Emeriti Update: Krener, Stein, and Wets

Art Krener

Art Krener continues to teach and do research at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. He and three masters students are conducting an ONR funded research project studying scheduling of energy production and consumption at forward operating bases. He also has an AFOSR project that studies how to speed up Model Predictive Control to control faster processes. Art reports that he and Jeanne are well and enjoy living in the Monterey area. They miss their Davis friends and invite them to come visit.

Sherman Stein

Sherman Stein reports that he is close to finishing the manuscript of the 6th edition of his calculus textbook. This revision has taken longer than writing the first edition. He also continues research into the logic of identities in x and y, with his most recent paper called “A Strange Property of Balanced Identities.” Sherman notes that “I say ‘strange’ because I have no idea how I ever came upon the main theorem.” He also relates, “during the 25 years of my retirement I have kept to my vow, ‘Stay away from math education, in order to avoid ulcers.’”

Roger Wets

Roger Wets reports that he has been active in research activity, publishing a number of articles, and starting several new research projects funded by three separate agencies. He edited several volumes and is working on a new book with Johannes Royset, tentatively called “An Optimization Primer and Variational Extensions.” Roger is supervising two Ph.D. students that are due to graduate in 2017 and June 2018. A highlight of the year was his 80th birthday, celebrated with a conference at UC Davis that was co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation.