Professor James E. Falk

James E. Falk

Office: Staughton Hall - Room 212
Phone: (202) 994-7516
Fax: (202) 994-0245
E-mail: falk@seas.gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D. (Mathematics) University of Michigan (1965) 

M.S. (Mathematics) University of Michigan (1961) 
B.E.E. (Electrical Engineering) University of Detroit (1960) 
Title:
Professor of Operations Research
Course Director:
  • OR 252- Nonlinear Programming I
  • OR 254/154- Applications of Linear and Nonlinear Optimization Theory 
  • OR 261- Theory of Games 
  • OR 351- Advanced Topics in Mathematical Programming 
  • OR 352- Nonlinear Programming II

    • OR 354- Optimization Using Factorable Functions
Research Interests:
Specialty areas: mathematical optimization; game theory; mathematical modeling.

Research projects: robustness problems in missile defense; unconstrained minimization methods for solving training problems arising in neural net applications; mathematical programming; discrimination analysis.
Selected Papers:
1996 -"A Method of Euclidian Centers" (with J. Fagan), Journal of Computees and operations Research, Vol 23, No. 1 (Jan. 1996).
1995 -"Euclidean Centers and Linear Programming" (with J. Fagan), Czechoslovak Journal for Operations Research, Vol 3, No. 3.
1994
 -"Image Space Analysis of Generalized Fractional Programs" (with S. Palocsay), Journal of Global Optimization, 4: 63-88.
1993 -"Algorithms for General Bi-Level Programs" (with J. Liu), Central European Journal for Operations Research, 2: 101-117. 
1992 -"Nonconvex Optimization via Analysis in Image Space" (with S. Palocsay), Czechoslovak Journal for Operations Research, 1 2. 
1992 -"Bounds on a Trauma Outcome Function via Optimization" (with S. Palocsay, W. Sacco, W. Copes, and H. Champion), Operations Research, 40, Supp. 1.