Spring 2005 Seminar Series

Education
B.A. (Oxon) Mathematics (Class 1) 1966,
M.Sc. (Sussex) Mathematics 1967,
Ph.D. (London) Operational Research 1975.

Current Appointment:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.,
Associate Professor, 1987-1990, Professor 1990 -.

Previous Appointments:
British Railways Board, Operational Research Department 1967-68;
International Computers Ltd., Operational Research Department 1969-70;
Polytechnic of North London, Department of Mathematics and Computing 1970-72;
Queen Mary College, London University, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, 1972-87;

Prizes
1991 Fulkerson Prize for Discrete Mathematics
Awarded jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Programming Society for the paper: A random polynomial time algorithm for approximating the volume of convex bodies, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 38, 1-17.
[Jointly awarded with Martin Dyer and Ravi Kannan]
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1998