Background
Wlodzimierz was born in Kowel, Poland. Son of Maksym and Raja (Frenkel) Szwarc.
Wlodzimierz was born in Kowel, Poland. Son of Maksym and Raja (Frenkel) Szwarc.
Master of Science, University Wroclaw, Poland, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, University Wroclaw, Poland, 1960.
Assistant professor Technology University, Wroclaw, 1952-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1967, associate professor, 1967-1969. Visiting professor Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1970-1971, University Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1971-1972, professor operations research, 1972—1997, professor emeritus, since 1997. Consultant Institute Inner Trade, Warsaw, 1959-1968, Budapest, 1963-1964, Electrical Institute, Wroclaw, 1961-1962, Transportation Institute, Warsaw, and Wroclaw, 1967-1969. 1966-67 Visiting Scholar.Center of Operations Research and Econometrics ( CORE) Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Associate Editor of Naval Research Logistics Quarterly and International Journal of Management and Systems. Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, September 1-October 31, 1993. Visiting Scholar, DAI, Politechniko di Torino, Italy, June 1-June 30, 1994.
Postdoctoral Fellowships: 1962-1963, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. (9 months). 1963-1964, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (3 months). 1966-1967 - Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium (9 months). Summer 1982, Visiting Research Professor – Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Summer 1983, Visiting Research Professor – Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Member Operations Research Society of America, Institute Management Science.
Married Maria Bass, August 17, 1954 (divorced March 3, 1976). Children: Michal, Ryszard. Married Rae Briker Lagen, November 5, 1990.