Rockafellar
| Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar | |
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R. Tyrrell ("Terry") Rockafellar in 1977
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| Born |
February 10, 1935 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Residence | Washington, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for |
Convex analysis Monotone operator Calculus of variation Oriented matroid |
| Awards |
Dantzig Prize of SIAM and MPS 1982 von Neumann citation of SIAM 1992 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS 1997-1998 John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa: Groningen, Montpellier, Chile, Alicante |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical optimization |
| Institutions |
University of Washington 1966- University of Florida (adjunct) 2003- University of Texas, Austin 1963–1965 |
| Thesis | Convex Functions and Dual Extremum Problems (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Garrett Birkhoff |
| Notable students | Peter Wolenski Francis Clarke |
| Influences |
Albert W. Tucker Werner Fenchel Roger J-B Wets |
| Influenced | Roger J-B Wets |
Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is professor emeritus at the departments of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Rockafellar received the John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science and delivered the 1993 John von Neumann Lecture for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Rockafellar and his coauthor Roger J-B Wets were awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for 1997 by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) lists Rockafellar as a highly cited researcher.
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