Julian Hall

Julian Hall

 Edinburgh University Crest

Senior Lecturer in Operational Research

Member of the Optimization and OR group in the School of Mathematics

Member of the COIN-OR Foundation and Project Manager for its LP solver Clp

 COIN-OR

Programme Director for the Edinburgh OR MSc

Convener of the School's PGT Programme Committee

A brief autobiography

Born 06/11/64 in Macclesfield, England. Educated at King's School Macclesfield (1974-83), New College Oxford (Mathematics BA First Class 1987) and the [then] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Dundee (PhD 1992, supervisor Prof. Roger Fletcher). Employed by the University of Dundee as a research assistant (1988-90) and then by the University of Edinburgh in the School of Mathematics as a lecturer (1990-date). I have lived with Agnès Guyon since 1989. We were married in 2001 and have daughters Lucie and Katya.

Professional activities

My research interests are the development of algorithmic and computational techniques for solving large scale linear programming (LP) problems using the revised simplex method on both serial and parallel computers. A consequential research interest is the application of these techniques in other areas of computational optimization and linear algebra.

I was awarded the prize for the best paper of 2005 in Computational Optimization and Applications.

Since February 2010, I have been Project Manager for the COIN-OR LP solver Clp.

I teach linear programming, numerical analysis and modelling using Xpress-MP.

Leisure activities

I am a reformed peak-bagger who used to go climbing. Orienteering has also been added to the list of activities that I used to do. Fortunately I can still find time to go hill running and am a member of Penicuik Harriers.

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