| Honorific prefix | Professor |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Northwestern University; Lake Superior State University |
| Known for | Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, Network Optimization, Transportation, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research |
| Honours | Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, 1996 to 1999. Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award, 2003. |
Collette René Coullard is an American mathematician, industrial engineer, operations researcher, and matroid theorist known for her research on combinatorial optimization problems that combine facility location and stock management. Formerly a professor at Purdue University, the University of Waterloo, Northwestern University, and Lake Superior State University, she has retired to become a professor emeritus.
Education and career
Coullard graduated in 1980 from Lake Superior State University,[1][2] and earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Minors of 3-Connected Matroids and Adjoints of Binary Matroids, concerned matroid theory and was supervised by Robert E. Bixby.[3]
She taught at Purdue University and visited the University of Waterloo[4] before returning to Northwestern as a faculty member in 1990,[2] and retired as a mathematics professor from Lake Superior State University in 2018.[5] She has also visited the University of Bonn as a Humboldt Fellow.[4]
Recognition
Coullard received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989.[6] She was a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University from 1996 to 1999.[1][2] In 2003, the Lake Superior State University Alumni Association gave her their annual Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award.[1]
References
- ^ "Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award", Lake Superior State University Alumni Association, retrieved 2019-09-15
- ^ "University teaching award recipients: 1996", Northwestern University, retrieved 2019-09-15
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- ^ "About the authors", "GIDEN: a graphical environment for network optimization", November 7, 1999, p. ii, retrieved 2019-09-15
- ^ "Annual Retirement And Service Awards Evening Recognizes University Employees", Lake Superior State University, April 4, 2018, retrieved 2019-09-15
- ^ "Award Abstract # 8957880 Presidential Young Investigator Award: Matroid and Polyhedral Theory in Combinatorial Optimization", National Science Foundation, retrieved 2026-05-09