Stephen M. Robinson

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Stephen Michael Robinson (born April 12, 1942 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American mathematician who deals with mathematical optimization and operations research .

Robinson studied at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a bachelor's degree in 1962 (in the same year he was at Sandia Laboratories), at New York University with a master's degree in 1965, was an instructor at the United States Military Academy in 1968/69 and received her PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971 with Olvi Mangasarian ("Error Analysis in Mathematical Programming, with Applications"). From 1972 he was assistant professor there and from 1979 professor for industrial engineering and computer science (computer science).

He dealt with error limits in optimization problems depending on errors in the input data and stability of linear programming , stochastic programming, simulation-based optimization (Sample Path Optimization) and decisions under uncertain conditions with applications in business administration, military (he led methods of stochastic programming in the US Department of Defense a) and financial mathematics.

From 1975 to 1980 he was co-editor of Mathematics of Operations Research and 1986 to 1991 of Mathematical Programming. He was the secretary of INFORMS.

In 1997 he received the George B. Dantzig Prize . He is an honorary doctor from the University of Zurich.

He is a highly decorated reserve officer in the US Army (with the rank of colonel).

Fonts

  • Bounds for error in the solution set of a perturbed linear program, Linear Algebra Applic., Volume 6, 1973, pp. 69-81
  • Computable error bounds for non linear programming, Mathematical Programming, Volume 5, 1973, pp. 235-242
  • A characterization of stability in linear programming, Operations Research, Volume 25, 1977, pp. 435-447
  • with Roger Wets : Stability in two-stage stochastic programming, SIAM J. Control Optimization, Volume 25, 1987, pp. 1409-1416
  • Analysis of sample-path optimization, Mathematics of Operations Research Volume 21, 1996, pp. 513-528
  • with Richard R. Laferriere: Scenario Analysis in US Army decision-making, Phalanx, Volume 33, March 2000, p. 10 (received the 2001 John K. Walker Award in Military Operations Research).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Stephen M. Robinson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Walker Award ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mors.org
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Stephen M
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Stephen Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus (Ohio)