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   Vaithilingam Jeyakumar
 

Professor and Head of Applied Mathematics Department

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  • Brief History,

  • Research interests,

  • Teaching,

  • Administration,

  • Other Activities,

  • Reviewed Publications,

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    Brief History

    BSc (Hons), First Class, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 1981

    Assistant Lecturer, University of Jaffna (1981-1982)

    PhD, Nonsmooth Optimization, University of Melbourne, 1986

    Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA (1986-1987)

    Adjunct Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, Canada (1987-1988)

    Lecturer, University of New South Wales (1988-1992)

    Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales (1992-1998)

    Associate Professor, University of New South Wales (1999-)

    Professor, University of New South Wales (2008-)

    Head, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales (2002-)


    Awards and Scholarships

    Melbourne University Writing-Up Award, 1986

    Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship (1982-1986)


    Research Interests

    • Optimization
    • Mathematical Programming
    • Optimization Methods to Machine learning
    • Nonsmooth Analysis
    • Mathematics of Operations Research

    His research is supported by the Australian Research Council Grants.


    Teaching

    Lecturing duties in 2009 include:

    Previously he has taught Mathematics 1A(Calculus), Linear Programming, and many other courses, including advanced optimization courses.


    Administration

      Head, Department of Applied Mathematics


    Other Activities

    • Member of the Editorial Board: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society; The ANZIAM Journal, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research; Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization.


    List of Publications

    Jeyakumar has over 100 scientific refereed publications. A link is given below to a listing from MathSciNet.

  • Vaithilingam Jeyakumar.

  • Other Links

    MATHEMATICAL SOCIETIES AND GROUPS

    http://www.ams.org/   (American Mathematical Society)
    http://www.austms.org.au/    (Australian Mathematical Society)
    http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-sao.html    (Mathematical Associations around the World)
    http://optnet.itwm.uni-kl.de/sigopt/    (Special Interest group in Optimization)
    http://www.siam.org/siags/siagop/siagop.htm    (SIAM Activity Group in Optimization)
    http://www.mathprog.org    (Mathematical Programming Society)
    http://www.siam.org/nnindex.htm    (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM))
    http://genconv.ec.unipi.it/    WGGC (Working Group in Generalized Convexity)
    http://rgmia.vu.edu.au/    RGMIA (Research Group in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications)
    http://gala.univ-perp.fr/~aussel/Mode/acceuil.html    (Subgroup of French Applied Math. Society in Optimization)
    http://smai.emath.fr/    (French Applied Mathematics Society)
    http://www.ndopt.kiev.ua/   (Network for developing  theory  methods and applications of   nonsmooth analysis and optimization  (Former Soviet Union))
    http://www.informs.org/    (INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and Management sciences)

    PUBLISHERS AND JOURNALS

    http://www.apnet.com/  (Academic Press)
    http://www.baltzer.nl/anor/anor.asp   (Annals of Operaration Research)
    http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0926-6003   (Computational Optimization and Applications)
    http://www.ie.ncsu.edu/fangroup/fuzzy.dir/FODM.html    (Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making)
    http://www.gbhap.com/  (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers)
    http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~miele/jota0.html    JOTA (Journal of Application Theory and Optimization)
    http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1382-6905   (Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers)
    http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~anastasg/anlyjour.htm   (Journal of Computational Analysis and Computation (Kluwer Academic Publishers))
    http://www.heldermann.de/jcacover.htm   (Journal of Convex Analysis)
    http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0925-5001   (Journal of Global Optimization)
    http://www.wkap.nl/   (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
    http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/JRNLHOME    (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Journal homepage)
    http://www.dekker.com/   (Marcel Dekker Publishing House)
    http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mathprog/mpsjournal/    (Mathematical Programming)
    http://www.informs.org/Pubs/Math/   (Mathematics of Operation Research)
    http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mathprog/optima/    (OPTIMA)
    http://www.gbhap.com/Optimization/    Optimization (A journal of mathematical programming and operation research)
    http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~terlaky/OPTE/opte.html    (Optimization and Engineering)
    http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~terlaky/OPTE/opte.html    (Optimization and Engineering)
    http://fmad-www.larc.nasa.gov/mdob/users/natalia/opte    (Optimization and Engineering)
    http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0927-6947   (Set-valued Analysis)
    http://www.siam.org/journals/sicon/sicon.htm   (SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization)
    http://www.siam.org/journals/sicon/sicon.htm   (SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis)
    http://www.siam.org/journals/siopt/siopt.htm   (SIAM Journal of Optimization)
    http://www.wspc.com.sg/   (World Scientific Publishing Company)

    OPTIMIZATION SITES

    http://solon.cma.univie.ac.at/~neum/glopt.html    Global optimization (This is a comprehensive archive of online information on global optimization, and somewhat less comprehensive on local optimization, collected by Arnold Neumaier)
    http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/    (Michael Tric’s Operation Research page (This is a page for pointers to all aspects of operations research)
    http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/faq/    (Optimization: Frequently asked questions)
    http://fmad-www.larc.nasa.gov/mdob/MDOB/index.html    (Multidisciplinary Optimization Branch)
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cpnet/    (Complementary Problem Net)
    http://plato.la.asu.edu/bench.html    (Benchmarks for Optimization software)
    http://plato.la.asu.edu/guide.html    (Decision tree for Optimization Software)
    http://www.netlib.org/na-net/na_home.html    (NA digest)
    http://optnet.itwm.uni-kl.de/opt-net/    (Optnet)

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