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December 31, 2006 - A link  to The Brown University Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences, where Professor Nagurney is an Invited Speaker on Operations Research, was added to Conferences.

December 27, 2006 -  A link to the December 2006 ORMS Today President's Column, which refers to the ad-hoc Diversity Committee Professor Nagurney chaired, was added to Media Coverage.

December 26, 2006 - The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

December 20, 2006 - Slides from several Fall 2006 student presentations from FOMgt 341 were added to Visuals.

December 18, 2006 - The Congratulations and Kudos page was updated.

December 17, 2006 - Slides from the Professor Nagurney's UMass-Amherst Civil Engineering Transportation Seminar on December 7, 2006 and from several Fall 2006 student presentations from SOM 821 were added to Visuals.

December 15, 2006 - Photos from the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Holiday Party were added to Center Photos.

December 12, 2006 - The Letter to the Editor by Professor Nagurney, UMass making its mark in academics, athletics, from the Republican was added to Commentaries. The Winter 2007 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

December 9, 2006 - Links to the articles, Networks in Finance by Anna Nagurney, Dynamics of Supply Chain Networks with Corporate Social Responsibility through Integrated Environmental Decision-making by Jose M. Cruz and Modelling Oligopolistic Closed-Loop Supply Chains by David Hammond and Patrick Beullens, were added to Downloadable Articles.  Congratulations to Professor Daoli Zhu on being awarded the Fudan Premium Fund Management Prize! Click for details. Professor Nagurney served on the prize selection committee in Shanghai, China.

December 7, 2006 - Photos from the UMass - Amherst Fulbright Celebration Dinner have been added to Photos of Network Innovators.

December 3, 2006 - Links  to the Supply Chain And Logistics Engineering (SCALE) Conference, 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, and INFORMS International Puerto Rico 2007 were added to Conferences.

December 1, 2006 - Slides from the Distinguished Alumnus Presentation by Dr. Stavros Siokos were added to Visuals.

November 28, 2006 - Advanced Energy Research at UMass was added to UMass Links.

November 26, 2006 -  Friends of the Center page was updated.

November 25, 2006 - Links to the Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Dynamic Networks and the COMISEF Project  have been added to Projects.

November 24, 2006 -  A link to the article on the Isenberg Website,  Ph.D. Students Receive Awards; Present at National Meetings, was added to Media Coverage.

November 23, 2006 - Photos from the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter celebration in honor of Tina Wakolbinger receiving the INFORMS Judith Liebman Award were added to Center Photos. A link  to the 7th Meeting on Game Theory and Practice Dedicated to Energy, Environment and Natural Resources was added to Conferences.

November 20, 2006 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Dr. Les Servi were added to Center Photos.

November 11, 2006 -  Photos from the INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-8, 2006 were added to Center Photos.

November 10, 2006 - The OpEd by Professor Nagurney, Meeting the region's energy needs, from the Daily Hampshire Gazette was added to Commentaries.

November 6, 2006  - Slides from the Center Associates' presentations at the INFORMS National Meeting have been added to Visuals.

November 4, 2006 - A link  to The Second International Conference on Complementarity, Duality,  and Global Optimization in Science and Engineering (CDGO-2007) was added to Conferences. Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Andrew McCallum were added to Center Photos.

November 3, 2006 - A link to the article, Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Equilibrium under Legislation, by David Hammond and Patrick Beullens was added to Downloadable Articles. A link to the article In the Loop on Professor Nagurney's book, Supply Chain Network Economics, was added to Media Coverage.

November 1, 2006 - A link to the article, Spatially Differentiated Trade of Permits for Multipollutant Electric Power Supply Chains, by Trisha Woolley, Anna Nagurney, and John Stranlund was added to Downloadable Articles.  Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Cynthia Barnhart were added to Center Photos.

October 28, 2006 - Photos from the Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Dynamic Networks have been added to Photos of Network Innovators.

October 22, 2006 - Photos from the Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Dynamic Networks have been posted.

October 21, 2006  - Slides from Professor Nagurney's presentation at the Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Dynamic Networks: Behavior, Optimization and Design, Dynamic Networks: Recent Results and Applications, have been added to Visuals.

October 20, 2006 - Links to an article in OR/MS Today on Professor Nagurney's China Trip, an article in the Daily Collegian on the UMass INFORMS Operations Research/Management Science Seminar Series and an article in Oswego County Business on Professor Dong's Award were added to Media Coverage.

October 15, 2006 - A link to the article, Multiperiod Competitive Supply Chain Networks with Inventorying and A Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulation, by Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles. A description of the COMISEF Project was added. Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor William Hogan were added to Center Photos.

