Keynote Speaker - Anna Nagurney

Dr. Anna Nagurney will speak at MeshForum. Her speech will be on "Networks - The Science Spanning Disciplines".

Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is also the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at UMass Amherst. She received her AB, ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She devotes her career to education and research that combines management, economics, and engineering. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics and economics and finance. She is the editor of the new book, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks (November 2003), and has authored or co-authored 8 other books including Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age, Financial Networks, Sustainable Transportation Networks, and Network Economics, and more than 100 refereed journal articles. For a full list of her publications see her Curriculum Vita.

Among the honors she has received are: a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, a Distinguished Fulbright Chair at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, two AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Fellowships, the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Massachusetts, an Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, a Faculty Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts, and the Kempe Prize from the University of Umea, Sweden. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brown University.

She is the editor of the book series, New Dimensions in Networks (Edward Elgar Publishing), and the co-editor of the book series, Advances in Computational Economics (Kluwer Academic Publishing).

She is the co-editor of the journal, Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, and is on the editorial boards of the journals: Networks, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Computational Economics, Computational Management Science, Annals of Regional Science, and the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications.

Professor Nagurney is a participant in the INFORMS Speakers Bureau. Click here for more info.

Professor Nagurney is the Faculty Advisor to the UMass - Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and its associated Lecture Series.

For more information see Professor Nagurney's home page