Monique Laurent
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1960
Monique Laurent | |
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.jpg) Laurent at Oberwolfach in 2011 | |
| Born | Monique Laurent 1960 |
| Alma mater | Paris Diderot University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical optimization |
| Institutions | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tilburg University CNRS |
| Thesis | Geométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Deza |
Monique Laurent (born 1960)[1] 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.[2] Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.[3]
Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.[4] She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.[2]
Book
With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Algorithms and Combinatorics 15, Springer, 1997).[5]
