I just got back from Venice, where I attended a conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory. This is a new conference series (optimistically numbered the first conference, implying at least a second) revolving around issues in uncertainty in decision making, preference solicitation, learning and other issues. From the conference web page:
A new unique event aiming to [...]
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 [...]
The International Symposium on Mathematical Programming of the Mathematical Programming Society occurs every three years, and I generally like to attend them. They are like INFORMS conferences in size, but have many more talks (and people!) that I want to see. This year’s ISMP is being held next week in Chicago. Unfortunately, I won’t be [...]
Christos Papadimitriou of UC Berkeley was the IFORS Distinguished Lecturer at the EURO Meeting yesterday (in the fuzzy picture, he is getting his award from IFORS President Elise del Rosario), and gave a very fine lecture on “Computing Equilibria” (and Sex, though that was not in the formal title). The starting point for his lecture [...]
I am in Bonn, Germany for the EURO Conference. Tons of people here (2200+) but the organizers seem to be coping very well. Last night was a nice reception in a beer garden nearby. It has been a long time since I was at a conference with unlimited free beers. This [...]
On my sidebar, I try to keep track of all the operations research oriented blogs. There are still few enough that I think I can keep a complete list (even allowing for a pretty broad view of operations research). The advantage of being on the list is that new posts on each of [...]
In much of operations research, a conference is simply an opportunity to give a talk on recent research. At INFORMS, EURO, IFORS and many other conferences, there are no printed proceedings, and no real record of what was presented in a talk. While giving a talk is useful, it doesn’t really count for much in [...]
Carla Gomes from Cornell visited here a few weeks ago. I have known Carla for a decade or so, and she has been one of the people who I have found very useful to talk to when trying to figure out the world of constraint programming.
Carla gets involved in lots of things. She (along with [...]
Over at the INFORMS Practice Conference Blog, I have entries on Gurobi and ILOG, an IBM Company. Both presentations were inspiring in their own ways.
Gurobi Post:
It goes without saying that these statements are my individual views of the workshops, and are not the official word from either the companies or INFORMS.
The world of optimization [...]
