John
E.
Dennis
Jr.
received
an
honorary
Doctor
of
Mathematics
(DMath).
He
is
renowned
for
his
fundamental
contributions
to
continuous
optimization.
John
Dennis
is
the
Noah
Harding
professor
emeritus
and
research
professor
in
the
Department
of
Computational
and
Applied
Mathematics
at
Rice
University.
He
also
served
as
an
adjunct
professor
in
the
Department
of
Combinatorics
and
Optimization
from
1988
to
1993.
