Current What's New

December 29, 2007 - Links to the UMass Press Release and the article on the Italian Fulbright Website on Professor Nagurney's Senior Scholar Award  were added to Media Coverage.

December 26, 2007 - A new Congratulations and Kudos page was added.

December 16, 2007 - The Winter 2008 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

December 7, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Arnold Barnett were added to Center Photos.

December 1, 2007 -The publication information on Professor Zhao and Nagurney's article, A Network Equilibrium Framework for Internet Advertising: Models, Qualitative Analysis, and Algorithms, was updated in Downloadable Articles. A link to the UMass Press Release on Professor Nagurney's WORMS Award was added to Media Coverage.

November 30, 2007 - Professor Nagurney's commentary, Supernetworks: The Origins, Some Applications, and Possibilities, in the INFORMS Computing Society Newsletter was added to Commentaries. A link to the article in the Springfield Republican on Mind the Gap quoting Professor Nagurney was added to Media Coverage.

November 25, 2007 -  Photos from the Awards Ceremony at the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International were added to Photos of Network Innovators. Links to the 5th International Conference on Computational Management Science, the 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF2008), The Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society (GAMES2008), and the 18th International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNMS 2008) were added to Conferences.

November 24, 2007 - Photos from the RSAI Fellows Luncheon on November 9, 2007 have been added to the RSAI-2007 page. Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Sundar Krishnamurty and the ISOM Finance Seminar of the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Robert Engle were added to Center Photos.

November 22, 2007 - Links to the copy of Beckmann, McGuire, and Winsten's classic book, Studies in the Economics of Transportation, now available for downloading from the Cowles Foundation and to Professor Michael Florian's presentation given at the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of this book were added to Classics.  

November 21, 2007 - Photos from the luncheon where Professor Anna Nagurney was awarded of the 2007 Award for the Advancement of Women in
Operations Research/Management Sciences were added to Center Photos.  The article on the Isenberg School of Management website on this award was added to Media Coverage.

November 16, 2007 - Photos from the awarding of the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science to Profesor Michael Smith were added to Photos of Network Innovators.  The article on the Isenberg School of Management website on the INFORMS Student Chapter Award was added to Media Coverage.

November 13, 2007 -   A link to the article, Robustness of Transportation Networks Subject to Degradable Links, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang  was added to Downloadable Articles.

November 11, 2007 - Photos of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter receiving the INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Summa Cum Laude Award at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 6, 2007 were added to Center Photos.

November 10, 2007 - The Letter to the Editor by Professor Nagurney, Low turnout in the HOV lane, published in the Boston Globe, was added to Commentaries.

October 28, 2007 - Slides from the presentations prepared for the INFORMS Annual Meeting, An Efficiency Measure for Dynamic Networks with Application to the Internet and Vulnerability Analysis, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, and An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis, by Zugang Liu and Professor Anna Nagurney were added to Visuals.

October 27, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor David Jensen were added to Center Photos.

October 20, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Elaine Chew were added to Center Photos.

October 17, 2007 - Links to articles in the Isenberg School of Management 2006-07 Annual Report on Professor Nagurney, Patrick Qiang, and Dr. Tina Wakolbinger were added to Media Coverage.

October 13, 2007 - An announcement of Professor Nagurney's Warren Lecture at the University of Minnesota from In the Loop was added to Media Coverage.  The Downloadable Articles page has been updated and redesigned.

October 6, 2007 - Photos from Professor Nagurney's visit to  the University of Minnesota to deliver the Warren Lecture were added to Center Photos. An announcement of the lecture was added to Media Coverage.

October 3, 2007 - Slides from the Warren Lecture at the Univesity of Minnesota, Transportation Science and the Dynamics of Critical Infrastructure Networks with Applications to Performance Measurement and Vulnerability Analysis by Professor Anna Nagurney were added to Visuals.

September 29, 2007 - The presentations, Latest Trends in Global Equity Trading, for Joint Management Sciences/Operations Research and Finance Seminar by Center Associate Dr. Stavros Siokos of CitiGroup, London, UK and Why Women are Turned Off by Technology and How to Overcome It by Professor Anna Nagurney, prepared for the Mind the Gap: Career Summit for Women and Technology, were added to Visuals.

September 21, 2007 - The UMass-Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter has updated its Fall Semester Activities.

September 15, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Dr. Brenda Dietrich were added to Center Photos.

September 7, 2007 - A link to the article In the Loop on the Fall 2007 INFORMS Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series was added to Media Coverage.

September 4, 2007 - A link to an article in the Daily Collegian on Professor Nagurney and Qiang Qiang's tool to assess supernetwork efficiency and vulnerability was added to Media Coverage.

