Keywords

	Samuel A. Burer Professor Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow
	Management Sciences S346  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994	Ph: 319-335-0931 Fax: 319-335-0297 E-mail: samuel-burer@uiowa.edu Website CV

Academic History

• PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
• BS in Mathematics, University of Georgia, 1997

Expertise

• Mathematical optimization
• Operations research

Awards

• G.R.E.A.T. Faculty Award (First Year), Des Moines Executive MBA Class of 2012, April 2012
• Dean's Teaching Award in Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, 2011
• Best Paper Award, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2009
• Martha and Dennis Hesse Research Fellow, 2004
• Honorable Mention, Young Researcher Competition, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Mathematical Programming Society, August 2004
• New Hot Paper recognition by ISI Essential Science Indicators, 2003
• Delta Sigma Pi Outstanding Faculty Award, 2002
• INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, 2002

Selected Publications

• Second-Order-Cone Constraints for Extended Trust-Region Subproblems, Samuel A. Burer, Kurt M. Anstreicher, SIAM Journal on Optimization - Publication Details Forthcoming
• Separation and relaxation for cones of quadratic forms, Samuel A. Burer, Hongbo Dong, Mathematical Programming Series A, vol 137, 2013, 343-370
• The Trust Region Subproblem with Non-Intersecting Linear Constraints, Samuel A. Burer, Boshi Yang
• Globally solving nonconvex quadratic programming problems via completely positive programming, Samuel A. Burer, Jieqiue Chen, Mathematical Programming Computation, vol 4, 2012, 33-52
• A first-order smoothing technique for a class of large-scale linear programs, Samuel A. Burer, Jieqiu Chen
• Non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming: A survey, Samuel A. Burer, Adam Letchford, Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science, vol 17, 2012, 97-106
• Unbounded convex sets for non-convex mixed-integer quadratic programming, Samuel A. Burer, Adam N. Letchford, Mathematical Programming (Series A), 2012 - Publication Details Forthcoming
• Representing quadratically constrained quadratic programs as generalized copositive programs, Samuel A. Burer, Hongbo Dong, Operations Research Letters, vol 40, 2012, 203-206
• Robust rankings for college football, Samuel A. Burer, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, vol 8, 2012
• The Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem with Interval Travel Times, Nayoung Cho, Samuel A. Burer, Ann M. Campbell
• A Semidefinite Approach to the Hypergraph Minimum Bisection Problem, Changhui Choi, Samuel A. Burer, , Optimization, vol 60, 2011, 413-427
• Computable Representations for Convex Hulls of Low-Dimensional Quadratic Forms, Kurt M. Anstreicher, Samuel A. Burer, Mathematical Programming Series B, vol 124, 2010, 33-43
• Optimizing a Polyhedral-Semidefinite Relaxation of Completely Positive Programs, Samuel A. Burer, Mathematical Programming Computation, vol 2, 2010, 1-19
• A p-Cone Sequential Relaxation Procedure for 0-1 Integer Programs, Samuel A. Burer, Jieqiu Chen, Optimization Methods and Software, vol 24, 2009, 523-548
• On Non-Convex Quadratic Programming with Box Constraints, Samuel A. Burer, Adam N. Letchford, , SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol 20, 2009, 1073-1089
• On the Copositive Representation of Binary and Continuous Nonconvex Quadratic Programs, Samuel A. Burer, Mathematical Programming, vol 120, 2009, 479-495
• Relaxing the Optimality Conditions of Box QP , Samuel A. Burer, Jieqiu Chen, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2009 - Publication Details Forthcoming
• The Difference Between 5x5 Doubly Nonnegative and Completely Positive Matrices, Samuel A. Burer, Kurt M. Anstreicher, Mirjam Duer, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, vol 431, 2009, 1539-1552
• A Finite Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Nonconvex Quadratic Programming via Semidefinite Relaxations, Samuel A. Burer, Dieter Vandenbussche, Mathematical Programming, vol 113, 2008, 259-282
• Coordinating the Supply Chain in the Agricultural Seed Industry, Samuel A. Burer, Philip C. Jones, Timothy J. Lowe, European Journal of Operational Research, vol 185, 2008, 354-377
• On Handling Free Variables in Interior-Point Methods for Conic Linear Optimization, Samuel A. Burer, Miguel Anjos, SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol 18, 2007, 1310-1325
• Solving Maximum-Entropy Sampling Problems Using Factored Masks, Samuel A. Burer, Jon Lee, Mathematical Programming, vol 109, 2007, 263-281
• Globally Solving Box-Constrained Nonconvex Quadratic Programs with Semidefinite-Based Finite Branch-and-Bound, Samuel A. Burer, Dieter Vandenbussche, Computational Optimization and Applications, vol 43, 2007, 181-195
• Computational Enhancements in Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming, Samuel A. Burer, Changhui Choi, Optimization Methods and Software, vol 21, 2006, 493-512
• Ensemble Pruning via Semi-definite Programming, Samuel A. Burer, Yi Zhang, Nick Street, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol 7, 2006, 1315-1338
• Solving Lift-and-Project Relaxations of Binary Integer Programs, Samuel A. Burer, Dieter Vandenbussche, SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol 16, 2006, 726-750
• Local Minima and Convergence in Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Mathematical Programming, vol 103, 2005, 427-444
• D.C. Versus Copositive Bounds for Standard QP, Kurt M. Anstreicher, Samuel A. Burer, Journal Of Global Optimization, vol 33, 2005, 299-312
• A Computational Study of a Gradient-Based Log-Barrier Algorithm for a Class of Large-Scale SDPs, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Yin Zhang, Mathematical Programming (Series B), vol 95, 2003, 359-379
• A General Framework for Establishing Polynomial Convergence of Long-Step Methods for Semidefinite Programming, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Optimization Methods and Software, vol 18, 2003, 1-38
• A Nonlinear Programming Algorithm for Solving Semidefinite Programs via Low-Rank Factorization, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Mathematical Programming (Series B), vol 95, 2003, 329-357
• Semidefinite Programming in the Space of Partial Positive Semidefinite Matrices, Samuel A. Burer, SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol 14, 2003, 139-172
• Interior Point Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming Based on a Nonlinear Formulation, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Yin Zhang, Computational Optimization and Applications, vol 22, 2002, 49-79
• Maximum Stable Set Formulations and Heuristics Based on Continuous Optimization, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Yin Zhang, Mathematical Programming, vol 94, 2002, 137-166
• Solving a Class of Semidefinite Programs via Nonlinear Programming, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Yin Zhang, Mathematical Programming, vol 93, 2002, 97-122
• A Projected Gradient Algorithm for Solving the Maxcut SDP Relaxation, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Optimization Methods and Software, vol 15, 2001, 175-200
• Rank-Two Relaxation Heuristics for Max-Cut and Other Binary Quadratic Programs, Samuel A. Burer, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Yin Zhang, SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol 12, 2001, 503-521

