{"id":1574,"date":"2012-01-02T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:53:41","slug":"cure-for-the-winter-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/02\/cure-for-the-winter-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Cure for the Winter Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather here in Pittsburgh is finally feeling more like winter: it is a dreary, windy day, with intermittent snow. I suspect it will only get worse over the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I know a cure for the winter blues: Optimization! Optimization with the INFORMS crowd, that is, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bus.miami.edu\/ios\/\">Fourth INFORMS Optimization Society Conference<\/a>, February 24-26, 2012. I&#8217;ll be there (I&#8217;m the co-chair, so attendance is kinda expected) and I think there is a great slate of <a href=\"http:\/\/bus.miami.edu\/ios\/plenary-speakers\/index.html\">plenary and special presentations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeralt Ault from the University of Miami on using analytics for managing fisheries,<\/li>\n<li>Manoj Saxena from IBM on aspects of Watson,<\/li>\n<li>Dimitris Bertsimis from MIT on analytics in sports,<\/li>\n<li>Suvrajeet Sen from Ohio State on stochastic mixed integer programs,<\/li>\n<li>Dave Alderson from NPS on attacker-defender modeling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(all these are my gloss on the topic: formal titles and abstracts are coming soon).<\/p>\n<p>Nothing like a bit of optimization to make the world a bit brighter!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to submit an abstract for this conference, get a move on: the due date is January 6, 2012. Abstracts are short (300 characters) so it shouldn&#8217;t take much time to put something together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Miami Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/0.tqn.com\/d\/miami\/1\/0\/j\/2\/Lifeguard_Stand-4307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"60\" \/>Oh, and the conference will be in Miami, which might also do some good for getting away from the winter for many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather here in Pittsburgh is finally feeling more like winter: it is a dreary, windy day, with intermittent snow. I suspect it will only get worse over the next two months. Fortunately I know a cure for the winter blues: Optimization! Optimization with the INFORMS crowd, that is, at the Fourth INFORMS Optimization Society &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/02\/cure-for-the-winter-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cure for the Winter Blues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}