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A Female Professor SpeaksDr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comBlogger1777125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-88168392619252715252024-02-22T16:08:00.000-05:002024-02-22T16:08:40.898-05:00Reflection on the 2nd Anniversary of Russia's Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine<p><b>Hard to believe that it has been two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation in Europe, on February 24, 2022.</b></p><p>Ukraine and Ukrainians in Russia's illegal, unprovoked war have endured an immense toll in terms of suffering, lives lost, injuries sustained, families separated, plus damages to critical infrastructure, homes, educational institutions, healthcare facilities, cultural institutions, agricultural facilities and land, as well as to nature and the environment. The Ukrainian economy has suffered immensely, exacerbating global food insecurity since Ukraine is known as a breadbasket with its rich chernozem (black soil) and is a big producer of wheat, corn, and sunflower seeds.</p><p>Ukrainians everywhere have been affected by this horrific war, which has also resulted in millions of displaced people. All those on our planet who value freedom, safety, civility, and, of course, democracy continue to be amazed by the courage, tenacity and resilience of Ukrainians and their love for their country.</p><p>Incredibly, we are also marking the almost 2 year anniversary of the historic partnership between the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). In such historic, very challenging times, one does what one can and UMass Amherst has been visionary in establishing this partnership, so soon after the full-scale invasion. It endures and is flourishing.</p><p>In the past year, 15 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine, through this partnership, have worked with Faculty Hosts at UMass Amherst (9 of them based in the Isenberg School of Management). Our collaborations across the miles have synergized research, have built friendships, and have resulted in significant research publications plus conference presentations. </p><p>Just last week, we hosted the second visit of the President of KSE, Dr. Tymofiy Mylovanov, who gave an outstanding presentation on leading his university in wartime. And last spring, we organized a symposium featuring the Virtual Scholars and their Faculty Hosts with the Rector of KSE, Dr. Tymofii Brik, also in attendance. Plus, he delivered a seminar.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2oHU_sLw7MlG9HbT86rozFIN2TQoZKcHLg71FlKBdvbN36zcxjFZN2knQvO17jg2eNY8dlRUQKUUs91QuvF5k9YfVf2C-h3gawfk0SEGj0ex11fAoN7_VKH5EMijKEnfg1FuNIeYeEtrqQ0H-Xh4iLNT1RS20zY8RemChDwiJjFxJ0Oxf_Cla90bdHWe/s1140/KSE-both.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="1140" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2oHU_sLw7MlG9HbT86rozFIN2TQoZKcHLg71FlKBdvbN36zcxjFZN2knQvO17jg2eNY8dlRUQKUUs91QuvF5k9YfVf2C-h3gawfk0SEGj0ex11fAoN7_VKH5EMijKEnfg1FuNIeYeEtrqQ0H-Xh4iLNT1RS20zY8RemChDwiJjFxJ0Oxf_Cla90bdHWe/w400-h120/KSE-both.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>What has been truly remarkable this year, is that 4 exchange students from KSE joined us at UMass Amherst. It has been a delight to get to know them and I am deeply grateful to Isenberg School Dean Anne P. Massey for even hosting a lunch in their honor.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp7l5fm6BQf0zAlnIZ_Gb5G67pQd3mbs-mjVDKJTJiYT_EAwno1W1eeMyZBesDPH8C3bFrb296X8mwpVTMtiJm8gB28JDTLegWlm2IJ4cRgX0CsAHbyRKi7gJPUiH8FikIH9ufVkT7GhF9woRi5Hxgr6FhAvfslpSnhyphenhyphenV4dJIkbmdPV4G8EasIQUVuDau/s320/Anne-lunch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="111" data-original-width="320" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp7l5fm6BQf0zAlnIZ_Gb5G67pQd3mbs-mjVDKJTJiYT_EAwno1W1eeMyZBesDPH8C3bFrb296X8mwpVTMtiJm8gB28JDTLegWlm2IJ4cRgX0CsAHbyRKi7gJPUiH8FikIH9ufVkT7GhF9woRi5Hxgr6FhAvfslpSnhyphenhyphenV4dJIkbmdPV4G8EasIQUVuDau/w400-h139/Anne-lunch.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And the exchange students spoke on a panel at the Isenberg School about their experiences.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYBANE0NafhKEtNR6wbUoRkydn1RKe3lPoNK6e8jDgJvrCa2qjx2LfP_Re2Z4tXrLi7eCq3tgRX1eF8qPHDWQ8keBw5Ex9zCgvFFoUXBhbfE6ZfTN9EdKT_Ra4toK4G6lZnZisEw0wtlIMw6-eAT2DlqTpz1G99_4IS7Tlh5wey16iKN82vLEoOrbMwn2/s320/panel4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYBANE0NafhKEtNR6wbUoRkydn1RKe3lPoNK6e8jDgJvrCa2qjx2LfP_Re2Z4tXrLi7eCq3tgRX1eF8qPHDWQ8keBw5Ex9zCgvFFoUXBhbfE6ZfTN9EdKT_Ra4toK4G6lZnZisEw0wtlIMw6-eAT2DlqTpz1G99_4IS7Tlh5wey16iKN82vLEoOrbMwn2/s1600/panel4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFHxLWb0JI&t=4s" target="_blank">Listen to their interview and be inspired.</a></p><p>Thanks to all who have been instrumental in the success of our partnership from the top administrators to Faculty Hosts and also to the students of the <a href="https://websites.umass.edu/umassinf/" target="_blank">UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter</a>, who have provided their energy and thoughtfulness in helping us to organize many events. </p><p><a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/02/reflection-on-1-year-anniversary-of.html" target="_blank">Last year, I wrote a reflection on the 1 year anniversary.</a></p><p>There has been media coverage of many of our activities and events and we are grateful for the coverage and for getting the messages out. For some examples, <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/media/media.htm" target="_blank">please see various postings on the Supernetwork Center website.</a></p><p>A collection of<a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/audiovideo.htm" target="_blank"> relevant videos can be accessed here.</a></p><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/dart.html" target="_blank">Some of our research publications with Ukrainian colleagues can be found here.