High-Dimensional Optimization and Probability

​Ashkan Nikeghbali is currently Chair of the department of quantitative finance at the University of Zürich. His fields of research include finance mathematics, number theory, random matrices, and stochastic processes. Since 2016 Prof. Nikeghbali has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of swissQuant and a member of the Advisory Board of EVMTech.
Panos M. Pardalos serves as distinguished professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor of industrial and systems engineering. Professor Pardalos is also an affiliated faculty member of the computer and information science department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the biomedical engineering program. Additionally, he serves as the director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Professor Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, ecommerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. Panos Pardalos is a prolific author who lectures all over the world. He is the recipient of a multitude of fellowships and awards, the most recent of which is the Humboldt Research Award (2018).

Andrei Raigorodskii is a Federal Professor of Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) where he is the Director of the Phystech-School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, the Head of the Discrete Mathematics Department, the Head of the Laboratory of Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications, as well as the Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research MIPT-Sberbank. He is also the Head of the Caucasus Mathematical Center. He lectures at MIPT, MSU, HSE and has published about 200 papers and 20 books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory. In 2011,he was awarded the 2011 Russian President's Prize in Science and Innovation for young scientists.

Michael Th. Rassias is a Research Fellow at the University of Zürich and a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. While conducting postdoctoral research at the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University in 2014-2015, he prepared with John F. Nash, Jr. the volume "Open Problems in Mathematics", Springer, 2016. He has received several awards in mathematical problem-solving competitions, including a Silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad of 2003 in Tokyo. In 2014 he was awarded with the Notara Prize by the Academy of Athens. He has authored and edited several books with Springer. His current research interests lie in mathematical analysis, analytic number theory, and more specifically the Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach’s conjecture, the distribution of prime numbers, approximation theory, functional equations andanalytic inequalities.