Richard Weber (mathematician)
Richard Weber | |
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| Born | 25 February 1953 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Awards | Mayhew Prize (1975) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | operations research |
| Thesis | The Optimal Organization of Multiserver Systems (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Nash |
| Website | http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~rrw1/ |
Richard Robert Weber (born 25 February 1953) is a
Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
.
Weber was educated at Walnut Hills High School, Solihull School and Downing College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1974, and completed his
PhD in 1980 under the supervision of Peter Nash.[3] He has been on the faculty of the University of Cambridge since 1978, and a fellow of Queens' College since 1977 where he has been Vice President from 1996–2007 and again from 2018–2020. He was appointed Churchill Professor
in 1994, and he became
Emeritus Churchill Professor on retirement in 2017. He was Director of the Statistical Laboratory from 1999 to 2009, and is a trustee of the Rollo Davidson Trust.[4]
He works on the mathematics of large
complex systems subject to uncertainty. He has made contributions to stochastic scheduling, Markov decision processes, queueing theory, the probabilistic analysis of algorithms, the theory of communications pricing and control, and rendezvous search
.
Weber and his co-authors were awarded the 2007
bin packing algorithm.[5]
Selected publications
- Courcoubetis, C.; Weber, R. R. (2003). Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-85130-2.
- Csirik, J.; S2CID 103436.
- Courcoubetis, C.; Weber, R. R. (2006). "Incentives for large peer-to-peer systems". S2CID 6977430.
- ISBN 978-0-470-67002-6.
- Weber, Richard (2012). "Optimal symmetric rendezvous search on three locations". S2CID 18219038.
References
- ^ "Who's Who".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Richard Weber's homepage at Cambridge University".
- ^ Richard Weber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Trustees of the Rollo Davidson Trust". Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
- ^ "INFORMS Computing Society past prizewinners".
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