, 1971.• Drs title at Department of Econometrics, University
of Groningen, 1993.• Ph.D. degree at Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, 1997.• Year 1997 – 1998, postdoc fellow at CRL, McMaster
University.• Year 1998 – 2001, Assistant Professor at Department
of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University.• Year 2001 – 2003, Associate Professor at CentER,
Tilburg University.
Highlights• Ph.D. dissertation won Gijs de Leve Prize (best thesis
in OR/MS in The Netherlands, 1997 — 1999).• TALENT fellow, NWO (Dutch Organization for
Sciences), 1997 – 1998.• Vernieuwingsimpuls Grant from NWO, 2001.• Editor of the newsletter Views-and-News, SIAG/OPT.• Associate Editor, Mathematical Programming, Ser B.• Council member-at-large of the Mathematical
Programming Society.
Scientific Achievements
• Author of about 30 scientific papers
• Author of SeDuMi – a highly reputable SDP and SOCP solver
• Helped to solve many real-life, large-size, difficult optimization problems
Contents in this talk
• The Iri-Imai method for LP
• Cone affine scaling and wide neighborhood
• Symmetric primal-dual transformation for SDP
• Error bound for the central path for SDP
• Weighted centers, long steps, and superlinear convergence for SDP
Contents in this talk (continue)
• Duality theory for conic programming
• Self-dual embedding
• Sensitivity of the central solutions for SDP
• The cone of nonnegative quadratic functions and the rank-one decompositions
• Quadratic matrix inequalities
The best way to remember Jos is to remember his work.The best way to remember Jos is to remember his work.
Thank you for your attention!
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