IPOPT Wins the Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

The 2011 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software will be awarded to Andreas Waechter (IBM T. J.  Watson Research Center) and Carl Laird (Texas A&M University) for IPOPT, a software library for solving nonlinear, nonconvex, large-scale continuous optimization problems. The presentation of the award will take place at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011) in Vancouver, BC, Canada.