Jorge J. Moré

Professional Experience

• Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, 2006-present
• Director, Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulations, Argonne National Laboratory, 2004-present
• Distinguished Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, 2000-2005
• Co-Director, Optimization Technology Center, Argonne and Northwestern, 2000-present
• Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1989-2000
• Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1976-1988
• Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge University, 1978-1979
• Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1970-1975

Education

• University of Maryland, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, 1970
• Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. Applied Mathematics, 1968.
• Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Applied Mathematics, 1966.

Recent Professional Activities

• Board of Trustees, Wilkinson Prize (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007) for Numerical Software
• Organizer, DOE Applied Mathematics Principal Investigators Meeting, May 2007
• Member, Committee of Visitors, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences, 2007
• Wilkinson (1990-present) Fellowship Committee (Chair)
• Organizer, Institute on Computational Economics (2005, 2006).
• Organizer, NSF workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and Operations Research, August 2004
• Organizer, Global Optimization Theory Institute, September 2003
• IBM Deep Computing Institute External Advisory Board (1999-2002)
• IMA Computational Programs and Resources Committee (1997-2000)
• Center for Research on Parallel Computation Steering Committee (1990-2000)

Awards

• Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Optimization, 2003
• University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award, 2001

Open-Source Software

• NEOS Server, Version 5.0, Released August 2005.
• TAO. Version 1.8, Released May 2005.
• COPS. Version 3.0, Released April 2004.
• ICFS.Version 1.4, Released April 2001.
• TRON. Version 1.2, Released March 2001.

Recent Publications

• S. Benson, L. McInnes, J. Moré, and J. Sarich, TAO Users Manual, Technical report ANL/MCS-TM-242 (Revision 1.8), Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2005.
• "Computing mountain passes and transition states," Jorge Moré, Todd S. Munson, Mathematical Programming 100 (2004), 151-182.
• "Optimization on the NEOS Server," Jorge Moré, Elizabeth D. Dolan, Robert Fourer, and Todd S. Munson, SIAM News 35 (2002), 5, 8-9.
• "Benchmarking optimization software with performance profiles," Jorge Moré and Elizabeth D. Dolan, Mathematical Programming 91 (2002), 201-213.
• "Automatic differentiation tools in optimization software" in Automatic Differentiation 2000: From Simulation to Optimization, George Corliss, Christele Faure, Andreas Griewank and Laurent Hascoet, and Uwe Naumann, eds., pages 25-34, Springer-Verlag, 2002.