October 7, 2006 - Links  to The 10th INFORMS Computing Society Conference and the 18th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society were added to Conferences.

October 1, 2006 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Dr. Robin Lougee-Heimer were added to Center Photos.  Information on the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Exploratory Seminar, Dynamic Networks: Behavior, Optimization, and Design, co-organized by Professor Nagurney, was added to Media Coverage. The Downloadable Articles page was updated. A link to the journal Naval Research Logistics was added to Relevant Journals.  A link to the 4th International Conference on Computational Management Science was added to Conferences.

September 27, 2006  - Professor Werner Rothengatter of the University of Karlsruhe visited the Center as Part of an Exchange Program with Germany Established by a Grant from the Science & Technology Initiatives from President Jack Wilson's Office. Photos of the visit were added to Center Photos. Presentations from the visit have been added to Visuals.

September 23, 2006  - The Fall 2006 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

September 20, 2006 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's Columbia University Decision, Risk, and Operations and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (DRO-IEOR) Seminar, Dynamic Networks: Recent Results and Applications, were added to Visuals.

September 17, 2006 - An article from In the Loop on the Fall 2006 INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series was added to Media Coverage.

September 12, 2006 - Photos from the Selection Committee for the  Fudan Premium Prize in Management Science were added to Center Photos.

September 10, 2006 - An article from CRIEnglish.com on the Fudan Conference was added to Media Coverage.

September 9, 2006 - The Center Director and Associates are pleased to welcome Emmanuel Agyei as a Doctoral Center Associate. See Center Associates.

September 6, 2006 - In response to requests for more information on center activities, a new page Announcements and Notes has been added.

September 4, 2006 - A link to the article, Networks, biographies and travel: First empirical and methodological results, by KW Axhausen, A Frei, and T Ohnmacht was added to Downloadable Articles.

September 1, 2006 - A revised version of the article, Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulations of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks with Computations, by Anna Nagurney and Zugang Liu was added to Downloadable Articles. Professor Nagurney's Fall 2006 Semester Syllabi for FOMgt 341 and SOM 821 were added to Syllabi.

August 30, 2006 - On August 28, 2006, Dmytro Matsypura successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation. For its abstract see Dissertations, for his presentation see Visuals, and for photos of the event see Center Photos.

August 27, 2006 -  Professor Michael Patriksson has made his out-of-print book, The Traffic Assignment Problem - Models and Methods, available for download. A link to this book can be found on Network Classics.

August 25, 2006 - Photos from the Fudan International Management Science Forum were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

August 23, 2006 - Photos from the Fudan International Management Science Forum were added to Center Photos.

August 22, 2006 - A link to the article on the Fudan University Website on the Fudan International Management Science Forum was added to Media Coverage.

August 16, 2006 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's presentation, Supernetworks: Management Science for the 21st Century, at the Fudan Management Science Forum, Shanghai, China, were added to Visuals.

August 14, 2006 - A link to Professor Nagurney's essay, My Year as a Science Fellow, from the August 2006 OR/MS Today was added to Media Coverage.

August 10, 2006 - A link to the article on Professor Nagurney from In the Loop was added to Media Coverage.

August 8, 2006 - A link to the article, Modeling of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks with Fuel Suppliers via Variational Inequalities, by
Dmytro Matsypura, Anna Nagurney, and Zugang Liu was added to Downloadable Articles.

August 2, 2006 - Photos from the Erice Workshop on Variational Analysis and PDEs were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

August 1, 2006 - Links to articles mentioning Center Associate Dr. Stavros Siokos of Citigroup have been added to his page.

July 29, 2006 - The Center Associates' pages have been updated.

July 25, 2006 - Through the courtesy of Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc, the Table of Contents, Prefaces, and First Chapters of the books, Innovations in Financial and Economics Networks and Supply Chain Network Economics, were added to Download Sample Chapters.

July 23, 2006 - The Table of Contents, Preface, and Chapter 1 of Supply Chain Network Economics were added to Books Related to Supernetworks.

July 18, 2006 - Slides from the presentations, Equilibria, Supernetworks, and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities by Anna Nagurney and A Discretization Procedure for Evolutionary Variational Inequalities and Applications to a Financial Model by Patrizia Daniele, were added to Visuals.

July 16, 2006 -  Professor Yossi Sheffi has made his out-of-print book, Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods, available for download. Professors Dimitri Bersekas and John Tsitsiklis have also made their book, Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, available for download. Links to these books can be found on Network Classics.

July 15, 2006 -  Photos from the International School of Mathematics G. STAMPACCHIA, 44th Workshop: Variational Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, Erice, Sicily, July 5-14, 2006 and the 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2-5, 2006 were added to Center Photos.

