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Arthur C. Heinricher

Professor
Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Office: Boynton Hall, 108A
Phone: +1-508-831-5397
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
heinrich@wpi.edu

Related Information

Personal Web Site

Educational Background

B.S., University of Missouri, 1980
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986

Research & Teaching Interests

Applied probability; Stochastic processes and optimal control theory

IQP Advising Interests

Soil polution; natural resource management; impact of new technologies in health care; economics of health care; ethical issues in health care; visual arts; photography; stock market analyses; computers & education; introducing new teaching materials; assessing educational experience; education & technological literacy

Recent Publications

Optimal Control for the Local Time of a Diffusion: Numerical Approximation, (with L.F. Martins), to appear in the Proceedings of the 1994 ASME Special Symposium on Stochastic Dynamics and Reliability of Nonlinear Ocean Systems.
Optimal control and replacement with state-dependent failure rate: An invariant measure approach, (with R. H. Stockbridge) Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 3 (1993), pp. 380-402.
Optimal control and replacement with state-dependent failure rate: Dynamic programming, (with R. H. Stockbridge), Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 3 (1993), pp. 364-379.

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