Short bio: Gerard Cornuejols is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of Marseille. His main scientific interests involve operations research, integer programming, logistics and optimization methods in finance, altough contributions were given also in location and distribution, graph theory, packing and covering problems. He was awarded some of the most prestigious prizes in the operations research community: the Fulkerson Prize (2000) offered jointly by the American Math Society and the Math Programming Society, and the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2004). He was editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research from 1998 to 2003.

Abstract: This survey introduces integer programming and tools from polyhedral theory that are used in integer programming. It applies these tools to the study of cutting planes, such as Gomory cuts.