[Coin-voting-members] Reminder: SLB and TLC Election Ballot
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Sat Jan 3 20:19:12 EST 2009
Dear COIN-OR Foundation Member,
This is a reminder that e-mail ballots for the election of 2009
Strategic Leadership Board and Technical Leadership Council members are
due by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5), Saturday, January 10,
2009. If you have not already voted, please return the ballot below to
election AT coin-or DOT org.
Ballots will also be available at the annual membership meeting (Francis
Marion Hotel, Charleston SC, 6:00-7:00pm EST, Monday, January 12, 2009),
in case you will be attending and prefer to cast your ballot in person.
Thank you very much for your continued support of COIN-OR.
Matthew Saltzman
President
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Dear COIN-OR Foundation Member,
As a full member, you have a vote in the election for the Foundation's
leadership.
Members of the Strategic Leadership Board (the business board of the
COIN-OR Foundation) and Technical Leadership Council (the technical
advisory group to the board) are up for election.
Please fill out the ballot below and send it to election at coin-or.org.
Ballots from email addresses on record will be counted. All others will
be contacted. Ballots must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5),
Saturday, January 10, 2009.
For questions about the election process, contact election at coin-or.org.
Thank you very much for your participation and your support of COIN-OR.
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COIN-OR Ballot
In each category below, you may vote for as many candidates as you like.
Those receiving the most votes will be elected (subject to any
applicable rules on the composition of each board). Candidate bios
appear at the end of this e-mail.
Strategic Leadership Board
Two (2) to be elected. Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like.
[ ] Robert Fourer
[ ] David Jensen
[ ] Other: __________________________
Technical Leadership Council
Four (4) to be elected. Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like.
[ ] William Hart
[ ] Laszlo Ladanyi
[ ] Kipp Martin
[ ] Ted Ralphs
[ ] Stefan Vigerske
[ ] Other: ___________________________
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Candidate bios
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Robert Fourer
As professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at
Northwestern University, I have been active primarily in research and
teaching at the interface of operations research and computer science. My
past participation in the AMPL and NEOS projects has been recognized by the
INFORMS Computing Society Award and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize of the
Mathematical Programming Society. I expect that the most pressing issues
for the Strategic Leadership Board in the coming year will include revising
the standards for project submissions and expediting the processing of
submissions to clear out the current backlog. I also foresee that the
Board's promotional efforts will continue to be essential to COIN-OR's
success.
David Jensen
Dave is the Chief Technical Officer for the Business Analytics and
Mathematical Sciences Department of IBM Research.
Before joining IBM Research in 1987, Dave was an assistant professor at
SUNY Stony Brook in Applied Mathematics. After joining IBM he worked on
the Optimization Subroutine Library making significant contributions to
the quadratic programming, network flow, and graphical user interface
codes. He also worked on a number of applications of OSL including
applications to portfolio optimization and inventory management. More
recently, Dave worked with Schneider trucking on integration,
customization and tuning of COIN-OR optimization code with Java-based
stochastic optimization. Dave has extensive experience with financial
customers, such as Charles Schwab who he worked with to design,
implement, rework, and tune a grid implementation and deployment of their
Forecaster code resulting in a 16 fold speed up on a 12 node grid. From
2005 to 2007, Dave served as the Chief Techncial Architect for the IBM
Center for Business Optimization where he provided the software and
technology base for consulting activities with revenues of over $100M.
Dave’s personal research interests are in Operations Research,
Combinatorial Optimization, Applications of Optimization, and Mathematical
Modeling, and the use of these disciplines within distributed computing
environments.
William Hart
Bio: William Hart is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
in the Discrete Algorithms and Mathematics Department, which is
in the Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics
Center. His research interests focus on optimization
techniques, including: parallel branch-and-bound, heuristic
global optimization, derivative-free local search, and
optimization software frameworks. He has applied optimization
techniques to many real-world applications, including
computational biology, engineering design, logistics planning,
and sensor placement in municipal water systems.
COIN-OR: Optimization software is a key element of my
professional work. I am a key contributor to a variety of
widely-used software development efforts that have been
motivated by these applications, including the DAKOTA toolkit
for design and analysis, Acro (A Common Repository for
Optimization) and the AutoDock docking software. For the past
few years, I have been organizing efforts at Sandia to promote
the integration of open-source software projects into Sandia's
business areas. A particular focus has been COIN-OR, which we
have used with the PICO IP solver for several years. More
recently, I have been looking to more directly integrate Sandia
into open-source projects; the Coopr Python tool will soon
become integrated with COIN-OR, and I am directly collaborating
with the CxxTest software testing tool. I am interested in
become more involved with COIN-OR leadership to further cement
these interactions, and to provide feedback to Sandia management
about the opportuntities and pitfalls of external collaborations
like these.
Laszlo Ladanyi
No bio provided
Kipp Martin
Kipp Martin is Professor of Operations Research and Computing
Technology at the Graduate School of Business, University of
Chicago. He is currently visiting at the University of
Cincinnati. His most recent research effort is a project to
create a set of standards for representing optimization
instances, results, solver options, and communication between
clients and solvers in a distributed environment using Web
Services. This work has resulted in the COIN-OR Optimization
Services project (OS) for which he is a project manage. He also
helps with the COIN-OR Binary project and the COIN-OR Test
Tools project. Much of his initial research was in the area
integer programming; in particular, developing formulations with
strong linear relaxations. He also worked on applying integer
programming to capacity planning, bundle pricing, and database
normalization. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science
from the University of Cincinnati.
Ted Ralphs
No bio provided
Stefan Vigerske
Stefan Vigerske is a PhD. student at the Department of
Mathematics at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. His
research interests are in stochastic programming and
mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). He has been
involved in COIN-OR since 2006 by being a project manager of the
LaGO (Lagrangian Global Optimizer) and GAMSlinks (link open
source solvers to GAMS) projects, being involved in the
TestTools (nightly builds) and CoinBinary projects,
participating in the Bug Squashing Parties 2007 and 2008, and
contributing to the projects BuildTools, OsiGlpk, Ipopt, and OS.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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