Recent Technical Reports

• Stability of Saturn's Rings ``Linear Stability of Ring Systems''
• Eccentric Lagrange Points ``Lagrange Points for Eccentric Planar 3-Body Systems''
• Complex Lagrange Points ``Linear Stability of Lagrange Points: Complex Variable Notation''
• ISMP06. ``Extreme Optics and the Search for Earth-Like Planets''
• Pupil Mapping Sensitivity ``Diffraction-Based Sensitivity Analysis of Apodized Pupil Mapping Systems''
• Astrocon05paper ``Horsing Around on Saturn''
• Fresnel Pupil Mapping ``Fresnel Analysis of 2-D Pupil Mapping for High-Contrast Imaging''
• Pupil Mapping (with W.A. Traub) ``Pupil Mapping in 2-D for High-Contrast Imaging''
• SPIE 2004 (with N.J. Kasdin, M.G. Littman, M. Carr, and D.N. Spergel) ``The Shaped Pupil Coronagraph for Planet Finding Coronagraphy: Optimization, Sensitivity, and Laboratory Testing''
• NLPApps ``Nonlinear Programming and Engineering Applications''
• IPM (with I. Griva and D.F. Shanno) ``Convergence Analysis of a Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming''
• CheckerboardMasks (with N.J. Kasdin and D.N. Spergel) ``Checkboard Mask Coronagraphs for High-Contrast Imaging''
• SPIEnewPupils (with N.J. Kasdin, D.N. Spergel and M. Kuchner) ``New Pupil Masks for High-Contrast Imaging''
• ApJTwoMirrors (with W.A. Traub) ``Two-Mirror Apodization for High-Contrast Imaging''
• ApJStarshape (with D.N. Spergel and N.J. Kasdin) ``Circularly Symmetric Apodization via Starshaped Masks''
• ApJSpiders (with D.N. Spergel and N.J. Kasdin) ``Spiderweb Masks for High-Contrast Imaging''
• newOrbits ``New Orbits for the N-Body Problem''
• WSC_TPF3 (with N.J. Kasdin, R.A. Brown, C.J. Burrows, S. Kilston, M. Kuchner, M.G. Littman, M.C Noecker, S. Seager, D.N. Spergel, E.L. Turner, W.A. Traub, and R.A. Woodruff) ``An Optical/UV Space Coronagraph Concept for the Terrestrial Planet Finder''
• ApJOptimal (with N.J. Kasdin, D.N. Spergel, and M.G. Littman) ``Extrasolar Planet Finding via Optimal Apodized and Shaped Pupil Coronagraphs''
• ORFE 02-02. (with H. Benson and D.F. Shanno) ``Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Complementarity Constraints''
• ORFE 02-01 (revised 11/08/02). (with A. Ruszczynski) ``Frontiers of Stochastically Nondominated Portfolios''
• ORFE 01-04. (with H. Benson and D. Shanno) ``A Comparative Study of Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms''
• ORFE 00-06. (with H. Benson and D. Shanno) ``Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Filter Methods and Merit Functions''
• Chain. ``Case Studies in Optimization''
• ORFE 00-04. ``A Case Study in Trajectory Optimization: Putting on an Uneven Green''
• ORFE 00-03. ``Case Studies in Trajectory Optimization: Trains, Planes, and Other Pastimes''
• ORFE 00-02. (with H. Benson and D. Shanno) ``Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Jamming and Comparative Numerical Testing'' (revised Aug 25, 2000)
• MWSCAS99Array. (with J. Coleman) ``Random-Process Formulation of Computationally Efficient Performance Measures for Wideband Arrays in the Far Field''
• SOR 99-05. (with D. Shanno) ``Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Orderings andHigher-Order Methods''
• ORFE 99-01. (with H.Yurttan Benson) ``On Formulating Semidefinite Programming Problems as Smooth Convex Nonlinear Optimization Problems''
• CORR 98-16. (with S. Kruk, M. Muramatsu, F. Rendl, and H. Wolkowicz) ``The Gauss-Newton Direction in Semidefinite Programming''
• SOR 98-09. (with H. Yurttan) ``Using LOQO to Solve Second-Order Cone Programming Problems''
• SOR 97-21. (with D. Shanno) ``An Interior-Point Method for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming''
• SOR 97-08. ``LOQO User's Manual -- Version 4.05''
• SOR-95-07. ``Solving Multistage Stochastic Programs Using Tree Dissection'' (with A.J. Berger, J.M. Mulvey, and E. Rothberg)
• The Kruskal Count (with J.C. Lagarias and E. Rains)
• SOR 94-04. (with J. Iannone) ``An EM approach to OD matrix estimation''