Feichtinger, Gustav #
* 14. 7. 1940, Wiener Neustadt
Prof. Dr. Gustav Feichtinger
Mathematik, OR, Weltreisender
Personal Data#
- Date of Birth: July 14, 1940
- Place of Birth: Wiener Neustadt, Austria
- Marital Status: Married with Ingrid Feichtinger, two daughters: Susanne and Evelyn
Academic Data and Professional Experience#
- University of Vienna (Mathematics and Physics) 1958 - 1963
- Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebra) 1963
- IBM Research Laboratory Vienna 1964 – 1965
- University of Bonn (Statistics and Operations Research, Assistant and Associate Professor) 1965 - 1972
- Habilitation in Statistics (Demography) 1970
- University of Technology Vienna (Full Professor for Operations Research) since 1972,
- Head of the Research Group ORDYS (Operations Research and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems) at the Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics
- Head of the Division for Theoretical Demography at the Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1977-2002
- Part-time position at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 1992 - 2004
- Vienna Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Head of Division for Population Economics since 2002
- Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2001
- Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty for Economics of the University of Magdeburg in 2007
Research Interests#
- Applications of optimal control theory and dynamic games in economics and OR/MS
- Nonlinear dynamic modeling of socio-economic processes
- Economics of 'deviant behaviour': addiction, corruption, violence, terrorism
- Dynamic cost-benefit analysis in public policy, epidemiology (illicit drug dynamics,HIV)
- Demography population mathematics, demo-economics
- Health economics
- Social interactions, peer groups and networks
Memberships#
- Austrian Society for Mathematics (ÖMG)
- Austrian Society for Operations Research (ÖGOR)
- European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
- German Society for Operations Research (GOR)
- International Society for Dynamic Games (ISDG)
Associate Editorships#
- Central European Journal of Operations Research (CEJOR)
- International Abstracts in Operations Research (IAOR)
- International Game Theory Review (IGTR) Journal of Optimization Theory and Application (JOTA)
Contact#
- Telephone: +43 1 58801 / 10545
- Fax: +43 1 58801 / 910545
- E-mail: gustav@eos.tuwien.ac.at
- http://orcos.tuwien.ac.at/people/feichtinger
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