Section: Dissemination

PhD Theses

• Yuri Faenza has defended is PhD thesis on extended formulations for several polyhedra in combinatorial optimization and related topics. He would defend his PhD thesis in beginning of 2010. Advisors: G. Oriolo and G. Stauffer.

• Cédric Joncour started in September 2007. His doctoral study is on 2-D packing problems. Advisors: A. Pêcher, P. Pesneau, F. Vanderbeck.

• Mustafa Kılınc (Advisors: J. Linderoth and A. Miller) started his PhD thesis in 2006 on Computational approaches for mixed integer nonlinear programming. His defense is planed for 2010.

• Guillaume Massonnet started his PhD thesis in September 2009 on cost balancing technics for inventory control with uncertainty. Advisors: Jean-Phillippe Gayon, Christophe Rapine and G. Stauffer.

• Mahdi Namazifar began his doctoral work in August 2006. His thesis will cover various theoretical and computational aspects of MIP and MINLP. In 2008 he had one paper published in a competitive conference proceedings ( [133] ; this paper was one of only 22 short papers accepted, out of 61 submissions), and is currently working on several others. Advisors: A.J. Miller, M.C. Ferris, and J.T. Linderoth.

• Benoit Vignac (Advisors: B. Jaumard, G. Laporte, F. Vanderbeck) has submitted his doctoral research. His defence is scheduled in January.