Uriel George "Uri" Rothblum (Tel Aviv, March 16, 1947 – Haifa, March 26, 2012) was an Israeli mathematician and

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er. From 1984 until 2012 he held the

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Chair in Management Science at the

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in Haifa, Israel.. Rothblum was born in Tel Aviv to a family of Jewish immigrants from Austria. He went to

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, where

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became his mentor; he earned a bachelor's degree there in 1969 and a master's in 1971. He completed his doctorate in 1974 from Stanford University, in operations research, under the supervision of Arthur F. Veinott. After postdoctoral research at

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, he joined the

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faculty in 1975, and moved to the Technion in 1984. Rothblum became president of the Israeli Operational Research Society (ORSIS) for 2006–2008, and editor-in-chief of '' Mathematics of Operations Research'' from 2010 until his death. He was elected to the 2003 class of

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s of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rothblum, Uriel 1947 births 2012 deaths Israeli mathematicians Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences