Uriel Rothblum

Uriel George "Uri" Rothblum (Hebrew: אוריאל ג'ורג' "אורי" רוטבלום; Tel Aviv, March 16, 1947 – Haifa, March 26, 2012) was an Israeli mathematician and operations researcher. From 1984 until 2012 he held the Alexander Goldberg Chair in Management Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.^[1][2]

Uriel Rothblum
אוריאל רוטבלום
Born	(1947-03-16)March 16, 1947 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Died	March 26, 2012(2012-03-26) (aged 65) Haifa, Israel.
Citizenship	Israel, United States
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University B.S and M.S. Stanford Ph.D.
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics operation research system analysis
Institutions	Technion New York University Yale

Rothblum was born in Tel Aviv to a family of Jewish immigrants from Austria.^[3] He went to Tel Aviv University, where Robert Aumann became his mentor; he earned a bachelor's degree there in 1969 and a master's in 1971. He completed his doctorate in 1974 from Stanford University, in operations research, under the supervision of Arthur F. Veinott. After postdoctoral research at New York University, he joined the Yale University faculty in 1975, and moved to the Technion in 1984.^[2]

Rothblum became president of the Israeli Operational Research Society (ORSIS) for 2006–2008, and editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research from 2010 until his death.^[2] He was elected to the 2003 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.^[4]