Fred S. Roberts, Director, DIMACS

Fred S. Roberts

Positions:

Director of DIMACS, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.

DIMACS was founded as an NSF "science and technology center" in 1988 and is a consortium of Rutgers and Princeton Universities, AT&T Labs, Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), NEC Laboratories America and Telcordia Technologies. Affiliate Members: Avaya Labs, Georgia Institute of Technology, HP Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology.

Director of DyDAn, Homeland Security Center for Dynamic Data Analysis.

DyDAn was founded as a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence in 2006 and is a consortium of Rutgers, Princeton, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Texas Southern University, Texas State University-San Marcos, AT&T Labs, and Bell Labs.

Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Fellow of RUTCOR, Rutgers Center for Operations Research, New Brunswick, NJ.

Member of Graduate Faculties in Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Computational Molecular Biology, BioMaPS (Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at the Interface between the Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences), and Education at Rutgers University.

Chair, Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative (RUHSRI)

Co-Chair, NJ Universities Consortium for Homeland Security Research

Contact information:

E-mail: froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
DIMACS Homepage: http://www.dimacs.rutgers.edu/People/Staff/froberts/index.html
Telephone: (732) 445-4303
Fax: (732) 445-5932
Snail Mail:

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Rutgers University

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Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018

Major Research Interests:

Mathematical models in the social, behavioral, biological and environmental sciences and of problems of communications and transportation; graph theory and combinatorics; measurement theory; operations research; utility, decisionmaking, and social choice; mathematical modeling and decisionmaking for homeland security.

Guide to My Publications: Index of Topics

A Selection of Recent Talks: Index of Recent Talks

A Selection of Current DIMACS Projects I'm Involved In: Index of Projects

Interested in my full vita? Click here for PostScript. Here for PDF.

Click here for a picture of me receiving the NSF Science and Technology Centers Pioneer Award from the National Science Foundation.

Four generations of the Roberts Mathematical Sciences Family: From left to right: Dana Scott, his "child" Fred Roberts, his "child" Garth Isaak, and his "child Darren Narayan", Jan. 2004, Phoenix, AZ.

Photos from Conference on Applications of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science: A Celebration in Honor of the Contributions of Fred S. Roberts on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, October 10-11, 2003

For photos of my Congressional Briefing on Mathematics and Homeland Security, see http://www.ams.org/government/congress-briefing-sept04.html.

Click here for additional pictures of the Congressional Briefing on Mathematics and Homeland Security in September 2004.

Click here for pictures of Opening of NSF Beijing Office, May 2006.

Click here for pictures of US-China Leadership Summit, Beijing, May 2006.

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Document last modified on June 30, 2008.