Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World

Anna Nagurney, PhD, is John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is also the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization. Dr. Nagurney has over twenty years of academic and industry experience in the areas of transportation networks and congestion management, supply chain management, financial networks, network economics, and dynamic networks. Qiang Qiang, PhD, currently focuses his research on the mathematical modeling of complex decision-making on network systems with a concentration on transportation and logistics.