Current Announcements and Notes Page

December 29, 2011

The Center Director would like to wish all of our supporters a Wonderful New 2012 Year!

The Photos of Center Activities page has been updated.

December 27, 2011

The syllabus for Professor Anna Nagurney's new course, Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare, that will be offered for the first time in the Spring 2012 semester, has been posted.

December 23, 2011

We are delighted to report that the article, Risk Reduction and Cost Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions via Supply Chain Network Integration, by Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney, appears in the Journal of Financial Decision Making 7(2): (2011), pp 1-18.

December 21, 2011

Links to the 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP12), the 23rd Annual POMS Conference, and the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 2012: Designing the Future Supply Chain - Reliable, Robust, Secure, were added to the Conferences page.

In addition, the Media page was updated.

December 17, 2011

An additional FOMGT 341 presentation was posted on the Visuals page. Photos from the Meet the Executive with Dan Viederman and the INFORMS Student Chapter Celebration were added the site.

December 16, 2011

We are delighted to report that the article, Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management Under Oligopolistic Competition and Brand Differentiation, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Center Assoicate Min Yu appears in the Special Section on Green Manufacturing and Distribution in the Fashion and Apparel Industries in the International Journal of Production Economics 135: (2012), pp 532-540.

December 14, 2011

The Center Director Professor Anna Nagurney would like to congratulate Doctoral Student Center Associate Amir H. Masoumi for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation proposal, Supply Chain Management of Perishable Products with Application to Healthcare, on December 12, 2011. Professor Nagurney is the chair of his dissertation committee.

Several class team projects from FOMGT 341, Transportation & Logistics, taught by Professor Anna Nagurney, have been posted.

December 7, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney will be the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Computational Management Science on Financial Networks. Call for Papers.

December 2, 2011

Photos from the INFORMS Charlotte conference have been posted. In addition, Professor Anna Nagurney's invited Handbook chapter on Supply Chains and Transportation Networks has been added to this site.

November 30, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney's presentation, Design of Sustainable Supply Chains for Sustainable Cities, for the Complex-City Workshop has been added to the site.

November 27, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney has completed an Invited Paper, Design of Sustainable Supply Chains for Sustainable Cities, for the Complex-City Workshop, to be held December 5-6, 2011, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

November 21, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney wrote an invited Policy Commentary, Designing Transportation Infrastructure to Include the Human Element, for the Resources for the Future website.

November 19, 2011

Professor Ladimer Nagurney presented, A Network Model and Computational Approach for the 99Mo Supply Chain for Nuclear Medicine, at the Fall 2011 Joint Meeting of the New England Sections of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the Society of Physics Students at UMass Amherst. The presentation is based upon the paper, Medical Nuclear Supply Chain Design: A Tractable Network Model and Computational Approach, co-authored with Professor Anna Nagurney.

November 18, 2011

Photos from the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, held last week in Miami, FL, have been added to Photos of Center Activities.

November 12, 2011

On Friday, November 18, 2011, the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter will host a Meet the Executive with Dan Viederman, chief executive officer of Verité at 11:00 AM. For details see the event flyer.

November 7, 2011

Additional presentations for the INFORMS Annual Meeting have been added to Visuals.

November 5, 2011

The INFORMS Annual Meeting will be held in Charlotte, NC, November 13-16, 2011. Links to the presentations by Professor Anna Nagurney and the Center Associates may be found in Visuals.

November 4, 2011

The 58th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International will be held in Miami, FL from November 9-12, 2011. At the meeting, Professor Anna Nagurney will present at the Memorial Session for Professor Walter Isard who passed away last year. Professor Nagurney's two presentations have been uploaded to Visuals.

November 3, 2011

We are pleased to announce that the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter has been award the Magna Cum Laude Award. This is the fifth year in a row that the chapter has received an INFORMS award. Professor Anna Nagurney, as Chapter Advisor, salutes the chapter for this distinction and invites all present and former chapter members who will be attending the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, later this month, to attend the awards ceremony. Announcement from ISOM Website.

October 29, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney extends her sincerest appreciation to her hosts during her visit to McGill University in Montreal, Canada, yesterday, especially Professors Vedat Verter and Mehmet Gumus. She enjoyed her visit tremendously.

Her presentation, given in the Management Science Research Seminar Series at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill, entitled, Perishable Product Supply Chains in Health Care: Models, Analysis, and Computation, has been posted on this site.

October 24, 2011

We are pleased to report the publication of 2 articles, Supernetworks: The Science of Complexity by Professor Anna Nagurney in the Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Dynamics and Equilibria of Ecological Predator-Prey Networks as Nature’s Supply Chains by Professors Anna and Ladimer S. Nagurney in Transportation Research E. For details see Downloadable Articles.

October 22, 2011

Photos from NetGCoop have been posted.

October 19, 2011

We are pleased to report that Center Associate Professor Tina Wakolbinger (UMass PhD '07) has been appointed the Head of the Research Institute for Supply Chain Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and also became the Deputy Head of the Institute for Transport and Logistics Management. She assumed her new appointments on October 12, 2011.

October 16, 2011

News of Professors Wolf and Nagurney's NSF Grant appeared on the UMass College of Engineering website.

October 9, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney will be delivering a plenary talk, Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Supply Chain Network Analysis to Design, at NetGCoop 2011, the International Conference on Network Games, Control, and Optimization Paris, France on October 13, 2011. This news was also reported in In the Loop.

October 7, 2011

The Center is pleased to welcome Feixiong Liao, Doctoral Student at the Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands, who will be visiting the Center this semester. He is conducting research on supernetworks.

Information on several upcoming conferences has been added to the site.

September 28, 2011

The article, A Supply Chain Generalized Network Oligopoly Model for Pharmaceuticals Under Brand Differentiation and Perishability, by Amir H. Masoumi, Min Yu, and Anna Nagurney has been added to the site.

September 24, 2011

Professors Nagurney and Wolf's new NSF grant, Collaborative Research: Network Innovation Through Choice, has been reported in the media.

September 23, 2011

We are delighted to report that the article, Supply Chain Networks with Global Outsourcing and Quick-Response Production Under Demand and Cost Uncertainty, by Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney has been accepted for publication in Annals of Operations Research.

September 21, 2011

Photos from the SAMSI Workshop have been posted.

September 16, 2011

On Tuesday, Spetember 20, 2011, Professor Nagurney will be delivering the invited presentation, Sustainability: Methodology with Applications, at the The Opening Workshop for the Engineering and Renewable Energy theme of the SAMSI program on Uncertainty Quantification, Research Triangle Park, NC.

September 12, 2011

The Downloadable Articles page was updated to include new publication information on several articles.

September 7, 2011

We wish everyone a successful new Academic Year!

September 3, 2011

The project, Collaborative Research: Network Innovation Through Choice, has been funded by the National Science Foundation in the amount of $2.732 million ($909,794 to UMass Amherst) for three years starting on September 15, 2011. This is a collaborative project among the University of Massachusetts (Tilman Wolf and Anna Nagurney), the University of Kentucky (Jim Griffioen and Ken Calvert), RENCI (Ilya Baldine), and NC State (Rudra Dutta and George Rouskas).

September 2, 2011

The Fall 2011 Issue of the Supernetwork Sentinel is now available.

August 31, 2011

The media page was updated.

August 27, 2011

As Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast towards Massachusetts, we hope that all have prepared and will safely weather the storm. Center Associate, Professor Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, was featured on the Penn State Great Valley website.

August 20, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney was quoted in the Wall Street Journal's The Numbers Guy Blog.

August 17, 2011

The article, The Closed-loop Supply Chain Network with Competition, Distribution Channel Investment, and Uncertainties, by Center Associates Qiang Qiang, Ke Ke, Trisha Anderson, and June Dong has been accepted for publication in OMEGA -The International Journal of Management Science.

August 14, 2011

The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

August 11, 2011

Photos taken at the June 2011 I3P Consortium Meeting were added to Photos of Center Acitvities.

