Roger J-B Wets

Roger J-B Wets
BornFebruary 1937 (age 87)
Belgium[1]
Alma materUniversité libre de Bruxelles
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsFrederick W. Lanchester Prize (1997)
Scientific career
Fieldsstochastic programming
ThesisProgramming under uncertainty (1965)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Dantzig
David Blackwell
Websitewww.math.ucdavis.edu/~rjbw/

Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (born February 1937) is a "pioneer" in stochastic programming[2] and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets. His research, expositions, graduate students, and his collaboration with R. Tyrrell Rockafellar have had a profound influence on optimization theory, computations, and applications.[2][3][4] Since 2009, Wets has been a distinguished research professor at the mathematics department of the University of California, Davis.[5][6]

  1. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1981). Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  2. ^ a b Anonymous (2004, p. 1)
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  5. ^ Wets (2011)
  6. ^ Wets (2011b)