July 13, 2006 - Links to Professor Nagurney's article on the Radcliffe Fellowship Experience from the Radcliffe Website and to the article on Professor Nagurney from In the Loop were added to Media Coverage. Photos from the 12th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance
Limassol, Cyprus, June 22-25, 2006 were added to Center Photos.

July 12, 2006 - A link to the article, The Internet, Evolutionary Variational Inequalities, and the Time-Dependent Braess Paradox, by Professors Anna Nagurney, David Parkes, and Patrizia Daniele was added to Downloadable Articles.

July 11, 2006 - A link to the International Conference on Complexity in Acute Illness was added to Conferences. Photos from Computing in Economics and Finance 2006, the European Conference on Operational Research, and the Erice Workshop on Variational Analysis were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

June 21, 2006 - Slides from the presentation, Dynamic Electric Power Supply Chains and Transportation Networks: an Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation, by Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, and Patrizia Daniele were added to Visuals.

June 17, 2006 - Slides from the presentations, Optimal Endogenous Carbon Taxes for Electric Power Supply Chains with Power Plants by Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley and  Equilibria, Supernetworks, and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities by Anna Nagurney and Zugang Liu, were added to Visuals.

June 11, 2006  - The Summer 2006 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

June 9, 2006 - Photos from the proposal defense of Center Associate Tina Wakolbinger and from the UMass Graduate Commencement of Center Associate Dr. Fuminori Toyasaki were added to Center Photos.

June 4, 2006 - Slides from the presentation, A Network Equilibrium Framework for Internet Advertising: Models, Quantitative Analysis, and Algorithms, by Lan Zhao and Anna Nagurney were added to Visuals. Links to the articles in the Spring 2006 UMass Magazine were added to Media Coverage.

June 2, 2006 - Photos from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Ceremony on May 24, 2006 were added to Center Photos.  A link to the article, Network Topology and the Efficiency of Equilibrium,  by Igal Milchtaich was added to Downloadable Articles.

May 28, 2006 - Slides from the presentation, Static and Dynamic Networks, by Professor Patrizia Daniele at the Harvard Applied Mathematics Colloquium were added to Visuals. Information on Professor Daniele's new book, Dynamic Networks and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities, Edward Elgar Publishing was added to New Dimensions in Networks.

May 27, 2006 - Information on Professor Nagurney's new book, Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows, and Profits, Edward Elgar Publishing was added to Books Related to Supernetworks.

May 25, 2006 - Photos from the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter End of Year Party were added to Center Photos.

May 24, 2006 - Professor Nagurney's Letter to the Editor from the Republican was added to Commentaries.  A link to the article in the Oswego Daily News on Center Associate Professor June Dong's Chancellor's Award was added to Media Coverage.

May 20, 2006 - The Commentary by Professor Nagurney, A Year as a Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, to appear in ORMS Today was added to Commentaries.

May 13, 2006 - A link to the article, Sustainable Supply Chain Networks and Transportation, by Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley was added to Downloadable Articles. Photos from the Seminar by Dr. Irv Lustig were added to Center Photos. A link to the article announcing Center Associate Professor June Dong's Chancellor's Award was added to Media Coverage.

May 12, 2006 - A link to the article, Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems, by Bernardo A. Huberman and Fang Wu was added to Downloadable Articles.

May 7, 2006 - The Commentary by Professor Nagurney, Transportation and Energy: Designing the Route to Prosperity and Sustainability, was published in the Spring 2006 issue of UMass Magazine as Getting There from Here: The route to sustainable transportation is paved with knowledge and creativity. A link to the commentary was added to Commentaries.

May 6, 2006 - Photos from the Seminar by Professor Dechter, the POMS Conference, and the INFORMS Young Researchers Roundtable were added to Center Photos.

May 2, 2006 - Slides from the presentations,  Dynamic Supply Chains, Transportation Network Equilibria, and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities by Professor Nagurney and Zugang Liu and Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks by Kai Wu, Professor Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Professor Stranlund, at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of POMS were added to Visuals.

April 29, 2006 - Slides from Professor Nagurney and Dmytro Matsypura's presentation, Global Supply Chain Dynamics with Multicriteria Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty, at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of POMS were added to Visuals.  Links to the articles In the Loop and on the Isenberg School of Management Website announcing that the article, Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Polution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Transformation, is the Lead Article in the May 2006 issue of Transportation Research D were added to Media Coverage.

April 23, 2006 - The Center Director congratulates her "fellow" Radcliffe Fellow, Geraldine Brooks, on her receipt of the Pulitzer Prize this past week for her book March. Photos of Ms. Brooks' seminar at the Radcliffe Institute two days after the Pulitzer announcement can be found at Center Photos.  The Downloadable Articles page has been updated with new journal article publication information.

