Optimization Activities at University of Maryland, College Park
(Engineering and Applied Mathematics Disciplines)

Faculty Webpages and Research Areas

• Prof. Shapour Azarm
  Affiliations: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  Research Areas: Multi-objective optimization, multi-disciplinary design optimization, multi-attribute decision making
• Prof. Roberto Celi
  Affiliations: Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
  Research Areas: Multidisciplinary design optimization (helicopter aeroelasticity, handling qualities)
• Prof. Steven A. Gabriel
  Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Project Management Program), Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Interdisciplinary Program
  Research Areas: Equilibrium problems (variational inequality problem/nonlinear complementarity problem), nonlinear programming, multi-objective optimization, stochastic programming, decision modeling in project management
• Prof. Dianne O'Leary
  Affiliations: Dept. of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Interdisciplinary Program, Advanced Computer Studies
  Research Areas: Linear and nonlinear programming, unconstrained optimization, and solving the linear algebra problems that arise in these algorithms
• Prof. André Tits
  Affiliations: Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
  Research Areas: Nonlinear programming, optimization-based design, numerical methods in controls, robust control

Courses
(key: Course, Instructor, When Taught
TBD=to be decided)

• AMSC 477 Optimization (co-listed with CSMC 477, ENCE 625), Tseng, Fall 2001
• AMSC 607 Advanced Numerical Optimization (co-listed with CMSC 764), O'Leary, Fall 2001
• ENCE 688 Z/AMSC 698 Z Advanced Topics in Applied Mathematics: Multi-objective Optimization (co-listed with ENCE 688z), Gabriel, Fall 2001
• AMSC ???, Advanced Numerical Optimization II, TBD,TBD
• ENAE 681 Engineering Optimization, Celi, Spring 2002
• ENEE 664 Optimal Control, Spring 2002
• ENCE 689, Independent Study in Nonlinear Programming, Gabriel, Spring 2002
• ENCE 688G/AMSC 698G, Probabilistic Optimization, Gabriel, Fall 2002
• ENCE 688M/AMSC 698M Equilibrium Models, Gabriel, Fall 2003
• ENCE 688N, Nonlinear Programming, Gabriel, Spring 2003
  (to be cross-listed with BMGT and AMSC)
• ENME 489, Design Optimization, Azarm, Spring 2002
• ENME 610, Engineering Optimization, Azarm, Fall 2002
• ENME 625, Multi-disciplinary Optimization, Azarm, TBD

Optimization Seminars at Maryland Universities
UMCP = University of Maryland, College Park
UMBC = University of Maryland, Baltimore County
JHU = The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

• JHU: Sept. 20, 2001 4pm, Jong-Shi Pang Copositive Matrices in Mathematical Programming
• JHU: Sept. 27, 2001 4pm, Renato Monteiro, Solving Semidefinite Programs via Nonlinear Programming
• JHU: October 25, 2001 4pm,James F. Lawrence, Some Problems of Combinatorial Geometry
• UMCP: November 30, 2001, 11am, Room 4424 AV Williams Building, Anthony J. Kearsley, An Infeasible Point Method for Solving A Class of Binary Programming Problems
• JHU: December 6, 2001, 4pm, Florian A. Potra, A Superlinearly Convergent Interior Point Method for LCPs Based on a Large Neighborhood of the Central Path

Links

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Optimization Network Homepage
• Mathematical Programming Society (MPS)
• SIAM Special Interest Group on Optimization
• SIAM Special Interest Group on Control and Systems Theory
• IEEE Control Systems Society
• Global Optimization Site
• NEOS Optimization Server

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