Warren P Adams

Position:
Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Education:
PhD, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1985
MS, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1981
BS, Mathematics and Management Science, Lewis University, 1979

Professional Interests:
Mathematical programming and optimization theory, with particular interest in integer programming, networks, location theory, and large scale linear programming.

Professional Activities:
INFORMS member; Currently funded by the National Science Foundation on "Novel Approaches to Mixed-Discrete and Nonconvex Programs: Polyhedral and Algebraic Methods," Principal Investigator.

Selected Publications:

• Adams, W.P. and Sherali, H.D., A Hierarchy of Relaxations Leading to the Convex Hull Representation for General Discrete Optimization Problems, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 140, No. 1, 21-47, (2005).
• Adams, W.P. and Forrester, R.J., Linear Forms of Nonlinear Expressions: New Insights on Old Ideas, Operations Research Letters , Vol. 35, Issue 4, 510-518, (2007).
• Adams, W.P., and Hadavas, P.T., A Network Approach for Specially-Structured Linear Programs Arising in 0-1 Quadratic Optimization, to appear in Discrete Applied Mathematics.

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Department of Mathematical Sciences.