</a></p><p>It has been extremely meaningful for me to have served as <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/11/thankful-for-kyiv-school-of-economics.html" target="_blank">a Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of KSE for almost 2 years now as well as being a member of its Board of Directors and International Academic Board with truly amazing colleagues for over half a decade now.</a></p><p>Sustaining institutions of higher education in Ukraine is of the utmost importance and I am so proud of the work that UMass Amherst is doing in this regard. Special thanks go out to my amazing Dean Anne P. Massey and to the Director of our International Programs Office and Vice Provost for Global Affairs Dr. Kalpen Trivedi for their terrific leadership as well as to the support provide by Provost Dr. Mike Malone.</p><p>It is high time that all democratic nations give Ukraine everything that it needs in order for it to be able to defeat the evil invaders and occupiers. The future of our planet and our way of life depend on it.</p><p><br /></p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-56863279766633212492024-02-14T11:28:00.001-05:002024-02-14T11:28:34.670-05:00Higher Ed Leadership In Ukraine in Wartime - KSE President Tymofiy Mylovanov<p>This past Monday, we had the honor and pleasure of hosting Dr. Tymofiy Mylovanov, the President of the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This was his second visit to UMass Amherst - his first was on February 22, 2023. </p><p>His visit was very timely, as was his lecture, since we are approaching the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.</p><p>Mylovanov had sent me a message just a few days before his arrival saying that he would like to visit and speak and, despite multiple logistical hurdles and scheduling issues, we made it work.</p><p>Leading a university is extremely challenging and leading one in wartime, with success, is extraordinary.</p><p>I have had the great honor of serving as a Co-Chair of the KSE of Board of Directors, having been elected shortly after the full-scale invasion. But my relationship with KSE has been over half a decade, since I also serve on its International Academic Board and its Board of Directors. Also, back in March 2022, UMass Amherst and KSE established a partnership, which has further synergized our connections, and is now supporting both exchange students from KSE as well as Virtual Scholars in Ukraine (we will be starting the second round soon) to reduce brain drain.</p><p>The leadership exhibited by KSE President Mylovanov is one characterized by: immense care for the safety of his students, faculty and staff; agility in creating new degree programs at KSE; talent in connecting with thought leaders and disseminating the needs and accomplishments of KSE to donors, stakeholders, and the world at large; expanding KSE to include a business school, and supporting the outstanding KSE Institute, which produces many white papers and studies of relevance in wartime that are regularly cited by international media, plus growing the KSE Charitable Foundation to assist in the financing of humanitarian endeavors in Ukraine. Such important activities require steadfastness, great intelligence, resilience, and ability to get data and information quickly. It also requires innovation and associated thinking under immense pressures and even danger.</p><p>What also truly inspires me is his understanding of the importance of not only face to face education but also visiting supporters and donors and advocating for KSE and Ukraine in person.</p><p>Below is a photo of Dr. Mylovanov presenting at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst this past Monday.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUC49yvH_u8UfAV8Wubeu1qUldWNoQJITkMkBVtwuMOksg9pJSX3MQqVc6esqkb2nYXUqxpQCWTq-ueSI6k3GlNkK5EBkdipqrern5ncjBhqhxTLo-29ewsbQTK1sa-W22jjTVJdXJku4666i22vOFSaAY4fEmOHGlI_LS7UV-CK0YSEAm7n-7PuHdBnW/s2016/Mylovanov1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUC49yvH_u8UfAV8Wubeu1qUldWNoQJITkMkBVtwuMOksg9pJSX3MQqVc6esqkb2nYXUqxpQCWTq-ueSI6k3GlNkK5EBkdipqrern5ncjBhqhxTLo-29ewsbQTK1sa-W22jjTVJdXJku4666i22vOFSaAY4fEmOHGlI_LS7UV-CK0YSEAm7n-7PuHdBnW/s320/Mylovanov1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/president-kyiv-school-economics-deliver-person-lecture-university-wartime-feb-12" target="_blank">UMass Amherst issued this nice press release announcing his talk.</a> The UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter, in turn, prepared this nice poster, and the students, along with the International Programs Office at UMass and the Isenberg School helped with the logistics.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEEd16RMiRl9Pr0H2rPzPQx0wNNcL2rr1AVuGq44aTr8Ww3QniTM5nWBiIUhdhij_FtpLVkZymS98JGnJuMPtbKIvGc53-YTHxMaT94vaazGBlVmo4Uf5boGmHVnR0sF-vBlGD2zgBfgSj2TaukIpYQqjeVPZ79A57AX8WTtZhg9-4YEQ4ctksn2iIkOP/s960/Tymofiy%20Mylovanov_UMassINFORMS_Spring2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEEd16RMiRl9Pr0H2rPzPQx0wNNcL2rr1AVuGq44aTr8Ww3QniTM5nWBiIUhdhij_FtpLVkZymS98JGnJuMPtbKIvGc53-YTHxMaT94vaazGBlVmo4Uf5boGmHVnR0sF-vBlGD2zgBfgSj2TaukIpYQqjeVPZ79A57AX8WTtZhg9-4YEQ4ctksn2iIkOP/s320/Tymofiy%20Mylovanov_UMassINFORMS_Spring2024.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>During his visit, Dr. Mylovanov met with top university administrators, faculty, and students, and also had a chance to chat with guests. At the meeting with the Provost, the VCRE, and the Director of our International Programs Office, Dr. Mylovanov made a statement that I found vey moving and, also, informative. He said that we all will die, so we need to identify what will be our legacy. His, he believes, is building up the Kyiv School of Economics and that is "his mile." He also, when asked, responded to the challenges of being a public persona. He is, above his educational leadership role, also a frequent guest on CNN, BBC and other media and news platforms. He said that he plays a public role because he believes that there are positives and, I believe, his sharing of information and commentary is beneficial not only to KSE but also to those interested in Ukraine around the globe.