1. Speaker: Shuzhong Zhang
Ten Years Collaboration with Jos Sturm – A Tribute with Personal Memories
Speaker: Shuzhong Zhang
HPOPT 2004
June 24, 2004
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2. Biography of Jos F. Sturm
Born in Rotterdam, August 13, 1971.
Drs title at Department of Econometrics, University of Groningen, 1993.
Ph.D. degree at Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1997.
Year 1997 – 1998, postdoc fellow at CRL, McMaster University.
Year 1998 – 2001, Assistant Professor at Department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University.
Year 2001 – 2003, Associate Professor at CentER, Tilburg University.

3. Highlights
Ph.D. dissertation won Gijs de Leve Prize (best thesis in OR/MS in The Netherlands, 1997 — 1999).
TALENT fellow, NWO (Dutch Organization for Sciences), – 1998.
Vernieuwingsimpuls Grant from NWO, 2001.
Editor of the newsletter Views-and-News, SIAG/OPT.
Associate Editor, Mathematical Programming, Ser B.
Council member-at-large of the Mathematical Programming Society.

4. Scientific Achievements
Author of about 30 scientific papers
Author of SeDuMi – a highly reputable SDP and SOCP solver
Helped to solve many real-life, large-size, difficult optimization problems

5. Contents in this talk The Iri-Imai method for LP
Cone affine scaling and wide neighborhood
Symmetric primal-dual transformation for SDP
Error bound for the central path for SDP
Weighted centers, long steps, and superlinear convergence for SDP

6. Contents in this talk (continue)
Duality theory for conic programming
Self-dual embedding
Sensitivity of the central solutions for SDP
The cone of nonnegative quadratic functions and the rank-one decompositions
Quadratic matrix inequalities

38. The best way to remember Jos is to remember his work.
Thank you for your attention!