• Free Linear Optimization Book (Jon Lee, "A First Course in Linear Optimization", Fourth Edition, Version 4.07 (https://github.com/jon77lee/JLee_LinearOptimizationBook/blob/master/JLee.4.07.zip), Reex Press, 2013-22) and associated software (https://github.com/jon77lee/JLee_LinearOptimizationBook/blob/master/JLee.4.07.softwareEtc.zip) [mainly Jupyter Notebooks using Python and Gurobi]. 

• ahsymginv (matlab function): calculates a sparse, block-structured, minimum-rank generalized inverse H of A having low vector 1-norm and which solves the associated least-squares problem Ax≈b via x:=Hb.

• APB v2.5 (Algebraic-Perturbation Barvinok)

• Gabriel Ponte:

  • 2023 Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE) Fellowship

• Zhongzhu Chen:

  • 2023-4 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

  • 2024 Ph.D.

• Luze Xu:

  • 2018 Katta Murty Prize for Best Research Paper on Optimization (department award)

  • 2020 Katta Murty Prize for Best Research Paper on Optimization (department award)

  • 2022 Ph.D.

• Victor Fuentes:

  • 2019 Ph.D. 

• Emily Speakman:

  • 2016 Katta Murty Prize for Best Research Paper on Optimization (department award)

  • 2016 Joel and Lorraine Brown Graduate-Student-Instructor of the Year Award (department award)

  • 1st place in Engineering Graduate Symposium poster competition, 2015 (college award)

  • Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research (college award)

  • 2017 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (college award)

  • 2017 Ph.D. 

• Jon Lee in the NY Times!

• Jon Lee selected for Centre de Recherches Mathématiques Scholar-in-Residence Program

• As local as local gets

• J. Lee is Number One (citeseer: "The output is 1 (one) if author J. Lee was involved in the paper")

• INFORMS Optimization Society

• CMU-IBM Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative site for MINLP

• David Lee

Some past Conferences and Workshops

• Jon-Shmuel Halfway to Twelfty, July 2023 , École des Ponts, Marne-la-Vallée, France.

• AMS Special Session on Mathematical Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, January 16, 2020, Denver, CO 2020.

• International Conference on Mathematical Optimization for Fair Social Decisions: A tribute to Michel Balinski, Paris, France. December 3-4, 2019.

• Three Decades of DIMACS, November 21-22, 2019, New Brunswick, NJ.

• Conference on Data Science and Optimization, November 18-20, 2019, The Fields Institute

• Egon Balas Memorial Conference, October 27-28, 2019, CMU, Pittsburgh. 

• CRM/DIMACS Workshop on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming, October 7-10, 2019, Université de Montréal.

• ICCOPT2019, August 5-8, 2019. Berlin, Germany. 

• World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO), July 8-10, 2019.  Metz, France.

• 30th European Conference On Operational Research, June 23-26, 2019. Dublin, Ireland.

• IPCO 2019, May 22-24, 2019 (summer school 20-21), Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

• Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing,  March 4-8, 2019. Boca Raton, Florida.

• Greater Bay Area Workshop on Computational Optimization, January 23-24, 2019, Hong Kong.

• AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Discrete Optimization, January 16-17, 2019. Baltimore, Maryland.

• INFORMS 2018, November 4-7, 2018. Phoenix, Arizona.

• "Polyèdres et optimisation combinatoire", Sorbonne Université, October 2018, Paris, France. 

• Princeton Day of Optimization, September 28. Princeton, New Jersey. 

• ESA 2018, August 20-22, 2018. Helsinki, Finland.

• 2018 Workshop On New Computing-Driven Opportunities for Optimization, August 13-17, 2018. Wuyishan, China.

• 2018 PKU Workshop on Optimization Theory and Methods, August 11, 2018. Beijing, China.

• ISMP 2018, July 1-6, 2018. Bordeaux, France. 

• CTW 2018, June 18-20, 2018. Paris, France.

• Workshop on Optimization and Discrete Geometry: Theory and Practice, Apr 24-26, 2018.  Tel Aviv, Israel.

• ISCO 2018, International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, April 11-13, 2018. Marrakesh, Morocco.

• INFORMS Optimization Society Conference,  Mar 23-25, 2018. Denver, Colorado.

• INFORMS 2017, October 22-25 2017. Houston, Texas.

• CPAIOR 2017, June 6-8, 2017. Padova, Italy.

• International School on Mathematics, "Guido Stampacchia" Workshop: Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications, 4th Edition.  May 5 - 13, 2017. Erice, Italy.

• Applications of Algebra, Geometry and Topology, Jan 6, 2017. SIAM Minisymposium at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Atlanta, Georgia.

• Combinatorial, Geometric, and Computational Aspects of Optimization, Dec 3-4, 2016. At the 2016 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada. 

• INFORMS 2016, Nov 13-16, 2016. Nashville, Tennessee.

• 4th Alpen-Adria-Workshop on Optimization, Nov 4-6, 2016. Klagenfurt, Austria.

• CLAIO 2016, Oct 2-6, 2016. Santiago, Chile.

• GOW 2016, Sept 4-8, 2016. Braga, Portugal.

• OR 2016, Aug 30-Sept 2, 2016. Hamburg, Germany.

• Discrete Optimization, Aug 22-26, 2016. Zurich, Switzerland.

• IPCO 2016, June 1-3, 2016. Liege, Belgium. 

• MIP 2016, May 23-36, 2016. Coral Gables, Florida.

• CORE@50th Conference, May 23-27, 2016. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 

• INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2016, March 17-19, 2016. Princeton, New Jersey. 

