Current What's New

December 18, 2005 - Photos from Professor Knodler's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

December 16, 2005 - Professor Nagurney is featured in the Member Profile in the INFORMS Computing Society Newsletter. See Media Coverage.

December 14, 2005 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's presentation, The Evolution and Integration of Social and Financial Networks, at the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University on December 12, 2005 were added to Visuals.  Additional items on the Colloquium were added to Media Coverage.

December 10, 2005 - Photos from Dmytro Matsypura's Dissertation Proposal Defense were added to Center Photos. Announcements of Professor Nagurney's presentations: The Evolution and Integration of Social and Financial Networks at the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University on December 12, 2005 and Dynamic Networks with Applications, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University on November 9, 2005, were added to Media Coverage.

December 2, 2005 - Photos from Professor Gibson's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

November 28, 2005 - Links to the translation of the Braess Paradox paper and the accompanying preface were added to Downloadable Articles. An article on the translation from the Sunday Republican was added to Media Coverage.

November 27, 2005 - Links to the 5th Annual Florida Supply Chain And Logistics Engineering Conference,  the 12th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, the Third AIX EN PROVENCE Complexity Workshop Complex Behavior in Economics: Modeling, Computing, and Mastering Complexity: (COMPLEXITY2006), and  to Applied Optimization and Metaheuristic Innovations: International Conference in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Academician I.V. Sergienko  were added to Conferences. The UMass INFORMS Student Chapter was added to the menu and to the Sitemap.

November 25, 2005 - Photos from Thanksgiving Day at Professor Nagurney's home were added to Center Photos.

November 23, 2005 - Slides from Professor Cojocaru's and Center Doctoral Associate Tina Wakolbinger and Professor Nagurney's presentations at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California on November 13-16, 2005 were added to Visuals.  Photos from the INFORMS meeting were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

November 19, 2005 - The 50th Anniversary of the book, Studies in the Economics of Transportation, by Beckmann, McGuire, and Winsten was celebrated at the INFORMS National Meeting in San Francisco, California on November 14, 2005. For the presentations and photos see Network Classics.

November 18, 2005 - Professor Nagurney was awarded a Moving Spirit Award by INFORMS on November 15, 2005  at the National Meeting in San Francisco, California for her work as Faculty Advisor to the UMass-Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. For details see Media Coverage and Center Photos. Photos from Professor Ganz's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

November 16, 2005 - Professors Braess and Nagurney and Tina Wakolbinger have translated the Braess (1968) paper with the Paradox and it appears in the November 2005 issue of Transportation Science with a preface by Professors Boyce and Nagurney. Article on the translation was added to Media Coverage.

November 11, 2005 - Photos from Professor Nagurney's Fellowship Seminar,  Dynamic Networks with Applications, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University on November 9, 2005 were added to Center Photos.

November 9, 2005 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's Fellowship Seminar,  Dynamic Networks with Applications, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University  on November 9, 2005 were added to Visuals.

November 6, 2005 - Photos from Professor Nair's Seminar were added to Center Photos. The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

November 2, 2005 - Photos from Professor Reckhow's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

October 26, 2005 - Links to articles in the Loop and on the Isenberg School of Management Website on Professor Anna Nagurney's and Jose M Cruz's paper, International financial networks with intermediation: modeling, analysis, and computations, that has been awarded the best paper prize for 2004 by the journal, Computational Management Science, were added to Media Coverage.

October 23, 2005 - Links to the articles, Applications of Double Layered Dynamics Theory to Human Migration Problems by Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, Anna Nagurney, and Patrizia Daniele and Static and Dynamic Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulations of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks with Known Demands by Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, and Patrizia Daniele,   were added to Downloadable Articles.  Slides from the presentation to the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter, Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Transformation, by K. Wu, Professor A. Nagurney, Z. Liu on October 21, 2005 was added to Visuals.

October 19, 2005 - Photos of Professor Nagurney in her Putnam House office at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were added to Center Photos.

October 14, 2005 - Photos from Professor Fang's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

October 9, 2005 - A page of audios and videos of center activities and presentations was added to this site as audio-video.

October 8, 2005 - A link to the Radcliffe Institute Webpage on Professor Nagurney's fellowship was added to Media Coverage. Photos from Radcliffe were added to Center Photos. An abstract of the Radcliffe project was added to Projects.

October 2, 2005  - The Fall 2005 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

October 1, 2005 - Photos from Professor Muriel's Seminar were added to Center Photos. Links to The 3rd International Conference on Computational Management Science, the Manufacturing and Service Operations Conference, MSOM 2006, the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, MTNS 2006, and  the 11th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research were added to Conferences.
 
September 30, 2005 - The poster presentation by Professor Anna Nagurney at the National Academy of Sciences Statistics on Networks Workshop, September 26-27, 2005 was added to Visuals.  Photos from the workshop were added to Center Photos.

September 24, 2005 - Links to the articles, A Network Equilibrium Framework for Internet Advertising: Models, Qualitative Analysis, and Algorithms by Lan Zhao and Anna Nagurney and Global Supply Chain Networks and Risk Management: A Multi-Agent Framework by Anna Nagurney, Jose M. Cruz, and June Dong, were added to Downloadable Articles.

September 21, 2005 - A link to the article, Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Transformation,
by Kai Wu, Anna Nagurney, and Zugang Liu was added to Downloadable Articles.

September 17, 2005 - On September 16, 2005, the Fall 2005 UMass Faculty Convocation was held. Professor Nagurney was one of 12 UMass Faculty Members honored for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity. For photos and related articles see Center Photos and Media Coverage. Additional photos can be found at Convocation2005.

September 10, 2005 - A link to the article, The Dynamics of Viral Marketing, by Jurij Leskovec, Lada A. Adamic, and Bernardo A. Huberman, was added to Downloadable Articles.

September 5, 2005 - The announcement of the University of Massachusetts Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity to be awarded to Professor Anna Nagurney at the September 16, 2005 University Convocation was added to Media Coverage.

September 3, 2005 - Photos from the luncheon welcoming new Doctoral Center Associate and ISOM Ph.D. student, Trisha Woolley, were added to Center Photos.

September 2, 2005 - A link to the article, Knowledge Collaboration Networks: Optimal Collaboration Across Disciplines and Communication Distance, by Qiang Qiang and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles. See updates to the Conferences page.

August 29, 2005 - Welcome back for the 2005-2006 Academic Year!!! The Center welcomes new Doctoral Associate Trisha Woolley. See the Center Associates page for more information.

August 18, 2005 - The abstract of the Doctoral Dissertation of Fuminori Toyasaki was added to Dissertations.  The Center Associates page was updated.

August 12, 2005 - A link to the Fall 2005 Seminar Series in Operations Research - Management Science was added. This seminar series is organized by the UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter with support provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of Finance and Operations Management, INFORMS, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund. The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

August 5, 2005 - A link to the article, Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulations of Electric Power Networks with Computations, by Anna Nagurney and Zugang Liu was added to Downloadable Articles.

August 2, 2005 - Photos from the Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Fuminori Toyasaki were added to Center Photos.

July 31, 2005 - Photos from Professor Nagurney's ab-initio visit to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were added to Center Photos.  Professor Nagurney's presentation at Mesh Forum 2005 is available at IT Conversations.

July 23, 2005 - An announcement of Professor Nagurney's Radcliffe Institute Fellowship in the Ukrainian Weekly was added to Media Coverage.

July 20, 2005 - A photo from INFORMS Hawaii was added to Center Photos.

July 15, 2005 - Links to the 52nd Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International and the Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2005, were added to Conferences. A link NASH_EQUILIBRIUM.com was added to Related Sites.

