Filiz Gurtuna   Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics   Department of Mathematics & Statistics University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  I am currently working under the supervision of professor Osman Guler

  towards the completion of my Ph.D. degree.  My expected graduation date is May 2008.

  Research Interests

    ▪ Convex programming

    ▪ Semi-infinite programming

    ▪ Extremal ellipsoids of convex bodies

    ▪ Efficient first-order methods for convex programming

    ▪ Interior-point methods

    ▪ Support vector machines

    ▪ Optimization under uncertainty