Nagurney, Anna (University of Massachusetts)

Topics:

Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the 21st Century (Intermediate)

Networks for Fun and Profit (Advanced)

Networks: from Transportation to Finance (Intermediate)

Experiences of a Female Academic: Why Teaching and Research in Operations Research and Management Science are So Rewarding (Elementary)

Dynamic Networks with Applications (Elementary-Intermediate):

Background:

• Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, specializing in Operations Research, Brown University
• ScM Applied Mathematics Brown University
• ScB Applied Mathematics Brown University
• AB Russian Language and Literature Brown University

Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and serves as the Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization. She has devoted her career to research and education that combines management, engineering, and economics. She is the editor of the new book, "Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks," and has authored or co-authored 8 other books including: "Financial Networks," "Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age," "Sustainable Transportation Networks," and "Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach." She has published over 100 refereed journal articles and many book chapters. Among the honors she has received are: a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, a Distinguished Chaired Fulbright at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, two AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Fellowships, an Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship, the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a National Science Faculty Award for Women and a Visiting Professorship for Women, and the Kempe Prize from the University of Umea in Sweden.

She has held visiting professorships at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, at MIT, and at Brown University. She is the editor of the book series, New Dimensions in Networks, and the coeditor of the journal Netnomics. She serves on several other journal editorial boards including: Networks, Computational Economics, Computational Management Science, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Her research interests span a variety of network topics and applications beginning with congested urban transportation networks to international financial networks with intermediation and global supply chain networks. Professor Nagurney is a Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2005-2006 academic year.