R. Tyrrell Rockafellar Scientist

Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born 1935) is one of the world's leaders in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is professor emeritus at the departments of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Personal facts

Nationality	United States
Citizenship	United States
Residence	Washington (state) , United States
Education	Harvard University
Known for	Stochastic programming Monotonic function Calculus of variations Convex analysis Oriented matroid

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Scientist

awards	George Dantzig John von Neumann John von Neumann Theory Prize University of Chile University of Montpellier Honorary degree Mathematical Optimization Society University of Groningen Frederick W. Lanchester Prize University of Alicante
doctoral advisor	Garrett Birkhoff
Field of study	Mathematical optimization
influenced	Roger J-B Wets
influenced by	Albert W. Tucker Werner Fenchel Roger J-B Wets