Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

The results of the article  [45], providing an unexpected counter example to the “continuous analogue of the Hirsch conjecture”, showing that log-barrier interior point methods are not strongly polynomial, have been discussed by Jesus De Loera in his survey of recent advances on Linear Programming, “Algebraic and Topological Tools in Linear Optimization”, Notices de l'AMS (volume 66, number 7, 2019, especially pp. 1028-1032.

Maxime Grangereau (PhD student) has been laureate of the programme “Siebel Scholar 2020”, https://twitter.com/polytechnique/status/1177111371835695104