Professional Services

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Optimization Section of INFORMS
Vice Chair for Nonlinear Programming, 2002-2004.

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Panel Member
National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panel, December, 1997.
National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panel, May, 2000.
Optimization Collaborative Working Group, sponsored by NCI (National Cancer Institute) and NSF, 2002.

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Proposal Referee
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy

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Journal Referee and Reviewer

Mathematical Programming	SIAM Journal on Optimization
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis	SIAM Journal on Optimization and Control
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis	J. of Optimization: Theory and Applications
Optimization Methods and Software	Computational Optimization and Applications
Mathematics of Operations Research	Mathematical Review

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Conference Cluster/Session Organizer/Chair
- Session Title: Efficient Algorithms for Low-rank Matrix Optimization and their Applications (co-organized with Wotao Yin). Mini-Symposium at SIAM Conference on Optimization. May 16-19, 2011. Darmstadtium Conference Center, Darmstadt, Germany.
- Cluster Title: Sparse Optimization (co-chair: Michael Saunders and Peter Richtarik). Cluster at the 20th International Symposium of Mathematical Programming (ISMP09). Chicago, Illinois, USA from August 23 - 28 2009.
- Session Title: Recent Advances in L1-minimization algorithms and Applications (co-organized with Wotao Yin). Mini-Symposium at SIAM Conference on Optimization, Second Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous Optimization. August 13-16, 2007. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- Session Title: ICS Prize Tutorial. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2002, San Jose, Nov. 17-20, 2002.
- Session Title: Nonlinear Programming Techniques in Discrete Optimization, Mini-Symposium at SIAM Conference on Optimization, Toronto, May 20-22, 2002.
- Session Title: Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization, Chair of Session F.2., Waterloo, Canada, April 26-28, 2001.
- Session Title: Nonlinear Programming, Integer Programming and Interior-Point Algorithms. 2000 San Antonio INFORMS Meeting. San Antonio, Texas, November 5-8, 2000.
- Session Title: Algorithms for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programs. 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, Georgia, August 7-11, 2000.
- Mini-symposium: Honoring the 60-th Birthday of Prof. Richard A. Tapia, 1998 SIAM annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 12-17, 1998.
- Cluster Chair for Linear Programming. 1997 Dallas INFORMS meeting, Dallas, Texas, October 26-29, 1997.
- Session Title: Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming (co-organizer: M. Kojima). 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 24-29, 1997.
- Session Title: Nonlinear Programming. 1996 Washington INFORMS Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 15-18, 1996.