We
are
saddened
to
announce
that
our
colleague
and
friend
Michael
Best,
Professor
of
Combinatorics
and
Optimization
at
University
of
Waterloo,
passed
away
on
November
10
after
a
battle
with
cancer.
Mike earned his B.Math. and M.Math. degrees at the University of Waterloo in 1967 and 1968, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 1970 and 1971. He was the second-ever recipient of a B.Math. degree at Waterloo. Mike joined the C&O faculty after his Ph.D., where he remained until his retirement in 2010.
Mike's
research
field
was optimization.
He
was
well
known
for
his
books
on
linear
programming,
quadratic programming,
and
portfolio
optimization.
He
created
and
often
taught
the
popular
undergraduate
course
CO
372
on portfolio
optimization.
Mike
supervised
seven
Ph.D.
disserations
at
Waterloo,
and
thirty M.Math.
students.