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Kurt M. Anstreicher

Kurt M. Anstreicher is the Tippie Research Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Iowa College of Business. Professor Anstreicher received his P.h.D from the Department of Operations Research at Stanford University in 1983, under the direction of George Dantzig. He was an assistant and associate professor of Operations Research at Yale University from 1982-1991, and went to the University of Iowa as a professor of Management Sciences in 1991. He was appointed Daly Professor in 1998, and Tippie Research Professor in 2002. He has twice (in 1989-1990, and 1996-97) been a Research Fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Professor Anstreicher is an internationally recognized researcher in continuous optimization. He has authored approximately 50 journal articles, mainly in the area of interior-point algorithms for linear and nonlinear programming. He edited a volume of Mathematical Programming Series B, and co-edited (with R. Freund) a volume of Annals of Operations Research, both on the topic of interior-point algorithms. He authored the chapter on Potential Reduction Algorithms for the text Interior Point Methods of Mathematical Programming (T. Terlaky, ed., Kluwer, 1996). For the Encyclopedia of Optimization (C. Floudas and P. Pardalos, eds, Kluwer, 2001) he wrote the Introduction to the section on Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Programming, and the entry for Karmarkar’s Algorithm. In 2002 he was awarded (joint with N. Brixius, J.P. Goux, and J. Linderoth) the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT) Prize for the best paper in optimization in 2000-2002.

Professor Anstreicher was a co-organizer (with N. Megiddo and M. Wright) of the Second Asilomar Workshop on Progress in Mathematical Programming, in 1990. He was the organizer of the Faculty Research Seminar on Optimization in Theory and Practice at the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, in 1994, and co-organizer (with H. Wolkowicz, P. Pardalos, F. Rendl and T. Vannelli) of the Fields Institute Workshop on Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization, in 2001. He was an associate editor of the SIAM Journal on Optimization from 1991-1997, and was named co-editor of Mathematical Programming Series A in 1999. He was a member of the ORSA (now INFORMS) Lanchester Prize committee in 1991, and the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) Tucker Prize committee in 1997 and 2000. He served on the elected Council of the MPS from 1997 to 2000.

Professor Anstreicher received the MBA Faculty Member of the Year award at the University of Iowa School of Management in 1993 and 1996, and the MBA Core Faculty Member of the Year award in 2000. In 2002 he received the G.R.E.A.T. Teaching Award from the graduating Executive MBA class. He was cited as an outstanding faculty member at the University of Iowa School of Management in the fourth (1995), fifth (1997) and seventh (2001) editions of The Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools.