What do the following—planning an airline hub, political gerrymandering, and a museum renovation—have in common? They’re all problems that can be tackled by mathematicians using a process called ...

Did you consider yourself a mathematician the last time you sat down to solve a Sudoku puzzle? It’s certainly a mentally ...

Physicists are now using principles from quantum mechanics to build a new model of the abstract concept of pi. Or, more ...

Dr. Hearn give an overview of his program – Optimization and Discrete Mathematics at the AFOSR (Air Force) Spring Review 2012. – Describes the value of the travelling salesman problem and how they can ...

Optimization without calculus; geometric programming; convex sets and convex functions; review of linear algebra; linear programming and the simplex method; convex programming; iterative ...

Modeling and Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems Using the QUBO Model A surprising development of the last few years has been the emergence of a model, called QUBO (for Quadratic Unconstrained ...

In Part 1 of this series on optimization and recovery, we considered two limitations of optimization processes and the light they shed on pseudo-recovery. Let’s now think more about what the ...

The following sample plan of study fulfills the M.S. degree in Computer Science concentrating in Computational Operations Research with an empahsis on optimization and analytics. There are a variety ...