September 2, 2007 - The Fall 2007 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

August 28, 2007 - The Journal of Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance was added to Journals.

August 23, 2007 -   A link to the article, An Efficiency Measure for Dynamic Networks Modeled as Evolutionary Variational Inequalities with Application to the Internet and Vulnerability Analysis, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang was added to Downloadable Articles.

August 21, 2007 -   A link to the article, An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England, by Zugang Liu and Professor Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles.

August 17, 2007 -  Links to the 1st Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY Conference on Applied Infrastructure Modeling and Policy Analysis and the 9th INFORMS
Telecommunications Conference were added to Conferences.

August 14, 2007 - A link to the article on the Isenberg School of Management website on the Fall 2007 INFORMS Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series was added to Media Coverage.

August 13, 2007 - A link to an article in ScienceDaily.com on Professor Nagurney and Qiang Qiang's tool to assess supernetwork efficiency and vulnerability was added to Media Coverage.

August 11, 2007 - Professor Nagurney's Letter-to-the-Editor in August 2007 OR/MS Today was added to Media Coverage.

August 10, 2007 - The Fall 2007 UMass Amherst INFORMS Speaker Series has been announced.

August 4, 2007 - A link to an article in Webweek on Professor Nagurney and Qiang Qiang's tool to assess supernetwork efficiency and vulnerability was added to Media Coverage.

July 31, 2007 - A link to the report, Securing and Protecting America’s Railroad System: U.S. Railroad and Opportunities for Terrorist Threats, was added to Downloadable Articles.

July 29, 2007 -  A link to the SIAM Conference on Optimization was added to Conferences.

July 28, 2007 - A link to an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette describing Professor Nagurney and Qiang Qiang's work was added to Media Coverage.

July 26, 2007 - Links to articles from Physorg.com and INFORMSonline were added to Media Coverage.

July 25, 2007 - Links to an article In the Loop and a UMass Press Release on Professor Nagurney and Qiang Qiang's tool to assess supernetwork efficiency and vulnerability were added to to Media Coverage.

July 22, 2007 - Links to two articles on Professor Nagurney's election as an RSAI Fellow were added to to Media Coverage.  A link to the Europhysics Letters article, A Network Efficiency Measure for Congested Networks, by Professor Anna Nagurney and Qiang Patrick Qiang was added to Downloadable Articles.

July 17, 2007 - Photos from INFORMS International Puerto Rico were added to Center Photos.

July 15, 2007 -  A link  to an article from Bloomberg.com on Congestion Pricing with a quote from Professor Nagurney was added to Media Coverage. The Supernetworks Laboratory page has been updated.

July 5, 2007 - The presentation, Dynamics of Supply Chain Networks with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through Integrated Environmental Decision-making, by Center Associate Professor Jose M. Cruz of the University of Connecticut, prepared for the INFORMS International 2007, was added to Visuals.

July 2, 2007 - Three presentations, Spatially Differentiated Trade of Permits for Multipollutant Electric Power Supply Chains by Professors Anna Nagurney and John Stranlund and Trisha Woolley, Sustainable Supply Chain and Transportation Networks by Professor Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley, and A Unified Network Performance Measure With Importance Identification and the Ranking of Network Components by Professor Nagurney and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, prepared for the INFORMS International 2007, were added to Visuals.

June 30, 2007 -  Links to the 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International and the 19th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making were added to Conferences.

June 29, 2007 - Photos from the World Conference on Transport Research were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

June 26, 2007 -  Links to the EURO XXII and The 3rd International Workshop On Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2007) were added to Conferences.

June 25, 2007 -  A link  to an article from Rundschau Online on Center Associate Tina Wakolbinger was added to Media Coverage.

June 23, 2007 - The Center Associates page and the individual associates pages were updated.

June 21, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang's presentation, A Transportation Network Efficiency Measure that Captures Flows, Behavior, and Costs with Applications to Network Component Importance Identification and Vulnerability, prepared for the 11th World Conference on Transport Research, were added to Visuals.

June 20, 2007 - A link to the article,  A Network Efficiency Measure for Congested Networks, by Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang to appear in Europhysics Letters was added to Downloadable Articles.

June 19, 2007 -  A link to the 2nd Annual National Urban Freight Conference 2007 was added to Conferences.

June 18, 2007 - Photos from 13th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF) were added to Center Photos.

June 11, 2007 - The About the Director page was updated. The International Transactions in Operational Research was added to Journals.

June 9, 2007 - Two presentations by Professor Nagurney and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, An Efficiency Measure for Dynamic Networks with Application to the Internet and Vulnerability Analysis and A Transportation Network Efficiency Measure that Captures Flows, Behavior, and Costs with Applications to Network Component Importance Identification and Vulnerability, prepared for the 13th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, were added to Visuals.

