Michael J. Todd is Leon C. Welch Professor Emeritus of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1980-1981), a Sloan Research Fellowship (1981-1985), the George B. Dantzig Prize (1988) and the John von Neumann Theory Prize (2003). He is an INFORMS Fellow and a SIAM Fellow. He has served on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, and the SIAM Journal on Optimization. He was also Managing Editor of Foundations of Computational Mathematics and has served on the boards of Acta Numerica and Foundations and Trends in Optimization. He is the author of one book and the co-editor of five others.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Minimum-Volume EllipsoidsChapter 3: Algorithms for the MVEE ProblemChapter 4: Minimum-Area Ellipsoidal CylindersChapter 5: Algorithms for the MAEC ProblemChapter 6: Related Problems and AlgorithmsAppendix A: Background MaterialAppendix B: MATLAB Codes

Michael J. Todd is Leon C. Welch Professor Emeritus of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1980-1981), a Sloan Research Fellowship (1981-1985), the George B. Dantzig Prize (1988) and the John von Neumann Theory Prize (2003). He is an INFORMS Fellow and a SIAM Fellow. He has served on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, and the SIAM Journal on Optimization. He was also Managing Editor of Foundations of Computational Mathematics and has served on the boards of Acta Numerica and Foundations and Trends in Optimization. He is the author of one book and the co-editor of five others.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Minimum-Volume EllipsoidsChapter 3: Algorithms for the MVEE ProblemChapter 4: Minimum-Area Ellipsoidal CylindersChapter 5: Algorithms for the MAEC ProblemChapter 6: Related Problems and AlgorithmsAppendix A: Background MaterialAppendix B: MATLAB Codes

Michael J. Todd is Leon C. Welch Professor Emeritus of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1980-1981), a Sloan Research Fellowship (1981-1985), the George B. Dantzig Prize (1988) and the John von Neumann Theory Prize (2003). He is an INFORMS Fellow and a SIAM Fellow. He has served on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, and the SIAM Journal on Optimization. He was also Managing Editor of Foundations of Computational Mathematics and has served on the boards of Acta Numerica and Foundations and Trends in Optimization. He is the author of one book and the co-editor of five others.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Minimum-Volume EllipsoidsChapter 3: Algorithms for the MVEE ProblemChapter 4: Minimum-Area Ellipsoidal CylindersChapter 5: Algorithms for the MAEC ProblemChapter 6: Related Problems and AlgorithmsAppendix A: Background MaterialAppendix B: MATLAB Codes