Sami Halaseh

I am a math PhD student in LAAS-CNRS Toulouse and the University of Konstanz. I am part of the TENORS network. My research interests are polynomial optimization, real algebraic geometry and tropical geometry. My supervisors are Mateusz Skomra and Victor Magron.

Email: shalaseh at laas.fr

About

I grew up in Jordan and Canada. I did my Bachelors degree at the University of Toronto, and my Masters degree at the Free University in Berlin. My masters thesis was in tropical geometry, specifically in tropical convexity with an application to scheduling problems in combinatorial optimization [pdf].

Preprints

• Finite convergence of the moment-SOS hierarchy on the product of spheres - with Victor Magron and Mateusz Skomra (2025) [pdf] [talk]

• Duality attainment and strict feasibility of the generalized moment problem and its relaxations - with Victor Magron and Mateusz Skomra (2026) [pdf]

Future Activities

• SIAM OPT, Edinburgh, 02-05/06/2026
• TENORS Workshop 2, Trento, 13-17/07/2026
• Placement at Optimization Firm Artelys, Paris, 01/08-30/09/2026

Past Activities

• TENORS Learning Week 2, Tromsø, 16-20/02/2026
• Research visit at the ORFE department, Princeton, 01-12/12/2025
• Real Algebraic Geometry and Interactions, Nice, 06-10/10/2025
• TENORS Workshop 1, Konstanz, 22-26/09/2025 [talk]
• Summer School on Nonlinear Optimization, Braunschweig, 28/08-02/09/2025
• Semidefinite Programming Conference, Leiden, 07-11/07/2025
• Simplex Method Workshop, Berlin, 26-27/06/2025
• GAeL XXXII, Toulouse, 16-20/06/2025
• SPOT 96, Toulouse, 03/03/2025
• Moments Winter School, Konstanz, 17-21/02/2025
• TENORS Learning Week 1, Sophia Antipolis, 03-06/02/2025
• Tropical Geometry and Related Topics Summer School, Trieste, 02-06/09/2024
• Computational Optimization at Work Summer School, Berlin, 16-27/09/2024
• MEGA, Leipzig, 29/07-02/08/2024
• OSCAR Boot Camp, Berlin, 03/07/2024
• 5th Graduate Student Meeting in Applied Algebra and Combinatorics, Berlin, 10-12/04/2024
• CIMPA School on Algebra and Algebraic Geometry for Applications, Lahore, 26/02-08/03/2024