Dr. Lucas Slot, ETH Zürich, is one of the 2024 recipients of the SIAM Student Paper Prize. He received the prize for his paper, “Sum-of-Squares Hierarchies for Polynomial Optimization and the Christoffel–Darboux Kernel,” written while he was a PhD student at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam. The paper was published in SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 32 (4), pp. 2612- 2635 (2022). He received his PhD degree from Tilburg University in September 2022.
Read the whole article and interview with Lucas Slot.