July 12, 2005 - A link to the article, Financial Networks with Intermediation and Transportation Network Equilibria: A Supernetwork Equivalence and Reinterpretation of the Equilibrium Conditions
with Computations, by Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles.

July 6, 2005 - An announcement of Professor Nagurney's Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, for Academic Year 2005-2006 in the Harvard University Gazette was added to Media Coverage.

July 5, 2005 - Slides from the presentation by Professors Zhao and Nagurney at the IFORS Confrence, Honolulu, HI, July 11-15, 2005 were added to Visuals.

June 29, 2005 - Professor Nagurney has been named a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University for Academic Year 2005-2006. Links to the Radcliffe Institute Press Release, the UMass Home Page Article, and The UMass Loop Article were added to Media Coverage.

June 27, 2005 - Photos from the 11th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance,  Washington, DC, June 23-25, 2005, were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

June 24, 2005 - A link to a memorial article on George Dantzig in OR/MS Today was added to Photos of Network Innovators.

June 15, 2005 - A link to the 16th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT16) was added to Conferences.  New photos were added to Photos of Network Innovators. Links to the presentations,  Environmental Issues Surrounding Logistics in Japan by Hayao Hora and
The Paradoxes of Green Logistics  by Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Brian Slack, and Claude Comtois, were added to Visuals. A link to the article, Green Logistics (The Paradoxes of), by Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Brian Slack,
and Claude Comtois was added to Downloadable Articles.

June 10, 2005 - Photos from the 2nd International Workshop for Optimization, Shangai, China, May 28-30, 2005, were added to Center Photos. Slides from a presentation by Professors Dong, Zhang, and Nagurney were added to Visuals.

June 4, 2005 - Photos from the Colloquy, On the Coming Transformation of Travel, organized by the Federal Hiqhway Administration, the New York State Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the US DOT Volpe National Transportation Center, June 1-3, 2005, Rensselaerville, NY were added to Center Photos.

May 29, 2005 - The Downloadable Articles and Media Coverage pages have been updated. A link to the presentation at the SIAM Conference on Optimization, The Projection Dynamic in Evolutionary Game Theory, by William H. Sandholm was added to Visuals.

May 23, 2005 - Congratulations to Center Associates, Dr. Ke Grace Ke, who received her PhD diploma, and to Zugang Leo Liu, who received his Master's degree, at the UMASS Amherst Graduate Commencement Ceremony on May 21, 2005!  Photos from the celebration can be found at Center Photos.

May 21, 2005 -  Photos from the SIAM Conference on Optimization, Stockholm, Sweden, May 15-19, 2005 were added to Center Photos.

May 20, 2005 - The Center Director is deeply sorry to report the passing of Professor George B. Dantzig of Stanford University on May 13, 2005. Professor Dantzig, the developer of the simplex method, was one of the founders of Operations Research. He was an intellectual giant, a true gentleman, and friend. His photo and a link to his obituary were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

May 16, 2005 -  Photos from the NSF Workshop at Penn State, the visit to the Center by Jack Ampuja, and the INFORMS Student Chapter End of the Year Party were added to Center Photos. Mr Ampuja's slides were added to Visuals. An article from the UMass Commencement Website on the awarding of the Leaders of the 21st Century Awards to 14 students, including Center Associate Maxfield Raynolds,  was added to Media Coverage.

May 13, 2005 - Slides from the presentations at the Mini-Symposium at the SIAM Conference on Optimization, Stockholm, Sweden, May 15-19, 2005 by Professors Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, Anna Nagurney, and Patrizia Daniele were added to Visuals.

May 7, 2005 - An article from the SUNY Oswego Website on the awarding of the President's Award for Research to Center Associate Professor Ding Zhang and an article on Professor Anna Nagurney from the CommonWealth were added to Media Coverage. Congratulations, also, to Professor Zhang on being promoted to Full Professor at SUNY Oswego!! Photos from MeshForum and the POMS Conference were added to Center Photos. Several new photos were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

May 2, 2005 - Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney's Keynote Presentation, NETWORKS: The Science That Spans Disciplines, at the MeshFourm, Chicago, IL, May 1-3, 2005 were added to Visuals. Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Glenn Wong of the Department of Sports Management, UMass - Amherst and of the 2005 Beta Gamma Sigma Initiation Ceremony were added to Center Photos. Congratulations to Center Associate Fuminori Toyasaki on being elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.