<div><br /></div><div>I was thrilled to have him emphasize the importance of the partnership between UMass Amherst and KSE and its highly original model of supporting both students, as through the exchange program, and also research since Virtual Scholars in Ukraine are partnered with Faculty Hosts at UMass Amherst. Last year, for example, there were 9 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine working with faculty at the Isenberg School, and 15 Scholars total placed with UMass faculty. We have organized joint symposia, and have published terrific journal articles and have also had multiple conference presentations based on the collaborations across the miles. The friendships that have been made support the researchers in Ukraine and are enriching to those of us who have the honor of working with them. <a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank">Some additional information on the partnership can be found here.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Below is a photo of KSE President Mylovanov with two of our KSE exchange students after the lunch on Monday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17OEElRNvGlzyw_wGoR7Z58YgPzPaesHdKr0NKeYfrNzAZBr5Cx28ics7DGIWRvpgi__-zvbZzfj-5pgpmbeCuGwc91gEtblna9hZqO-VrqoDbS9ustK07v-vW0fs7CN2IL3DftvSoPmeYPFujvg7lyBNuHf3tCITft6DzpkddhKlJKlIQMrbqLAHSs0n/s2016/Mylovanov3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17OEElRNvGlzyw_wGoR7Z58YgPzPaesHdKr0NKeYfrNzAZBr5Cx28ics7DGIWRvpgi__-zvbZzfj-5pgpmbeCuGwc91gEtblna9hZqO-VrqoDbS9ustK07v-vW0fs7CN2IL3DftvSoPmeYPFujvg7lyBNuHf3tCITft6DzpkddhKlJKlIQMrbqLAHSs0n/s320/Mylovanov3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The attendance at his presentation at the Isenberg School was excellent, despite a short notice, and also a last minute room change.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSYlEOZT7OWPBxHHlXJcso19GpSlZqZwg-kCn4cRIwpNqZfiz_5womyTBu1KUNPtT1ZRM0Etaf2cqzh1VTYThVfp1DPClX9fGlhVqErxPGFsPBijs1mRYgY21wXklKAmV2jWLAaE00Al93qmKyfhdeveranhO1tDlB5Wmm4nvPzDGWGi9mBnpEhFBJIdxm/s2016/Mylovanov2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSYlEOZT7OWPBxHHlXJcso19GpSlZqZwg-kCn4cRIwpNqZfiz_5womyTBu1KUNPtT1ZRM0Etaf2cqzh1VTYThVfp1DPClX9fGlhVqErxPGFsPBijs1mRYgY21wXklKAmV2jWLAaE00Al93qmKyfhdeveranhO1tDlB5Wmm4nvPzDGWGi9mBnpEhFBJIdxm/s320/Mylovanov2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter conducted an interview with Dr. Mylovanov and a gift was presented to him. We will let you know when the interview is posted on the Chapter's youtube channel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPAasKHesil_GiTt3r_Cf5rpm74O_vsziDvsq_rOuwuOWZy0bphizyzksU00oiPCQ2ivIn7KdqVllz6MnRF65FM8WFKVu7ov7trLMMRc-EPUIBbXi79OsLaXZ54f8uMVSsrM4Z07vYavb6P0tzpGBsTYFb7IEQdYGjI7nVPC80RwD22K6YgOb5lsiAePo8/s2016/Mylovanov4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPAasKHesil_GiTt3r_Cf5rpm74O_vsziDvsq_rOuwuOWZy0bphizyzksU00oiPCQ2ivIn7KdqVllz6MnRF65FM8WFKVu7ov7trLMMRc-EPUIBbXi79OsLaXZ54f8uMVSsrM4Z07vYavb6P0tzpGBsTYFb7IEQdYGjI7nVPC80RwD22K6YgOb5lsiAePo8/s320/Mylovanov4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>It was wonderful to have discussions with him over lunch and dinner and I am very grateful to all the administrators who made time in their very busy schedules to meet with us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEjVmB7hlg8u24OI4FiQtY7Toj0LgteQFOXup1zChubV3Kt9MZALtoWAA5vvh5rBnUUN6dP51qiuNEE1l3auRRJbj-C2NyJQpLPa1_vumWl1q9ctoI4SV4VKzLeTdtA9-DanKORIvhYWoqmQ8hOl5QFvqjkqkMyg-09S6rfo9NN_c3idikSd5rGoAdsvH2/s2016/Mylovanov6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEjVmB7hlg8u24OI4FiQtY7Toj0LgteQFOXup1zChubV3Kt9MZALtoWAA5vvh5rBnUUN6dP51qiuNEE1l3auRRJbj-C2NyJQpLPa1_vumWl1q9ctoI4SV4VKzLeTdtA9-DanKORIvhYWoqmQ8hOl5QFvqjkqkMyg-09S6rfo9NN_c3idikSd5rGoAdsvH2/s320/Mylovanov6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNm-9X-rzq9Rl_J86kOkMZKIkC99jY5VdkNABn63Kr5fEopuBuZxckKvW-YIwih8ikcVXaCU8pNhxfKS5v-_NqFUTbyD3wGD6Oz33y9dnhJ67m5iOkEpNWp9RkCeoMaHqGosUi-XrRzOJijNV4kT4ad_4zAc7PQv4Jnhy1PXiSw97fZaPDxL3dxrIJQvEy/s2016/Mylovanov7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNm-9X-rzq9Rl_J86kOkMZKIkC99jY5VdkNABn63Kr5fEopuBuZxckKvW-YIwih8ikcVXaCU8pNhxfKS5v-_NqFUTbyD3wGD6Oz33y9dnhJ67m5iOkEpNWp9RkCeoMaHqGosUi-XrRzOJijNV4kT4ad_4zAc7PQv4Jnhy1PXiSw97fZaPDxL3dxrIJQvEy/s320/Mylovanov7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3tgWHxFUrorBT1GgkikZZOmJ8PI7vXjdJwIC5tfpj_xwQRUEVkopXdjz44abmLk1uBbxYVP4ypBC_Q_1hoVs_iTfYCUC4SQZZX3_dHxSvZyKMDsMV822I4RWiARkR5gBDwXxZjgyMBFJdZqADR6YaODa2HU3Wg8VctYjIexxyf4qGcMG5As7tJfgR6t6E/s2016/Mylovanov8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3tgWHxFUrorBT1GgkikZZOmJ8PI7vXjdJwIC5tfpj_xwQRUEVkopXdjz44abmLk1uBbxYVP4ypBC_Q_1hoVs_iTfYCUC4SQZZX3_dHxSvZyKMDsMV822I4RWiARkR5gBDwXxZjgyMBFJdZqADR6YaODa2HU3Wg8VctYjIexxyf4qGcMG5As7tJfgR6t6E/s320/Mylovanov8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/audiovideo.htm" target="_blank">We have now posted a video recording of Dr. Mylovanov's presentation and it, along with his slide deck, can be found and viewed by clicking here.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>There will be additional media coverage, but many thanks to Daniella Pikman<a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/audiovideo.htm" target="_blank"> for her article on Dr. Mylovanov's presentation published already in the Daily Collegian.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Below is a collage of photos capturing the highlights of Mylovanov's visit. Thanks to all who took part. And, with a pending snowstorm, we managed to find him a hotel next to Bradley Airport and he caught a 6AM flight to DC on Tuesday morning (his 10AM flight had been cancelled) and made his meetings there in time. Quite a few neighboring universities were closed on Tuesday but not UMass Amherst.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kBex7Q-5APQYERtfHjlmJk7KjOO0dDxtIrwN7PrC_zGzcVC8pNd2pY1sFILOJON20rfsx-ojP7wg2L0Xnu1u-3eAAcCGECd7tSU5m5FUJIbycWdE9J51YsXoxXfWruUOm1woLJwUAiDR8rJZK2hnFnlXBPoqy5bkzsLylcEQbUU_KGiJT4DQRFxYTN81/s1512/TM-collage-2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1512" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kBex7Q-5APQYERtfHjlmJk7KjOO0dDxtIrwN7PrC_zGzcVC8pNd2pY1sFILOJON20rfsx-ojP7wg2L0Xnu1u-3eAAcCGECd7tSU5m5FUJIbycWdE9J51YsXoxXfWruUOm1woLJwUAiDR8rJZK2hnFnlXBPoqy5bkzsLylcEQbUU_KGiJT4DQRFxYTN81/w400-h236/TM-collage-2024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Thanks to KSE President Tymofiy Mylovanov for the extraordinary leadership of KSE in Ukraine! <a href="https://kse.ua/" target="_blank">Information on KSE is here.</a></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-68270665672640994102023-12-26T15:36:00.001-05:002023-12-26T15:36:22.369-05:00Honored to Have Played a Part in Influencing National Policy on Blood Supply Chains<p>For quite a few years, my research group and I have been very engaged in studying and writing about blood supply chains. Blood is a unique product that is life-saving and that cannot be produced but must be donated.</p><p>Our work on blood supply chains is part of our broader work on perishable product supply chains and we even wrote a book on the topic that was published a decade ago.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqpboeEQAE3ux3GFmYrgw0pwUzXp4xaC-lrBQWoYythWw11Tei45tGbV9AiZdIALgp7kSf9VOV8ygEyPB7RCfZY-467xiWWKfSQQJQcWv8zGpWLRpXvqKcpPAqm6CBLIBp9W9NJF4TwmEPRJxRLbdLMb6x9ft_MxDyc-HWzW2K6X4J36JS1yKk2XEaSj7/s350/NAT_350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqpboeEQAE3ux3GFmYrgw0pwUzXp4xaC-lrBQWoYythWw11Tei45tGbV9AiZdIALgp7kSf9VOV8ygEyPB7RCfZY-467xiWWKfSQQJQcWv8zGpWLRpXvqKcpPAqm6CBLIBp9W9NJF4TwmEPRJxRLbdLMb6x9ft_MxDyc-HWzW2K6X4J36JS1yKk2XEaSj7/s320/NAT_350.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br /><p>During this festive time of the year with the holiday season, there are also often blood shortages, and, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was greatly concerned about the shortages. One day after the WHO declared the pandemic, I published my article, <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-coronavirus-is-upsetting-the-blood-supply-chain-133424" target="_blank">"How coronavirus is upsetting the blood supply chain," in <i>The Conversation</i>.</a> The article was reprinted on multiple news sites, from Live Science to Salon. </p><p>I am deeply humbled and honored that my article on blood shortages in the COVID-19 pandemic, has influenced national policy not once, but twice. On March 31, 2023, 22 Attorneys General signed a memo to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf, and my article was cited first</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzyqPUNmbW1lkXb9Hl2gcfBtwby29lLcwtcjevwXcZ9RVk3QD2DCyhbbHghJXvGYdzVSobiEuQLLb64Qf38uxtp_y4ORbT3cJO864ZWaLo9W963TquNd4n8K6mFY-ghStDvW1RtatDULYbpggrK3kBWp9ip8mU4-3gebO77Ddptgw-fLZQBsUARg5faWza/s3400/3-31-23+Multistate+Comment+Letter+re+FDA+Blood+Donation_Both.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="3400" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzyqPUNmbW1lkXb9Hl2gcfBtwby29lLcwtcjevwXcZ9RVk3QD2DCyhbbHghJXvGYdzVSobiEuQLLb64Qf38uxtp_y4ORbT3cJO864ZWaLo9W963TquNd4n8K6mFY-ghStDvW1RtatDULYbpggrK3kBWp9ip8mU4-3gebO77Ddptgw-fLZQBsUARg5faWza/w400-h259/3-31-23+Multistate+Comment+Letter+re+FDA+Blood+Donation_Both.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/Page-Attachments/3-31-23%20Multistate%20Comment%20Letter%20re%20FDA%20Blood%20Donation.pdf" target="_blank">The full memorandum can be accessed here.</a></p><p>Therein is also a citation to<a href="https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Blood%20Donation%20RFI%20Response%2004-22-2020%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank"> the April 22, 2020 memo from 20 Attorneys General, including Maura Healey, now our Massachusetts Governor, to the Honorable Admiral Brett Giroir, MD, at that time the Assistant Secretary for Health, with my article also as the first citation.</a></p><p>On May 11, 2023, <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-finalizes-move-recommend-individual-risk-assessment-determine-eligibility-blood-donations" target="_blank">the FDA finalized individual risk assessment guidelines for blood donation eligibility. </a></p><p>In my discipline of Operations Research, as well as in Economics, we try to "Do Good" to improve social welfare and well-being. The tools that we use include analytical techniques, mathematical models, research studies, and, of course, education of students. However, as I often state in invited conference talks and seminars that I give, it is also critical to get results out where they can be applied.</p><p>That is why I continue to write essays and OpEds that can reach a broader community, as my article on blood shortages has.</p><p> I am very glad that <a href="https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2023/new-inclusive-screening-process-expands-blood-donor-eligibility.html" target="_blank">the American Red Cross has now adopted a more inclusive blood donation policy, following the FDA recommendations.</a></p><p> More blood centers are following the FDA revised guidelines<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/new-fda-rules-allow-gay-blood-center-employee-to-donate-after-years-of-denial" target="_blank"> with this article, appearing just a few days ago on the PBS News Hour, noting other blood centers following suit,</a> including one in the Pacific Northwest. The donors, who can now give blood, are grateful and, I am sure, the recipients are as well.</p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-55646964110709337002023-12-21T10:28:00.000-05:002023-12-21T10:28:00.395-05:00Congratulations and Kudos - Virtual Center for Supernetworks in 2023<p>As the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which was established at the Isenberg School in 2001 (shortly before 9/11), I find it important, as another year draws to a close, to reflect upon the achievements of the Center and its Associates during these challenging times.