BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Franz Rendl

Education:

Studies of Technical Mathematics at Technical University of Graz

Professional Career:
1982- 1998: Assistant and Associate Professor of Mathematics, at Technical University of Graz, Austria since 1998: Full Professor at University of Klagenfurt, heading a research group in Operations Research and Optimization
Longer research stays:

• University of Waterloo (Canada),
• Massey University (New Zealand),
• University of Augsburg (Germany),
• University Paris 6 (France),
• IASI Rome (Italy)

In the editorial board of several Journals:

Mathematical Programming,
SIAM Journal on Optimization,
Computing,
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization,
Discrete Optimization.

Publications:

More than 50 papers in Journals on Mathematical Optimization and Operations Research
Current Research interests:
Semidefinite Programming, applied in combinatorial optimization. Eigenvalue optimization, bundle methods in non-smooth optimization