Research Interests

Optimization theory; numerical analysis; and applied Mathematics. More specifically, the solution of deterministic and stochastic constrained problems in the calculus of variations and optimal control theory by efficient analytical and numerical methods.

Selected Publications

1. Constrained Optimization in the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory. This graduate level textbook-research monograph appeared in March 1992 in the Van Nostrand Reinhold Series in Applied Mathematics.
2. An Introduction to Numerical Analysis. This junior level textbook appeared in 1994 by the Bartlett and Jones Compnay.
3. (with C. Lin) An unconstrained calculus of variations formulation for generalized optimal control problems and for the constrained problem of Bolza, J. of Math. Anal. and Appl. 187 (1994), no. 3, 826-841.
4. (with K. Pericak-Spector) New methods of solving general constrained calculus of variations problems involving PDEs, Utilitas Mathematica 58 (2000), 215-224..
5. (with O.P. Agrawal and K. Pericak-Spector) A Bliss-type multiplier rule for constrained variational problems in the calculus of variations by unconstrained methods, J. Math. Anal. and Appl. 218 (1998), 127-135.