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsmESL2jEzllTqoNl5OfnYs7pyORZNeTWa477yDInOPkbbkth4tnx9vfz8aNUD-yT0-RP7EVVjCPj5X0lLXc20cfNOj7Z08bn2bUa1Mgd-0opIh7SPnTuNawisg1iZE5285oXB6QrxK9AzjESjBbyho57FPKVF7FK1q0mTXlSP10C0tx765S90qEblIzHj/s700/Associates-2125-08022022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="700" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsmESL2jEzllTqoNl5OfnYs7pyORZNeTWa477yDInOPkbbkth4tnx9vfz8aNUD-yT0-RP7EVVjCPj5X0lLXc20cfNOj7Z08bn2bUa1Mgd-0opIh7SPnTuNawisg1iZE5285oXB6QrxK9AzjESjBbyho57FPKVF7FK1q0mTXlSP10C0tx765S90qEblIzHj/s320/Associates-2125-08022022.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>2023 was a remarkable year, in which we celebrated 15 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine, part of the UMass Amherst - Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) partnership. In the spring 2023, we had the honor and pleasure of helping to host the visit of the President of KSE, Dr. Tymofiy Mylovanov in February and the visit of the Rector of KSE, Dr. Tymofii Brik, in May, at which we also took part in a symposium featuring faculty hosts at UMass Amherst and the Virtual Scholars in Ukraine. Many thanks to the International Programs Office at UMass Amherst, including Vice Provost for Global Affairs Dr. Kalpen Trivedi, and to the Isenberg School and the Provost's Office for the outstanding support of this very important program that helps to reduce brain drain from Ukraine.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUW84tLMDaS8mUN0H-Ei-BOgTSDzF3dv4LLsMH_11z21rdHd3p6MAOsnNY900sd7yShHjm-xLcgMou1zmUvRO63_GyKqaSaz_oH0HJZccYTLwsjZ-a99Afrg-s7OLaOdDlNn7rclr4J6toTvhPHVk264CXgO8ES4mIdAG8YiMdl8SCVlD2ZLUTOCvyQOUU/s2409/Collage-both.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2409" data-original-width="1818" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUW84tLMDaS8mUN0H-Ei-BOgTSDzF3dv4LLsMH_11z21rdHd3p6MAOsnNY900sd7yShHjm-xLcgMou1zmUvRO63_GyKqaSaz_oH0HJZccYTLwsjZ-a99Afrg-s7OLaOdDlNn7rclr4J6toTvhPHVk264CXgO8ES4mIdAG8YiMdl8SCVlD2ZLUTOCvyQOUU/s320/Collage-both.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p>For the EJOR paper, "Multicommodity International Agricultural Trade Network Equilibrium: Competition for Limited Production and Transportation Capacity Under Disaster Scenarios with Implications for Food Security," Dana received the inaugural prize from my OIM department, for this A level publication with a monetary award of $750. In May, 2023, Center Associates Professors Deniz Besik and Pritha Dutta and I published the paper, "An Integrated Multitiered Supply Chain Network Model of Competing Agricultural Firms and Processing Firms: The Case of Fresh Produce and Quality," in EJOR.</p><p>And, with Professor Elena Besedina of KSE, we published a paper in <i>Operations Research Forum</i>. Much of our research with colleagues in Ukraine focuses on agricultural supply chains and impacts of Russia's war on them with the importance of alternative routes for exports quantified as well as the use of various policies for international trade enhancement.</p><p>We welcomed a new Center Associate, Dr. Gabriela Colajanni, with whom, and with Center Associates Professor Patrizia Daniele and Professor Ladimer S. Nagurney, we have been actively publishing on UAVs (drones).</p><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/dart.html" target="_blank">Our research papers can be found on the Supernetwork Center website.</a></p><p>In addition, as part of the partnership, UMass Amherst welcomed 4 female undergraduate students from KSE! We <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/11/higher-education-in-us-and-ukraine.html" target="_blank">hosted a special panel with them through the auspices of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter</a> and there is now even a video of<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFHxLWb0JI" target="_blank"> an additional interview posted on the chapter's youtube channel.</a> It has been an extraordinary experience interacting with these remarkable ambassadors for Ukraine as they enjoy their experiences at UMass Amherst very much. Our great Isenberg School Dean Anne P. Massey even hosted a lunch in their honor.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-fkyoGcvEajdwjaXZ0hH13WS5xww4rjmMMFnWq4Xpo1sR3svj928rbDTQCQHwIyBYS5enRH8twFCPFEaG4zs_9xWgsPMYgYOk3JUubXr2xHXH8HPij4KQB0lT0SkNP_wWHQQ37RlVVqC1JrJaoEOQC88OrZWmj1c-DJAkwKuI5iRPmYRI8u-oRKoBtTuQ/s1920/panel4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-fkyoGcvEajdwjaXZ0hH13WS5xww4rjmMMFnWq4Xpo1sR3svj928rbDTQCQHwIyBYS5enRH8twFCPFEaG4zs_9xWgsPMYgYOk3JUubXr2xHXH8HPij4KQB0lT0SkNP_wWHQQ37RlVVqC1JrJaoEOQC88OrZWmj1c-DJAkwKuI5iRPmYRI8u-oRKoBtTuQ/s320/panel4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUDrG5maajShjpCEp72HsCkJOx1xkrJfHXbtKeXGFkFfi9Q4lKyKUNuGA2yMnTZi3f77FEqt6KVA0d87XBVGqb2gmNDmbCriRX6XCzq510oK0AvP3ApoIWdylHd-3Dumucgc73vSGjWtCYoVvF52jayn_rvPOLDwtfFQMKpVK0IDcbDtBlFted9oNIPPy/s2616/Anne-lunch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="2616" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUDrG5maajShjpCEp72HsCkJOx1xkrJfHXbtKeXGFkFfi9Q4lKyKUNuGA2yMnTZi3f77FEqt6KVA0d87XBVGqb2gmNDmbCriRX6XCzq510oK0AvP3ApoIWdylHd-3Dumucgc73vSGjWtCYoVvF52jayn_rvPOLDwtfFQMKpVK0IDcbDtBlFted9oNIPPy/s320/Anne-lunch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And, this past summer, I had the honor of co-organizing another Dynamics of Disasters (DOD) conference, which took place in Piraeus, Greece, and attracted conferees from many different countries. We are now in the process of editing the Proceedings volume. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7lTPo-CCrJARyvK0bhAs58N28WwmnTamz1hLXmgH0BJIdNBd2reX-1SecBJFHrf3ZTpr3U2gcNpwchGUOGVABTxphkCmcKv_FNNjdaJGF7rJc8EepBqtsjSLBGWodWnkvjxG-ngnMUPOqqsnUxRIdyNBRhg2HqSv-kVrYBM1CQm3-Uyze6TC7njRcCiTr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="400" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7lTPo-CCrJARyvK0bhAs58N28WwmnTamz1hLXmgH0BJIdNBd2reX-1SecBJFHrf3ZTpr3U2gcNpwchGUOGVABTxphkCmcKv_FNNjdaJGF7rJc8EepBqtsjSLBGWodWnkvjxG-ngnMUPOqqsnUxRIdyNBRhg2HqSv-kVrYBM1CQm3-Uyze6TC7njRcCiTr" width="320" /></a></div><br />Speaking of books, I was thrilled that my <i>Labor and Supply Chain Networks</i> was published by Springer in 2023. It's wonderful to see al the libraries that now carry it.