Program Description

Doctorate students majoring in operations research concentrate in 1 of 3 areas:

Applied probability and statistics stresses the strategy and connected underlying theory of probability and statistics, particularly as put on problems in science, finance, and engineering. The strategy emphasized are individuals connected with applied stochastic processes (for instance, mathematical finance, queuing theory, traffic theory, and inventory theory) and statistics (including record decision theory, reliability theory, analysis of existence data, and also the record facets of the look, analysis, and interpretation of experiments as well as ranking and selection theory).

Manufacturing systems engineering is worried using the analysis and style of complex manufacturing and distribution systems. Problems studied range from the establishment of inventory-control policies in multistage production and distribution systems style of manufacturing plants with optimal levels of equipment and optimal materials-handling systems planning and scheduling of production in large-scale, multi-item, multilocation systems and economic analysis of engineering processes. Students use modern analytic and computer approaches to the look and analysis of these systems. Students are anticipated to know the manufacturing processes connected with some form of industry. Research, which might involve growth and development of new mathematical methodology, is frequently conducted directly having a cooperating company, for instance, in automotive or semiconductor manufacturing.

Mathematical programming focuses on optimization, including straight line, nonlinear, integer, and combinatorial programming network flows problems of scheduling and sequencing and discrete and computational geometry.

Research varies from the expansion and applying computational algorithms (exact and approximate) towards the connected studies of duality theory, convex and variational analysis, polyhedra, combinatorics, and graph theory.

Doctorate students also select two minor subjects for that Ph.D. degree, one of these should be outdoors the area. A small might be in operations research or perhaps in a topic offered in another field, for example information technology, econometrics and economic statistics, ecological systems engineering, managing financial aspects, mathematics, or planning theory and systems analysis.

Additionally towards the examinations needed through the Graduate School, the area needs a qualifying examination for Ph.D. degree candidates, normally drawn in the 3rd term of graduate attend Cornell.

Contact Details

201 Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall
Cornell College
Ithaca, NY 14853

Concentrations by Subject

• applied probability and statistics
• manufacturing systems engineering
• mathematical programming

Tuition

Application Needs and Deadlines

Fall: Jan 5, Spring: no admission,

• All Graduate School needs
• Three strategies for the Ph.D.
• GRE general test
• TOEFL minimum score of 600 paper-based or 250 computer-based or 100 Internet-based
• For further needs for signing up to the Ph.D. please make reference to: world wide web.orie.cornell.edu/academics/physician/apply.cfm

Assessment