Elmor L. Peterson

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Operations Research

B.S. in Physics, 1960; M.S. in Mathematics, 1961; Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1964; all from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Professional Biography

IE/MA/OR 505

Course Syllabus

IE/MA/OR 505 Notes

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10

Homework Solutions

• HW 1
• HW2HW 2
• HW3HW 3
Test Solutions - Spring 2005
• Test 1
• Test 2
Sample Test Solutions
• Sample Test I
• Sample Test II

MA/OR 706 section 1 Course Syllabus

Areas of interest: Optimization and equilibration, especially geometric programming and its interfaces with complementarity theory, fixed-point theory, and variational-inequality theory, including applications to: chemical equilibria, discrete Markov chains and queuing networks, discrete optimal control, economic equilibria, engineering design, information theory and statistical inference, location/allocation, network analysis and operation (particularly monotone networks of electric or hydraulic type, and certain types of transportation and transshipment networks), regression analysis, structural analysis and design, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, tomography and nondestructive testing. The iterative solution of systems of linear and nonlinear equations (especially algebraic equations), and large-scale linear programming.