Jane Hagstrom holds a PhD in Operations Research. Her research interests center on combinatorial reliability, network models, and optimization. She teaches Statistics, Programming and Program Design, Operations Management, and Management Science.   Her vita is available as a PDF document, viewable using Adobe's Acrobat Reader.

Current Research

·  Solving multi-commodity flow problems.

·  Braess's paradox when travel demand is large, with Robert Abrams.  Tech report available on request.

·  Loops and the Existence of Equilibrium-Inducing Tolls, with Robert Abrams. Available in its tech-report version, as a pdf file.

· Redundancy, substitutes, and complements in system reliability. Tech report available on request.

·  A note on function inversion for the algorithm of Bertsekas, Polymenakos, and Tseng for network flow problems with convex, separable costs. Available in its tech-report version, postscript format.

·  Computing tolls and checking equilibrium for traffic flows.  Available in its tech-report version, postscript format.

·  Traffic equilibrium: Link Flows, Path Flows and Strongly/Weakly Acyclic Solutions, with Paul Tseng. Available in its tech-report version, as a pdf file.

Courses

Current and recently-taught courses are listed on Course List.

Research Presentations

Some recent research presentations are available.

Other Projects

• Braess's Paradox
• Excel Use and Development

Mailing Address:
University of Illinois
IDS (m/c 294)
601 South Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607-7124

Revised,  15 October, 2009 , by JNH.