JAVA Applets!

• Roots of Random Polynomials
• N-Body Problem
• Binary Stars
• The Cool Pivot Tool
• Network-Simplex Pivot Tool
• Sailing Strategies
• Orrery--Planets in Motion

Applets in new Java7

• The Cool Pivot Tool
• Network-Simplex Pivot Tool

ORF 201 Projects

• Multidimensional Median
• Maze Solver
• Gaussian Eliminator
• Shortest Paths Computer
• Heat Diffusion
• Numerical Integrator
• Earth-Moon Simulator
• A Clock

JAVA Applet Illustrating Audio Filters!

• Pink Floyd's Money

JAVA Applets Illustrating Algorithms for Optimization!

• Two Phase Simplex Method
• Parametric Self-Dual Simplex Method
• Affine-Scaling Method
• FIR Filter Design
• NLP Animation using LOQO

Biographical Info

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Short Bio
• Longer Bio
• Google Scholar
• Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• Microsoft Academic
• Erdös Number (2)
• Press Clippings

Popular Press

• Sizing Up The Universe

Textbooks

• Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions
• Real and Convex Analysis

Both published and not-yet published

Slides for recent talks

Optimization Software

• User's Manual
• Benchmarks
• Licensing
• Pricesheet
• Download Trial Version
• Sample AMPL examples
• Matlab Interface LP/QP
• Matlab Interface LP/QP/SOCP

Course Info

• ORF307: Optimization
• ORF522: Linear Programming
• Blackboard

Cool Stuff!

• Xkcd map of the universe
• Xkcd cartoon on occulters
• Story Of My Life
• Tennis
• Milky Minutes
• John Sadowski's Spanish Castle
• Contrast is relative
• SAITECH Inc
• AMPL
• Rules for Writerers
• Aperture Facts
• Triangles on a Sphere
• On Conserving Energy
• Bill Cook's TSP page
• Powers of Ten

How to reach me...

• 209 Sherrerd Hall
  Princeton University
  Princeton NJ 08544
  (609) 258-2345
  rvdb @ princeton.edu
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