Michael A. Trick

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Professor of Operations Research; Associate Dean, Research

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Applications of operations research, computational combinatorial optimization, applications in scheduling and distribution

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/trick

Published Papers: 

• Optimizing Highway Transportation at the United States Postal Service
  Interfaces, 2007.
  (With: A. Pajunas, E. Matto, Luis F. Zuluaga)
  
  
• A Benders Approach to the Constrained Minimum Break Problem
  European Journal of Operations Research, 2006.
  (With: R. Rassmussen)
  
  
• Sports Scheduling
  Handbook of Scheduling, J. Y-T Leung (ed), CRT Press, 2004.
  (With: George Nemhauser, K. Easton)
  
  
• Constraint Programming and Hybrid Formulations for Three Life Designs
  Annals of Operation Research 130, 2004; 41-56.
  (With: R. Bosch)
  
  
• A Dynamic Programming Approach for Consistency and Propogation for Knapsack Constraints
  Annals of Operations Research, 2004.
  
  
• Enhancing Value by Optimal Segmentation: Application to Determine Newspaper Zones
  Naval Research Logistics, 2004.
  (With: Anuj Mehrotra)
  
  
• Constraint and Integer Programming
  Constraint and Integer Programming: Toward a Unified Methodoloy, M. Milano (ed), Kluwer, 2003.
  (With: M. Milano)
  
  
• Spline Approximations to Value Functions: A Linear Programming Approach
  Macroeconomic Dynamics.
  (With: Stanley Zin)
  
  
• A Schedule-and-Break Approach to Sports Scheduling
  in PATAT'2000, E. Burke and W. Erben (eds.), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2079, 2001; 242-253.
  
  
• Optimal Shift Scheduling: A Branch-and-Price Approach
  Naval Research Logistics 47, 2000; 185-200.
  (With: Anuj Mehrotra, K. Murphy)
  
  
• Scheduling a Major College Basketball Conference
  Operations Research 46, 1998; 1-8.
  (With: George Nemhauser)
  
  
• A Column Generation Approach for Exact Graph Coloring
  INFORMS Journal on Computing 8, 1996; 344-354.
  (With: Anuj Mehrotra)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Cliques and Clustering: A Combinatorial Approach
  May, 1997.
  (With: Anuj Mehrotra)
  
  
• Scheduling a Major College Basketball Conference
  May, 1997.
  (With: George Nemhauser)
  
  
• Faster Decomposition of Totally Decomposable Metrics with Applications
  December, 1996.
  (With: George Christopher)
  
  
• Adaptive Spline Generation: A New Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Dynamic Programs
  September, 1995.
  (With: Stanley Zin)
  
  
• A Linear Programming Approach to Solving Stochastic Dynamic Programming
  August, 1993.
  (With: Stanley Zin)
  
  

Awards:

• Hood Fellow, University of Auckland - 2007
• Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni, Georgia Institute of Technology - 1995-
• Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award - 1992-1995
• George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom, MBA Program - 1991

Editorial Boards:

• Operations Research (Area Editor), 2006-
• INFORMS Online (Founding Editor), 1995-2000
• INFORMS Transactions on Education (Associate Editor), 1999-
• Constraints (Associate Editor), 1995-

Boards:

• Member, Executive Committee, Association for Constraint Programming, 2007-2009
• Vice President, North America, International Federation of Operations Research Societies, 2004-2009
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, President, 2002

Consulting:

• Motorola
• Bellcore
• United States Postal Service
• Major League Baseball
• Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball
• Internal Revenue Service

Other Professional Activities:

• Director at Large, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (1998-2000)
• President, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2002)
• Vice President, North America, International Federation of Operation Research Societies (2004-2006)

Courses Taught:

• Optimization and Decision Making (45-760)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: B)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: C)
  
  
• OR Techniques for Consultants (45-860)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: E)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: E)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: M)
  
  
• Mining Data for Decision Making (45-863)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2009, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2009, Mini 4 (Section: E)
  • 2009, Mini 4 (Section: M)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: E)