I am a co-editor of a “new” journal Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science published by Elsevier. I’ll write more about that journal and my thoughts about it in another post. I expect to be blasted by some people whose opinions I value about teaming up with a commercial publisher, but I [...]
From the INFORMS Blog:
I just got back from the Fellows Luncheon. The INFORMS Fellows are recognized for having made significant contributions to the field of operations research and the management sciences (be it in research, practice, service, administration, or education). It is an extremely impressive group, and I very much enjoy the lunch, since conversation [...]
New post on the INFORMS Blog on a panel discussion I attended on how to teach modeling:
I just attended a nice “panel discussion” on Teaching the Art of Modeling, put together by Jim Orlin (MIT), Stephen Powell and Rob Shumsky (both from Dartmouth). This was not your normal INFORMS session! The panelists decided to do [...]
I’ll be guest blogging at the INFORMS Conference in San Diego, so I’ll be posting over there for the next few days. There are 12 guest bloggers, so the conference should get some pretty good coverage. I’ve got a news feed on my main page sidebar trying to track the blog, twitter feed, hash [...]
I am a huge fan of the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (best work in operations research practice) given by INFORMS. The applications are uniformly inspiring and the presentations go way, way beyond the norm for our field. The full papers, published every January in Interfaces, are ones [...]
Do you use COIN-OR (open source software for operations research)? According to the log files, lots and lots of people do! If you are doing something interesting with COIN-OR and are planning to attend the San Diego INFORMS Meeting, I strongly encourage you to enter the COIN-OR Cup! You could join John Forrest, Jonathan Eckstein+Bill [...]
I recently had an exchange on twitter on why the OR community is not more effective on using twitter, facebook, and so on to get the story out. People like Laura McLay, Aurelie Thiele, and many others listed on the sidebar do have blogs and many of us twitter and facebook away, but we [...]
INFORMS (and its Director of Communications, Barry List) has been putting out podcasts on operations research oriented topics every couple of weeks for the past few months. The title of the series is “Science of Better: Crunching the Numbers”. According to the site, this is:
A series of podcasts with unexpected insights into the way that [...]
If you are an INFORMS member (if you are interested in operations research, why aren’t you a member?), you should have received an email yesterday directing you to a website to vote for the next set of members of the Board of Directors. That email has all the information you need to vote: your member [...]
When I was elected President of INFORMS in 2000 (my Presidential Year was 2002: they ease you into the job!), I was very proud to become President of a 14,000 member society (at the age of 42: don’t let the grey hair fool you). 14,000? Actually probably 12,000. Maybe 11,500. Where did all the members [...]
