My talk at the ALIO/INFORMS Conference in Buenos Aires was on combinatorial benders’ approaches to hard problems. I really think this approach is an important one that is not yet utilized enough. You can get the talk here (apologies for the powerpoint: I wanted to convert to beamer but was too latex-stupid to get things done quickly enough). A paper on benders for sports scheduling is here, while one for transportation planning will be added when I get back.
The talk went well, I thought: people seemed engaged, and I had fun giving the talk. No wireless mike, so I opted to go without a microphone, so I hope those in the back could hear me. Generally I prefer if people use microphones, but this was not the first time I did not take my own advice.
Thanks for the slides. (Now I just have to figure out how to open them — both Open Office 3.1 and Powerpoint Viewer failed dismally. I suspect I need to track down a copy of Office whatever’s-the-latest.)
Regarding beamer (and LaTeX), have you looked at LyX (http://www.lyx.org)? I do a lot of beamer presentations, and doing them in LyX is pretty easy as long as you don’t need to get too fancy. (I don’t embed sound files, for instance. I _am_ the sound file.)
Dear Mike, I enjoyed veryv much your talk on benders today. Very motivating for me, to come back to the benders ideas as I did some time ago.
I was able to dowload the files with your presentation but unfortunately I could not open them.I was expecting a single pdf file with the talk but instead I got a whole set of files. Obviously I will need your advice to finally get them.
I dowloaded the paper on transportation scheduling without inconvenients.
Thank you in advance.
Alberto.
Hmmm… Does powerpoint 2003 work better http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/trick/Talks/alio_ppt03.ppt Otherwise we will have to wait until I am back home and can do the pdf conversion.
“Does powerpoint 2003 work better”
Works for me: opens pretty cleanly in Open Office; displays pretty well with pptview, other than an errant glyph or two (the subset symbol does not map properly, at least on my machine).
Thanks!
Thank you for the slides and for the excellent talk on Benders, I begin to see them also everywhere….Thanks.
I was wondering if you had any thoughts on tackling the angular TSP with Benders after Urrutia’s talk today, seems like an interesting problem.
And thanks a lot for the slides!
I did very much like Urrutia’s talk, and am mulling over some possibilities. It really is a fascinating topic!