Wayne State University

The Wayne State University Mathematics Department

 

 

1150 Faculty/Administration Bldg
656 West Kirby Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202

 

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Boris Mordukhovich

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Contact Information

Office:
Work Phone:
Home Phone:
E-mail:
 
1237 Faculty/Administration Bldg
(313) 577-3193, FAX: (313)577-7596
(734)369-3576, (734)389-5979 (cell.)
boris@math.wayne.edu

 

Schedule

Office Hours:
Class:
Seminar:
 
MW 3:00-4:30
MW 4:30-7:20
MW 1:00-2:00

Personal

Born in Moscow, Russia; married with two children
Citizen of the United States

Professional

Rank:
Ph.D., 
 
 
Honorary Degrees:
 
 
 
 
 
Honorary Professor:
 
 
Specialization:
 
 
Publications:
 
Distinguished University Professor
Vice President and President-elect of the Academy of Scholars
 
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics:
Belarus State Univ. (Minsk, Belarus)
 
Doctor Honoris Causa (mult.): 
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Vasile Goldis University, Romania
Alicante University, Spain
 
Harbin Normal University, China
 
Areas of Research: Optimization & Variational Analysis, Control Theory, Nonlinear Systems, Generalized Differentiation
Around 290 publications including books and patents; see the site attached (in green) 
Recent Monographs: Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation, I: Basic Theory; II: Applications,
Grundlehren Series (Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences), Vol. 330 and 331, Springer, 2006. 
Chinese translation to appear in Science Publications, 2010 
 

Associations

Positions:
 
 
 
 
 
Memberships:
 
Associate Member of Scientific Staff, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, 
1992-present
Associate Member of the Department of Mathematics, International University—Vietnam National University, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam, 2005-present
Distinguished Associate Member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Center for Nonlinear Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2007-present
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2007-present
Elected Member of the Scientific Committee, International Working Group on Generalized Convexity, 2009-present
 
American Mathematical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIAM Special Group on Control and Systems Theory
International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts
Mathematical Programming Society
 
Editorial:

Editor-in-Chief:

Set-Valued and Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, 2009-present

Associate Editor (selected):

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 1993-2000

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1999-2008 

Optimization, 2000-present

Mathematics in Operations Research, 2003-present

Mathematical Programming, Ser. B, 2005-2008

Optimization Letters, 2006-present

Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods, Applications; 2006-present

Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 2007-present

Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B, 2007-present

International Journal of Optimization: Theory, Methods, Applications, 2008-present

Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace, 2009-present

Applicable Analysis, 2010-present

SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2010-present

Member of  Editorial Board (selected):

Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 1994-present
Journal of Applied Analysis, 1995-present
Positivity, 1996-present
Set-Valued Analysis, 1999-2008
Journal of Convex Analysis, 2006-present

Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Optimization, 2006-present

Nonlinear Studies, 2006-present

International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 2007-present

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Ser. Mathematics, 2009-present

Guest Editor:

Special issue “Variational Analysis and Its Applications,” Set-Valued Analysis,  2003-2004

Special issue “Variational Analysis, Optimization, and Their Applications,” 2 volumes, Mathematical Programming, Ser. B, 2004-2006

Special issue “Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications,” Mathematical Programming, Ser. B, 2005-2007

Special issue “Nonsmooth Optimization and Related Topics,” Optimization Methods and Software, 2006-2007

Special issue “Nonlinear and Convex Analysis,” Taiw. J. Math, 2007-2008

Special issue “Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity,” Taiw. J. Math,  2008-2009

Special issue “Proceedings of the 5th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts,” Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods, Applications,  2008-2009

Special issue “Variational Analysis and Related Topics,” Applicable Analysis, 2009-2011

Current Funded Research

Methods of Variational Analysis in Optimization, Control, and Equilibria, August 1, 2006-July 31, 2010, National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMS-0603846

A New Improved Solution to Global Optimization over Multivariate Polynomials: Mathematical

Principles, Numerical Methods and Selected Applications (with V. Jeyakumar  et al.), January 1, 2010—December 31, 2013, Australian Research Council, Discovery Project DP12092508

 

