Prof. Dr. William J. Cook

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOperations research, mathematical programming,Combinatorics,Statistics and Economics
KeywordsDiscrete and Combinatorial Optimization, Integer and Mixed Integer Programming, Traveling Salesman Problem, Network Optimization, Polyhedral Combinatorics

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityWaterloo,Ontario
InstitutionUniversity of Waterloo
InstituteDepartment of Combinatorics and Optimization
Homepagehttp://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bico/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard KorteForschungsinstitut für Diskrete Mathematik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/1983

Programme(s)

1983Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2019Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Cook is the world’s foremost researcher in the field of computational discrete optimization, a methodology used to solve practical problems that involve choosing the best alternatives from a field of possibilities. This research combines technics from discrete mathematics, complexity theory, algorithms, engineering modelling, mathematical optimization, data structure, and-high performance computing. During his stay at the research institute in Bonn Professor Cook will contribute his superb knowledge of the travelling salesman problem to several algorithmic problems in the area of chip design.