Professor of Mathematical Sciences; Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems

Education:

Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University, 1988
B.A. Hons, Mathematics, Cambridge University, 1983

Research Areas:

Optimization, integer programming, linear programming, conic optimization, semidefinite programming, mathematical modeling ofinterdependendent infrastructures with particular emphasis onresponse and recovery after a disruption and mitigation of the effects of a disruption.

Selected Publications:

A unifying framework for several cutting plane methods for semidefinite programming, with Kartik Krishnan, Optimization Methods and Software, 21(1), February 2006, pages 57-74.

A semidefinite programming heuristic for quadratic programming problems with complementarity constraints, with Steve Braun, Computational Optimization and Applications 31(1), 2005, pages 5-29.

Polynomial interior point cutting plane methods, Optimization Methods and Software, 18(5), pages 507-534, 2003.

"Computational experience with an interior point cutting plane algorithm", SIAM Journal on Optimization, volume 10(4), pages 1212-1227, 2000.

Contact Information:

mitchj@rpi.edu

Phone: (518) 276-6915
Fax: (518) 276-4824

Office:325 Amos Eaton Hall
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

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