July 30, 2011

Additional media coverage on Supply Chain Network Operations Management of a Blood Banking System and Viewpoint: Passage of American Medical Isotope Production Act of 2011 will help ensure U.S. nuclear medicine supply chain was added.

July 28, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney, Amir Masoumi, and Min Yu's article, Supply Chain Network Operations Management of a Blood Banking System, was reported on the UMass homepage, In the Loop, and on the Isenberg School Website. For details, see Media.

July 25, 2011

The presentation, Medical Nuclear Supply Chain Design: A Tractable Network Model and Computational Approach, by Professors Anna and Ladimer S. Nagurney, which will be presented at the Seventh Conference on Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chains, has been added to the site.

July 23, 2011

The article, Supply Chain Network Operations Management of a Blood Banking System with Cost and Risk Minimization, by Professor Anna Nagurney, Amir H. Masoumi, and Min Yu, has been accepted for publication in Computational Management Science.

July 20, 2011

Professor Anna and Ladimer Nagurney's Op-Ed was noted in University of Hartford Unotes and the CETA Blog.

July 14, 2011

The article, Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Amir H. Masoumi, will appear in Sustainable Supply Chains: Models, Methods and Public Policy Implications, T. Boone, V. Jayaraman, and R. Ganeshan, Editors, Springer, London, England, 2011.

July 10, 2011

Professors Anna and Ladimer Nagurney's Op-Ed, Viewpoint: Passage of American Medical Isotope Production Act of 2011 will help ensure U.S. nuclear medicine supply chain, was published in the Springfield Sunday Republican on Sunday, July 10, 2011.

July 7, 2011

Center Director Professor Anna Nagurney was interviewed by the Public Relations officer of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mr. Michael Breen, for a podcast on the Center's research work on supply chains in disasters as part of its Mathematical Moments series. Mr. Breen attended Professor Nagurney's presentation at the AAAS meeting in Washington, DC last February and requested an interview. The podcast mentions the Isenberg School and the Virtual Center for Suoernetworks, as well as Center Associates, Min Yu and Professor Patrick Qiang.

The podcast is on the AMS Site.

The poster that accompanies the podcast is also on the AMS Site.

July 6, 2011

The article, Medical Nuclear Supply Chain Design: A Tractable Network Model and Computational Approach, by Professors Anna and Ladimer S. Nagurney, was added to the site.

July 1, 2011

Publication information on several articles has been updated.

June 26, 2011

Articles on Professors Anna and Ladimer Nagurney's article, Dynamics and Equilibria of Ecological Predator-Prey Networks as Nature’s Supply Chains, appeared in University of Hartford UNotes and in the CETA Blog.

June 21, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney is attending the meeting of the I3P Consortium in Berkeley, California.

June 11, 2011

The Center Associate pages have been updated.

Also, we are pleased to announce that the videos produced by Cornell University of the Professor Walter Isard Memorial and Symposium are now available online. At the Symposium, Center Associate Professor June Dong delivered Professor Anna Nagurney's remarks since Professor Nagurney's flights were cancelled due to bad weather. These videos provide a wonderful tribute to the lasting legacy of Professor Isard.

June 9, 2011

We welcome Dong (Michelle) Li as a Doctoral Student Center Associate.

June 5, 2011

Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney's article, Supply Chain Networks with Global Outsourcing and Quick-Response Production Under Demand and Cost Uncertainty, has been added to the site.

June 2, 2011

We are delighted to announce that the paper Dynamics and Equilibria of Ecological Predator-Prey Networks as Nature’s Supply Chains, by Professors Anna and Ladimer S. Nagurney, has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research E. Also, their paper, Spatial Price Equilibrium and Food Webs: The Economics of Predator-Prey Networks, appears as the lead article in the Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Supernetworks and System Management. Center Associate Professor June Dong is a Co-Editor of these proceedings, which were published by IEEE Press, Beijing, China.

June 1, 2011

The Summer 2011 issue of the Supernetwork Sentinel has been added to the site.

May 30, 2011

Photos from the 2011 IEEE Conference on Supernetworks and System Management have been added to Photos of Network Innovators.

May 27, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney thanks the graciousness of the Organizers of the PAKDD2011 Conference in Shenzhen, China. A Rich Media version of her presentation was added to the site.

May 24, 2011

A video of the keynote on Supernetworks prepared by Professor Anna Nagurney for the PAKDD2011 Conference was added to Audio-Video.

May 22, 2011

Center Associate, Dr. Tina Wakolbinger, has assumed the Professorship of Supply Chain Services and Networks, at the Institute for Transport and Logistics Management, at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on May 15, 2011. Congratulations Frau Professor Dr. Wakolbinger!

May 21, 2011

The paper, Spatial Price Equilibrium and Food Webs: The Economics of Predator-Prey Networks, which will appear in the Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Supernetworks and System Management has been added to the site.

May 19, 2011

We congratulate Ms. Min Yu for her receipt of the 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Student Researcher Award at ceremonies in the Isenberg School Atrium on May 17, 2011.

May 17, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 IEEE Conference on Supernetworks and System Management in Shanghai, China, May 29-30, 2011. At the same conference she is also the co-author of 2 other papers with Center Associates Min Yu and Professor Ladimer Nagurney, respectively. Slides for the presentations have been posted.

May 14, 2011

Photos taken at the 2011 Northeast INFORMS Regional Conference were added to Photos of Center Acitvities.

May 13, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney congratulates all the 2011 graduates and wishes them and their families all the very best!

May 9, 2011

Photos from the Memorial Service and Symposium for Professor Walter Isard have been added to Photos of Network Innovators.

May 8, 2011

The First Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference that took place at UMass Amherst, May 6-7, 2011, was a big success. Many of the Center Associates presented papers, served on panels, and even helped out with the organization of the conference. Professor Anna Nagurney has posted some highlights with photos on her RENeW blog.

May 3, 2011

Two additional presentations prepared for the 2011 Northeast INFORMS Regional Conference, Research in Academia and Industry Panel by Professor Anna Nagurney and Supply Chain Outsourcing Under Exchange Rate Risk and Competition by Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney, were added to this site.

A photo from Center Associate Min Yu's Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Defense was added to Photos of Center Activities.

May 1, 2011

The Photos of Center Activities page was updated to include a photo of Center Associate Professor Trisha Woolley Anderson with the John Maddux, Jr. Faculty Award, which she received from Texas Wesleyan University.

Also, the Media page was updated to include an article from In the Loop on the First Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference, which will take place May 6-7, 2011, at UMass Amherst.

The presentation, Risk Reduction and Cost Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions via Supply Chain Network Integration by Center Associate Professor Zugang "Leo" Liu of Penn State Hazleton and Professor Anna Nagurney, which will be given at the First Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference, has now been made available.

April 29, 2011

The presentation, A Bi-Criteria Measure to Assess Supply Chain Network Performance for Critical Needs Under Capacity and Demand Disruptions, by Professors Patrick Qiang and Anna Nagurney, prepared for the First Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference, has now been posted. This presentation is based on the paper by the same name, which is forthcoming in Transportation Research A, Special Issue on Network Vulnerability in Large-Scale Transport Networks.

April 28, 2011

Congratulations to Center Associate Professor Trisha Woolley Anderson who has been awarded the John Maddux, Jr. Faculty Award from Texas Wesleyan University, where she teaches at its Business School. The award citation reads, In recognition for playing a supportive motivational and inspirational role in the lives of students at Texas Wesleyan University.

April 26, 2011

Several Center Associate presentations for the upcoming POMS and Northeastern INFORMS Conferences have been posted.

April 24, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney will be speaking at the Symposium on the Legacy of Walter Isard at Cornell University on Friday, April 29, 2011. Her presentation has been added to this site.

April 23, 2011

The Downloadable Articles page has been updated with revised papers.

April 19, 2011

We are pleased to announce that Doctoral Student Center Associate Min Yu has been selected to receive the 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Award from the Isenberg School. Congratulations to Min!

The media page was updated to include the press release sent out on the upcoming Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference that will take place at UMass Amherst May 6-7, 2011.

April 17, 2011

Photos from Meet the Executive with Kevin Koswick of Ford and UMass MBA'85 have been posted.

April 16, 2011

We would like to thank Mr. Kevin Koswick - UMass MBA'85 of Ford for arranging time in his busy schedule to come to UMass to participate in a Meet the Executive hosted by the the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and the Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, Professor Anna Nagurney.

April 12, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney thanks the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Canada for hosting her visit and seminar yesterday. Her seminar presentation, Supply Chain Networks: Challenges and Opportunities from Analysis to Design, is now posted.

April 8, 2011

Professor Nagurney has prepared an article, Supernetworks: The Science of Complexity, for the Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.

April 5, 2011

The publication status of articles on Downloadable Articles has been updated.

April 2, 2011

Photos from the SBP 2011 Conference have been posted.

We congratulate Center Associate Dr. Stavros Siokos upon his new position as President of the Sciens Fund of Hedge Funds Management based in London, England.

April 1, 2011

Professor Nagurney salutes the organizers of the SBP 2011 Conference held earlier this week for organizing such an intellectually stimulating conference.

March 26, 2011

Photos from the awarding of the Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award to Professor Anna Nagurney have been added to Photos of Center Activities.

March 25, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney thanks the UMass Amherst Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter for receognizing her last night at a banquet with the Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award. This special honor is very much appreciated.

March 20, 2011

The new article, Dynamics and Equilibria of Ecological Predator-Prey Networks as Nature’s Supply Chains, by Professors Anna Nagurney and Ladimer S. Nagurney has been posted on this site.

March 17, 2011

We congratulate Center Associate Dr. Patrick Qiang on his acceptance into the Emerging Scholars program that will take place at the 2011 POMS Conference in Reno, Nevada. We also congratulate Doctoral Student Center Associate Min Yu on her acceptance into the POMS Doctoral Consortium that will take place at the very same conference.

March 11, 2011

Doctoral Student Center Associate Nathan Kollett has received a travel award to attend the SBP 2011 Conference that will take place at the University of Maryland College Park, March 28-31, 2011. Congratulations to Nathan!

Professor Anna Nagurney has been selected to receive the 2011 Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award.

The Downloadable Articles page has been updated since several papers have been recently accepted for publication.

March 8, 2011

The American Mathematical Society website has an article on the AAAS symposium, Mathematics and Collective Behavior.

March 7, 2011

Professor Nagurney was interviewed by on the radio show, Moebius, broadcast by Radio24Italy. The interview was conducted by Federico Pedrocchi at the AAAS meeting in Washington DC. Mr. Pedrocchi attended the Mathematics and Collective Behavior symposium that Nagurney spoke at on User-optimized and System-optimized Travel Behavior. The interview (in Italian) broadcast on February 27, 2011.

March 1, 2011

The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

February 24, 2011

Professor Nagurney's presentation at AAAS Meeting was the subject of an article in Science News. Other mentions of her presentaton are in Media.

February 20, 2011

Professor Anna Nagurney, Amir H. Masoumi, and Min Yu's article, Supply Chain Network Operations Management of a Blood Banking System with Cost and Risk Minimization, has been added to the site.

February 19, 2011

The Mathematics and Collective Behavior Symposium at the AAAS Annual Meeting was a stellar success. Photos have been posted.

February 18, 2011

Professor Nagurney's presentation, User-optimized and System-optimized Travel Behavior, at the AAAS Annual Meeting symposium, Mathematics and Collective Behavior, has been posted.

February 15, 2011

Professor Nagurney and Min Yu's article, Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management Under Oligopolistic Competition and Brand Differentiation, has been accepted for publication in the Special Issue on Green Manufacturing and Distribution in the Fashion and Apparel Industries in the International Journal of Production Economics.

On Friday, February 18, 2011, Professor Nagurney will speak at a symposium, Mathematics and Collective Behavior, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

February 12, 2011

Yesterday, the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter, in association with Professors Nagurney and Debevec, hosted Marc Schneider - UMass '81, Group President of Dress Furnishings at Phillips-Van Heusen, for a Meet the Executive. Photos of the event have been posted.

February 10, 2011

Professors Liu and Nagurney's article, Supply Chain Outsourcing Under Exchange Rate Risk and Competition, was published in Omega.

February 2, 2011

Professor Nagurney, Min Yu, and Professor Qiang's recent paper, Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing, was noted in the Springfield Republican and the I3P Consortium Newsletter.

February 1, 2011

An article on Professor Nagurney, Min Yu, and Professor Qiang's recent paper, Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing, was posted on the UMass Homepage.

January 28, 2011

Professor Nagurney, Min Yu, and Professor Qiang's recent paper, Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing, was the subject of a UMass News Release that was reprinted in Newswise and Supply Chain Review. Professor Nagurney would like to thank the organizers of the 90th TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC this past week and hopes that, despite the storm that closed down the capital, everyone returned safely.

January 25, 2011

On January 26, 2011, Professor Nagurney will be participating in a panel, Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Planning and Resilience, at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 90th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 23-27, 2011. Her presentation is entitled, Building Resilience into Fragile Transportation Networks in an Era of Increasing Disasters.

January 22, 2011

Professor Nagurney's recent blogpost, The Price Paid by Women Who Serve: Gender Disparities in Academia, has been reprinted on the INFORMS Blog.

January 18, 2011

Professor Nagurney's recent blogpost, The Price Paid by Women Who Serve: Gender Disparities in Academia, has been reprinted on WomenMakeNews.com.

January 16, 2011

In the Loop published an article on Professor Nagurney, Min Yu, and Professor Qiang's recent paper and an article on Professor Nagurney's upcoming panel presentation at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

January 13, 2011

The article, Multiperiod Competitive Supply Chain Networks with Inventorying and A Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulation, by Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney has been accepted for publication in Advanced Modeling and Optimization.

January 11, 2011

The article, Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing, by Professor Anna Nagurney, Doctoral Student Min Yu, and Professor Patrick Qiang, Papers in Regional Science, is featured on the Isenberg School of Management Website.

January 6, 2011

The 2011 UMass Report on Research has been published and includes an announcement of the book, Fragile Networks, by Professors Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang.

January 4, 2011

New Conferences and Journals have been added to the site.

December 31, 2010

The Center Director and Center Associates wish one and all a Happy New Year! The Congratulations and Kudos page was updated to reflect the accomplishments of 2010.

December 28, 2010

The article, A Bi-Criteria Measure to Assess Supply Chain Network Performance for Critical Needs Under Capacity and Demand Disruptions, by Professors Qiang Qiang and Anna Nagurney was added to this site.

December 26, 2010

Photos from the Measuring Systemic Risk conference have been added to Photos of Center Activities.

December 24, 2010

The Center Director, Professor Anna Nagurney, and the Center Associates extend to all the warmest of Holiday Greetings and Happy New Year! We thank you for the support that you have given us during the past year and look forward to your continued support in 2011!

December 21, 2010

Professor Nagurney will be presenting a keynote on Supernetworks at PAKDD2011: The 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining to be held in Shenzhen, China, May 25-27, 2011.

December 16, 2010

Professor Nagurney would like to thank the organizers of the Measuring Systemic Risk conference for their outstanding efforts in getting together a truly remarkable set of speakers and venue. Additional student projects from FOMgt 341 have been posted.

December 13, 2010

On December 15, 2010, Professor Anna Nagurney will be speaking at the conference, Measuring Systemic Risk, sponsored by the Milton Friedman Institute of the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Link to her presentation.

December 12, 2010

The Winter 2011 issue of the Supernetwork Sentinel is now online. Student projects from FOMgt 341, Transportation and Logistics, have also been posted.

December 9, 2010

The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Supernetworks and System Management will be held in Shanghai, China, May 29-30, 2011. Professor Anna Nagurney will be a Keynote Speaker and is Honorary Chair of the Conference. Center Asssociate Professor June Dong is Conference Co-Chair and Center Associate Professor Patrick Qiang is Organizing Committee Co-Chair. The Call-for-Papers has been added to this site.

