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Coralia Cartis
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Born
Alma mater Babeș-Bolyai University (B.S.)
University of Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Awards Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis
Scientific career
Institutions University of Edinburgh
University of Oxford
Thesis On Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming (2005)
Doctoral advisor Michael J. D. Powell

Coralia Cartis is a talented mathematician from Romania. She works at the famous University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Her work focuses on how computers can solve very complex math problems.

She studies areas like numerical analysis, which is about using computers to find approximate solutions to math problems. She also works on mathematical optimization. This field helps find the best possible solutions when you have many choices. For example, it can help find the most efficient way to do something.

At Oxford, she is a Professor in Numerical Optimization. She also helps students as a tutorial fellow at Balliol College.

Becoming a Math Expert

Coralia Cartis was born in Cluj-Napoca, a city in Romania. She loved math from a young age.

Her University Studies

She earned her first degree in mathematics from Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania. After that, she went to the University of Cambridge in the UK. There, she completed her PhD degree in 2005.

Her PhD research was about "Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming." This sounds complicated, but it's a way to solve certain types of math problems. Her supervisor, who guided her research, was Michael J. D. Powell.

Awards and Early Career

In the same year she finished her PhD, Coralia won a special award. She was one of the Second Prize winners of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis. This prize is given to young researchers who do excellent work in numerical analysis.

After her studies, Coralia worked as a researcher. She spent time at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. She also did postdoctoral research at Oxford. In 2007, she became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Then, in 2013, she returned to Oxford for her current role.

Later Achievements

In 2018, Coralia Cartis joined the scientific board of the Smith Institute. This institute helps connect math research with real-world problems in industry. That same year, she was a main speaker at a big math workshop in Spain.

In 2023, Coralia was chosen as a Fellow of SIAM. This is a great honor for mathematicians who do important work in industrial and applied mathematics. It shows her significant contributions to the field.

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