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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Roger Jean-Baptiste Wets</b> (* <a href="20._Februar" title="20. Februar">20. Februar</a> <a href="1937" title="1937">1937</a> in <a href="Uccle" class="mw-redirect" title="Uccle">Uccle</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) ist ein belgischer Mathematiker.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ausbildung_und_Karriere">Ausbildung und Karriere</h2></div>
<p>Wets machte 1961 einen Abschluss (Lizenziat) in Wirtschaft an der <a href="Universit%C3%A9_libre_de_Bruxelles" title="Université libre de Bruxelles">Universität Brüssel</a>, wobei er 1955 bis 1960 im Familienbetrieb (Kartonage) arbeitete, und wurde 1965 bei <a href="George_Dantzig" title="George Dantzig">George Dantzig</a> und <a href="David_Blackwell" title="David Blackwell">David Blackwell</a> an der <a href="University_of_California%2C_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, promoviert (Programming under Uncertainty).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1964 bis 1970 war er an den <a href="Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a>-Forschungslaboratorien, war 1970 bis 1972 <i>Ford Professor</i> für Mathematik an der <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> und danach an der <a href="University_of_Kentucky" title="University of Kentucky">University of Kentucky</a>. 1980 bis 1984 war er am <a href="International_Institute_for_Applied_Systems_Analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis">International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis</a> (IIASA) in Laxenburg als Projektleiter (und auch 1985 bis 1987) und ab 1984 Professor an der <a href="University_of_California%2C_Davis" title="University of California, Davis">University of California, Davis</a>, wo er Distinguished Professor wurde.
</p><p>Er war auch am <a href="IBM_Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center">IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center</a> und arbeitete für die Weltbank. 1966 war er Gastdozent an der <a href="University_of_Washington" title="University of Washington">University of Washington</a>, 1969 am <a href="Institut_national_de_recherche_en_informatique_et_en_automatique" title="Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique">Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique</a> (INRIA) in Paris und 1970 am <a href="Centre_de_Recherches_Math%C3%A9matiques" title="Centre de Recherches Mathématiques">Centre de Recherches Mathématiques</a> in Montreal. Ab den 1990er Jahren unterrichtete er auch an der Universität in Chile.
</p><p>Er arbeitete seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre mit <a href="Ralph_Tyrrell_Rockafellar" title="Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar">Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar</a> in stochastischer Programmierung zusammen und entwickelt mit ihm in den 1980er Jahren den <i>progressive hedging</i> Algorithmus und forschte über konvexe Analysis (metrische Theorie der Konvergenz von <a href="Epigraph_(Mathematik)" title="Epigraph (Mathematik)">Epigraphen</a>). Daneben verfolgte er Anwendungen in der Flugzeugindustrie, Telekommunikation, Finanzwirtschaft, Ökologie (Wasser-Ressourcen u. a.), Industrie und im Energiebereich.
</p><p>1981/82 war er <a href="Guggenheim_Fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="Guggenheim Fellow">Guggenheim Fellow</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preise_und_Ehrungen">Preise und Ehrungen</h2></div>
<ul><li>1994: <a href="George-B.-Dantzig-Preis" title="George-B.-Dantzig-Preis">George-B.-Dantzig-Preis</a></li>
<li>1997: <a href="Frederick-W.-Lanchester-Preis" title="Frederick-W.-Lanchester-Preis">Frederick-W.-Lanchester-Preis</a><sup id="cite_ref-Lanchester-Preis_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lanchester-Preis-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2003: Ehrendoktor der <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_Wien" title="Universität Wien">Universität Wien</a></li>
<li>1993: Aufnahme in die <a href="Ukrainische_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainische Akademie der Wissenschaften">Ukrainische Akademie der Wissenschaften</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften">Schriften</h2></div>
<ul><li>mit Rockafellar: Variational Analysis, Springer Verlag 1998, 2009</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~rjbw/mypage/Home.html">Homepage</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zbmath.org/authors/wets.roger-j-b">Roger Jean-Baptiste Wets</a> in der Datenbank <a href="ZbMATH" title="ZbMATH">zbMATH</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lebensdaten nach <i>American Men and Women of Science</i>, Thomson Gale 2004</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=6878">Roger Wets</a> im <a href="Mathematics_Genealogy_Project" title="Mathematics Genealogy Project">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a> (englisch) <span style="display:none">Vorlage:MathGenealogyProject/Wartung/id verwendet</span></span>
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