December 5, 2010

Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney's article, Risk Reduction and Cost Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions via Supply Chain Network Integration, was added to the site.

December 3, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney was quoted in the article, UMass Transit encourages students, residents, to hop on for climate change, published in the Daily Collegian on November 29, 2010.

December 2, 2010

Photos from Professor Nagurney's INFORMS Boston Chapter presentation have been posted.

November 29, 2010

The INFORMS 2011 Northeastern Conference will be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on May 6-7, 2011. Professor Anna Nagurney will be serving on the Program Committee for the Conference.

November 24, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney's presentation at the INFORMS Boston Chapter meeting, Supply Chain Networks: Challenges and Opportunities from Analysis to Design, has been posted. Professor Nagurney thanks Dr. Les Servi of MITRE for being such a wonderful host.

November 16, 2010

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, Professor Anna Nagurney will be speaking at the INFORMS Boston Chapter meeting.

November 14, 2010

We are pleased to announce that the article, Supply Chain Outsourcing Under Exchange Rate Risk and Competition by Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney, has been accepted for publication in Omega.

November 12, 2010

The Center Director and Center Associates thoroughly enjoyed the INFORMS National Meeting and have some photos to share.

November 5, 2010

The Center Director, Professor Nagurney, and the Center Associates are preparing to get together at the INFORMS National Meeting in Austin, Texas beginning Sunday, November 7th. Several of the presentations of the Director and Associates have been added to visuals.

November 3, 2010

The Ukrainian Weekly published an article on last summer's Yalta Conference. Through the courtesy of Ms. Roma Hadzewycz, editor, the article has been added to this site. In the Loop has published an article on the INFORMS Student Chapter's Magna Cum Laude Award.

October 31, 2010

The Isenberg School of Management has issued a press release on the INFORMS Student Chapter's Magna Cum Laude Award.

October 29, 2010

At the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin Texas, November 7-10, 2010, there will be presentations by Professor Nagurney and many of the Center Associates. Several of these have already been posted in visuals. Professor Nagurney will also be on 2 panels at the Meeting.

October 24, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney's blogpost on Anna Schuleit's Public Art, Just A Rumor, at UMass Amherst was noted in Radcliffe Institute NewsMakers, Fall 2010. Both Professor Nagurney and Ms. Schuleit were Fellows at the Radcliffe Insititute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

October 23, 2010

The UMass Amherst INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Student Chapter will be recognized with the magna cum laude award at the Awards Breakfast at the National INFORMS conference in Austin, Texas on November 9, 2010. As Chapter Advisor, I'd like to commend last year's and this year's officers (Min Yu, Amir Masoumi, Guven Ince, Farbod Farhadi, Milad Ebtehaj, Ronrapee Leelawong, Nathan Kollett, and Ameera Ibrahim) for their outstanding service. The chapter was ranked second in the nation out of 32 student chapters this year based on its activities. This is the fourth year in a row that the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter has received a national award from INFORMS. For more information, see the Chapter Website.

October 20, 2010

Professors Nagurney and Qiang's book, Fragile Networks, was announced in TR News, a publication of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. A link to the 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board was added.

October 16, 2010

On October 13 and 14, I was pleased to attend the I3P Consortium Meeting as the alternative representative from UMass Amherst. I3P is a consortium of academic institutions, government labs, and nonprofit organizations that focuses on information infrastructure protection. Photos of the meeting have been posted.

October 11, 2010

The article, Supply Chain Outsourcing Under Exchange Rate Risk and Competition, by Professors Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney was added to the site.

October 6, 2010

The article, Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management Under Oligopolistic Competition and Brand Differentiation, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Min Yu was added to the site. Other publication information on the Downloadable Articles page was updated.

October 2, 2010

The Texas-based marketing firm, bloomfield knoble, discussed the application of Professor Anna Nagurney's work on the Braess Paradox to experiential marketing on its blog.

September 27, 2010

The article on Professor Nagurney's work on the Homeland Security Newswire was reported on the I3P Website and Professor Nagurney's participation in the 2009 World Science Festival was noted in the INFORMS Computing Society Fall 2010 Newsletter.

September 17, 2010

Professor Nagurney was interviewed on WFCR and the PhysOrg.com article on her latest publication was reprinted on the Homeland Security Newswire.

September 14, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney's paper in Europhysics Letters, The Negation of the Braess Paradox as Demand Increases: The Wisdom of Crowds in Transportation Networks, was the subject of an article on PhysOrg.com.

September 10, 2010

The article, Formulation and Analysis of Horizontal Mergers Among Oligopolistic Firms with Insights into the Merger Paradox: A Supply Chain Network Perspective, by Professor Anna Nagurney appears in Computational Management Science.

September 4, 2010

New conferences were added to the Conferences page.

September 1, 2010

Professor Nagurney and Min Yu's article, Fashion Supply Chain Management Through Cost and Time Minimization from a Network Perspective, has been accepted for publication in Fashion Supply Chain Management: Industry and Business Analysis.

Professor Ladimer Nagurney delivered a presentation, E-cycling, at the University of Hartford Freshman Orientation, Our Campus-Our Planet.

August 29, 2010

Professors Anna and Ladimer Nagurney's paper on sustainable supply chain network design, appearing in the September 2010 issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, was reported in University of Hartford UNotes.

August 27, 2010

We welcome Nathan Kollett as a new Doctoral Student Center Associate. Nathan returns to UMass as a Doctoral student in Management Science at the Isenberg School of Management after spending two years in industry with State Street Corporation in Boston, MA. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from UMass Amherst with a minor in Mathematics.

August 26, 2010

The Fall 2010 Supernetwork Sentinel is online. Professor Anna Nagurney and Min Yu's article, Fashion Supply Chain Management Through Cost and Time Minimization from a Network Perspective, has been added to this site.

August 23, 2010

The presentations in the session organized by Professor Anna Nagurney for the 2010 Computational Management Science Conference which took place in Vienna, Austria, were added to visuals.

August 19, 2010

Links to additional references were added to the Humanitarian Logistics site.

August 14, 2010

The About the Director page was updated.

August 9, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney would like to thank Professors Sergei Butenko of the Texas A&M University and Oleg Prokopyev of the University of Pittsburgh for the outstanding organization of the 2010 Yalta Optimization Conference that took place August 2-4, 2010 in Ukraine. Photos from this conference have now been posted.

August 7, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney would like to thank Professor Georg Pflug of the University of Vienna, Austria for the excellent organization of the 2010 Computational Management Science Conference that took place July 28-30, 2010. Photos from this conference have now been posted. Center Associate Professor Tina Wakolbinger also spoke at this conference in a session organized by Professor Nagurney.

August 6, 2010

The paper, Sustainable Supply Chain Network Design: A Multicriteria Perspective, by Professors Anna Nagurney and Ladimer S. Nagurney, appears in the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering 3: (2010) pp 189-197.

July 29, 2010

Sildes from Professor Nagurney's Plenary Addresses at the Vienna and Yalta Conferences are now available on this site.

July 23, 2010

Center Associate Professor Patrick Qiang recently spoke at the School of Management at the Shanghai University of Science and Technology on The Vulnerability of Fragile Networks. He was hosted there, in part, by Center Associate Professor June Dong. Photos from his presentation have now been posted.

July 19, 2010

Professor Nagurney will be delivering two Plenary Addresses at Conferences in Vienna and Yalta. Articles from In the Loop and the Isenberg Website have been posted in media.

July 18, 2010

The article, Optimal Supply Chain Network Design and Redesign at Minimal Total Cost and with Demand Satisfaction, by Professor Anna Nagurney has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Production Economics.

July 16, 2010

The article, Multiperiod Competitive Supply Chain Networks with Inventorying and A Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulation, by Anna Nagurney and Zugang Liu has been added to this site.

July 15, 2010

Center Associate, Professor Qiang Qiang, presented a paper, System-Optimized Transportation Network with Disruption Hedging Investment, at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Management Science, Chengdu, China, July 9-11, 2010. A photo of Professor Qiang at the conference has been added to the site.

