Sam Burer, professor of business analytics, received the inaugural Activity Group on Optimization Test of Time Award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

He received the award for his co-authored paper “A nonlinear programming algorithm for solving semidefinite programs via low-rank factorization,” published in 2003 in the journal Mathematical Programming Series B, 95, 329-357.

This award recognizes an individual or group of researchers for an outstanding single piece of work that has had significant and sustained influence on the field of optimization over a time period of at least 10 years preceding the year of the award. It is awarded once every 3 years.

Burer’s co-author was Renato Monteiro of Georgia Tech university.