James Berger Orlin (born April 19, 1953)Curriculum vitae
accessed 2011-03-05. is an American

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er, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the

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.Faculty biography
Sloan School, accessed 2011-03-05.

Biography

Orlin did his undergraduate studies at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974. In 1976, he earned two master's degrees, an MSc from

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

and an MMath from

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. Orlin received his Ph.D. in

from Stanford University in 1981 under the supervision of Arthur Fales Veinott Jr. He joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1979, and became the Brooks Professor in 1998.

Selected works

He is the author of the book ''Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications'' (with Thomas L. Magnanti and Ravindra K. Ahuja, Prentice Hall, 1993), for which he and his co-authors were the recipients of the 1993 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger o ...

Honors and awards

He is also a Fellow of INFORMS and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor..

References

External links

Jim Orlin's blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Orlin, James B. 1953 births Living people American operations researchers University of Pennsylvania alumni California Institute of Technology alumni Stanford University alumni MIT Sloan School of Management faculty Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences