'''Ekaterina Arkad'evna Kostina''' (born October 18, 1964 in Minsk, Belarus ) is a Belarusian-German mathematician specializing in numerical methods for nonlinear programming, robust optimization, and optimal control theory, and in the applications of these methods to the sciences. She is professor of numerical mathematics in the faculty of mathematics and computer science and institute for applied mathematics at Heidelberg University.
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