Teaching Initiatives Set up and developed a third-year program in Operations IResearch,
involving preparation of notes, teaching material and computer programs,
development and maintenance of extensive program of group projects.
Supervision: Theses supervised include the foillowing:
Probability measures on topological spaces (D. B. Pollard, M.Sc., 1973)
Optimization in abstract spaces (L.Trudzik, PhD, 1982)
Non-differentiable programming (B. M. Glover, M.Sc., 1982)
Nondifferentiable programming and duality with modified convexity
(V. Jeyakumar, PhD, 1986)
Algorithms for zero-one linear programming (D. Sier, M.Sc. 1991).
Topics in multiobjective optimisation (S. Bolintineanu, PhD, 1992).
Optimality conditions in nonsmooth optimisation (B.M. Glover, PhD, 1993).
The development and analysis of four multiple-objective linear programming
algorithms (R. Keam, M.Sc., 1994
Multicriteria optimisation (J. C. San Pedro), PhD, 1997) .
Functions of generalised variation and oscillation (C. A. Wilson, PhD, 1998)
(co-supervisor)
Optimal control with a cost of changing control (Chen PING, M.Sc., 2002)
Research Optimization theory, including nonsmooth and multicriteria optimization,
generalized convexity, optimalcontrol. Collaboration on optimization with
mathematicians in Vietnam (Mathematics Institute, Hanoi), China (Institute
of Systems Science), India, Italy (University of Pisa),and France.
Substantial visits to universities in Sheffield, Poitiers and Seattle