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January 14, 2010

"Argonne researcher named SIAM Vice President for Programs"

Sven Leyffer, a computational mathematician in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been named Vice President for Programs for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The organization includes more than 12,000 members in 85 countries who are working in industry, government, and academia.

In this three-year position, Leyffer will chair SIAM’s program committee, with responsibility for the overall program direction and content of all SIAM conferences, including soliciting and reviewing topics for conferences and initiating special workshops in new areas. He will also be responsible for reporting to the SIAM Board of Trustees and SIAM Council about the status of meetings and their budgets.

Leyffer was named a Fellow of SIAM last year. He is developing and applying nonlinear optimization methodologies to emerging areas such as mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and optimization problems with complementary constraints. He is also a Fellow of the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute.