Jennifer A. Blue, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Phone: (518) 276-6345

E-mail: bluej@rpi.edu



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A bit about me!



Course Material -- RPI Troy Main Campus -- Fall 2008

  • Calculus 2 - Math 1020 Sections 1 - 4
  • Course Material -- Navy Nuclear Program Malta Campus -- Fall 2008

  • Beginning C Programming for Engineers - Navy Nuclear Program
  • Introduction to Differential Equations - Navy Nuclear Program
  • Methods and Analysis of Uncertainty (MAU) - Navy Nuclear Program
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    Presentations

    "iClicker: The Fun is Infinite!" 15th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, St. Lawrence University, April 19, 2008, Canton NY.

    "MAXIMIZE! Even with all those imposing constraints," 9th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Hamilton College, April 27, 2002, Clinton NY.

    "The Trouble with Flying," 8th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Skidmore College, April 28, 2001, Saratoga Springs NY.

    "What is a Neural Network?" 7th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Vassar College, April 8, 2000, Poughkeepsie NY.

    "An Introduction to Data Classification," 6th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Siena College, April 17, 1999, Loudonville NY.

    "An Extreme Point Tabu Search Method for GTO," DSES Colloquium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 1, 1997.

    "Optimal Decision Trees Through Multilinear Programming," Invited Talk, INFORMS, November 3, 1996, Atlanta GA.

    "Neural Tree Networks via Tabu Search," Invited Talk, INFORMS 5th CSTS Conference on Computer Science & Operations Research, January 8, 1996, Dallas TX.

    "Comparing Cognitive Maps," Mathematics Department Seminar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 20, 1994.


    Papers

    J.A. Blue, and K.P. Bennett, "Hybrid Extreme Point Tabu Search," European Journal of Operational Research, 106(2-3):676-688, 1998.

    K.P. Bennett and J.A. Blue, "A Support Vector Machine Approach to Decision Trees," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pages 2396-2401, Anchorage, Alaska, 1998.

    J.A. Blue, "A Hybrid of Tabu Search and Local Descent Algorithms with Applications in Artificial Intelligence," PhD Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998.

    A.P. Massey, D.L. Clapper, and J.A. Blue, "An interdisciplinary approach for exploring the impact of individual characteristics in the context of GSS research," Annals of Operations Research, 72:75-101, 1997.

    Optimal Decision Trees with K.P. Bennett, R.P.I Math Report No. 214, 1996.

    An Extreme Point Tabu Search Method for Data Mining. with K.P. Bennett, R.P.I Math Report No. 228, 1996.


    Education

    PhD in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1998

    M.S. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1993

    B.S. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University 1991

    B.A. in Physics from Texas A&M University 1991


    Curriculum Vitae


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