Ariela Sofer

Title: Professors and Chair, Department of Systems Engineering & Operations Research
EMail: asofer@gmu.edu
Department: Systems Engineering & Operations Research
Phone: 703-993-1692
Website: mason.gmu.edu/~asofer

Education

• D.Sc., The George Washington
• M.Sc., Technion, Israel
• B.Sc., Technion, Israel

Research

• Optimization; Nonlinear Programming, Optimization in Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Airport Planning

Books and Edited Volumes

• Linear and Nonlinear Programming, McGraw Hill, 1996 (with Stephen G. Nash).
• The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Computer Science and Operations Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 (with Stephen G. Nash, eds.).
• Optimization in Medicine, Annals of OR Vol. 119, Kluwer Academic Publishers, March 2003 (with Eva Lee, eds.).

Selected Articles

• A Primal-Dual Method for Large-Scale Image Reconstruction in Emission Tomography, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 691-715, 2001 (with C.A. Johnson).
• Optimization in Prostate Cancer Detection, Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001, pp. 114--121 (with J. Zeng and S.K. Mun)
• On the Complexity of a Practical Interior-Point Method, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 1998, 8 pp. 833-849 (with S.G. Nash)
• S.G. Nash and A. Sofer, Preconditioning Reduced Matrices, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 1996, No. 17, 1, pp. 47-68 (with S.G. Nash).

Professional Activities

• Cochair, SIAM Conference on Optimization 2002
• Vice Chair/Chair Elect of INFORMS Computing Society
• Associate Editor, Operations Research Journal (1997-2000)
• Secretary/Treasurer of SIOPT (1997-2000);

Professional Awards

• National Science Foundation, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998
• Center for Innovative Technology, 1991