Working Papers

• Convex Optimization of Centralized Inventory Operations, Samuel A. Burer, Moshe Dror

Conference Proceedings

• Sharing Classifiers among Ensembles from Related Problem Domains, Samuel A. Burer, Yi Zhang, Nick Street, Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'05), 2005, 522-529

Other Work

• The MILP Road to MIQCP, Samuel A. Burer, Anureet Saxena, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 154, 2011, 373-406

Work In Progress

• An Algorithm for Computing the CP-Factorization of a Completely Positive Matrix, Kurt M. Anstreicher, Samuel A. Burer, Peter J.C. Dickinson

Prior Positions

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2007 - May 2007

Review and Editorial Work

• Referee, Annals of Operations Research
• Referee, ANZIAM Journal
• Referee, Automatica
• Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics
• Referee, Discrete Optimization
• Referee, European Journal of Operational Research
• Referee, INFORMS Journal on Computing
• Referee, Journal of Global Optimization
• Referee, Journal of Graphical and Computational Statistics
• Referee, Journal of Heuristics
• Referee, Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Referee, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
• Referee, Mathematical Programming
• Referee, Mathematics of Operations Research
• Referee, Optimization and Engineering
• Referee, Optimization Letters
• Referee, Optimization Methods and Software
• Referee, SIAM Journal on Optimization

Professional Affiliations

• Associate Editor, Mathematics of Operations Research, 2011 - current
• Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2011 - current
• Associate Editor, Mathematical Programming Computation, 2008 - current
• Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2007 - 2010

Committees and Professional Service

• Mathematical Optimization Society, 2012-2015