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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Geometry, Topology,Statistics and Economics |
| Keywords | kombinatorische Optimierung, mathematische Programme, Approximationsalgorithmen, Netzwerkdesign, Scheduling |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Ithaca |
| Institution | Cornell University |
| Institute | School of Operations Research and Information Engineering |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Martin Skutella | Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor David Williamson is an internationally outstanding researcher in the fields of Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Operations Research. He has made important contributions to the area of approximation algorithms for discrete optimization problems and, in particular, the use of linear and semidefinite programming techniques in this area. During his stay in Germany, he intends to work on the Traveling Salesman Problem and efficient algorithms for network flow problems. |