April 22, 2006 - Photos from the Seminars by Professor Braess and Hsu were added to Center Photos. Photos of Professors Braess' visit to the Virtual Center for Supernetworks were added to Photos of Network Innovators. Professor Braess was added to Friends of the Center.

April 16, 2006 - Links to the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation,   Journal of Financial Decision Making, and Optimization Letters, were added to Relevant Journals.

April 14, 2006 - Photos of the Associates visit to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were added to Center Photos. A link to the article in the April 2006 Issue of OR/MS Today on the UMass- Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter was added to Media Coverage.

April 9, 2006 - Slides from the presentations, A Paradox on Traffic Networks by Professor Dietrich Braess and Dynamic Networks and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities by Professor Patrizia Daniele, were added to Visuals.

April 8, 2006 - Photos of the visit and seminar of Professor Dietrich Braess of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany were added to Braess Visit.

April 6, 2006 - Photos of Professors Nagurney, Daniele, and Parkes at Harvard and of recent visitors to the Virtual Center for Supernetworks were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

April 2, 2006 - Slides from Tina Wakolbinger's presentation, Social Networks: An Overview of Approaches to Visualize their Structure, Model their Emergence, and Understand their Influence on Economic Transactions, at the Interdepartmental Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, were added to Visuals. A link to the article, The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation Networks, by Bhanu Yerra and David M. Levinson was added to Downloadable Articles.

March 28, 2006 - Links to the International Conference on "The Dynamics of Disasters", the 2006 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2006), and the World Conference on Transport Research 2007 were added to Conferences.

March 26, 2006 - Photos of Professors Nagurney and Daniele at Harvard were added to Center Photos.

March 19, 2006 - A link to the article,  Some Amazing Properties of Road Traffic Network Equilibria, by Hillel Bar-Gera and David Boyce was added to Downloadable Articles.

March 17, 2006 - Photos from the Seminar by Professor Barabási were added to Center Photos.  A link to The Structure and Dynamics of Networks by M. Newman, A-L Barabási, and D. J. Watts was added to the homepage.

March 14, 2006 - The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

March 8, 2006 - A link to the article, In Memoriam: C. Bartlett McGuire (1925–2006) and Christopher B. Winsten (1923–2005), by David Boyce and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles.

March 7, 2006 - Photos from the Seminar by Professor Kaplan were added to Center Photos.

February 28, 2006 - Professor Nagurney was interviewed by WAMC for the report on the National Grid - Keyspan Merger. See Media Coverage.

February 26, 2006 - Photos from the Seminar by Professor Perakis were added to Center Photos.

February 24, 2006 - Slides from Professor Nagurney and Zugang Liu's presentation, Dynamic Supply Chains, Transportation Network Equilibria, and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities, at the Fifth Annual Florida Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering Conference were added to Visuals.

February 20, 2006 - Professor Nagurney's Letter to the Editor from the Republican was added to Commentaries.

February 18, 2006 - Links to the articles, Optimal Endogenous Carbon Taxes for Electric Power Supply Chains with Power Plants by Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley and Dynamic Supply Chains, Transportation Network Equilibria, and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities byAnna Nagurney and Zugang Liu, were added to Downloadable Articles. Photos from the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Party were added to Center Photos. A link to the 2006 POMS College of Service Operations Conference: Services in the High-Tech Era was added to Conferences.

February 12, 2006 - Professor Nagurney's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity is featured in the 2005 UMass Report on Research. See Media Coverage.

February 11, 2006 - Photos from Professor Lazer's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

February 3, 2006 - The Center Director regrets to report the passing of Professor C Bartlett, Bart, McGuire on January 23, 2006. Professor McGuire was one of the authors with Professors Beckmann and Winsten of Studies in the Economics of Transportation. For an In Memoriam article to Professors McGuire and Winsten see Network Classics. Professor Nagurney's Letter to the Editor from the Daily Hampshire Gazette was added to Commentaries.

January 28, 2006 - Congratulations and Kudos 2006 page was added.

January 26, 2006 - The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

January 22, 2006 - Links to the 2006 POMS Conference: OM in the New World Uncertainties and the
CORS/OPTIMIZATION DAYS 2006 JOINT CONFERENCE were added to Conferences.

January 16, 2006 - Photos of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellows and Friends were added to Center Photos.

January 15, 2006 - We are very pleased and honored to announce the UMASS Amherst Spring 2006 Management Science/Operations Research Seminar Series. 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.

January 6, 2006  - The Winter 2006 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.


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