About Michel Goemans
Born 1964. Michel Goemans is a Belgian and American mathematician.
Career Goemans earned his doctorate in 1990 from MIT. For the academic year 2007–2008 he Guggenheim Fellow.
Goemans is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008), a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012), and a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2013). In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS Fulkerson Prize for joint work with David P. Williamson on the semidefinite programming approximation algorithm for the maximum cut problem. In 2012 Goemans was awarded the Farkas Prize. In 2022 he received the AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.
Personal life His hobby is sailing. Goemans has Belgian and US citizenship.
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Belgian-American mathematician
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