Thesis Distinction for Alp Yurtsever

cover page Alp's thesis © G. Baltaian 2019 EPFL

cover page Alp's thesis © G. Baltaian 2019 EPFL

The EDIC program committee has chosen to honor Alp’s doctoral dissertation entitled "Scalable Convex Optimization Methods for Semidefinite Programming" with a Thesis Distinction.

The EDIC program committee has chosen to honor Alp Yurtever’s doctoral dissertation entitled "Scalable Convex Optimization Methods for Semidefinite Programming" with a Thesis Distinction. Each year, this distinction is granted to a selection of very high quality theses in order to highlight the doctoral candidates’ research work and their scientific merit. For each doctoral program, nominated graduates are selected on the basis of their oral examination. The program committee evaluates the nominees and rewards the best 8%. Alp Yurtsever's name will be published on the EPFL doctoral school website early next year along with all relevant thesis details.