June 3, 2007 - The Op-Ed by Professor Nagurney, UMass should act more like family unit, published in the Sunday Republican, was added to Commentaries. A video clip from Professor Nagurney's presentation at the Brown SUMS Conference was added to audio/video.

May 31, 2007 - The Summer 2007 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

May 27, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney, Center Associate Trisha Woolley, and Professor John Stranlund's presentation at the 7th Meeting on Game Theory and Practice Dedicated to Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources,  Montreal, Canada, May 28-30, 2007 has been added to Visuals. Photos from the UMass Amherst Graduate Graduation Ceremony and the Center Celebration at Profesor Nagurney's home were added to added to Center Photos.

May 25, 2007 - Photos from the Radcliffe Institute Reception honoring Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust,  Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,  on ascending to the Presidency of Harvard University and from Professor Nagurney's luncheon with  Professor Pierrette Cassou-Nogues of France who is a
Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, were added to Center Photos.

May 18, 2007 - Photos from the POMS Conference in Dallas, Texas and the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter End-of-Year Party were added to Center Photos.

May 17, 2007 - The abstract of the doctoral dissertation of Center Associate, Dr. Tina Wakolbinger, was added to dissertations.

May 13, 2007 - Photos from the UMass Beta Gamma Sigma Induction Ceremony were added to Center Photos.

May 12, 2007 - Photos from the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Center Associate, Dr. Tina Wakolbinger, were added to Center Photos.

May 11, 2007 -  A link  to an article on the Isenberg School of Management website,  Doctoral Students in Management Science Present Papers at Major Meetings, was added to Media Coverage.

May 9, 2007 -  A link  to an article  from In The Loop on Professor Nagurney's  selection as a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)  was added to Media Coverage.

May 7, 2007 - A link to the article, A Network Efficiency Measure with Application to Critical Infrastructure Networks, by Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang to appear in the Journal of Global Optimization was added to Downloadable Articles.

May 5, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor David McLaughlin were added to Center Photos.

May 4, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney and Center Associates Zugang "Leo" Liu, Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, and Trisha Woolley's presentations at the 18th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) in Dallas, Texas,  May 4-7, 2007 have been added to Visuals.

May 3, 2007 - Slides from Center Associate Tina Wakolbinger's Doctoral Dissertation Defense Presentation have been added to Visuals.

April 29, 2007 - Photos from the Fourth International Conference on Computational Management Science and from Professor Nagurney's Seminar at Imperial College were added to Photos of Network Innovators. Photos from Professor Nagurney's Seminar at Imperial College were added to Center Photos.

April 28, 2007 - Photos from the Fourth International Conference on Computational Management Science were added to Center Photos.

April 22, 2007 - Photos from the Massachusetts Chapter of the Association of Women in Science Panel, Women In Science: Changing the Climate from the Bottom Up and the Top Down and the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor David Parkes were added to Center Photos.

April 21, 2007 - Photos from the Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony at the State House in Boston on April 11, 2007 and the Dissertation Proposal Defense of Zugang "Leo" Liu were added to Center Photos.

April 20, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's presentation at the Women in Science Panel, sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter of the Association of Women in Science, were added to Visuals.  The Letter to the Editor by Professor Nagurney, Making investments in the state's infrastructure, from The Daily Hampshire Gazette was added to Commentaries.

April 15, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's System Engineering Seminar at Imperial College and her presentation at the 4th Computational Management Science Conference were added to Visuals.

April 13, 2007 -  A link to Professor Nagurney and Patrick Qiang's research reported in Network World and reprinted in other publications was added to Media Coverage.

April 11, 2007 - A link to the article, A Transportation Network Efficiency Measure that Captures Flows, Behavior, and Costs with Applications to Network Component Importance Identification and Vulnerability, by Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang  in the Proceedings of the POMS 18th Annual Conference, May 4 to May 7, 2007 was added to Downloadable Articles.

April 8, 2007 -  Links to Professor Nagurney being quoted in the Annual Report of the Radcliffe Insitute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and to the interview with Center Asociate Tina Wakolbinger in ORMS Tomorrow were added to Media Coverage.

April 6, 2007 -  Links to Professor Nagurney's work reported on ScienceBlog.com, to Professor Nagurney being a panelist on the Association of Women in Science Panel, and to Professor Nagurney's seminar at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT were added to Media Coverage.

March 31, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Daiheng Ni were added to Center Photos.