July 14, 2010

Slides for Professor Nagurney's CMS Plenary, Supply Chain Networks: Challenges and Opportunities from Analysis to Design, and her article, Optimal Supply Chain Network Design and Redesign at Minimal Total Cost and with Demand Satisfaction, have been added to the site.

July 8, 2010

The article, Multiproduct Supply Chain Network Design with Applications to Healthcare, by Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, and Qiang Qiang has been added to this site.

July 6, 2010

Professors Sun-Ki Chai and James Moore, II were added as Friends of the Center. Links to the INFORMS, RSAI, and IFORS Conferences were added.

July 5, 2010

The presentation, Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing by Professor Nagurney, Min Yu, and Professor Qiang, prepared for the International Conference on Computational Management Science, was posted in visuals.

June 30, 2010

We are pleased to announce that the paper, An Integrated Framework for the Design of Optimal Web Banners, by Lili Hai, Lan Zhao, and Anna Nagurney, appears in the latest issue of the journal Netnomics.

June 26, 2010

For their support of Center Activities, we are proud to welcome Professors Sergiy Butenko, Kieran Donaghy, Matthias Ehrgott, Manfred Fischer, Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Steve McKelvey, and Laura A. McLay as Friends of the Center.

June 18, 2010

We are proud of the accomplishments of our Center Associates and have updated their pages.

June 17, 2010

Photos from the Buenos Aires Argentina ALIO-INFORMS Conference have been added to Photos of Center Activities.

June 13, 2010

Now that the ALIO-INFORMS Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina is over, Professor Nagurney would like to thank the organizers for a wonderful conference. It convened about 1,000 operations researchers from around the globe in a magnificent, historic city. The conference was outstanding in terms of the plenary and keynote talks and the tutorials, as well as individual conference presentations.

June 4, 2010

Professor Nagurney's Tutorial, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain Age, at the ALIO-INFORMS Conference in Buenos Aires was posted in visuals.

June 2, 2010

Next week, at the ALIO-INFORMS Conference in Buenos Aires, Professor Anna Nagurney will be on a panel sponsored by WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences) on International Collaborations. The panel was organized by Professor Sadan Kulturel of Penn State University at Berks. Information on the panelists can be found here. Professor Nagurney's panel presentation is here.

June 1, 2010

The Summer 2010 edition of the Supernetwork Sentinel is now online.

May 30, 2010

Photos from the Workshop on Social Science and Social Computing: Steps to Integration in Honolulu, Hawaii and from the UMass Amherst Commencement were added to the site.

May 27, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney and Professor Ladimer Nagurney will presenting, Sustainable Supply Chain Network Design: A Multicriteria Perspective, at ALIO-INFORMS 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010.

May 25, 2010

The Conferences page was updated to include several exciting conferences.

May 18, 2010

Professor Nagurney will be presenting, Network Design - From the Physical World to Virtual Worlds at the Workshop on Social Science and Social Computing: Steps to Integration in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 22-23, 2010.

May 17, 2010

We are pleased to announce that Professor Dmytro Matsypura (UMass PhD '06) of University of Sydney, Australia has become a Faculty Center Associate.

May 14, 2010

The publication of the paper, Environmental Impact Assessment of Transportation Networks with Degradable Links in an Era of Climate Change by Professors Anna Nagurney, Qiang Qiang, and Ladimer S. Nagurney, was reported in University of Hartford UNotes.

May 13, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney's presentation, Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing, based on the paper of the same title, co-authored with Min Yu and Professor Patrick Qiang, which has been accepted for publication in the journal, Papers in Regional Science, was delivered at the NetSci 2010 conference, which took place May 12-14, at the Media Lab at MIT.

We have also updated Photos of Center Activities.

May 11, 2010

We bid farewell to Professor Dmytro Matsypura (UMass PhD '06) who has completed his sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at the Center and is returning to the University of Sydney, Australia.

May 5, 2010

The paper, Sustainable Supply Chain Network Design: A Multicriteria Perspective, by Professors Anna Nagurney and Ladimer S. Nagurney, has been accepted by the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering.

May 1, 2010

Library Journal reports that Fragile Networks by Professors Nagurney and Qiang is the 20th best selling book in Engineering and Technology. The book was also reviewed in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory Library Newsletter.

April 28, 2010

We are delighted to announce that the paper, Multi-product Supply Chain Horizontal Network Integration: Models, Theory, and Computational Results, by Anna Nagurney, Trisha Woolley, and Qiang Qiang, appears in the International Transactions in Operational Research (2010): 17, 333-349.

April 26, 2010

The World Science Festival has posted a video clip of the session, !@#$% Traffic: From Insects to Interstates, featuring Professor Nagurney.

April 24, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney thanks Professor Dimitris Bertsimas of the Sloan School at MIT for the wonderful, stimulating lecture that he delivered yesterday on "Advances in Multistage Optimization" in the Spring 2010 UMass Amherst Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science. It was an honor to be able to host Professor Bertsimas. Some photos from his visit have now been posted.

April 20, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney's paper, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain Age, joint with Professor Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, which is an invited paper for the journal, International Transactions in Operational Research, and based on her invited tutorial for the ALIO-INFORMS International Meeting, has now been posted. This paper was motivated by the authors' recent research on the topic, as well as by their recent book. It provides a high level synthesis of research on network vulnerability and robustness, as well as synergy associated with network integration.

April 10, 2010

Professor Nagurney was pleased to welcome back to campus Ms. Christina Calvaneso '03, Manager - Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting LLP, New York City, who returned today to participate in a panel, Looking Forward: Views of our Graduates on Career Preparation, at the Isenberg School of Management Open House. Christina was a 2002-2003 Undergraduate Center Associate and recipient of a 21st Century Leader Award at the May 2003 Commencement. A photo of her visit has been posted. There are photos of her commencement and activities with the center on the 2000-2005 Center Photos Page.

April 9, 2010

Publication information of articles on the Downloadable Articles page has been updated.

April 3, 2010

Professor Nagurney would like to thank Professor Sheldon Jacobson for an inspiring seminar yesterday. She would also like to thank the INFORMS SPEAKER PROGRAM for sponsoring his trip to the UMass Campus. Photos from his seminar, as well as, from Professor Matsypura's seminar, and from SBP10 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were added to Center Photos.

April 1, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney would like to thank the organizers of the 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10), which took place this past week at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, MD. The conference was excellent! Center Associate Dr. Patrick Qiang and Professor Anna Nagurney gave a pre-conference tutorial, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vunerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World, on Monday, March 29, 2010, also at NIH. Slides for the tutorial, which was organized into three distinct modules, as well as the slides based on the paper, A Knowledge Collaboration Network Model Across Disciplines, also by Nagurney and Qiang, are available on Visuals. The paper appears in the conference proceedings, Advances in Social Computing, published by Springer.

March 28, 2010

AOL News has an article on the recently released AAUW report on the status of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. The AOL News article by Dana Chivvis cites Professor Anna Nagurney's post on her RENeW blog on this subject.

March 26, 2010

We would like to thank Professor Dmytro Matsypura for an outstanding presentation today in the INFORMS Seminar Series.

March 25, 2010

Tomorrow, the INFORMS Seminar Series will be featuring Professor Dmytro Matsypura (UMass PhD '06) of the University of Sydney, Australia, who will be speaking on Combinatorial Analysis of Option Spreads.

March 20, 2010

Professors Anna Nagurney and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang will be presenting a pre-conference tutorial, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vunerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World, on Monday, March 29, 2010 prior to the 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. Slides for the tutorial are available on Visuals.

March 14, 2010

A photo of Professor Jose Cruz's visit on March 11, 2010 has been added to the Center Photos.

March 13, 2010

We are pleased to report that Professor Jose M. Cruz (UMass PhD '04) has received the Undergraduate Teaching Award from the School of Business at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. In addition to his doctorate, Professor Cruz holds 4 additional degrees from UMass Amherst. Professor Nagurney was his doctoral dissertation advisor.

