Dynamic Networks: Recent Results and Applications
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Date: 09-19-2006
Start Time:
1:00pm
End Time: 2:00pm
Speaker: Anna Nagurney, Isenberg School, University of Massachusetts
Location: Mudd 303
Abstract
In this talk, I will provide an overview of dynamic networks and the related tools that we are developing for their study, along with applications ranging from multitiered supply chains and electric power generation and distribution networks to integrated financial and social networks. I will demonstrate the relationships between different applications and transportation networks, and also describe some recent research in the unification of projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities. I will conclude with a dynamic model of the Internet.
Bio
Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is also the founding director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her A.B., Sc.B., Sc.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She devotes her career to education and research that combines management, economics, and engineering. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics and economics and finance. Her most recent book is Supply Chain Network Economics, published in July 2006. She has authored or coauthored eight other books including Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age; Financial Networks; Sustainable Transportation Networks; and Network Economics; and edited the book, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks, as well as authored or coauthored more than 100 refereed journal articles.