Selected Honors and Awards

Career Development Chair Award, Wayne State University, 1992
Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 1998
Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1999 
Best Paper Award, Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, 2003
Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Wayne State University, 2004
Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Science, Wayne State University, 2004
Lifetime Scholar of the Academy of Scholars, elected in 2004
Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in Natural Sciences, Wayne State University, 2006
Certificate of Highest Merit, International University, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam, 2006
Doctor Honoris Causa, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, 2007
Certificate of Significant Contribution, Georgian National Science Foundation, 2007
Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 2007
Distinguished Award in Operational Research, Indian National Science Academy, 2007
Doctor Honoris Causa, Vasile Goldis University, Romania, 2008
Distinguished Lecture Award, The University of Texas-Pan American, 2008
Named Distinguished University Professor, Wayne State University, 2008
Honorary Medal of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, Czech Republic, 2008
Dedication of the special issue on Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation of Set-Valued Analysis, Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2008
Dedication of the special clusters on Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation and Mathematical Control Theory, International Conference “Controlo2008”, Vila Real, Portugal, July 2008
Dedication (among others) of the International Conference “50 Years of Optimal Control,” Bedlewo, Poland, September 2008
Dedication of the special clusters on Variational Analysis and Applications and  Midwest Optimization Seminar at the AMS Fall Central Meeting, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 2008
Dedication of the International Symposium on Variational Analysis and Optimization (ISVAO), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 2008
Doctor Honoris Causa, Alicante University, Alicante, Spain, 2009
Dedication of the special issue on Mathematical Control Theory of the International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 2009
Honorary Professor, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China, 2009
Distinguished Lecture Award, Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences and University of Victoria, Canada, September 2009
Dedication of the special issue on Variational Analysis and Optimization, Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 2010
Dedication of the volume on Variational Analysis on the SOIA (Springer Optimization and Application and Applications) Series, Springer, 2010
 
 

                                                     Recent Keynote and Plenary Talks

 

International School on Variational Analysis, 5 lectures, Paseky, Czech Republic, April-May 2003

25th Brazilian Conference on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Rio Preto, Brazil, September 2003

6th International Conference on Operation Research (APORS), New Delhi, India, December 2003

International Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Temuco, Chile, January 2004

7th International Conf. on Approximation and Optimization in the Caribbean, Leon, Nicaragua, March 2004

1st Andean Congress on Operations Research, Cartagena, Colombia, March 2004

International Conf. on Control, Set-Valued Analysis and Applications, Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, April 2004

International Conference on Analysis and Its Applications, Changhua, Taiwan, May 2004

International Workshop on Variational Limits, Rehovot, Israel, June 2004

International Workshop on Dynamic System and Control, Haifa, Israel, June 2004

4th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, Florida, June-July 2004

1st International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Tutorial, Troy, New York, July-August 2004

International Workshop on Optimal Control of Ordinary Differential Equations, Warsaw, Poland, August-September 2004

48th Annual Meeting of Australian Mathematical Society, Melbourne, Australia, September-October 2004

International Conference on Extremal Problems and Approximation, Moscow, Russia, December 2004

7th French-Latin American Congress on Applied Mathematics, Santiago, Chile, January 2005

International Conference on Science for Education, Industry,  and Economy, Minsk Belarus, May 2005

International Conference on Control and Optimization, Moscow, Russia, May 2005

International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications, Baku, Azerbaijan, May 2005

International Conference dedicated to Gyula Farkas, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 2005

3rd Sino-Japan Optimization Meeting, Singapore, October-November 2005

8th International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics, Cairo, Egypt, November-December 2005

International Meeting of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences,  Halifax, Canada, January 2006

International School on Variational Analysis, Paseky, Czech Republic, April 2006

International Conference on Nonlinear Programming with Applications, Shanghai, China,  May-June 2006

International Workshop on Variational Analysis and Optimization, Harbin, China, June 2006

International Conference on Views on ODEs, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2006

International Conference on Variational Analysis and PDEs, Erice, Italy, July 2006

International Conference on Applied Analysis and Differential Equations, Iasi, Romania, September 2006

International Conference on Advances in Partial Differential Equations, Baltimore, MD, October 2006

International IFAC-IIASA  Workshop on New Approaches in Dynamic Optimization to Assessment of Economics and Environmental Systems,

IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, December 2006

Indo-US Workshop in Computational  Optimization and Analysis of Systems, Kanpur, India,  February 2007

International Spring School on Applied Mathematics and Optimization, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam, March 2007

International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Isfahan, Iran, April 2007

