{"134921":{"#nid":"134921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cook Named Chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBill Cook, Chandler Family Chair Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been elected the new Chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), previously named the Mathematical Programming Society.\u0026nbsp; Cook is the second faculty member in ISyE to receive such an honor.\u0026nbsp; George Nemhauser, the A. Russell Chandler Chaired Professor in ISyE, held the title from 1989-1992.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECook has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Programming Series A and Series B, and he is the current Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of \u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming Computation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECook\u0027s research interests are in combinatorial optimization and integer programming. He is also heavily involved in research dealing with computational issues involved in treating hard discrete problems such as large instances for the celebrated traveling salesman problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFour new council members were also elected to MOS, including former Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization Ph.D. student, Sam Burer (Ph.D. ACO 2001), who was advised by ISyE Professor Renato D. C. Monteiro.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1973, MOS is an international organization dedicated to the promotion and the maintenance of high professional standards in the subject of mathematical optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBill Cook, Chandler Family Chair Professor in ISyE, has been elected the new Chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-06-12 14:14:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:22","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63199":{"id":"63199","type":"image","title":"Bill Cook","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Bill Cook","file":{"fid":"191775","name":"Cook-William_th.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cook-William_th_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cook-William_th_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20638,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cook-William_th_0.jpg?itok=GNta-CG5"}}},"media_ids":["63199"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11342","name":"Bill Cook"},{"id":"4742","name":"George Nemhauser"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"35751","name":"Mathematical Optimization Society"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}