Kurt M. Anstreicher
Emeritus Professor in Business Analytics
Current Positions
- Emeritus Professor, Business Analytics
Education
- PhD in Operations Research, Stanford University
- BA in Mathematics, Dartmouth College
Research Interests
- Linear and Nonlinear Programming
- Nonlinear Integer Programming
- Interior-Point Algorithms
Selected Awards & Honors
- Faculty Career Achievement Research Award - Tippie College of Business, 2024
- Regents Award for Faculty Excellence - University of Iowa, 2020
- Fellow - INFORMS, 2011
- Fellow - CIC Academic Leadership Program (ALP), 2011
- Best Paper in Optimization - SIAM Interest Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT), 2002
Selected Publications
- Anstreicher, K. (In Press). (2022). Solving Two-Trust-Region Subproblems using Semidefinite Optimization with Eigenvector Branching. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. DOI: 10.1007/s10957-022-02064-5.
- Anstreicher, K., Burer, S., & Park, K. (2021). Convex Hull Representations for Bounded Products of Variables. Journal of Global Optimization. 80 (4) pp. 757-778. DOI: 10.1007/s10898-021-01046-7.
- Anstreicher, K. & Burer, S. (2021). Quadratic Optimization with Switching Variables: The Convex Hull for n = 2. Mathematical Programming Series B. 188 (2) pp. 421-441. DOI: 10.1007/s10107-021-01671-w.
- Anstreicher, K. (2021). Testing Copositivity via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 609 pp. 218-230. DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2020.09.002.
- Anstreicher, K. (2020). Efficient Solution of Maximum-Entropy Sampling Problems. Operations Research. 68 (6) pp. 1826-1835. DOI: 10.1287/opre.2019.1962.
- Anstreicher, K. (2018). Maximum-Entropy Sampling and the Boolean Quadric Polytope. Journal of Global Optimization. 72 pp. 603-618. DOI: 10.1007/s10898-018-0662-x.
- Yang, B., Anstreicher, K., & Burer, S. (2018). Quadratic Programs with Hollows. Mathematical Programming Series A. 170 (2) pp. 541-553. DOI: 10.1007/s10107-017-1157-0.
- Anstreicher, K. (2017). Kronecker Product Constraints with an Application to the Two-Trust-Region Subproblem. SIAM Journal on Optimization. 27 (1) pp. 388-378. DOI: 10.1137/16M1078859.
- Van Laarhoven, J. W. & Anstreicher, K. (2013). Geometric Conditions for Euclidean Steiner Trees in R^d. Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications. 46 pp. 520-531. DOI: 10.1016/j.comgeo.2011.11.007.
- Anstreicher, K. (2013). An Approach to the Dodecahedral Conjecture based on Bounds for Spherical Codes. Fields Institute Communications. 69 pp. 33-44.
Selected Presentations
- "Testing Copositivity via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming," Guest/Invited Speaker at US Naval Academy Optimization and OR Conference, Virtual, June 2021.
- "Efficient Solution of Maximum-Entropy Sampling Problems," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, January 2020.
- "Efficient Solution of Maximum-Entropy Sampling Problems," Accepted Speaker at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, June 2019.
- "Strengthened Semidefinite Relaxations for Quadratic Optimization with Switching Variables," Guest/Invited Speaker at International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Bordeaux, France, July 2018.
- "Strengthened Semidefinite Relaxations for Quadratic Optimization with Switching Variables," Guest/Invited Speaker at Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Dagstuhl, Germany, February 2018.
- "An Algorithm to Compute the CP-Factorization of a Completely Positive Matrix," Guest/Invited Speaker at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, November 2017.
- "Maximum Entropy Sampling and the Boolean Quadric Polytope," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2016.
- "Convex Represntations and Relaxations for Nonconvex Quadratic Programming," Visiting Professor at University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, November 2016.
- "Kronecker Product Constraints for Semidefinite Optimization," Guest/Invited Speaker at BIRS-CMO Workshop on Modern Techniques in Discrete Optimization, Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2015.
- "Quadratic Optimization with Hollows," Guest/Invited Speaker at Mathematisches Furschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, November 2015.
Employment History
- Professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, 2023
- Professor, Business Analytics, University of Iowa, 2017 - 2023
- Gary C. Fethke Chair in Leadership, Dean's Office, University of Iowa, 2014 - 2023
- Professor, Computer Science, University of Iowa, 2004 - 2023
Editorial & Review Activities
- Editor, Mathematical Programming Series A, August 2007 - August 2012.
- Co-Editor, Mathematical Programming Series B, - January 2008.