Current What's New

December 24, 2008 - An article from the Daily Collegian, quoting Professor Nagurney, was added to Media Coverage.

December 21, 2008 - The Winter 2009 issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was added to Newsletters.

December 13, 2008 - Photos from the INFORMS Student Chapter Holiday Party were added to Center Photos.

December 7, 2008 - Photos from the Operations Research / Management Science Seminar by Professor Kevin Fu were added to Center Photos.

November 29, 2008 -Professor Nagurney's OR Forum Commentary, Comment on "Catching the Network Science Bug" by David L. Alderson was added to Commentaries. Photos from the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International were added to Center Photos.

November 24, 2008 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's Plenary Lecture at the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Brooklyn, NY, November 20, 2008, were added to Visuals. The article In the Loop on Professor Nagurney being listed as a stellar scholar and the references to Professor Nagurney's and the INFORMS Student Chapter's activities in the Isenberg School of Management 2008 Annual Report were added to Media Coverage. Professor Nagurney's Letters-to-the-Editor to the Republican and the Daily Hampshire Gazette were added to Commentaries.

November 14, 2008 - Photos from the Operations Research / Management Science Seminar by Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, were added to Center Photos.

November 12, 2008 - The OR Forum article, Comment on "Catching the Network Science Bug" by David L. Alderson, by Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles. Publication status of other Downloadable Articles was updated. An additional presentation from the INFORMS Annual Meeting was added to Visuals.

November 7, 2008 - The press release on the lecture by Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt, the media coverage of Professor Solak's seminar, and the media coverage of Professor Nagurney's Distinguished Seminars at the University of Memphis were added to Media Coverage.

November 1, 2008 - Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney's Academic Presentation, To Merge or Not to Merge: Multimarket Supply Chain Network Oligopolies, Coalitions, and the Merger Paradox, and Business Presentation, Synergies and Vulnerabilities of Supply Chain Networks in a Global Economy, while a Distinguished Speaker at the Fogelman College of Business, University of Memphis, were added to Visuals.

October 27, 2008 - Photos from the INFORMS Student Chapter Celebration and Professor Ghoniem's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

October 23, 2008 - Articles from the Daily Collegian, the ISOM Website, and In the Loop were added to Media Coverage.

October 17, 2008 - Photos from the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC were added to Center Photos.

October 8, 2008 - Photos from the visit to the Isenberg School of Management by Jack Smith '60 were added to Center Photos.

October 5, 2008 - Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney's presentation, To Merge or Not to Merge: Multimarket Supply Chain Network Oligopolies, Coalitions, and the Merger Paradox, at the Workshop on Frontiers in Game Theory and Networked Control Systems, October 10 - 12, 2008 at MIT were added to Visuals.

October 4, 2008 - Photos from Dr. Grace Lin's Seninar have been added to Center Photos. Additional photos will be posted on the INFORMS Student Chapter site.

September 28, 2008 - A photo from the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Defense of Center Associate Trisha Woolley was added to Center Photos.

September 26, 2008 - Professor Nagurney's Letter-to-the-Editor to The Economist, Join the queue, was added to Commentaries. Photos from Professor Nagurney's Seminar at Smith College and Professor Acemoglu's Seminar at UMass were added to Center Photos.

September 21, 2008 - Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney's presentation, Equilibrium Modeling and Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Network Systems: Which Nodes and Links Really Matter?, at the Center for Women in Mathematics at Smith College on September 23, 2008 were added to Visuals.

September 18, 2008 - The announcement of Professor Anna Nagurney's seminar, hosted by the Center for Women in Mathematics, to take place on September 23, 2008 at Smith College, from the Smith College website, was added to Media Coverage.

September 16, 2008 - An article on the UMass Amherst INFORMS Studnet Chapter Speaker Series from In the Loop and an article on Professor Senay Solak's seminar from the US Naval Academy Alumni Association website were added to Media Coverage.

September 14, 2008 - The notice of Center Associate Trisha Woolley's Dissertation Proposal Defense from the Isenberg School of Management Website was added to Media Coverage.

September 7, 2008 - The Fall 2008 issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was added to Newsletters.

September 1, 2008 - The review of the book, Supply Chain Network Economics, by Anna Nagurney, published in the Quarterly Journal of Internatinal Agriculture, was added to its page.

August 29, 2008 - A link to the INFORMS Computing Society Conference was added to Conferences.

August 26, 2008 - Photos from the welcome parties for new Management Science Faculty members Dr. Senay Solak and Dr. Ahmed Ghoniem were added to Center Photos.

August 22, 2008 - The review of the book, Urban and Regional Transportation Modeling: Essays in Honor of David Boyce, published in Regions: The Newsletter of the Regional Science Association was added to its page.

August 18, 2008 - The review of the book, Supply Chain Network Economics, by Anna Nagurney, published in the Journal of Regional Science, was added to its page.

August 16, 2008 - Information on the new book, Cooperative Networks: Control and Optimization, edited by Panos Pardalos, Don Grundel, Robert A. Murphey, and Oleg Prokopyev was added to New Dimensions in Networks.

August 14, 2008 - The Distinguished Speaker Brochure from the Fogelman College of Business at the University of Memphis including Professor Nagurney's October 31st lecture was added to Media Coverage.

August 11, 2008 - The Fall 2008 INFORMS Speaker Series in Operations Research / Management Science was announced.

July 30, 2008 - A page for new Doctoral Student Center Associate Min Yu was added to Center Associates.

July 18, 2008 - A page for new Doctoral Student Center Associate Amir Masoumi was added to Center Associates.

July 13, 2008 - Two items were added to the Media Coverage page.

July 12, 2008 - A link to the Workshop on Frontiers in Game Theory and Networked Control Systems was added to Conferences.

July 9, 2008 - Professor Nagurney's Letter-to-the-Editor to the New York Times, Biking in Paris, was added to Commentaries.

July 6, 2008 - The article, Modeling of Supply Chain Risk Under Disruptions with Performance Measurement and Robustness Analysis, by Qiang Qiang, Anna Nagurney, and June Dong was added to Downloadable Articles. The publication status of other articles on that page was also updted.

July 4, 2008 - The Media Coverage page was updated to include several new media items.

June 30, 2008 - Photos from the Third International Conference on Funding Transportation Infrastructure and the 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance were added to Paris Photos.

June 16, 2008 - Professor Nagurney's Op-Ed from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, A New Roadmap for Transit Planning, was added to Commentaries.

June 12, 2008 - Links the 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International and the 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research were added to Conferences. Slides from the presentations, Environmental Impact Assessment of Transporation Networks  with Degradable Links in an Era of Climate Change by Anna Nagurney, Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, and Ladimer S. Nagurney at the Third International Conference on Funding Transportation Infrastructure and An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England by Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney at the 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF2008), were added to Visuals.

June 11, 2008 - The articles, Environmental Impact Assessment of Transportation Networks with Degradable Links in an Era of Climate Change by Anna Nagurney, Qiang Qiang, and Ladimer Nagurney and, Environmental and Cost Synergy in Supply Chain Network Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions by Anna Nagurney and Trisha Woolley, were added to Downloadable Articles. Photos from the visit to ISO-New England were added to Center Photos.

June 3, 2008 - The pages of the Center Associates have been updated.

May 31, 2008 - The Summer 2008 issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was added to Newsletters.

May 30, 2008 - Slides from the Professor Nagurney's presentation, Network Economics, at the World Bank Short Course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Economics in World Bank Projects were added to Visuals.

May 26, 2008 -  Photos from the UMass Graduate Commencement and the Caltech 2008 Microeconomics Dynamics - Mini-Conference were added to Center Photos.

May 24, 2008 - A photo from the conference, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, was added to Photos of Network Innovators. The Projects page was updated.

May 23, 2008 - A link to the Third International Conference on Funding Transportation Infrastructure was added to Conferences.

May 22, 2008 - Slides from the presentation, Dynamic Modeling of the Internet via Evolutionary Variational Inequalities with Vulnerability Analysis, by Anna Nagurney, David Parkes, Patricia Daniele, and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, at the 2008 Microeconomics - Dynamics Mini-Conference were added to Visuals. Photos from the conference, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, and from the SIAM Optimization Conference were added to Center Photos.

May 19, 2008 - Links to two articles on the Isenberg School of Management website on the Humanitarian Logistics Conference were added to Media Coverage. A link to the Caltech Microeconomic Dynamics Workshop was added to Conferences.

May 17, 2008 - The final report on the conference, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, has been added to its website.

May 16, 2008 - Photos from the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Dr. Zugang "Leo" Liu and from the UMass Founders Day Celebration were added to Center Photos.

May 10, 2008  - The website for the conference, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, organized by Professor Anna Nagurney at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Conference Center on Lake Como in Italy has been updated to include the program, the presentations, photos, and additional information.

May 7, 2008 - The article, An Integrated Framework for the Design of Optimal Web Banners, by Lili Hai, Lan Zhao, and Anna Nagurney was added to
Downloadable Articles.

