Short Bio - Luis Nunes Vicente
Luis Nunes Vicente is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Coimbra, Portugal. He obtained his PhD from Rice University, TX in
1996 under a Fulbright scholarship and was among the three finalists
of the 94-96 A. W. Tucker Prize of the Mathematical Optimization Society.
He held visiting positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and the
IMA/University of Minnesota in 2002/2003
and at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/NYU and CERFACS in 2009/2010.
His research interests include the development and analysis of numerical
methods for large-scale nonlinear programming, sparse optimization, PDE constrained
optimization problems, and derivative-free optimization problems,
and applications in computational sciences, engineering, and finance.
His research has been supported by the European Union,
the European Space Agency, and the Portuguese Foundation
for Science and Technology.
He is a member of several editorial boards
including SIAM Journal on Optimization, Journal of Global
Optimization, and Optimization Methods and Software,
and he recently ended a six year term as editor of the
SIAM SIAG/Optimization Views-and-News.
L. N. Vicente is a co-author of the book Introduction to Derivative-Free Optimization,
MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2009.
He participates in various boards and councils and gave a number of plenary talks
in reputed conferences. He co-directs the
UT Austin | Portugal Program in Mathematics (2007-2011) and was elected
council member-at-large of the Mathematical Optimization Society
(2009-2012).