Join us in welcoming Brian Lunday, retired colonel at AFIT, as he discusses current operations research topics. Alums and friends of the program are always welcome.

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Title and Abstract

Motivating Your Research Pursuits: Iter Meum, Iter Tuum (My Journey, Your Journey)

What motivates you to pursue your research? What will influence your development and pursuit of future, compelling research threads? This talk shares one approach to identify your own research journey, both in and beyond graduate studies. In doing so, the speaker will share elements of his experiences that individually and collectively informed his past, current, and future research pursuits. Additionally, this presentation will motivate and share recent research to model and optimally solve instances of a two-player, adversarial location problem, heretofore unexamined in the literature: the location set covering disruption problem.

Biographies

Brian J. Lunday is a Professor of Operations Research at the Air Force Institute of Technology, where he teaches linear and nonlinear programming, networks, and game theory; advises graduate-level student research; and manages the Master of Science in Operations Research program. His research and advising have yielded six graduated PhD students and 36 graduated master’s students to date, along with 65 peer-reviewed technical publications related to over $2M of research supporting nine sponsoring agencies. He is also a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, having served over 20 years in various leadership positions as both a combat engineer and an operations analyst.