Robert Bosch Robert and Eleanor Biggs Professor of Natural Science King 220A (440) 775-8384 bobb@cs.oberlin.edu
B.A., Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1985 M.S., Operations Research and Statistics, RPI, 1987 Ph.D., Operations Research, Yale University, 1991

Schedule for Spring Semester 2008

Math 132-02 -- Calculus Ib
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2:30-3:20 in Science Center A155

Math 338-01 -- Probability Model & Random Process
Tuesday, Thursday 3:00 - 4:20 in King 227

 

Office Hours Spring 2008:

Monday, Wednesday	3:30 - 4:40
Tuesday, Thursday	12:00 - 1:30
	and by appointment

 

Current Reseach Interest: Opt Art

Currently I am interested in using optimization to create pictures, portraits, and other works of art. See my TSP Art and DominoArtwork.com pages for examples.

Selected Publications

• "Opt Art", Math Horizons 14(3) (2006) 6-9.
• "TSP Art" (with C.S. Kaplan), Proceedings of Bridges 2005 (2005) 303-310. See Craig Kaplan's marvelous TSP Art web page!
• "Pointillism via Linear Programming" (with A. Herman), The UMAP Journal 26(4) (2005) 393-400.
• "Continuous Line Drawings via the Traveling Salesman Problem" (with A. Herman), Operations Research Letters 32 (2004) 302-303.
• "Constructing Domino Portraits" in Tribute to a Mathemagician, ed. B. Cipra et al., A.K. Peters, 2004, 251-256.
• "Constraint Programming and Hybrid Formulations for Three Life Designs" (with M. Trick), Annals of Operations Research 130 (2004) 41-56.
• "Maximizing Fun at an Amusement Park" (with M. Cardiff and G. Hughes), The UMAP Journal 21(4), 483-498, (2000).
• "Finding Optimal Piano Fingerings" (with M. Hart and E. Tsai), The UMAP Journal 21(2) (2000) 167-177.
• "Optimal Card-Collecting Strategies for Magic: The Gathering", The College Mathematics Journal 31(1) (2000) 15-21.
• "Integer Programming and Conway's Game of Life", SIAM Review 41(3) (1999) 596-604.
• "Separating Hyperplanes and the Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers" (with J.A. Smith), The American Mathematical Monthly 105(7) (1998) 601-608.
• Refinements of Paltiel and Kaplan's Decision-theoretic Model of AIDS Clinical Trials" (with N.K. Stout), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 31(2) (1997) 87-101.
• "The Battle of the Burger Chains: Which is Best---Burger King, McDonald's, or Wendy's?", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 30(3) (1996) 157-162.
• "A New Infinity-Norm Path Following Algorithm for Linear Programming" (with K.M. Anstreicher), SIAM Journal on Optimization 5 (2) (1995) 236-246.
• "Big Mac Attack: The Diet Problem Revisited at McDonald's", OR/MS Today August (1993) 30-31.
• "Long Steps in an O(n³L) Algorithm for Linear Programming" (with K.M. Anstreicher), Mathematical Programming 54 (1992) 251-265.

 

Favorite Links

• Michael Trick's Operations Research Page (a terrific resource for OR-related stuff)
• John Mitchell's Collection of OR Sites (another great resource for OR-related stuff)
• Paul's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany (all about Conway's Game of Life)
• Derek Bosch's Home Page (my baby brother's web page)

Updated: February 4, 2008