Professor Contact Information rrthomas@uw.edu (206) 616-9374 PDL C-438 Personal Website Fields of Interest Optimization and Variational Analysis Biography PhD, Cornell University, 1994 Courses Taught Autumn 2024MATH 407 A: Linear Optimization Winter 2024MATH 408 A: Nonlinear Optimization MATH 408 B: Nonlinear Optimization Spring 2023MATH 318 A: Advanced Linear Algebra Tools and Applications MATH 516 A: Numerical Optimization Autumn 2022MATH 208 C: Matrix Algebra with Applications MATH 208 D: Matrix Algebra with Applications Spring 2022MATH 583 D: Special Topics in Mathematics Winter 2022MATH 318 A: Advanced Linear Algebra Tools and Applications MATH 582 D: Special Topics in Mathematics Spring 2021MATH 480 A: Advanced Topics in Undergraduate Mathematics Winter 2021MATH 318 A: Advanced Linear Algebra Tools and Applications News & Events Related News AMS article by Catherine Babecki (September 27, 2022) Rekha Thomas receives the Warfield fellowship (July 1, 2019) Rekha Thomas invited to be a 2018 ICM speaker (June 19, 2017) AMS Fellows Named (November 1, 2012) Related Events Special Seminar: The two lives of the Grassmannian - June 7 2024, 10am Current Topics Seminar: Problems on Graphs though Optimization and Geometry - February 1 2024, 4:30pm Math Department: Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Emphasizing concepts and geometry in linear algebra without proofs - April 15 2021, 3:30pm UW-PIMS Colloquium: Graph Density Inequalities and Sums of Squares - November 22 2019, 3:30pm Current Topics Seminar: Session 2 - October 17 2019, 4:30pm UW-PIMS Colloquium: From Hilbert's 17th Problem to Polynomial Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry - April 29 2011, 2:30pm
