Stefan Wild Stefan Wild
PhD Alum
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell University
257 Rhodes
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 254-8871 - phone
(607) 255-9134 - fax
stefan (at) orie.cornell.edu - email
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Present

The new webpage of Stefan Wild.

Though I am often in Ithaca, as of September 2008 I am a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division.

Past

I defended my PhD dissertation in Operations Research at Cornell in August 2008 under the supervision of Christine Shoemaker and minor advisors Philip Liu, David Ruppert, and Charles Van Loan. I am grateful for the support of a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship while at Cornell. Prior to Cornell, I received BS and MS degrees in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado in beautiful Boulder.

My course of study is probably atypical within ORIE, but here are the non-PE courses I took or audited:

CEE 631 - Computational Simulation of Flow and Transport in the Environment - Philip Liu
CEE 655 - Transport, Mixing, and Transformation in the Environment - Philip Liu
COMS 621 - Matrix Computations - Charles Van Loan
COMS 622 - Numerical Optimization & Nonlinear Algebraic Equations - Tom Coleman
COMS 681 - Analysis of Algorithms - Dexter Kozen
COMS 685 - The Structure of Information Networks - Jon Kleinberg
OR&IE 626 - Adv. Prod. & Inventory Planning (Stochastic Dynamic Prog.) - Huseyin Topaloglu
OR&IE 630 - Mathematical Programming I - Robert Bland
OR&IE 631 - Mathematical Programming II - Leslie Trotter
OR&IE 632 - Nonlinear Programming - Adrian Lewis
OR&IE 633 - Graph Theory and Network Flows - David Williamson
OR&IE 635 - Interior-Point Methods for Mathematical Programming - James Renegar
OR&IE 650 - Applied Stochastic Processes - Narahari Prabhu
OR&IE 670 - Statistical Principles - Bruce Turnbull
OR&IE 674 - Statistical Learning Theory for Data Mining - David Ruppert
OR&IE 677 - Sequential Methods in Statistics - Bruce Turnbull
OR&IE 678 - Bayesian Statistics and Data Analysis - David Ruppert
OR&IE 680 - Simulation - Shane Henderson

I very much enjoyed my time at ORIE and used to maintain a page with useful information about the ORIE PhD Program but it is most likely outdated. I can strongly recommend the PhD program at ORIE for prospective students.

I have many nonacademic interests but, since this page is about Cornell and Ithaca, instead refer you to our (in-development) unauthorized Cornell PhD dissertation checklist, tell you that for my taste
the 10 best restaurants in Ithaca are:
Brotchen (Austrian)
Dijon (French)
Fine Line Bistro (American)
Four Seasons (Korean)
Garcias (Mexican)
Just A Taste (Tapas)
Maxie's Supper Club (Creole/Cajun)
Pangea (New American)
Taste of Thai (Thai)
Za Za's Cucina (Italian)
(other good restaurants that can be overpriced in my eyes include The Heights, Madelines Restaurant, The Moosewood, Watercress, and Willow), and let you know that without a doubt,
the 2 best restaurants within 45 minutes of Ithaca are:
Dano's Heuriger in Lodi and
Hazelnut Kitchen in Trumansburg.

If you need a list of things to do in Ithaca before you graduate,
my 10 favorite local not-so-secret things to do are:
Apple cider donuts and fall picking at Little Tree Orchards
Attending the Cornell-Harvard hockey home game
Cayuga or Seneca wine tour
Cliff diving and watching gorge ranger-sunbather interactions up Six Mile Creek
Cross country skiing at Hammond Hill
Friends of the Library book sale
Open air summer films at Cornell Cinema
Picking Himrod grapes at S. Bond's in Hector
Saturday (pastry) happy hour at Sarah's Patisserie
Smelling all sorts of aromas at the Ithaca Farmer's Market

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