拓谱空间 --- Tour Composition

Jos Sturm was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on August 13, 1971.

He graduated in August 1993 in operations research from the Department of Econometrics at the University of Groningen, where he had also been a teaching assistant in statistics and a research assistant in econometrics. From Sept 1993 to Sept 1997, he was a PhD student at the Econometric Institute and the Tinbergen Institute of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, under supervision of Shuzhong Zhang.

Jos spent the academic year 1997/1998 as a post-doctoral fellow at the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) of McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, as a TALENT stipend of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). At McMaster University, he was a member of the ASPC group of Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo.

After his post-doctoral fellowship at McMaster, he returned to the Netherlands, and from October 1998 to January 2001, he was a lecturer at Maastricht University, at the Department of Quantitative Economics, in the group of Antoon Kolen.

In January 2000, his PhD thesis was awarded the Gijs de Leve prize for the best thesis in operations research in the years 1997-1999 in The Netherlands.

In February 2001, Jos was appointed as an Associate Professor at Tilburg University, and a fellow of CentER (Center for economic research). In July 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Vernieuwingsimpuls (Innovation) grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Jos was the editor of the newsletter SIAG/Optimization Views-and-News of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT), and a council member-at-large of the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS).

His scholarly works include more than 30 papers, and his PhD thesis was published in edited form in the volume `High performance optimization', Frenk et al. eds., Kluwer Academic Press, 2000. He was also the author of a widely used optimization software package called SeDuMi.

He is survived by his wife Changqing and daughter Stefanie, and his brother Pim and parents Frans and Els.

这学期3门课,3个中国老师.

Luo的Teaching Skill无疑是三门课中最NB的。

把一门Engineering为主的课程讲得Theory和Application相得益彰，实为难的。

Luo的口语也是significantly good。

由衷地赞一句，这位85年加入全国数学培训班，拥有MIT Applied Math PhD的Tom Luo，NB。

说说城市
*这个学校坐落在一个城市里，一定意义来说，这个城市比哈尔滨繁华，仅此而已，换句话说，仅仅比哈尔滨繁华一点的农村。
*这个城市的生活成本不高，但是对于他中西部的地理位置来说，房租并不便宜。
*这个城市黑人、中东人很多，其中包括不少难民
*这个城市比Duluth暖和不少，当然夏天也要炎热不少。
*这个城市的停车位很难找。

说说学校
*学校的办事效率很低，至少相对于Duluth来说。
*学校的食堂比Duluth还差。
*抽中学校里的停车位就像中奖一样。
*学校太大，我懒得溜达。
*健身中心人满为患，Locker租金很贵，44$/学期
*杂费的种类繁多，但是却比Duluth便宜。
*ISSS办事真的是很差劲。

说说专业
*号称全美Top20的ECE Program，但是90%的PhD都是印度人和中国人。
*DGS妄图通过增加Qualify考试的难度来提高博士生的质量
*系里的打印机打印一页pdf需要30秒，而且需要我从六楼坐电梯到二楼打印。
*系里办公室的前台永远都是什么也不知道。
*很多手续要到学生服务中心签字，然后返回系里办公室签字。

说说实验室

*这个学校面积不小，可我在实验室里只有不到3平米的空间。
*实验室虽小，但是我的计算机确实飞快。6M Cache的Intel Core 2 Quad，6GB内存，9800GT的显卡。
*实验室里的人都在做机器学习，却都对电路设计，信号处理，通讯协议了如指掌。
*实验室里扔了台0.5立方英尺的冰箱，咖啡机，热水壶一应俱全。

说说老板
*老板是个聪明的俄罗斯人，却有一个中国老婆。
*老板看似和善，严厉起来说话也听刻薄的。
*老板到现在为止还没有搞定明年5个人的funding。
*老板就是老板，没钱还有心思到处旅游。
*老板很喜欢他写的书，Learning from Data。
*老板不管我选什么课，只要我把研究做好。
*老板想抢生统的饭碗，Clinical Trial和Survival Analysis也要做，很强大。
*这个老板还不错，呵呵

说说课堂
*选了两门统计的PhD课程，但实际核心内容早已经学过。
*Theory of Statistics的老师爱讲冷笑话，很冷很冷的那种。
*Generalized Linear Model的老师讲课总是很紧张，特别喜欢留作业。
*Optimiztion的老师用PPT上课。
*统计的两个老师笔误超多。
*三个老师都是中国人。
*选了倒霉英语课。
*教学生模拟电路，不知道他们要是知道我是补考才过会怎么想。
*Office Hour好多学生，经常超时。

剩下的以后再加吧，先写这些地方，总体是惊喜少于预期，生活没什么本质区别。

曾经很烦这个小城,最后却发现已经习惯了这里安静的生活.

看来我是一个适合隐居的人,呵呵

人到什么时候都不能为了爱情而丧失了尊严.

爱是平等的,建立在平等基础上的爱才会有前途.

当到了其中一方牺牲自己的尊严才能挽留的时候,爱情其实已经到了尽头.

祝福我的好友,希望她能找她的幸福.