• Combinatorial Optimization: Relaxation Workshop, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, November 16-20, 2015. Bonn, Germany.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nov 1-4, 2015. Philadelphia, PA.

• 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), July 12-17, 2015. Pittsburgh, PA.

• PoCo 2015: Summer school on polyhedral combinatorics, July 8-12, 2015. Pittsburgh, PA.

• Fourteenth International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2015), June 29 - July 1, 2015. Paris, France.

• Seventeenth British-German-French Conference on Optimization, June 15-17, 2015. London, UK.

• Paths, Pivots and Practice (Terlaky Fest), June 11-13, 2015. Montreal, Canada.

• MIP 2015, June 1-4, 2015. Chicago, IL.

• LAGOS 2015, May 11-15, 2015. Beberibe, Brazil.

• Second Sevilla Workshop on MINLP, March 30 - April 1, 2015. Sevilla, Spain.

• IMA Workshop: Convexity and Optimization, February 23-27, 2015. Minneapolis, MN.

• 2014 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 9-12, 2014. San Francisco, CA.

• 2014 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP), July 21 – 24, 2014. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

• The 17th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XVII), June 23-25, 2014. Bonn, Germany.

• SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP14), May 19-22, 2014. San Diego, California.

• MINO/COST Spring School on Convex Optimization and Applications, April 8-11, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria.

• INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, March 6-8, 2014. Rice University, Houston, Texas.

• ISCO 2014, March 5-7, 2014. Lisbon, Portugal.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 6-9, 2013. Minneapolis,  Minnesota.

• Fourth Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, September 30 - October 5, 2013, Corsica, France.

• COST Workshop on MINLP, September 30 - October 2, 2013, Paris, France.

• Polynomial Optimisation, July 15 - August 9, 2013. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Cambridge, UK.

• Mixed Integer Programming, July 22-25, 2013. Madison, Wisconsin.

• AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting, April 13-14, 2013. University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. Special Session on Foundations of Computational Mathematics.

• IPCO XVI, March 18-20, 2013. Valparaiso, Chile.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 14-17, 2012. Phoenix, Arizona.

• 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), August 19-24, 2012. Berlin, Germany.

• Mixed Integer Programming 2012, July 16–19, Davis, California.

• Global Optimization Workshop 2012, June 26-29, 2012. Natal, Brazil.

• BIRS Workshop on Robust Optimization, May 25-27, 2012. Banff, Canada.

• Modern Aspects of Submodularity, March 19-22, 2012. Atlanta, Georgia.

• INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2012, February 24-26, 2012. Coral Gables, Florida.

• Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO) 2012, January 8-11 , 2012. Savannah, Georgia.

• Complex Systems Design & Management 2011, December 7-9, 2011. Paris, France.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2011. Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Workshop on Optimization (part of: Thematic Program on Discrete Geometry and Applications), September 26-29, 2011. Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.

• Mixed Integer Programming (MIP 2011), June 20-23, 2011. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

• 15th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XV), June 15-17, 2011. Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.

• 8th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR 2011), May 23-27, 2011. Zuse Institute, Berlin, Germany.

• SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP11), May 16-19, 2011. Darmstadt, Germany.

• 9th Joint OR Days, May 12-13, 2011. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

• 2nd Alpen-Adria Workshop on Optimization, May 12-14, 2011. Klagenfurt, Austria.

• Joint Mathematics Meetings (the American Mathematics Society and the Mathematics Association of America), January 6-9, 2011. New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Exploratory Workshop on Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming, December 1-3, 2010. Sevilla, Spain.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 7-10, 2010. Austin, Texas.

• Complex Systems Design & Management 2010, October 27-29, 2010. Paris, France.

• Modern Trends in Optimization and its Application. Workshop III: Discrete Optimization, October 26 - 29, 2010. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA.

• 8th IBM Swiss O.R. Workshop, September 9-10, 2010. Fribourg, Switzerland.

• MOPTA 2010, August 18-20, 2010. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

• MIP 2010, July 26-29, 2010. Atlanta, Georgia.

• 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 12-16, 2010. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• 14th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XIV), June 9-11, 2010. Lausanne, Switzerland.

• European Workshop on Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, April 12-16, 2010. CIRM, Marseilles, France.

• International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO), March 24-26, 2010. Hammamet, Tunisia.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 11-14, 2009, San Diego.

• Computational Engineering and Science / HPC, October 5-6, 2009. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.

• 7th IBM Swiss O.R. Workshop, September 3-4, 2009. Lugano, Switzerland.

• 20th ISMP, August 23-28, 2009. Chicago.

• Modelling and Optimization: Theory and Applications. MOPTA 2009, August 19-21, 2009. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.

• MIP 2009, the sixth workshop on Mixed Integer Programming, June 8-11, 2009

• 8th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, June 2-5, 2009

• Wolsey Fest: Integer Programming at CORE, May 27-29, 2009

• AMS Spring 2009 Western Section Meeting:Special Session on Advances in the Theory of Integer Linear Optimization and its Extensions, April 25-26, 2009

• IMA Hot Topics Workshop: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Algorithmic Advances and Applications, November 17-21, 2008

Software

• APB v2.5 (Algebraic-Perturbation Barvinok)

• Commercial software: CPLEX, Gurobi, Baron

• Open Cyberinfrastructure for Mixed-integer Nonlinear Programming: Collaboration and Deployment via Virtual Environments

• COIN: COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research - open source for the operations research community

• Bonmin (Basic Open-source Nonlinear Mixed INteger programming)

• Couenne (Convex Over and Under ENvelopes for Nonlinear Estimation)

• CMU-IBM Open-Source MINLP Project

• CBC User Guide

• Francois Margot's COIN-OR materials