Fall 2005 Seminar Series

Lisa Fleischer is a Research Staff Member at the T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM. Her research is on algorithms for problems in network routing and design, combinatorial optimization, linear programming, and game theory. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 1997. Since then, she has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University, and visiting positions at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, and the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Toronto, Canada. She was a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, the 1997 INFORMS George Nicholson Prize, and the 2003 MPS Fulkerson Prize. She is a council member of the Mathematical Programming Society, and serves on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, and Operations Research Letters.