James R. Luedtke Assistant Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Courses Education Fields of Interest Publications Awards & Honors

Contact Information

3236 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/890-2560 E-mail: jrluedt1@wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Industrial and Systems Engineering

Courses

• ISyE 313: Engineering Economic Analysis
• ISyE 320: Simulation and Probabilistic Modeling
• ISyE 620: Simulation Modeling and Analysis
• ISyE 720: Integer Programming

Education

• B.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
• M.S. Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
• Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007.

Fields of Interest

• Mixed integer programming, linear and nonlinear
• Stochastic optimization, especially optimization with risk constraints
• Applications in logistics, production scheduling, medicine, call center staffing and energy

Publications

• J. Luedtke. "An Integer Programming and Decomposition Approach to General Chance-Constrained Mathematical Programs," The 14th Conference for Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO 2010), Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 271-284.
• B. Armbruster and J. Luedtke. "Models and Formulations for Multivariate Dominance Constrained Stochastic Programs," Submitted for publication, 2010.
• I. Gurvich, J. Luedtke, and T. Tezcan. "Staffing Call Centers With Uncertain Demand Forecasts: A Chance-Constrained Optimization Approach," Management Science, To appear, 2010.
• J. Luedtke. "New Formulations for Optimization Under Stochastic Dominance Constraints," SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2008.
• J. Luedtke and S. Ahmed. "A Sample Approximation Approach for Optimization with Probabilistic Constraints," SIAM Journal on Optimization, 19, 674-699 (2008).
• J. Luedtke, S. Ahmed and G. Nemhauser. "An Integer Programming Approach for Linear Programs with Probabilistic Constraints," Mathematical Programming, 122, 247-272 (2010).
• J. Luedtke, S. Ahmed and G. Nemhauser. "An Integer Programming Approach for Linear Programs with Probabilistic Constraints," The Twelfth Conference for Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO 2007), Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4513 Spring 2007.
• J. Luedtke and G. Nemhauser. "Strategic Planning with Start-Time Dependent Variable Costs," Operations Research, 57, 1250-1261 (2009).
• J. Luedtke and C.C. White, III. "The Value of Asset Visibility in the Supply Chain: Single and Dual Source Models," 2004 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Proceedings, Vol. 5, 4189-94.

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• NSF CAREER Award, 2010.

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