MS&E's contributions to first 50 years of Mathematics of Operations Research
Mathematics of Operations Research, a flagship journal for MS&E, recently published a list of 50 iconic papers to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
MS&E is well represented in the list of papers, which includes one from each year starting in 1976. Eight of the papers were authored or co-authored by our faculty and many were co-authored by MS&E alums. Below are the papers by our faculty, in bold, and alumni, who appear with their graduation year:
1985: Distributional Strategies for Games with Incomplete Information
Paul R. Milgrom*, Robert J. Weber
1990: Newton's Method for B-Differentiable Equations
John-Shi Pang (PhD '77)
1993: On Adaptive-Step Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithms for Linear Programming
Shinji Mizuno, Michael J. Todd, Yinyu Ye
2011: The Simplex and Policy-Iteration Methods Are Strongly Polynomial for the Markov Decision Problem with a Fixed Discount Rate
Yinyu Ye
2012: Online Stochastic Matching: Online Actions Based on Offline Statistics
Vahideh H. Manshadi (PhD '11, Electrical Engineering—advised by MS&E Professor Amin Saberi), Shayan Oveis Gharan (PhD '13), Amin Saberi
2014: Learning to Optimize via Posterior Sampling
Daniel Russo (PhD '15), Ben Van Roy
2019: Quantifying Distributional Model Risk via Optimal Transport
Jose Blanchet, Karthyek Murthy (former Visiting Scholar in MS&E)
2021: Statistics of Robust Optimization: A Generalized Empirical Likelihood Approach
John C. Duchi, Peter W. Glynn, Honseok Namkoong (PhD '19)
2022: Entropy Regularization for Mean Field Games with Learning
Xin Guo, Renyuan Xu, Thaleia Zariphopoulou
See the full list of influential papers, along with an introduction and commentary from MOR's senior editors, here: Editor's comments on 50th anniversary of Mathematics of Operations Research
*Paul Milgrom, Professor of Economics at Stanford, holds a courtesy appointment in MS&E.
