Elizabeth Wegner Karas
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Federal University of Paraná
CP 19081, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, 81531-980
Email: ewkaras@ufpr.br
Research Interests
My research is in continuous optimization with special interest nonlinear programming, filter methods, derivative-free optimization, convex optimization, optimal methods, Fenchel conjugate.
Biographical information
In 2002 I got my Ph.D. degree in Applied Math
at Federal University of Santa Catarina,
Brazil and Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France. My advisors were
Clóvis C. Gonzaga and Jean-Charles Gilbert.
During my Ph.D., I spent one year in INRIA
(Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
as a visiting student.
In 2007 I spent five months in
Tokyo Institute of Technology where I had the pleasure to work with Professor
Masakazu Kojima and Mituhiro Fukuda.
In 2011 I spent four months in
State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing - Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China where I had the pleasure to work with Ya-Xiang Yuan's team.