March 30, 2007 -  Links  to the notice of Professor Nagurney's April 24, 2007 talk at Imperial College, London, England and Professor Nagurney being listed among the Isenberg School of Management's Prominent Faculty by Business Week Online were added to Media Coverage.

March 25, 2007 - Links to the articles, Identification of Critical Nodes and Links in Financial Networks with Intermediation and Electronic Transactions by Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang contributed to Computational Methods in Financial Engineering, E. J. Kontoghiorghes, B. Rustem, and P. Winker, Editors, Springer, Germany (2007) and A Unified Network Performance Measure with Importance Identification and the Ranking of Network Components by Qiang Qiang and Anna Nagurney, to appear in Optimization Letters were added to Downloadable Articles.

March 23, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Karen Polenske were added to Center Photos.

March 18, 2007 - A photo from the 2007 Transportation Research Forum was added to Center Photos.

March 15, 2007 - Professor Nagurney has been elected to the Advisory Council of the Society of Computational Economics. See  About the Director.

March 13, 2007 -Professor Nagurney's paper, Congested Urban Transportation Networks and Emission Paradoxes, is mentioned during the Question and Answer Session of the New Zealand Parliament. See Media Coverage.

March 11, 2007 - Slides from Center Associate Tina Wakolbinger's presentation at The University of Memphis, A Dynamic Theory for the Integration of
Social and Economic Networks with Applications to Supply Chain and Financial Networks, were added to Visuals.

March 10, 2007 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Richard C. Larson were added to Center Photos.

March 7, 2007 -The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

March 6, 2007 -  Links  to an article In The Loop on Professor Nagurney's presentation at the Brown Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences and the Southern NJ Why Become and Engineer? brochure were added to Media Coverage.

March 5, 2007 -  Links to MASHS-2007 - Computational Methods for Modelling and leArning in Social and Human Sciences, the Second International Conference on Transportation Logistics, T-LOG2007, the Twelfth International Conference of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, and the
5th International Supply Chain Management and Information Systems Conference (SCMIS07) were added to Conferences.

March 4, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's presentation at The Brown University Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences, SUMS, Operations Research and the Captivating Study of Networks and Complex Decision-Making, have been added to Visuals. Photos from the Symposium were added to Center Photos.
 
February 28, 2007 - A link to the article, Mathematical Models of Transportation and Networks, by Anna Nagurney, to appear in Mathematical Models in Economics (2007), a volume of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was added to Downloadable Articles.

February 24, 2007 - Photos from the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Valentine's Day Party and from Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Asu Ozdaglar were added to Center Photos.

February 20, 2007 - A link to the article, An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation of Supply Chain Networks with Time-Varying Demands,
by Anna Nagurney and Zugang Liu, was added to Downloadable Articles.

February 14, 2007 - Slides from Professor Nagurney, Dmytro Matsypura, and Zugang Liu's presentation at the International Association for Energy Economics Conference, Modeling of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks with Fuel Suppliers via Variational Inequalities, have been added to Visuals. A link to The International Association for Energy Economics Conference was added to Conferences. Links to an article in OR/MS Today on Professor June Dong's Chancellor's Award and to an article In The Loop on the Spring 2007 Operations Research/Management Science Speaker Series were added to Media Coverage.

February 11, 2007 - The Letter to the Editor by Professor Nagurney, The Importance of Research, from The Chronicle of Higher Education was added to Commentaries.

February 9, 2007 - Links to the UMass News Releases on the Spring 2007 Operations Research/Management Science Speaker Series and Professor Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley's article in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation were added to UMass Press.

February 6, 2007 - A link to the article, Network Economics, by Anna Nagurney, was added to Downloadable Articles.

February 2, 2007 - A link to the article In the Loop on Professor Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley's article in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation was added to Media Coverage. A link to the Research Conference Investigating Supply Chain Design Issues was added to Conferences.

January 28, 2007 - Professor Nagurney's Spring 2007 Semester Syllabus for SOM 822 was added to Syllabi. A link to The 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC) was added to Conferences. The Downloadable Articles page was updated. New position announcements were added to the Comisef page.

January 20, 2007 - A link to Risk Symposium 2007: Risk Analysis for Homeland Security and Defense - Theory and Application was added to Conferences.

January 15, 2007 - A link to a press release on the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation was added to Media Coverage.  The About the Director page was updated.

January 11, 2007 - Links to 3 online books on Social Networks from Robert Hanneman's website were added to Books Related to Supernetworks.

January 8, 2007 - Links to the Transportation Research Forum and the Third Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Sciences and Applications were added to Conferences.

January 2, 2007 - The Spring 2007 UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Operations Research/Management Science Seminar Series speakers have been announced.

January 1, 2007 - A link  to the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007 was added to Conferences.


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