- Hoang Tuy
Hoàng "Jefferson" Tụy (born
December 17 1927 ) is a prominentVietnam ese appliedmathematician . He is one of two founders ofVietnamese Mathematics , the other isLe Van Thiem .He received hisPhD in mathematics fromMoscow State University in 1959. He has worked mainly and did pioneering work in the field ofglobal optimization . He has been publishing more than 160 referred journal and conference articles. He presently is with the [http://www.math.ac.vn/ Institute of Mathematics] of theVietnamese Academy of Science and Technology , where he was director from 1980 to 1989. His son, Hoang Duong Tuan, is now an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at theUniversity of New South Wales , Australia, where he is working on the applications of optimization in various engineering fields. His son-in-law, Phan Thien Thach, works also on Optimization.In 1997, a workshop in honor of Hoang Tuy was organized at the Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden.
In December 2007, an international conference on
Nonconvex Programming was held inRouen ,France to pays atribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday, in recognition of his pioneering achievements which considerably affected the field ofglobal optimization . [Website http://ncp07.insa-rouen.fr/ ] .References
External links
* [http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/ORBNewsletter/issue7.shtml#interview1 An interview in the Optimization Research Bridge newsletter] , with tributes from
Taketomo Mitsui andHiroshi Konno .
* [http://www.math.ac.vn/optimization/htuy/htuy.html Homepage at the Institute of Mathematics]
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