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNgY3cORCOviWNMaoKy4hDl7_T6AyjwxllX-n0N6tc_gahAm5iU-2-JaU_pkfvED-VA83oewf4g4lGcAoop833fWESw8cZKseRgF4jno7Kil_yYqn-oK85IBzEEGsloRLmGHz3YIxfTdRoBckTLzmCjRK9Oxp0U9jl3mWyEprLD_TY498-tTCLPwK-vucH/s150/Labor-cover-150.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="96" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNgY3cORCOviWNMaoKy4hDl7_T6AyjwxllX-n0N6tc_gahAm5iU-2-JaU_pkfvED-VA83oewf4g4lGcAoop833fWESw8cZKseRgF4jno7Kil_yYqn-oK85IBzEEGsloRLmGHz3YIxfTdRoBckTLzmCjRK9Oxp0U9jl3mWyEprLD_TY498-tTCLPwK-vucH/w128-h200/Labor-cover-150.jpg" width="128" /></a></div><p>Shortly after the DOD conference, and with a lovely meeting with Center Associate Professor Patrizia Daniele and her family in Madrid, I headed to the IFORS conference in Santiago, at which I delivered a keynote talk. It was wonderful to see colleagues from around the globe at this conference.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9xfdP4jVmIjJ1vQJCTtorcKQVZuQLfgriXse-yyLu2nBZZb-0LP_WgXnWFqKvExG_dumxpP7iLHxe4urMAZ9Zd_XRcgg2pvuM8x475FGqGBAYY2Q68igSYpZeBcRrXfr4KeL1fTbaqICmENsyFmgMb5hOBswJr1GAJnxsnrR3aG-1OlKXBbNUsjKytdvT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9xfdP4jVmIjJ1vQJCTtorcKQVZuQLfgriXse-yyLu2nBZZb-0LP_WgXnWFqKvExG_dumxpP7iLHxe4urMAZ9Zd_XRcgg2pvuM8x475FGqGBAYY2Q68igSYpZeBcRrXfr4KeL1fTbaqICmENsyFmgMb5hOBswJr1GAJnxsnrR3aG-1OlKXBbNUsjKytdvT" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>INFORMS in Phoenix served as a reunion for several of us, and it was wonderful to see Center Associates Professors Deniz Besik, Dmytro Matsypura, and Shivani Shukla there with Professor Zugang Liu also taking part. At this conference the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter was recognized with the Magna Cum Laude Award. I have had the honor of serving as the chapter's Faculty Advisor since 2004, whehn the chapter was established.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-gcZQ0IoVow1lT5tKQHz862GwycjHkQNdEOu1D6XTto8daMQ5_k9urdcq8mm6V-LQg2silgYy1mcX4s2i2CJMJV2fAdr-J1JGA1Bs2JbmKaxJrv0OSepd-GoSmJPMLCUuhwhsvtaDeQamkm9cD2usk_x3hqGKMqNcVad6is-B14ABfp5eHyovJua6ftkP/s1308/informs-annual-2023-collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1308" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-gcZQ0IoVow1lT5tKQHz862GwycjHkQNdEOu1D6XTto8daMQ5_k9urdcq8mm6V-LQg2silgYy1mcX4s2i2CJMJV2fAdr-J1JGA1Bs2JbmKaxJrv0OSepd-GoSmJPMLCUuhwhsvtaDeQamkm9cD2usk_x3hqGKMqNcVad6is-B14ABfp5eHyovJua6ftkP/s320/informs-annual-2023-collage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And big congratulations are in order to Center Associates Shivani Shukla and Dong "Michelle" Li, both of whom were recognized with promotion and tenure this year at their respective institutions of the University of San Francisco and Babson College.</p><p>Congratulations also to Center Associate Sara Saberi of WPI, who was appointed the Norton Assistant Professor in 2023.</p><p>We continue to be very engaged with the media -<a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/commentary.html"> some of our writings can be found here</a> and <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/media/media.htm" target="_blank">interviews here.</a></p><p>For photos of various Center activities please see<a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/cfoto/centerphotos.html" target="_blank"> https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/cfoto/centerphotos.html</a></p><p>Thank you for the support. Let's work together to make 2024 a better year than 2023 with all the pain and suffering now on our planet.</p><p><br /></p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-88071094729821300512023-12-02T11:07:00.000-05:002023-12-02T11:07:56.396-05:00News Coverage on Our Latest Research <p>Real world events inform the research of my group at the <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/" target="_blank">Supernetwork Center at the Isenberg School of Management</a>, that I founded in 2001 and continue to direct. </p><p>Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/dart.html" target="_blank">we have continued to model and solve a spectrum of supply chain network problems that have been affected by various disruptions</a>, which now, sadly, for almost 2 years, have also included major disruptions to agricultural trade caused by Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine. Our research, documented in journal articles and book chapters, has continued to quantify the impacts of labor shortages and security issues and blockages associated with transportation, production capacity limitations, along with the repercussions of Russia pulling out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. We have also investigated the impacts of numerous trade policies from tariffs to quotas and have been heavily focusing on agricultural and food supply chains and associated food insecurity.</p><p>Our research on agricultural supply chains and international trade has been enriched by our collaborations with scholars in Ukraine, through <a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank">the unique, outstanding partnership between UMass Amherst and the Kyiv School of Economics</a> (KSE) that I have blogged about.</p><p>It is very much appreciated when the research that we are involved in gets attention from the news media. </p><p><a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/nagurney-publishes-paper-economic-impact-war-ukraine-global-food-systems" target="_blank">UMass Amherst issued this release on the paper</a>, "Ukraine – Addressing the domestic humanitarian crisis and the effects of the war on global food systems," that I was deeply honored to contribute to and which was presented by my KSE colleague, Professor Oleg Nivievskyi, at the Vatican in May at the Workshop on Food and Humanitarian Crises. <a href="https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-varia/sv154pas/nivievskyi.html" target="_blank">The paper can be directly accessed here.