Roger J-B Wets, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at University of California, Davis, has received the G. B. Dantzig Prize in Mathematical Programming, a Pioneer Award for contributions to stochastic optimization and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Vienna. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow as well as editor of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and Journal of Convex Analysis. Wets has published more than 200 papers on the theory and application of optimization. His previous book Variational Analysis received the F. W. Lanchester Prize.
