Faculty - Richard C. Larson

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Richard C. Larson

Mitsui Professor

Past-President of INFORMS

MIT
Room 1-170
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02139

Dr. Larson's LINC page

Telephone: 617.253.3604 e-mail: rclarson@mit.edu

Education

  • BS 1965, MIT
  • SM 1967, MIT
  • PhD 1969, MIT

Curriculum vita (pdf)

Research Interests

  • Operations Research, Logistics, Services industries, Queueing theory, Location theory, Technology-enabled education, Higher education in developing countries

Teaching Interests

  • Operations Research; Enginering Systems and Management; International outreach in teaching, learning and collaboration

Selected Publications

  1. 2006: Larson, R. C. Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards; Reflections on Definitions of Operations Research by Morse and Kimball, a chapter in Perspectives in Operations Research: Papers in Honor of Saul Gass' 80th Birthday, Bruce Golden, ed., Springer.
  2. 2006: Larson, R. C. "Simple Models of Influenza Progression within a Heterogeneous Population," accepted for publication, Operations Research.
  3. 2006: Larson, R. C. and M. E. Murray, "Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development: A Focus on China and Mexico," accepted for publication, Journal of Science Education and Technology.
  4. 2006: Larson, R. C. and M. D. Metzger, M. F. Cahn, "Responding to Emergencies: lessons Learned and the Need for Analysis, Interfaces, Nov.-Dec. 2006.