JAVA/Javascript Applets!

• The Cool Pivot Tool
• The Advanced Pivot Tool
• Simplex Method Cycling
• Simplex Method Worst Case
• Gomory Cutting Plane Tool
• Network-Simplex Pivot Tool
• Transportation Problem
• Dykstra's Algorithm
• N-Body Problem
• Orrery--Planets in Motion
• Binary Stars
• Sailing Strategies
• Pink Floyd's Money

ORF 201 Projects

• Multidimensional Median
• Maze Solver
• Gaussian Eliminator
• Matrix Inversion

WebGL Applets

• Olbers' Paradox
• Olbers' Paradox in a Box
• Fekete Problem

JAVA Applets Illustrating Algorithms for Optimization!

• Two Phase Simplex Method
• Parametric Self-Dual Simplex Method
• Affine-Scaling Method
• Falling Slinky
• FIR Filter Design

Biographical Info

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Abbreviated CV
• Short Bio
• Longer Bio
• Astro Bio
• Senior Theses Advised
• Google Scholar
• Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• Microsoft Academic
• Erdös Number (2)
• Transcripts
• Press Clippings
• Places I've Lived

Popular Press

• Sizing Up The Universe

Textbooks

• Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions
• Real and Convex Analysis

Both published and not-yet published

Slides for recent talks

Optimization Software

• User's Manual
• Benchmarks
• Licensing
• Pricesheet
• Download Trial Version
• Sample AMPL examples
• Matlab Interface LP/QP
• Matlab Interface LP/QP/SOCP

Course Info

• ORF201: Computer Methods for Problem Solving
• ORF245: Statistics
• ORF307: Optimization
• ORF522: Linear and Convex Optimization
• Blackboard
• Appointment Scheduler (WASE)
• Appointment Scheduler (WASS)

Courses from the Past

• CIV308: Stochastic Systems Analysis
• CIV506: Real Analysis for Engineers
• ORF515: Stochastic Processes
• ORF523: Nonlinear Programming
• ORF569: Convex Analysis

Undergraduate Theses Advised

• 1993--present

Cool Stuff!

• Pivot Tools at NEOS
• Sky Marvels by Gary Winter
• Xkcd map of the universe
• Xkcd cartoon on occulters
• Princeton = Top Gun
• Story Of My Life
• Near Earth Objects
• Tennis
• Milky Minutes
• Waves of Rings
• John Sadowski's Spanish Castle
• Contrast is relative
• SAITECH Inc
• AMPL
• Rules for Writerers
• Aperture Facts
• On Conserving Energy
• Kepler's Planets
• Rubik's Cube
• Powers of Ten
• One Pixel Moon

How to reach me...

• 209 Sherrerd Hall
  Princeton University
  Princeton NJ 08544
  (609) 258-2345
  
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