Sven Leyffer's Appointments

Current Appointments and Activities

• Deputy Division Director in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
• Senior Computational Mathematician in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
• Senior Fellow of the Computation Institute, University of Chicago (2010- )
• Associate Editor of Computational Optimization and Applications (2006- )
• Member of SIAM Committee on Science Policy (2015- ); Chair, SIAM Climate Task Force (2021)
• Member of Editorial Board of SIAM Series on Fundamentals of Algorithms (2015- )

Previous Appointments and Activities

• SIAM President (2023-2024)
• Member SIAM Fellows Canvassing Committee (2021)
• Secretary of ICIAM (2015-2022)
• Editor-in-Chief, Mathematical Programming B (2018-2021)
• Associate Editor of Mathematics of Computation (2017-2021)
• Chair, Selection committee, Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization (2020)
• Guest associate editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020)
• Panelist, mid-career panel, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (2019)
• Member of SIAM Fellows Selection Committee (2016-2018)
• Guest associate editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020)
• Panelist, mid-career panel, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (2019)
• Member, SIAM Fellows Selection Committee (2016-2018)
• Member, SIAM Nominating Committee (2016-2018)
• Member, SIAM Working Group on Professional Development (2015-2017)
• Member, Organizing committee, SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (2014)
• Co-Editor of Mathematical Programming A (2011-2017)
• Editor-in-Chief Mathematical Methods of Operation Research (2008-2014)
• Editor SIAG/OPT Views-and-News (2008-2014)
• SIAM Vice President for Programs (2010-2013)
• Ex-Officio Member, SIAM Board and Council (2010-2013)
• Chair, SIAM/ICIAM Young Researcher Travel Awards (2011)
• Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Northwestern University (2006-2012)
• Area Editor Nonlinear Optimization Mathematical Programming Computation (2008-2012)
• Associate editor of Computational Management Science (2003-2011 )
• Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002-2010)
• Fellow of the Computation Institute, University of Chicago (2004-2010)
• Cluster chair for nonlinear mixed-integer progamming of ISMP-2009
• Co-chair IMA Hot Topics Workshop: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization, November 17-21, 2008
• Co-chair SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, MA, May 10-13, 2008
• Program director of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (2004-2007)
• Vice-chair for nonlinear programming of the INFORMS Optimization Society (2004-2006)
• Cluster chair for nonlinear programming of ISMP-2006
• Co-chair 2007 Institute on Computational Economics (University of Chicago, 2007)
• Co-chair 2006 Institute on Computational Economics (University of Chicago, 2006)
• Co-chair 2005 Institute on Computational Economics (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, 2005)
• Co-chair Global Optimization Theory Institute (Argonne National Laboratory, September 8-10, 2003)
• Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee (1994-2002)
• Member of the advisory board of MINLP World
• Member of the advisory board of MPEC World