April 25, 2005 - Slides from Center Associate Tina Wakolbinger's presentation, Quantifying the Difficult to Quantify: Measuring the Value of Relationships in Decision-Making through Social Network Integration, at the first Vienna ASCINA Conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, April 27-29, 2005 were added to Visuals.

April 24, 2005 - Photos from the Mathematical Models for Optimizing Transportation Services Workshop, April 19-22, 2005 in Auckland, New Zealand were added to Center Photos.

April 23, 2005 - Congratulations to Professor Ding Zhang of SUNY Oswego for receiving The President's Award For Scholarly and Creative Activity and Research - 2004-2005.  A link to The 2005 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2005) was added to Conferences.

April 15, 2005 - Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney's presentation, On the Relationship Between Supply Chain and Transportation Network Equilibria: A Supernetwork Equivalence with Computations at the Mathematical Models for Optimizing Transportation Services Workshop, April 19-22, 2005 in Auckland, New Zealand were added to Visuals. Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Will Thomas of Harvard University were added to Center Photos.

April 9, 2005 - Professor Anna Nagurney will speak at the Mathematical Models for Optimizing Transportation Services Workshop, April 19-22, 2005 in Auckland, New Zealand;  see Media Coverage.
Links to the articles, On the Relationship Between Supply Chain and Transportation Network Equilibria: A Supernetwork Equivalence with Computations, by Anna Nagurney, and Dynamics of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks under Risk and Uncertainty, by Dmytro Matsypura and Anna Nagurney were added to Downloadable Articles.

April 6, 2005 - Professor Anna Nagurney will be a Keynote Speaker at MeshForum: Connecting Networks, Chicago, IL, May 1-4, 2005;  see Media Coverage. A photo of Professor Panos Pardalos, his students, and Dmytro Matsypura at the International Conference on Computational Management Science, Gainesville, FL has been added to Center Photos.

April 2, 2005 - Center Associate and UMass Doctoral Student Tina Wakolbinger has received an International Travel Grant to attend the ASCINA 2005 Conference in Vienna, Austria. For the announcement in In the Loop and on the Isenberg School Website, see Media Coverage.

March 30, 2005 - Slides from the presentation at the International Conference on Computational Management Science, Gainesville, FL, March 31 - April 3, 2005, Dynamics of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks under Risk and Uncertainty, by Dmytro Matsypura and Anna Nagurney were added to Visuals.

March 27, 2005 - Slides from Fuminori Toyasaki's Seminar, Design for Global Sustainability, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst INFORMS Seminar Series in Operations Research / Management Science on March 25, 2005 were added to Visuals.

March 19, 2005 -  Professor Nagurney presented the seminar, Supernetworks: Decision-Making in the 21st Century, at the Division of Engineering, Brown University. The presentation was added to Visuals. Photos were added to Center Photos.

March 12, 2005 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professors John Stranlund, Barry Field, and L. Joe Moffitt of the Department of Resource Economics were added to Center Photos.

March 9, 2005 - A description of the new project, Web-Based Tools for Computation and Visualization in Transportation and Logistics, was added to Projects. The Congratulations and Kudos! page was updated.

March 7, 2005 - Links to the MeshForum and its May 2005 Conference, Connecting Networks, were added to Related Sites and Conferences, respectively.

March 5, 2005 - Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations of Doctoral Student Associates were added to Dissertations.

February 27, 2005 -  Presentations from the Workshop on Traffic Assignment with Equilibrium Methods,  on January 9, 2005 by Professors David E. Boyce and Michael Florian were added to Visuals.

