Biographical Sketch Donald W. Hearn

Donald W. Hearn is a Professor Emeritus in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. He received an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of North Carolina as a Morehead Scholar and received Masters and Ph. D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University in management science and operations research. His teaching includes decision modeling and methods, nonlinear optimization and large-scale optimization. In addition to the University of Florida, he has taught at M.I.T. and has given short courses at the University of Rome and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His research interests include applied optimization and transportation science. Recent work has concerned the development of efficient algorithms for models that arise in production planning, urban traffic assignment and water management. He is founding editor of OPTIMA, the newsletter of the Mathematical Programming Society, associate editor of Computational Optimization and Applications and a past associate editor of Operations Research. He is author/co-author of over over 65 refereed articles, co-editor of the books Large-Scale Optimization: State of the Art, Network Optimization and Mathematical and Computational Methods for Congestion Charging, and co-editor of the Kluwer book series Applied Optimization. In 2004 he was elected as a Fellow of The Institute of Operations Research and Management Science.

Donald W. Hearn ISE Dept., 303 Weil Hall P. O. Box 116595 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-6595 phone: 352-392-1475 fax: 352-392-3537 email: hearn@ise.ufl.edu

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