Marcel K. de Carli Silva

Postdoctoral Fellow
Departamento de Ciência da Computação
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
Universidade de São Paulo
email: (7 letters) first and second initials, lastname AT ime.usp.br

Interests

• Semidefinite Optimization
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Graph Theory

Publications

• Vertices of Spectrahedra arising from the Elliptope, the Theta Body, and Their Relatives (with L. Tunçel), submitted
• Sparse sums of positive semidefinite matrices (with N. J. A. Harvey and C. M. Sato), submitted
• Optimization Problems over Unit-Distance Representations of Graphs (with L. Tunçel), Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 20, Issue 1 (2013), Paper 43.

Background

• PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 2013. Supervised by Levent Tunçel.
  Thesis Title: Geometric Ramifications of the Lovász Theta Function and Their Interplay with Duality
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of São Paulo, 2007. Supervised by Yoshiko Wakabayashi.
  Dissertation Title: Min-Max Relations in Combinatorial Optimization. (In Portuguese)
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of São Paulo, 2004.