Professor Jerzy Filar
Jerzy
Filar is a broadly trained applied mathematician with research
interests spanning a wide spectrum of both theoretical and applied
topics in Operations Research, Optimisation, Game Theory, Applied
Probability and Environmental Modelling. After sixteen years of
academic career in the US, which included appointments at the
University of Minnesota, The Johns Hopkins University and the
University of Maryland, he returned to Australia in 1992 where he is
the Foundation Chair of Mathematics and Statistics at the University
of South Australia. Professor Filar has co-authored (with K. Vrieze)
a research level text book “Competitive Markov Decision Process”
that was published by Springer in 1996. He also authored or
co-authored approximately 75 refereed research papers. Professor
Filar has an established record of research contracts/agreements
with government agencies and research institutes such US EPA, World
Resources Institute, Defence Science and Technology Organisation and
the Sir Keith and Sir Ross Smith Foundation. In 1994 Professor Filar
founded CIAM (Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) at the
University of South Australia. He is editor-in-chief of
Environmental Modelling and Assessment, co-editor of International
Game Theory Reviews and an Honorary Theme Editor of the Mathematical
Models Theme of the forthcoming UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support
Systems. He is also an Associate Editor of Journal of Mathematical
Analysis and Applications and of Mathematical Methods of Operations
Research (Zeitschrift für OR). Professor Filar is also a Fellow of
the Australian Mathematical Society.