March 12, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney and the Center Associates welcome Professor Dmytro Matsypura (UMass PhD '06) who will be visiting the center while on sabbatical from the University of Sydney, Australia. Professor Matsypura will be speaking in the INFORMS Speaker Series on March 26th. We congratulate him on receiving tenure!

March 6, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney thanks Mr. Richard Brooks of ISO - New England for an outstanding presentation on the Smart Grid yesterday as part of the INFORMS Speaker Series. Her comments on his presentation, which attracted a standing room only audience, can be found on her blog, RENeW.

March 2, 2010

The 21st POMS Conference: Operations in Emerging Economies will occur in Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7-10, 2010.

February 24, 2010

The February 2010 Issue of ORMS Today includes several photos of Professor Anna Nagurney presenting the Student Chapter and WORMS awards at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, a photo of Professor Patrick Qiang receiving the Judith Liebman Award, and an announcement of his Wootan Award. Link to extracted pages - Link to the Complete Issue.

February 20, 2010

Center Associate Professor Ding Zhang (UMass PhD'95) was interviewed for SUNY Oswego Campus Update Spotlight.

February 16, 2010

Center Associate Dr. Patrick Qiang (UMass PhD'09) has been featured on the UMass Cybersecurity Research and Education site. The conferences page has been updated.

February 13, 2010

The Council of University Transportation Centers has now updated the full list of award recipients who received their awards on January 9, 2010 in Washington DC. Center Associate Dr. Patrick Qiang (UMass PhD'09) received the Charles V. Wootan award for the best dissertation in transportation planning and policy at this ceremony. Professor Anna Nagurney was the chair of his doctoral dissertation committee.

February 10, 2010

Professor Nagurney and the Virtual Center for Supernetworks are listed on two new UMass websites, Cybersecurity Research and Education and International Research.

February 9, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney's article, Supply Chain Network Design Under Profit Maximization and Oligopolistic Competition, has been published as the lead article in the (2010) volume 46, issue 3, of the journal Transportation Research E.

February 6, 2010

Photos from the Beckmann Symposium at the Northwestern University Transportation Center have been posted.

February 4, 2010

Professor Patrick Qiang, Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Penn State Great Valley School of Business and Center Associate, will present a Research Showcase, Identification of Vulnerabilities in Fragile Networks, on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at noon, in the Main Building of the PSU Great Valley Campus. For details, see the flyer.

January 30, 2010

Professor Anna Nagurney extends her sincerest appreciation to Professor Hani S. Mahmassani, the Director of the Transportation Center at Northwestern University, and to Professor David E. Boyce, for organizing the Symposium on Transportation Network Design and Economics in honor of the visit of Professor Martin Beckmann to Northwestern. Professor Nagurney's opening lecture at the symposium can be downloaded.

January 26, 2010

We are delighted to announce that Professor Dmytro Matsypura (UMass PhD '06) from the University of Sydney, Australia, will be speaking in the INFORMS Seminar Series on March 26, 2010. His presentation is entitled, Combinatorial Analysis of Option Spreads. While visiting UMass, as part of his sabbatical, he will be a Visiting Scholar at the Isenberg School of Management. We also congratulate Professor Matsypura on being awarded tenure and on the approval of his sabbatical!

January 22, 2010

Welcome to the Spring 2010 Semester! We have many exciting upcoming events this term. Please check this site regularly for news items!

January 15, 2010

The Spring 2010 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science has been featured on the Isenberg School of Management Website and in a UMass News Release.

January 14, 2010

The Center Director Anna Nagurney extends her deepest condolences to all those so severely affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti. She has written several posts regarding this natural disaster and issues surrounding humanitarian logistics on her RENeW blog.

January 10, 2010

Photos from the CUTC Awards Banquet have been posted.

January 8, 2010

Center Associate, Dr. Patrick Qiang (UMass PhD '09), will be receiving the Charles V. Wootan award at the CUTC (Council of University Transportation Centers) awards banquet, Saturday evening, January 9, 2010, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The Wootan Award is given for the best doctoral dissertation, based on a national competition, in the transportation planning and policy category. Dr. Qiang received the award for his dissertation, Network Efficiency / Performance Measurement with Vulnerability and Robustness Analysis with Application to Critical Infrastructure. For more information on CUTC and its awards, see its website.

On Friday January 29, 2010, the Northwestern University Transportation Center will be sponsoring a Symposium on Transportation Network Design and Economics. Professor Nagurney will be one of the opening speakers presenting, Supply Chain Network Design Under Profit Maximization and Oligopolistic Competition. The symposium program is now online.

January 3, 2010

Happy New Year to all!! The Friends of the Center page has been updated. Professor Nagurney was mentioned in several articles in the recent RSAI Newsletter which is now linked to Media.

December 30, 2009

Center Associate Professor Ding Zhang of SUNY Oswego was awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarly Activity at a convocation on December 19, 2009. The INFORMS Student Chapter held their End-of-Fall-Semester Party on December 11, 2009. Photos from these two events have now been posted.

December 28, 2009

The Winter 2010 edition of The Supernetwork Sentinel is now online.

December 26, 2009

The publication information on several articles has been updated on the Downloadable Articles page and the Conferences page has been updated.

December 22, 2009

The achievements and accomplishments of the Center Associates during the past year have been noted in Congratulations and Kudos.

December 20, 2009

News articles of Dr. Patrick Qiang's receipt of the Charles V. Wootan Award were added to Media Coverage.

December 18, 2009

We are delighted to announce the Spring 2010 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science! We are very much looking forward to hosting these wonderful speakers.

December 13, 2009

Student team project presentations from Professor Anna Nagurney's FOMgT 341 course on Transportation & Logistics have been posted.

December 9, 2009

Dr. Patrick Qiang, Center Associate, May 2009 PhD graduate of UMass and advisee of Professor Anna Nagurney, is the recipient of the Charles V. Wootan Award for his doctoral dissertation, Network Efficiency / Performance Measurement with Vulnerability and Robustness Analysis with Application to Critical Infrastructure. This award is for the best dissertation in transportation planning and policy in the US and is sponsored by the Council of University Transportation Centers, a consortium of over 70 leading research and education programs in transportation. He will be presented with the award at a banquet in Washington DC in January. Congratulations, Dr. Qiang!

December 4, 2009

We would like to thank Professor Brian Levine of the Computer Science Department at UMass Amherst for his truly fascinating lecture on cyber forensics today which he gave in the Fall 2009 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science. With his lecture we conclude our Fall 2009 Series. We thank all the speakers who took the time out of their very busy schedules to speak at the Isenberg School of Management. We are indebted to you all.

The Spring 2010 Speaker Series lineup will be announced soon. All speakers are confirmed.

November 28, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Professor Brian Levine of the UMass Computer Science Department will be delivering the final lecture in the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science for Fall 2009. His topic will be Forensic Investigation of the Internet and Mobile Systems. For the full announcement, see Professor Nagurney's blog, RENEW.

November 21, 2009

We thank Professor Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Siena for his brilliant lecture yesterday in our Speaker Series to a standing room only audience. He spoke on his recent co-authored paper in Science on the dynamics of wealth and inequality.

Professor Nagurney was interviewed by Barry List of INFORMS for a podcast, Supernetworks: Building Better Real and Virtual Highways, in the podcast series Science of Better produced by INFORMS.

November 12, 2009

The Downloadable Articles page was updated to reflect new publication information on some of the articles.

November 8, 2009

Professor Nagurney's Letter-to-the-Editor, When a critical link is lost, on the closing of the Crown Point Bridge over Lake Champlain was published in today's Boston Globe.

November 6, 2009

The Center Director Anna Nagurney, the Faculty Advisor to the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter, would like to thank Professor Richard Palmer, the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Amherst, for his outstanding talk today in our Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science. Photos from Professor Palmer's presentation and visit can be found here.

November 4, 2009

Information on the I3P Consortium meeting at UMass Amherst was posted by the Computer Science Department.