May 3, 2008 - Photos from the Beta Gamma Sigma Initiation Ceremony on April 25, 2008 were added to Center Photos.

April 25, 2008 - The article,  A Relative Total Cost Index for the Evaluation of Transportation Network Robustness in the Presence of Degradable Links and Alternative Travel Behavior, by Anna Nagurney and Qiang Qiang was added to Downloadable Articles.

April 20, 2008 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminars by Dr. Vamsi Chadalavada and Professor John R. Birge were added to Center Photos.

April 11, 2008 - Links to articles in The Commonwealth on Professor Nagurney's Fulbright Senior Specialist and  the UMass-INFORMS Student Chapter Awards were added to Media Coverage.

April 6, 2008 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor David Wypij were added to Center Photos.

April 5, 2008 - The Downloadable Articles page was updated.

April 1, 2008 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Eitan Bachmat were added to Center Photos.

March 29, 2008 - A link was added to Professor Nagurney's commentary, The Fulbright Experience -- Education Without Borders.

March 25, 2008 - The Downloadable Articles page was updated and a link to the article, A System-Optimization Perspective for Supply Chain Network Integration: The Horizontal Merger Case, by Anna Nagurney, Transportation Research E, in press, was added.

March 21, 2008 - Links to the presentations from the workshop, Complex Networks -- Equilibrium and Vulnerability Analysis with Applications, organized by Professors Anna Nagurney and Patrizia Daniele, as part of Professor Nagurney's Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Business Administration at the University of Catania were added to her Fulbright Senior Specialist page.

March 7, 2008 -  Photos from the Dissertation Proposal Defense of Center Associate Qiang "Patrick" Qiang were added to Center Photos.

March 2, 2008 - The website for, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Conference, is now online. The conference, which will take place in May 2008 at the Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy, is organized by the Center Director, Professor Nagurney.

February 26, 2008 - Links to the article in the UMass Passport Winter 2008 Edition on Professor Nagurney and the Profiles in Mentoring Interview with Professor Nagurney on the UMass Office of Faculty Development Mentoring Website were added to Media Coverage. Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Andrew Papachristos were added to Center Photos.

February 24, 2008 - A page was added describing the various activities Professor Nagurney will participate in as part of her Fulbright Senior Specialist in Business Administration at the University of Catania, Italy during March 2008.

February 17, 2008 - A link to the article in the Republican on Dr. Sumpf's Operations Research / Management Science Seminar was added to Media Coverage.

February 16, 2008 - Photos from the Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Dr. Denise Sumpf were added to Center Photos.

February 12, 2008 - Slides from Doctoral Center Associate Zugang (Leo) Liu's seminar, An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England, at California State University, East Bay were added to Visuals.

February 2, 2008 - A page for Professor Nagurney's Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Catania was added. A link to Complex Networks -- Equilibrium with Vulnerability Analysis was added to Conferences.

January 31, 2008 - The UMass Press Release page was updated.

January 29, 2008 - Professor Nagurney and Qiang (Patrick) Qiang's article, An Efficiency Measure for Dynamic Networks Modeled as Evolutionary Variational Inequalities with Application to the Internet and Vulnerability Analysis, has been accepted for publication in Netnomics. Publication details of this and other articles have been updated in Downloadable Articles.

January 20, 2008 -The publication information on Qiang (Patrick) Qiang and Professor Nagurney's article, A Unified Network Performance Measure with Importance Identification and the Ranking of Network Components, was updated in Downloadable Articles.

January 19, 2008 - A link to the article in the Sunday Republican on Professor Nagurney's WORMS Award was added to Media Coverage.

January 18, 2008 - The Spring 2008 Operations Research/Management Science Speaker Series is now available on this site. All talks will be held in the Isenberg School of Management at UMass.

January 15, 2008 - Links to the International Symposium on Supply Chain Management, the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Conference, 2008 Annual EurOMA, ICCS 2008 - Eighth International Conference on Computational Science, and the INFORMS Annual Meeting were added to Conferences.

January 13, 2008 - Photos from the 19th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Auckland, New Zealand were added to Center Photos.

January 11, 2008 - A link to the article in the Ukrainian Weekly on Professor Nagurney's Fulbright Senior Scholar Award was added to Media Coverage.

January 4, 2008 - Photos from the UMass - Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Holiday Party were added to Center Photos.

January 3, 2008 - A link to the article in the UMass Report on Research 2007 on Professor Nagurney and her students' research was added to Media Coverage.

January 1, 2008 - Slides from Professor Nagurney's Plenary Talk at MCDM 2008 were added to Visuals. Visuals, Projects, Lab, and Media Coverage pages have been updated.

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