Trotter spent one year as a postdoctoral research associate
with the Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, and one and
one-half years as an assistant professor in the School of Organization and
Management at Yale University before joining the faculty of Cornell's School of
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1975. He was a visiting
professor at the Institute for Econometrics and Operations Research at Bonn
University in Germany (1977-79), and the Swiss Technical Institute in Lausanne,
Switzerland (1984-85 and1991-92). He received an Alexander von Humboldt U.S.
Senior Scientist Award and spent the 1987-88 academic year at Augsburg
University in Germany. Trotter is a member of the Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences, the Mathematical Programming Society, and
the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is codirector of the
Advanced Computational Optimization Laboratory of the Cornell Theory Center. His
general research interests are in the field of optimization with specific
concentration in discrete optimization models.
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