November 1, 2009

The Nagurney-Qiang Measure for network efficiency and the identification of link importance and ranking was used for the evaluation of the proposed North Dublin (Ireland) Metro as reported in the October 2009 Issue of ERCIM News.

October 30, 2009

The Visuals page was updated to include Professor Nagurney's I3P Consortium presentation and Professor Holquin-Veras' presentation.

October 25, 2009

The Center Photos and Downloadable Articles pages have been updated.

October 24, 2009

The Center Director Professor Anna Nagurney thanks Professor Jose Holquin-Veras of RPI for his outstanding presentation on Emergency Logistics and Hurricane Katrina that he delivered yesterday in the Fall 2009 UMass Amherst INFORMS Speaker Series.

Prior to his presentation, the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter held a reception at the Isenberg School to celebrate its Summa Cum Laude award that it received on October 13, 2009 at the INFORMS Conference in San Diego.

October 16, 2009

A video, "Why UMass Amherst?," was prepared for the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees. It includes scenes of Professor Anna Nagurney teaching her FOMGT 341 class -- Transportation & Logistics.

October 15, 2009

The INFORMS conference in San Diego was a big success. For a roundup of some of the events, along with some photos, please see Professor Anna Nagurney's blog.

October 11, 2009

The Center Director and many of the Center Associates will be attending the INFORMS National Meeting, October 11-14, 2009 in San Diego.

October 9, 2009

Dr. Mary Helander of IBM, who spoke in the INFORMS Operations Research/Management Science Seminar Series on Spetember 18, 2009, has given us a copy of her slides on food safety in a global supply chain. We thank her for sharing them with us.

October 3, 2009

Professor Andrew Lo of MIT delivered an inspiring seminar yesterday. Photos of the event.

October 2, 2009

It will be a pleasure to welcome Professor Andrew Lo of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, who will be speaking in a joint Operations Research/Management Science and Finance Seminar this morning at 11AM at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst.

September 26, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter has been awarded the 2009 Summa Cum Laude Award by INFORMS. In addition, Center Associate Professor Qiang (Patrick) Qiang PhD'09 has been awarded the Judith Liebman Award by INFORMS. News releases on these awards have been added to the site. Photos from yesterday's visit of Professors Giulia Rotundo and Anna Maria D'Arcangelis have also been added.

September 25, 2009

The Center Director and Student Associates will be hosting Professors Giulia Rotundo and Anna Maria D'Arcangelis, who are from Italy, today. We are delighted that they will be at UMass Amherst.

September 18, 2009

We thank Dr. Mary Helander of IBM for her excellent presentation today on food safety in a global supply chain. Photos of the event.

September 16, 2009

The Fall 2009 edition of The Supernetwork Sentinel is now online.

September 13, 2009

The presentation by Dr. Trisha Woolley for her Doctoral Dissertation defense was added to this site.

September 11, 2009

Congratulations to Center Associate Dr. Trisha Woolley who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation, Sustainable Supply Chains: Multicriteria Decision-Making and Policy Analysis for the Environment, today.

September 6, 2009

As the academic year begins, the Center Director and Associates welcome everyone back to campus. The IEEE Inside Signal Processing E-Newsletter included a New Book announcement for the book, Fragile Networks.

September 2, 2009

The Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Center Associate Trisha Woolley will be on September 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

August 28, 2009

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Handbook of Computational Econometrics, edited by David Belsley and Erricos Kontoghiorghes, by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK (2009). Professor Nagurney's article, Network Economics, appears as Chapter 11 in the volume. Photos from ISMP 2009 are now on the site.

August 26, 2009

We would like to thank Professor John Birge and the entire organizing committee of the 20th International Symposium in Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in Chicago for a wonderful conference. Center Associates Professors Zugang Liu and Patrick Qiang, and Center Director, Professor Anna Nagurney, very much enjoyed the conference and presenting in the invited session on Game Theory and Variational Inequalities that Professor Nagurney organized.

August 21, 2009

The visuals for an Invited Session on Game Theory and Variational Inequalities, organized by Professor Anna Nagurney, at the International Symposium on Mathematial Programmimg have been added to this site.

August 19, 2009

The UMass Office of News and Media Relations has issued a News Release on the Fall 2009 UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series.

August 17, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney's course lectures on Portfolio Optimization given at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and on Network Economics given at the World Bank were added to Courses.

August 14, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Center Associate Trisha Woolley will be defending her Doctoral Dissertation, Sustainable Supply Chains: Multicriteria Decision-Making and Policy Analysis for the Environment, on September 11, 2009 in the Isenberg School of Management.

August 8, 2009

Professor Nagurney's participation in the World Science Festival and the book, Fragile Networks, were reported in the August 2009 issue of ORMS Today.

August 3, 2009

The Humanitarian Logistics website has been updated to include 2 new books, Fragile Networks and Humanitarian Logistics.

July 31, 2009

Links to several conferences, including this fall's INFORMS Annual Meeting and the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, have been added to the Conferences page.

July 30, 2009

A release with more details of the Fall 2009 UMASS Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series has been issued.

July 29, 2009

The Fall 2009 UMASS Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series has been announced.

July 27, 2009

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has issued a news release on the book Fragile Networks.

July 20, 2009

An article on the book, Fragile Networks, appears in In the Loop.

July 12, 2009

Today, the Center Director and Doctoral Student Associates bid farewell to Dr. Qiang "Patrick" Qiang and his family as they depart for Patrick's new position as an Assistant Professor at Penn State University Great Valley Campus. Photos of the farewell and from EURO XXIII have been posted.

July 10, 2009

The Isenberg School of Management has issued a release on the book Fragile Networks.

July 4, 2009

Research and Markets has issued a release on the book by Nagurney and Qiang, Fragile Networks. The release has been reprinted on a number of sites including Forbes and Fox Business. We have linked to a number of them.

July 3, 2009

The Summer 2009 issue of the Isenberg School of Management's magazine, The Commonwealth, has been published. The issue includes articles on Professor Nagurney and Dr. Zugang Liu's study of electric power supply chains in New England and Professor Pentland's Honest Signals lecture. Links to the complete issue as well as to these articles have been added to Media Coverage.

June 28, 2009

Professor Nagurney's Letter to the Editor, Our roads, infrastructure are an embarrassment, was published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on June 25, 2009. Her participation in the World Science Festival was noted in the Brown Insider.

June 26, 2009

The Summer 2009 edition of The Supernetwork Sentinel is now online.

June 21, 2009

We welcome Professor Lan Zhao of the Department of Mathematics/Computer & Information Science as a Faculty Center Associate! Professor Zhao joins us from the State University of New York at Old Westbury. The Center Associates pages have been updated.

June 17, 2009

Both Discover magazine and Nature magazine blogs have coverage of the Traffic panel (with Drs. Couzin, Joachim, Nagurney, and Robert Krulwich of ABC and NPR) at the World Science Festival.

June 16, 2009

We have added photos from the World Science Festival to both Center Photos and Photos of Network Innovators.

June 14, 2009

Links to the interview with Professors Anna Nagurney and Iain Couzin on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC as part of the World Science Festival have been added to Media and to Audio and Videos.

June 10, 2009

Tomorrow, Professor Nagurney is scheduled to be interviewed on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC between 11:25 and 11:40 AM (Eastern Time). The program will be streamed online on http://www.wnyc.org. More information can be found on Professor Nagurney's blog, RENEW.

June 7, 2009

The Ukrainian Weekly has an article on Professor Nagurney and the World Science Festival.

June 3, 2009

Professor Nagurney will be participating in an event entitled, !@#$% Traffic: From Insects to Interstates, at the World Science Festival on Friday, June 12, 2009. The Isenberg School of Management at UMass has issued a news release on her participation in the Festival.

June 1, 2009

Having returned from NET 2009: Evolution and Complexity in Rome, Italy, I have posted some photos. Additional photos will be posted soon.

May 27, 2009

The Table of Contents and an extended description of Anna Nagurney and Qiang Patrick Qiang's new book, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World, are now available on this site.

