Doug Altner
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
Email: altner at usna dot edu
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Welcome to my piecework website. Updates come at my whim.
Background:
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy. I finished my Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. My thesis advisor was Dr. Özlem Ergun.
I received a B.S. in Mathematics
with a concentration in operations research at Carnegie
Mellon University. I grew up in
Feel free to peruse my research page as well as my academic family tree.
Operations Research Links:
Operations Research: The Science of Better
Operations Research, from Wikipedia
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
Mathematical Programming Society
Military Operations Research
Society (MORS)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Personal:
As a personal interest, I am a fan of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. If you are at USNA and are interested in the novel, feel free to contact me.
I also have an article published on The Barbary Wars and their lesson for combating piracy today. Read it here.