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdieoBewoRaC4SXcF-W5zEg-h5frcxd8ul3K6VI8ZIVH4dmC-J4mKCx8W8cmr-bxR_cREzq9XpsO8TPgV0SIsSD8BHGxCVxtFGRCxu9MRdXpCVszq4aCpnDTuEHuD6mZAfIiFUM2kvca6_cibI31m4h1CxfPzc61jCotXO03WydlBnnJ3CJGZzD3LCcO3/s2482/Nagurney-UMass-20231129-all.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2482" data-original-width="1692" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdieoBewoRaC4SXcF-W5zEg-h5frcxd8ul3K6VI8ZIVH4dmC-J4mKCx8W8cmr-bxR_cREzq9XpsO8TPgV0SIsSD8BHGxCVxtFGRCxu9MRdXpCVszq4aCpnDTuEHuD6mZAfIiFUM2kvca6_cibI31m4h1CxfPzc61jCotXO03WydlBnnJ3CJGZzD3LCcO3/w273-h400/Nagurney-UMass-20231129-all.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><br /><p>Also, the <i>University World News</i> published a very moving article by Nathan M. Greenfield: <a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231129062305729" target="_blank">"Partnership with US scholars helps to keep Ukraine HE alive."</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZLX23Xv59riU6U9xO9NhEUppUzsAJW-ggkLSswDDml8pWz3JE29RPAtwxY4wJShy0r_wynl10cAxJ8LhCTWl0aYrGAcWBNe4D1BQWErIMwnDNZJVf4PSQFw13XicJNlsWN7ISCX-7gUqmMzAsoz1Ua3eWnqp14nY_ajkVohxfGLcrbpksgh6-8ZPNa_D/s1452/UWN-20231129-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="1122" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZLX23Xv59riU6U9xO9NhEUppUzsAJW-ggkLSswDDml8pWz3JE29RPAtwxY4wJShy0r_wynl10cAxJ8LhCTWl0aYrGAcWBNe4D1BQWErIMwnDNZJVf4PSQFw13XicJNlsWN7ISCX-7gUqmMzAsoz1Ua3eWnqp14nY_ajkVohxfGLcrbpksgh6-8ZPNa_D/w309-h400/UWN-20231129-1.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p>In the article, Greenfield notes our paper, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377221723008494" target="_blank">"Multicommodity international agricultural trade network equilibrium: Competition for limited production and transportation capacity under disaster scenarios with implications for food security, " </a> just published in the <i>European Journal of Operational Research</i> and done with my Isenberg School PhD student Dana Hassani and KSE scholars: Professor Oleg Nivievskyi and Dr. Pavlo Martyshev. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcf1QNrVqkECzAtpr4A5R4a19EAW9V6bJoT_Z51H-cV9AbnTRuVbFk_0ic2OOfAfWY91fG7z7MMQscF32vJtZN5jWPd-hXi6XGbJZ6jBFDLfMh4K-H4CGJtNL_pj62OKv5Z5ySDei9luP9kQ0Yb-anIiNjixGVs5mJApHsnqzUn_NIDVS6QmEXx0TMEzNc/s3297/EJOR-Nagurney-Hassani-Nivievskyi-Martyshev-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3297" data-original-width="2473" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcf1QNrVqkECzAtpr4A5R4a19EAW9V6bJoT_Z51H-cV9AbnTRuVbFk_0ic2OOfAfWY91fG7z7MMQscF32vJtZN5jWPd-hXi6XGbJZ6jBFDLfMh4K-H4CGJtNL_pj62OKv5Z5ySDei9luP9kQ0Yb-anIiNjixGVs5mJApHsnqzUn_NIDVS6QmEXx0TMEzNc/s320/EJOR-Nagurney-Hassani-Nivievskyi-Martyshev-1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>In addition, the article in <i>University World News </i>discusses the recent paper I wrote with KSE Professor Elena Besedina,<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43069-023-00262-z" target="_blank"> "A multicommodity spatial price equilibrium model with exchange rates and non-tariff measures for agri-food international trade," which was published in<i> Operations Research Forum.</i></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtzcemgtbgd55ndMoKdaSzPcsrfxbKVZZ0PdZGzMEhNDqKvUmHOYl8b1EPT16Ee2WSU7wMB94k8H2Qmde1kiI5AnzOYZjZu2C8GX2WO4ytRif5fXWj-kk4LX5gpsGWlCoyEzqqBx-e0-zi11bqmJHcrGlNvxHiikc8QOrkNluzJ5oMXxHi4Zf3QQRwiYY/s1851/Nagurney-Besedina-ORForum-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1851" data-original-width="1221" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtzcemgtbgd55ndMoKdaSzPcsrfxbKVZZ0PdZGzMEhNDqKvUmHOYl8b1EPT16Ee2WSU7wMB94k8H2Qmde1kiI5AnzOYZjZu2C8GX2WO4ytRif5fXWj-kk4LX5gpsGWlCoyEzqqBx-e0-zi11bqmJHcrGlNvxHiikc8QOrkNluzJ5oMXxHi4Zf3QQRwiYY/s320/Nagurney-Besedina-ORForum-1.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><p>Preprints of the above papers, as well as others of our research group <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/dart.html" target="_blank">can be found on the Supernetworks Center site.</a></p><p>Collaborations across continents during wartime help to reduce brain drain and also deepen the research insights. Very grateful for the collaborations with scholars in Ukraine, which continue. Giving enhanced visibility to scholars in Ukraine provides valuable professional and psychological support during very challenging times.</p><p>Many thanks for the news coverage!</p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-61411876631389094592023-11-28T16:42:00.003-05:002023-11-30T07:09:47.065-05:00Writing a Professional Obituary is Hard, Writing One for a Friend, Very Hard<p>The past few years have been difficult ones, with many losing friends and loved ones.</p><p>As an academic, I have been very blessed to have colleagues around the globe that I consider to be friends, and some are close collaborators. Also, as an academic, I have been inspired by the work of top scholars, and have enjoyed interactions with them.</p><p>The bigger your network is, the more frequently you grieve those that pass away.</p><p>This year, in April, I lost a friend at the age of 42, Professor Urmila Pyakurel of Nepal. She had communicated with me only 3 days before dying. Urmila was an extraordinary researcher on networks, focusing on evacuation networks. She was also an educator and a mentor, and a Full Professor of Mathematics. She was the youngest of 12 children and had to overcome immense challenges to reach the Professor level in academia.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo2yVJJ62cn0rdQWqEtIFYkmM46bJ6nM_9hxJWyx4By987gDhBIyKBk98liF93SU1pwwkcFGbVhaKne-i0RIQ4WHGLmqiFg5O9EsTzkkPxzP-xqJRRyLWC8g3STtr3ya2xDuGUjnxx5PxwC6bCASRyCRp7jxAJn1OKbPTXP9LH-yfDK3tNNhECr6H5EsL5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo2yVJJ62cn0rdQWqEtIFYkmM46bJ6nM_9hxJWyx4By987gDhBIyKBk98liF93SU1pwwkcFGbVhaKne-i0RIQ4WHGLmqiFg5O9EsTzkkPxzP-xqJRRyLWC8g3STtr3ya2xDuGUjnxx5PxwC6bCASRyCRp7jxAJn1OKbPTXP9LH-yfDK3tNNhECr6H5EsL5" width="241" /></a></div> <b> Professor Urmila Pyakurel</b><br /><br /><p></p><p>A way in academia that we can honor a scholar, who has passed away, is by writing a professional obituary.