May 24, 2009

We congratulate Dr. Patrick Qiang on his receipt of his PhD on May 22, 2009 at the UMass Amherst Graduate Commencement. We also salute the Isenberg School of Management Senior Leaders and the entire class of 2009! We wish all the graduates much happiness and success.

Photos taken on May 22, 2009 are now posted.

May 22, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney will be a plenary speaker at the NET 2009 Conference in Rome, Italy next week. Her presentation is To Merge or Not to Merge: Multimarket Supply Chain Network Oligopolies, Coalitions, and the Merger Paradox.

May 17, 2009

The 2009 UMass Amherst Commencement will be taking place later this week. We are delighted that Center Associate Patrick Qiang will be receiving his PhD this coming Friday at the Graduate Commencement at the Mullins Center. We congratulate Dr. Qiang on this terrific achievement!

May 9, 2009

We would like to thank Professor Robert Pollin for the outstanding lecture on the green economy that he gave yesterday. With his lecture we concluded the Spring 2009 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science at UMass Amherst. We thank all the speakers this past year who contributed so much to the intellectual life of the Isenberg School of Management and UMass Amherst. To celebrate the end of the semester and year the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter will be hosting a party next Wednesday from 5:30-7:30PM in ISOM Room 112. More information can be found on the chapter website. During the party we will be thanking the chapter officers and the faculty, administrators, and staff who have supported us throughout this year.

May 6, 2009

We are delighted that the lineup of speakers for the 2009 World Science Festival to take place in New York City, June 10-14, 2009, is now online. Professor Anna Nagurney is honored to be a speaker at this most exciting venue!

Also, the media page has been updated.

May 3, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Center Associate Professor Ding Zhang of SUNY Oswego has received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Congratulations to Professor Zhang!!

May 1, 2009

Photos from Professor Nagurney's Kleber-Gery Lecture at St. Olaf College have been posted. Once again, she thanks her Academic Brother, Professor Steve McKelvey, for inviting her and hosting her at St. Olaf.

April 26, 2009

We would like to thank Dr. Hillel Bar-Gera for the very interesting presentation that he gave last Friday in our Speaker Series.

April 22, 2009

We are pleased to report that the paper by Professor Anna Nagurney, Formulation and Analysis of Horizontal Mergers Among Oligopolistic Firms with Insights into the Merger Paradox: A Supply Chain Network Perspective, will be published in Computational Management Science.

April 19, 2009

Photos from Professor Nagurney's Seminar at Cornell on April 1, 2009 have been added to the site. She thanks Professor Kieran Donaghy for hosting her.

April 14, 2009

We are pleased to report that Anna Nagurney, Trisha Woolley, and Qiang Qiang's article, Multiproduct Supply Chain Horizontal Network Integration: Models, Theory, and Computational Results will be published in the International Transactions in Operational Research.

On Thursday, April 16, 2009, Professor Nagurney will be at St. Olaf Colege in Northfield, MN where she will deliver the Kleber-Gery Lecture.

April 10, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the final copy of Professor Anna Nagurney and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang's book, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World, has been sent to the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, and will be available this summer.

April 5, 2009

We are delighted that the paper by Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney, An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England, has been accepted for publication in the journal Naval Research Logistics and is available in Downloadable Articles.

April 4, 2009

We would like to thank Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland of MIT for the truly exceptional presentation that he gave yesterday in the Spring 2009 UMass Amherst Speaker Series in Operations Research/Management Science. Dr. Pentland is the author of the book, Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.

Photos taken during the talk of Professor June Dong and Patrick Qiang's doctoral dissertation defense have now been posted.

March 31, 2009

We thank Professor June Dong for the outstanding talk on supply chain disruptions that she gave last Friday in the UMass Amherst INFORMS Speaker Series! We are delighted to announce that Dr. Alex Pentland of the Media Lab at MIT will be speaking this Friday, April 3 in our series. Here is a link to the press release.

On Wednesday, April 1, 2009, Professor Nagurney will be visiting Cornell University to deliver a Seminar in Regional Science, Planning, and Policy Analysis.

March 27, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney, Center Director, and the Center Associates are pleased to congratulate Dr. Qiang "Patrick" Qiang on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, Network Efficiency/Performance Measurement with Vulnerability and Robustness Analysis with Application to Critical Infrastructure.

March 18, 2009

The Downloadable Articles Page has been updated to include new articles.

March 16, 2009

Photos from Vienna, Austria and Professor Anna Nagurney's lecture at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration have now been posted. Also, a Letter to the Editor written by Professor Nagurney and published in the Chronicle of Higher Education is now available.

March 14, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney would like to thank Professor Manfred Fischer and his assistant, Mr. Thomas Seyffertitz, for their outstanding hospitality in hosting her visit and lecture at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration that took place March 10, 2009. Her lecture is posted.

March 12, 2009

We would like to thank Professor Hari Balasubramanian for his lecture last Friday on healthcare and operations research, which generated much animated discussion. Some photos from the lecture and lunch that followed have been posted on the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter site.

March 3, 2009

Professor Hari Balasubramanian will be giving the second talk in the Spring 2009 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science this coming Friday, March 6, 2009, at 11AM in ISOM Room 112. His topic on healthcare and operations research could not be more timely.

This series is open to the public. We hope that you join us, if you can.

February 28, 2009

Professor Nagurney will be a Plenary Speaker at Net 2009: Evolution and Complexity to be held in Rome, Italy, May 28-30, 2009.

February 25, 2009

The Downloadable Articles and Media Pages have been updated to include new articles as well as references in the media to the Center, its Associates, and activities.

February 22, 2009

We would like to express our appreciation to Professor Ellis Johnson of the Georgia Institute of Technology for the exceptional lecture that he delivered on February 20, 2009, to inaugurate our 2009 Spring UMass Amherst INFORMS Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science. We also thank him for sharing with us his incredible professional experiences during the lunch and social activities that followed. Some photos from his visit have now been posted.

February 18, 2009

We are honored and delighted that Professor Ellis Johnson of Georgia Tech in Atlanta will be opening up our Spring 2009 INFORMS Speaker Series this coming Friday. He will be speaking on airline challenges and operations research at 11AM in Room ISOM 112. Professor Johnson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has won all the major prizes in the field of operations research, including the Lanchester Prize.

February 11, 2009

The slides for Professor Nagurney's presentation to the Dallas/Ft. Worth INFORMS Chapter have been posted in Visuals.

February 7, 2009

On Thursday, February 12, 2009, Professor Nagurney will be speaking at the Dallas/Ft. Worth INFORMS Chapter Meeting to be held at SMU. Details.

February 3, 2009

The University of Massachusetts has issued a Press Release on the Spring 2009 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science.

January 27, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney has started a blog RENeW: A Female Professor Speaks in order to disseminate more commentary and information regarding research, education, networks, and the world today.

January 22, 2009

The Winter 2009 Issue of the Isenberg School Magazine, The Commonwealth, includes articles on the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, Jack Smith's Visit to the Isenberg School, and Tom Vanderbilt's Lecture.

January 20, 2009

The full text of the Detours by Design is now available on the Scientific American website.

January 19, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney's Letter to the Editor, How to Make Science Class Interesting: Experiment, was published in today's New York Times.

January 16, 2009

Professor Anna Nagurney was quoted in an article, Detours by Design, by Linda Baker, in the February 2009 issue of Scientific American. In the article, the Braess paradox and the price of anarchy are discussed along with the example of the inverse of the Braess paradox that occurred recently in Seoul, Korea. Link to the online abstract.

January 9, 2009

We are delighted to announce that the complete lineup for the Spring 2009 Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science is now available and online. The talks take place on scheduled Fridays in Room 112 in the Isenberg School of Management from 11AM until noon. The speaker series is organized by the award-winning UMass Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS. This semester we will have talks ranging from supply chain disruptions to sensors, human movements, and organizations; the solution of large-scale transportation problems, and the green economy.

January 2, 2009

Happy New Year! With the beginning of the new year, we have updated many of the pages on the site including About the Director, Conferences, and Downloadable Articles. We thank everyone for their support.

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