Monique Laurent

{{short description|French computer scientist and mathematician}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Monique Laurent

| birth_name = Monique Laurent

| image = Monique Laurent, 2011 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Laurent at Oberwolfach in 2011

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| birth_date = {{birth year|1960}}

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| field = Mathematical optimization

| work_institution = Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Tilburg University
CNRS

| alma_mater = Paris Diderot University

| thesis_title = Geométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques

| thesis_year = 1986

| doctoral_advisor = Michel Deza

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Monique Laurent (born 1960)Birth year from [http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000114450465 ISNI authority control file], retrieved 2018-11-29. is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she is also a member of the Management Team.[https://www.cwi.nl/people/280 Employee profile], CWI, retrieved 2016-07-02. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.[https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/m.laurent.htm Faculty profile], Tilburg University, retrieved 2016-07-02.

Education and career

Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.{{mathgenealogy|id=120839}}

She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.

Book

With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Algorithms and Combinatorics 15, Springer, 1997).Reviews of Geometry of cuts and metrics: Alexander Barvinok (1998), {{MR|1460488}}; Robert Dawson, {{zbl|0885.52001}}.

Awards and honors

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByLastname.php ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897], International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2016-07-02.

She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete and polynomial optimization and revealing interactions between them".[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2017 SIAM Fellows: Class of 2017], retrieved 2017-04-25.

She has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018.{{citation|url=https://knaw.nl/en/members/members/15907|title=Monique Laurent|publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=2019-01-05}} In 2024, she was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society.{{cite web

| url = https://www.mathematik.de/dmv/gauss-vorlesungenveranstaltungskalender/termine/termin0072.html

| title = Gauß-Vorlesungen

| publisher = German Mathematical Society

| accessdate = 29 June 2024

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