Michel Xavier Goemans (born December, 1964) is a

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and the RSA Professor of Mathematics at

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working in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization at

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and MIT Operations Research Center.

Career

Goemans earned his doctorate in 1990 from MIT. Goemans is the "Leighton Family Professor" of Applied Mathematics at MIT and an adjunct professor at the

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. He was also a professor at the University of Louvain and a visiting professor at the RIMS of the University of Kyoto.

Recognition

In 1991 he received the A.W. Tucker Prize. From 1995 to 1997 he was a

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. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. For the academic year 2007–2008 he was a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

. Goemans is a

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(2008), a fellow of the

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(2012), and a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2013). In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

for joint work with David P. Williamson on the

semidefinite programming Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a subfield of convex optimization concerned with the optimization of a linear objective function (a user-specified function that the user wants to minimize or maximize) over the intersection of the cone of positive ...

approximation algorithm for the

maximum cut For a graph, a maximum cut is a cut whose size is at least the size of any other cut. That is, it is a partition of the graph's vertices into two complementary sets and , such that the number of edges between and is as large as possible. Fin ...

problem. In 2012 Goemans was awarded the Farkas Prize. In 2022 he received the AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research 2022
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Personal life

His hobby is sailing. Goemans has Belgian and US citizenship.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goemans, Michel 1964 births Living people Belgian mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Theoretical computer scientists Combinatorialists