Sven Leyffer is an American computational mathematician specializing in
nonlinear optimization. He is a Senior Computational Mathematician in the Laboratory for Applied Mathematics, Numerical Software, and Statistics at
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is owned by the United Sta ...
.
Education
Leyffer received a Vordiplom in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...
in 1989.
Leyffer obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 from the
University of Dundee under doctoral advisor
Roger Fletcher.
His dissertation was ''Deterministic Methods in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming''.
Recognition
In 2006, Leyffer was awarded, alongside Roger Fletcher and Philippe L. Toint, the Lagrange Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) and the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
In 2009, Leyffer was named a Fellow of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for ''contributions to large-scale nonlinear optimization.''
Service
From 2017 to 2021, Leyffer was Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Mathematical Programming
Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...
B.
Leyffer is president (2023-2024) of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
References
External links
Home page
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
Argonne National Laboratory people
Alumni of the University of Dundee
Presidents of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
University of Hamburg alumni
21st-century American mathematicians
Mathematics journal editors