Yinyu Ye

Henry B. Tippie Research Professor

Computational Optimization Laboratory
S384 Pappajohn Building
Department of Management Sciences
College of Business Administration
The University of Iowa

Phone: 319 335-1947
Fax: 319 335-1956



The new working paper: Improved complexity results on solving real-number linear feasibility problems is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 3/18/02. This work is supported by NSF grant DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: Approximate the 2-Catalog Segmentation Problem Using Semidefinite Programming Relaxations is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 3/11/02. This work is supported by NSF grant DMI-9908077.)

The new working paper: Improved Approximation Algorithms for Metric Facility Location Problems (new version of A 1.52-Approximation Algorithm for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem) is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Updated 4/18/02. This work is supported by NSF grant DMI-9908077.)

The short note: Improved Analyses of Facility Location Algorithms is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 11/5/01. This work is supported by NSF grant DMI-9908077.)

The new working paper: On Solving Fewnomials Over Intervals in Fewnomial Time is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 8/22/01. This work is supported by DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: New results on quadratic minimization is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 5/30/01. This work is supported by NSF grants DMI-9908077 and DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: On the Budgeted MAX-CUT problem and its Application to the Capacitated Two-Parallel Machine Scheduling is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 3/16/01. This work is supported by NSF grants DMI-9908077 and DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: DSDP3: Dual Scaling Algorithm for General Positive Semidefinite Programming is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 3/16/01. This work is also supported by NSF grants DMI-9908077 and DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: An Approximation Algorithm for the Two-Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem with Capacity Constraints is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (This work is supported by NSF grants DMI-9908077 and DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: Improved Approximation for Max Set Splitting and Max NAE SAT is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Revised 1/20/02. This work is supported by NSF grants DMI-9908077 and DMS-9703490.)

The new working paper: Solving Sparse Semidefinite Programs Using the Dual Scaling Algorithm with an Iterative Solver is available. Click here for the gzipped Postscript file. (This work is supported by NSF grants DMI-9908077 and DMS-9703490.)

The BOOK Interior-Point Algorithm: Theory and Analysis has been published. Click here for information and related software .

Education

Ph.D. Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research , Stanford University , 1988.
M.S. Engineering Economic Systems , Stanford University , 1983.
B.S. Systems and Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan, China, 1982.

Research Interest

Mathematical Programming
Optimization Algorithm Design and Analysis
Computational Complexity
Operations Research and Its Applications

My curriculum Vita is here

Here is my selected publications and working papers with links to Postscript files

Click here for my NSF Reports

Here are Courses I am teaching

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Yinyu Ye
Department of Management Sciences / College of Business Administration /
The University of Iowa / Iowa City, IA 52242
email: yinyu-ye@uiowa.edu / (O) (319) 335-1947/ S384 PBAB/ FAX:(319) 335-1956/