International Days on Applied Mathematics,  Tangier, Morocco, May 2007

5th International Conference on Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, Taiwan, May-June 2007

International Symposium on Functional and Numerical Analysis, Taiwan, June 2007

23rd IFIP Conference on Systems Modelling and Optimization, Krakow, Poland, July 2007

International Conference on Functional Analysis and Optimization, Posnan, Poland, September 2007

International Conference on Optimization and Related Topics,  Lima, Peru, October 2007

West Coast Optimization Meeting, British Columbia, Canada, October 2007

International Workshop on Optimization and Its Applications, Delhi, India, November-December 2007

40th Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India, December 2007

International Conference on Optimal Control of Coupled PDE, Oberwolfach, Germany, March 2008

9th International Conference on Approximations and Optimization in the Caribbean, San Andres Island, Colombia, March 2008

International Conference on Nonsmooth Analysis, Optimization and Applications, Erice, Italy, May 2008

5th International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Baltimore, MD, May 2008

International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Haifa, Israel, June 2008

5th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, FL, July 2008

NSF Summer Workshop on Applications of Analysis to Mathematical Biology, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, July 2008

International Conference “Controlo 2008”, Vila Real, Portugal, July 2008

International Conference on Calculus of Variations and Its Applications: from Engineering to Economy, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2008

International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization Problems, Petrovac, Montenegro, October 2008

Fall Central Meeting of American Mathematical Society, Kalamazoo, MI, October 2008

International Seminar on Optimization, Elche, Spain, October 2008

International Workshop on Variational Analysis and Its Applications, Santiago, Chile, November 2008

International School on Variational Analysis, 4 lectures, Santiago, Chile, November 2008

International Symposium on Variational Analysis and Optimization (ISVAO), Kaoshiung, Taiwan, November 2008

International Workshop on Nonsmooth Optimization, Varese, Italy, May 2009

International Conference on Variational Analysis and Applications, Erice, Italy, May 2009

VIII Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2009

IX International Seminar on Optimization and Related Topics, Lima, Peru, October 2009

International Workshop on Mathematical Economics, Tokyo, Japan, November 2009

Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Windsor, ON, Canada, December 2009

International Workshop on Convex Analysis, Optimization and Applications, Les Houches, France, January 2010

International Workshop on Optimization and Related Topics, Haifa, Israel, January 2010

International School on Optimization,  4 lectures, Hanoi, Vietnam, May-June 2010

International Workshop on Optimization and Variational Analysis, Elche, Spain, June 2010

Second Latin American Conference on Optimization and Control, Rosario, Argentina, July 2010

10th International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 2010

International Seminar on Optimization, Bayonne, France, October 2010

International Conference on Operations Research and Optimization, Tehran, Iran, January 2011

 

 

                                                                   TEACHING

 

Classes:
 
 
 

MAT 7270-Winter 2010, Advanced Methods in Optimization and Control

MAT 8000-Fall 2009, Variational Analysis in Optimization and Optimal Control

MAT 7270-Winter 2008, Variational Methods in Robust Stability

MAT 8000-Fall 2007, Selected Topics of Variational Analysis

MAT 8000-Winter 2007, Variational Methods in Advanced Calculus

MAT 8000-Fall 2006, Variational Principles and Their Applications

MAT 7270-Winter 2006, Generalized Differentiation in Optimal Control

MAT 5780-Winter 2006,  Introduction to Optimization

MAT 8000-Fall 2005,  Variational Analysis in Optimal Control

MAT 7270-Winter 2005, Variational Analysis in Optimization

MAT 8000-Fall 2004, Generalized Differentiation in Variational Analysis

MAT 8000-Winter 2004, Variational Principles and Applications

MAT 5070-Winter 2004, Advanced Calculus

MAT 7270-Fall 2003, Stability in Optimization
MAT 7270-Winter 2003, Variational Methods in Analysis and Optimization
MAT 2350-Winter 2003, Differential Equations
MAT 8000-Fall 2002, Advanced Methods in Optimization
MAT 5870-Fall 2002, Introduction to Optimization
MAT 7270-Fall 2001, Variational Analysis in Banach Spaces
MAT 8000-Winter 2001, Set-Valued Analysis and Optimal Control
MAT 7270-Fall 2000, Nonsmooth Optimization and Optimal Control
MAT 8000-Winter 2000, Generalized Derivatives and Applications

 

 

Last modified Friday February 5, 2010