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Office: Root Hall 200

Mail Code: DA
Defense Analysis Department
Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences
Monterey, CA 93943
831.656.2787

reburks@nps.edu

 

Presentation Summary (Recent Publications)

Sturdivant, S., Burks, R., “Data Driven Mathematical Modeling,” Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver, CO, January 2020.

Burks, R., “Panzers, Pentiums and the WOPR, Oh My!, the Future of Wargaming,” Keynote Address Connections OZ, Sydney, Australia, Canberra 2019.

Burks, R., “Wargame Design,” Connections OZ, Canberra, Australia, December 2019.

Burks, R., Appleget, J., “The Craft of Wargaming,” Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Alexandria, VA, June 2019.

Appleget, J., Burks, R., “Analytic Wargaming for DoD, Allies, and Partners,” Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Alexandria, VA, June 2019.

Appleget, J., Burks, R., “Basic Wargaming Design: Foundations and Purposes,” Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Alexandria, VA, June 2019.

Burks, R., “Analytical Wargaming: Education From Over 100 Analytical Games,” Keynote Address Connections OZ, Sydney, Australia, December 2018.

Burks, R., “Wargame Design,” Connections OZ, Sydney, Australia, December 2018.

Appleget, J., Burks, R., Cameron, F., “Wargaming and Combat Models: Complementary Analysis Tools,” Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Alexandria, VA, June 2018.

Burks, R., Appleget, J., “United States & Department of Defense Analysis Best and Worst Practices,” UK Connections, King’s College London, September, 2018.

Burks, R., Wilcox, P., Appleget, J., “Modeling the Human Terrain,” Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 2018.

Appleget, J., Burks, R., Appleget, J., “Modeling the Human Terrain,” UK Connections, King’s College London, September, 2017.

Appleget, J., Burks, R., “Department of Defense and Defense Partner Wargaming at the Naval Postgraduate School,” Wargaming for Professionals, UK Connections, King’s College London, September 2016.

Appleget, J., Burks, R., “Naval Postgraduate School Wargaming Activities,” U.S. Army War College Wargaming Workshop, Carlisle, March 2016.

Burks, R., Appleget, J., “The Value of a Whisper in Changing the Attitudes and Opinions of a Population,” Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Alexandria, VA, June 2015.

Burks, R., “The Value of a Whisper in Changing the Attitudes and Opinions of a Population,” Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), San Francisco, December 2014.

Heida, K., Belmont., Burks, R., “Return to Works and Functional Outcome Following Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty in a High-Demand Population, Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons, Scottsdale, AZ, December 2014.

Waterman, B., Heida, K., Burks, R., Belmont, P., “Functional Outcomes of Total Knew Arthroplasty in Active Duty Soldiers,” Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons, Scottsdale, AZ, December 2014.

Goodman, G., Belmont, P., Schoenfeld, A., Black, M., Nelson, J., Burks, R., “The Influence of Musculoskelatl Conditions, Behavioral Health Diagnoses and Socio-Economic Status on Injury Related Outcome in a High-Demand Population,” Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons, Vail Colorado, December 2013.

Burks, R., Jaye, M., "Employment of Search Platforms to Counter an Adaptive Evader with Application to the Self-Propelled Semi-Submersible Drug Interdiction Operations," Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO, June 2012.

Sturdivant, R., Heidenberg, A., and Burks, R., "Playing Games with a Purpose: A New Approach to Teaching and Learning Statistics," Joint Statistical Meetings, Sand Diego, CA, June 2012.

Burks, R., "The Use of Pop Culture and Competition to Enhance Learning Mathematics," Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA, January, 2012.

Burks, R., Understanding the Value of a Whisper in Changing Attitudes and Opinions of a Population,” San Jose University Mathematics Symposium, San Jose, CA, January 2012.

Jaye, M., Burks, R., "Effects of Agent Attribute Distributions on Civil Violence Model Results,"Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Charlotte, NC, November 2011.

Burks, R., "The State of Agent Based Modeling: Sugarscape to Lord of the Rings," Agent Based Modeling Symposium, Dahlgren, VA, October 2011.

Goodman, G., Schoenfeld, A., Burks, R., Owens, B., and Belmont, P., "Orthopaedic Surgical Procedures Required by Soldiers in a US Army Brigade Combat Team upon return from Operation Iraqi Freedom," Proceedings of the 29th Annual Mid-America Orthopaedic Association Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2011.

Goodman, G., Schoenfeld, A., Burks, R., Owens, B., and Belmont, P., "Characterization of Orthopaedic Surgeries upon Completion of a Combat Deployment," Proceedings of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 78th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, February 2011.

Burks, R., "Rock Math a Successful Implementation of a Curriculum Designed to Help Under-prepared Students make the Transition to College Mathematics," Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January, 2011.

Hsiao, M., Owens, B., Burks, R., Svoboda, S., "Incidence of Osteoarthritis and Related Conditions among Active Duty U.S. Military Service Members," 52nd Annual Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons (SOMOS) Meeting, Vail, CO, December 2010.
 
Burks, R., Jaye, M., "Docking Two Models of Insurgency Growth,"Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Austin, TX, November 2010.

Jaye, M., Burks, R., "Validating Two Insurgency Models," Army Operations Research Symposium (AORS). Fort Lee, VA, October 2010.

Goodman, P., Belmont, P., Burks, R., DeZee, K., Owens, B., and Waterman, R., "Disease and non-battle injuries sustained by a US Army Brigade Combat Team during Operation Iraqi Freedom," 28th Annual Mid-America Orthopaedic Association Conference, Lost Pines, TX, April, 2010.

Jaye, M., Burks, R., "A Dynamical System Model of Information Operation Effects," Twenty-Third Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Denver, CO, March, 2010.

Belmont, P., Burks, R., DeZee, K., Owens, B., and Waterman, B., "Disease and non-battle injuries sustained by a US Army Brigade Combat Team during Operation Iraqi Freedom," American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons 2010 Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, March, 2010.

Burks, R., Drake, E., "Survivor Math: Using Pop Culture to Enhance Learning Mathematics," Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, CA, January, 2010.

Burks, R., Drake, E., Shoots, E., "Rock Math – A Successful Implementation of a Curriculum Designed to Help Under-prepared Students," Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, CA, January, 2010.

Sturdivant, R., Burks, R., Owens, B., Wolf, J., and Cameron, K., "Epidemiological Studies in the Military," Joint Statistics Meetings, Washington, D.C., August, 2009.

Burks, R., Drake, E., "What's Math have to do with History: A Biological Application of Matrices and Difference Equations," Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C., January, 2009.

Burks, R., "Rock Math – Helping Under-prepared Students make the Transition to College Mathematics," Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C., January, 2009.

Drake, E., Burks, R., "Rubik's Cubes in the Classroom: How a Puzzle of Logic, Patterns, and Algorithms Can Build Confidence in Mathematics," Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington D.C., January, 2009.

Burks, R., "Operational Logistics Planning: A Campaign Planning Decision Support Tool for Logisticians," Army Operations Research Symposium (AORS),Richmond, VA, October, 2008.

Burks, R., "So You Want to be an Engineering Major but You're Afraid of Math," Joint Mathematics Meetings,       San Diego, CA, January, 2008.

Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., Cameron, K., Watts, K., "Shoulder Dislocation in Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel", paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Rice University, Houston, TX, October, 2007.

Burks, R., Moore, J., "Solving the Theater Distribution Problem with Tabu Search", Military Operations Research Society Symposium (MORS), Annapolis, MA, June, 2007. (Selected best paper in its working group)

Souhan, B., Sturdivant, R., and Burks, R., "Involving Students in their Own Learning: a Follow-up", Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January, 2007.

Burks, R., McMurran, S. and Lindquist J., "Leslie Matrices: A Biological Modeling Application with Matrices and Difference Equations," Joint Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, 2007.

Burks, R., Moore, J., "An Adaptive Tabu Search Heuristic for the LPDLTW with a Theater Distribution App," Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2006.

Burks, R., Moore, J., "An Adaptive Tabu Search Heuristic for the Theater Distribution Problem", Air Force Operations Research Symposium (AFORS), Albuquerque, NM, October, 2006.

Burks, R., "The Logistics Footprint and Modeling Theater Distribution," Distribution Modeling Conference, Fort Lee, VA, December, 2005.

Burks, R., Moore, J., "An Advanced Tabu Search Heuristic for the Location Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows," Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), San Francisco, CA, November, 2005.