Frank Plastria

Biography

Frank A. A. Plastria (born 30 October 1948 in Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Belgium) is a Belgian operations researcher, a professor in the department of mathematics, operational research, statistics and information systems for management at Vrije Universiteit Brussel,[1] known for his work on facility location. His work has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Programming.

Plastria earned his Ph.D. in 1983 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. From its founding in 2002 until 2009 he was editor-in-chief of 4OR: A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research,[2][3] and he is the editor-in-chief of Studies in Locational Analysis.[4] In 2002–2003 he was president of SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. (ORBEL), the Belgian Operations Research society.[1]

gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.

References
  1. Curriculum vitae, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, retrieved 2012-10-14.
  2. SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. Annual report, February 2004 Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2012-10-14, detailing the creation of 4OR as a successor journal to JORBEL.
  3. Report from SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. meeting, February, 2011, retrieved 2012-10-14. "Frank Plastria, retiring as 4OR editor-in-chief was thanked for his very efficient engagement for our society’s journal 4OR".
  4. Studies in Locational Analysis, Aims and Scope, retrieved 2012-10-14.
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