Collette Coullard
American mathematician
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Collette René Coullard is an American mathematician, industrial engineer, operations researcher, and matroid theorist known for her research on combinatorial optimization problems that combine facility location and stock management. Formerly a professor at Purdue University, the University of Waterloo, Northwestern University, and Lake Superior State University, she has retired to become a professor emeritus.
Professor Collette Coullard | |
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| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Northwestern University; Lake Superior State University |
| Known for | Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, Network Optimization, Transportation, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research |
| Honours | Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, 1996 to 1999. Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award, 2003. |
Education and career
Coullard graduated in 1980 from Lake Superior State University,[1][2] and earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Minors of 3-Connected Matroids and Adjoints of Binary Matroids, concerned matroid theory and was supervised by Robert E. Bixby.[3]
She taught at Purdue University and the University of Waterloo[4] before returning to Northwestern as a faculty member in 1990,[2] and retired as a mathematics professor from Lake Superior State University in 2018.[5] She has also visited the University of Bonn as a Humboldt Fellow.[4]