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Full name: Lex Schrijver
Formal name: Prof.dr. A. Schrijver
Function: CWI-Fellow

Email: Lex.Schrijver@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4087
Room:  M233
Homepage:  http://www.cwi.nl/~lex
Research groups:
(PNA1) Algorithms Combinatorics and Optimization


Research

Lex Schrijver does research in combinatorics, optimization, and algorithms.

Career

2005 -  CWI Fellow PNA1 - Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
1998 - 2005 Leader Scientific Cluster PNA - Probability, Networks and Algorithms
1997 - 1998 Scientific staff member PNA1 - Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
1990 -  Full professor University of Amsterdam
1989 - 1996 Group leader BS1 - Combinatorial Optimization and Algorithmics
1983 - 1989 Full professor University of Tilburg
1973 - 1979 Scientific staff member ZW - Zuivere wiskunde

Selected Awards and Honours

2011Eredoctoraat
2008SIGMA Prize
2008Franz Edelman Award
2006John von Neumann Theory Prize (INFORMS)
2005Spinoza Prijs
2005Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw
2004Lanchester Prize
2003Fulkerson Prize
2003Dantzig Prize
2002Eredoctoraat
1986Lanchester Prize
1982Fulkerson Prize

Selected Academic Activities

2008 -  Member academy Academia Europaea
2006 -  Member academy Nordrhein-Westf - Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2006 -  Member academy Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
2006 - 2008 Chairman scientific committee European Congress of Mathematics - [ECM]
1995 -  Member academy KNAW, Amsterdam
1993 -  Editor-in-chief Journal: Combinatorica
1993 -  Editor Journal: Journal of Combinatorial Theory - Series B
1988 -  Editor Journal: Discrete Applied Mathematics

Selected Publications

M. Laurent, A. Schrijver. On Leonid Gurvits's proof for permanents. American Mathematical Monthly 117, 903–911, 2010.
L. Lovász, A. Schrijver. Dual graph homomorphism functions. Journal of Combinatorial Theory - Series A 117, 216–222, 2010.
D. Huisman, L.G. Kroon, E. Abbink, P.J. Fioole, M. Fischetti, G. Maróti, A. Schrijver, A.G. Steenbeek. The new Dutch timetable: The OR revolution. Interfaces 39, 6–17, 2009.
A. Schrijver. Tensor subalgebras and first fundamental theorems in invariant theory. Journal of Algebra 319, 1305–1319, 2008.
M.H. Freedman, L. Lovász, A. Schrijver. Reflection positivity, rank connectivity, and homomorphisms of graphs. Journal of the American Mathematical Society 20, 37–51, 2007.

All publications (link to repository)

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