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Jorge Nocedal Professor Director of the Computational Science Institute Please note that this page is no longer being maintained. Follow this link for current faculty listing. Room: M326 Telephone: (847) 491-5038 E-mail: nocedal@eecs.northwestern.edu Personal Website: www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~nocedal

Jorge Nocedal holds a joint appointment with the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and is the director of Northwestern's Computational Science Institute. He has served as associate editor (and later co-editor) for Mathematical Programming and has been on the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Optimization since its creation in 1989. He has authored more than 60 articles and has written a textbook on optimization. In 1994 he founded the Optimization Technology Center which is jointly operated by Northwestern and Argonne National Laboratory. In 1998 he was appointed Bette and Neison Harris Professor of Teaching Excellence. Jorge received his B.S. in physics from the National University of Mexico, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Rice University. Prior to moving to Northwestern he taught at the Courant Institute (New York University). Research Interests Optimization, scientific computing, numerical analysis, internet computing, software, applications of optimization in VLSI design, atmospheric sciences, networks, and management sciences. See Video.

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