Formulation of a problem as semidefinite programming

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I would appreciate some help with this problem:

$R$ is a positive semidefinite matrix $\in{R}^{n\times n}$, $A \in{R}^{n\times m}$.

I need to formulate this optimization problem as semidefinite programming:

maximize $tr\left(({{A}^{T}{R}^{-1}A)}^{-1}\right)$

subject to $\|{r}_i-{c}_i\| \leq{\rho}_i$,

where ${c}_i$ and ${\rho}_i$ are given vectors and scalars, respectively, and ${r}_i$ = $\begin{bmatrix} {R}_{1i}\\{R}_{2i} \\.\\.\\.\\ {R}_{ii} \end{bmatrix}$, $i = 1,...,n$.

I got a hint that it is useful to use Schur complement, but I have no idea how to solve this.