February 26, 2005 -  Professor Nagurney presented the seminar, Double-Layered Dynamics: A Unified Theory of Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities, at the Transportation Research Center at Northwestern University. The presentation was added to Visuals. Photos were added to Center Photos.

February 18, 2005 -  Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Catherine McGeogh of Amherst College were added to Center Photos.

February 11, 2005 - A link to the article, Double-layered dynamics: a unified theory of projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities, by Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, Patrizia Daniele, and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles. Photos from the INFORMS Student Chapter Lunar New Year / Valentine's Party were added to Center Photos.

February 9, 2005 - Links to the articles by Center Associate Professor Patrizia Daniele, Competitive Financial Equilibrium Problems with Policy Interventions, Time-Dependent Spatial Price Equilibrium Problem: Existence and Stability Results for the Quantity Formulation Model, Variational Inequalities and the Continuum Model of Transportation Problem , and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities and Economic Models for Demand Supply Markets, were added to Downloadable Articles.

February 4, 2005 -  Photos from the Visit to the Center and the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Center Associate Professor Jose M. Cruz of the University of Connecticut were added to Center Photos. For the announcement on the UMass Website and in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, see Media Coverage.

February 2, 2005 - A link to the presentations from the CREATE Terrorism Risk Analysis Symposium held January 14-15, 2005 at the Unversity of Southern California was added to Visuals.

January 31, 2005 -  The Letter to the Editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Enhancing Research Through E-Science, by Professor Nagurney that appears in the February 4, 2005 issue of the Chronicle was added to Commentaries, Letters, and OpEds.

January 29, 2005 -  Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Spring 2005 Inaugural Seminar by Professor Richard DeVeaux of Williams College were added to Center Photos.

January 23, 2005 - A link to the Spring 2005 Seminar Series in Operations Research - Management Science was added. This seminar series is organized by the UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter with support provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of Finance and Operations Management, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund. For the announcement in the Loop, see Media Coverage.

January 15, 2005 - Photos from Center Associate Fuminori Toyasaki's presentations at Kyoto Gakuen University and visits to Osaka University and the Industrial Research Center of Shiga Prefecture were added to Center Photos.

January 13, 2005 - A photo from the Transportation Research Board 2005 Annual Meeting was added to Center Photos.

January 12, 2005 - A link to the article, Financial Networks, by Anna Nagurney, an Invited Chapter Prepared for Handbook of Financial Engineering, C. Zopounidis, M. Doumpos, and P. M. Pardalos, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2005) was added to Downloadable Articles.

January 9, 2005 - Link to the articles, Supernetworks, by Anna Nagurney, an Invited Chapter for the Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications, P. M. Pardalos and M. G. C. Resende, Editors, Springer-Verlag (2005), and A Network Economic Model for Supply Chain versus Supply Chain Competition by Ding Zhang, were added to Downloadable Articles. Photos from the INFORMS Computing Society Meeting were added to Center Photos. Links to the Valley News Article and  the SUNY Oswego Press Release on Center Associate Professor Ding Zhang's Grant in China were added to Media Coverage.

January 6, 2005 -  Due to the efforts of Lauren Labrecque a Virtual Tour of the Supernetworks Laboratory was added to the site. Thank you, Ms. Labrecque!!! Links to the 10th Annual Meeting of the INFORMS Society on Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Multi-Echelon Inventory Conference, the ERSA 2005 Conference, and the International Scientific Conference (OR 2005) were added to Conferences.

January 2, 2005 - Slides from the presentation at the 9th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, Dynamic Supernetworks for the Integration of Social Networks and Supply Chains with Electronic Commerce: Modeling and Analysis of Buyer-Seller Relationships with Computations, by Anna Nagurney and Tina Wakolbinger were added to Visuals.

January 1, 2005  - The Winter 2005 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

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What's New? 2001-2002

This site was officially unveiled on November 21, 2001.