SHORT BIO
Frank Vallentin is a professor of applied mathematics (computer science) at Universität zu Köln. In 2003 he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Technische Universität München. Past appointments include assistant and associate professor at Technische Universiteit Delft, postdoc at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam and postdoc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include optimization, geometry, discrete and experimental mathematics.
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1972 born in Eslohe (Sauerland)
1992 Abitur Rivius Gymnasium Attendorn
1993-2000 Student in mathematics and computer science at University of Dortmund, Germany (with Rudolf Scharlau, Ingo Wegener)
2000-2001 Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2001-2003 Ph.D. student at Technical University Munich, Germany (with Jürgen Richter-Gebert)
2003-2005 Postdoc at The Edmund Landau Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis and Related Areas, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel (with Gil Kalai)
2005-2009 Postdoc at the research group Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with Monique Laurent, Lex Schrijver)
2009-2011 Assistant professor at the research group of Optimization and System Theory, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2012-2013 Associate professor at the research group of Optimization and System Theory, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2009-2013 Researcher at the research group Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (one-day per week appointment)
2013-2015 One-day per week appointment at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2013-present Full professor (W3) for applied mathematics (computer science), Mathematical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany
GRANTS & AWARDS
2010-2015 project Semidefinite programming and harmonic analysis – Foundations and applications supported by the Nederlands Wetenschap Organisatie (NWO) in the framework of NWO Vernieuwingsimpulse, VIDI.
2011 SIAG/Optimization prize (together with Christine Bachoc)
2017- projects Symplectic capacities of polytopes, Algorithmic symplectic packings in the framework of TRR 191: Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics, supported by DFG
2017- project Optimisation with limited quantum resources in the framework of MINOA Marie Curie ITN, Horizon 2020, EU
2019- project Spectral bounds in extremal discrete geometry supported by DFG
EDITORIAL WORK
Associate Editor Indagationes Mathematicae, Associate Editor Mathematical Programming, Series A, Associate Editor Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization
PRIMARY MATHEMATICAL INTERESTS
semidefinite programming, combinatorial optimization, harmonic analysis, discrete geometry, combinatorics, geometry of numbers, special functions, computational complexity, coding and information theory