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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

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.