</p><p>I wrote an obituary of Urmila with Professor Tanka Nath Dhamala of Tribhuvan University, who was her "doctor father." <a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/43069/volumes-and-issues/4-4" target="_blank">The obituary has now been published in the journal <i>Operations Research Forum</i> in the December 2023 issue</a>. <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/articles/sn-article-UPMemory2023_1.pdf" target="_blank">A preprint is available here.</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9WEBEtUjlxtIaiOt1MZNN3rL1sXvL9kmmyHMFkIo6wiLIhpBesVFTNGI6LTVgEwTOAJ_zEFC4X1i9E1tuxjQtdkCeh9Ey_hsXVnXcdYXogZ1LogWkGoluTy6fAI3xYx57R6iu_IpjLvbq33hjD8Sgl-V6sPldAKQ3AL4gYnRIBNayGzgn-EfH-bJSP72d/s1851/UrmilaMemoriamORForum-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1851" data-original-width="1221" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9WEBEtUjlxtIaiOt1MZNN3rL1sXvL9kmmyHMFkIo6wiLIhpBesVFTNGI6LTVgEwTOAJ_zEFC4X1i9E1tuxjQtdkCeh9Ey_hsXVnXcdYXogZ1LogWkGoluTy6fAI3xYx57R6iu_IpjLvbq33hjD8Sgl-V6sPldAKQ3AL4gYnRIBNayGzgn-EfH-bJSP72d/s320/UrmilaMemoriamORForum-1.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /><p>Included in this professional obituary are remembrances by: Dr. Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Professor Stephan Dempe,TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Dr. Hari Nandan Nath,Tribhuvan University, which was Urmila's home institution, Mr. Durga Prasad Khanal, also of Tribhuvan University, and Dr. Naba Raj Lamsal, Former Director of Radio Nepal, and BBC correspondent. We also included my remembrance. I had met Urmila in 2019 at a Dynamics of Disasters conference in Kalamata, Greece that I had co-organized with Professors Panos M. Pardalos and Ilias S. Kotsireas. Her warmth and intellect I found inspiring. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY60O5BNPiWiiOlqZnH6bJnsE-BHfcLMJFM_Fm2lizo2-hfoeWJLZ7j2dNXAWNhMspgWqDxHweolQDtIbj_w9VaP8GeJw5ec92bXiejA4HzlgyxybgWO2hNrIP2beyhh7DXlOwtN0SRLhxesKzS3zQZ3E6M_RLvyTxabJm1DXA_xX9mJ2phTtP95a2nXaN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY60O5BNPiWiiOlqZnH6bJnsE-BHfcLMJFM_Fm2lizo2-hfoeWJLZ7j2dNXAWNhMspgWqDxHweolQDtIbj_w9VaP8GeJw5ec92bXiejA4HzlgyxybgWO2hNrIP2beyhh7DXlOwtN0SRLhxesKzS3zQZ3E6M_RLvyTxabJm1DXA_xX9mJ2phTtP95a2nXaN" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><b> Some of the conferees at the 2019 Dynamic of Disasters conference in Greece (Professor Urmila is in the photo above with the red bag.)</b></span></div><p></p><p>The first professional obituary I ever wrote (and remember - many journalists are "trained" by writing obituaries), and this one was also very, very difficult to write, was for my PhD dissertation advisor at Brown University, Professor Stella Dafermos, who passed away at age 49. I was her first PhD student. <a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/opre.39.1.9" target="_blank">The obituary was published in the journal <i>Operations Research</i>.</a> Stella was one of the very few in Operations Research honored in this way upon passing. I also wrote an <i>In Memoriam</i> for Stella with MIT Professor Amedeo Odoni, <a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/trsc.26.1.1" target="_blank">which was published in Transportation Science.</a></p><p>Stella chaired my PhD dissertation committee and Professor Martin Beckmann, a renowned economist at Brown, was also on my committee. When he passed away at the age of 93, Professor David Boyce and I wrote <a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/trsc.2019.0942" target="_blank">the <i>In Memoriam</i>, which was published in <i>Transportation Science</i></a>. David Boyce and I also wrote an <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/articles/Boyce-nagurney-TS-memoriam.pdf" target="_blank"><i>In Memoriam</i> in<i> Transportation Science</i> for Beckmann's co-authors of the classical book,<i> Studies in the Economics of Transportation</i></a>, Bart McGuire and Chris Winsten.<a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/classics.htm" target="_blank"> More information on this book can be found here.</a></p><p>In my Transportation and Logistics class that I teach I always share with students stories about Dafermos and Beckmann since their work lives on and has had a tremendous impact. Urmila's publications will also have a tremendous impact on evacuation networks in Nepal, which suffers from so many disasters, and beyond. I will always treasure the wonderful memories of Urmila's smile, her friendship and support. </p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-78300824726010764792023-11-24T11:10:00.003-05:002023-11-24T11:10:57.503-05:00Accomplishments of the Virtual Scholars in Ukraine Program 1 Year in - The Global Partnership Between UMass Amherst and the Kyiv School of Economics<p>The one year anniversary of the Virtual Welcome for Scholars in Ukraine supported by the outstanding partnership between the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) is approaching. That event, held on November 30, 2022, featuring scholars in Ukraine and their faculty hosts at the Isenberg School of Management, was laudable and incredibly moving, with the scholars having to take part in the event for a time at the KSE bomb shelter.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOed7u-Mqax6w5qBwHrd46Ug0KbO3iPhim65xfAN9vmHfppGtltg331mJenUHFIO9J-yrRaA3_mOz0YuNN10tQPbnd1urBBgXD90uUoC6ZSrj5d5jKxUw8HK_CtNoeO9Axj0Oo0BgeoDVT4AaJ-XDEunI58tTfNgcwelqsAOsk40cgkY1ibtd0AViYcFOm/s300/UMA-KSE.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOed7u-Mqax6w5qBwHrd46Ug0KbO3iPhim65xfAN9vmHfppGtltg331mJenUHFIO9J-yrRaA3_mOz0YuNN10tQPbnd1urBBgXD90uUoC6ZSrj5d5jKxUw8HK_CtNoeO9Axj0Oo0BgeoDVT4AaJ-XDEunI58tTfNgcwelqsAOsk40cgkY1ibtd0AViYcFOm/s1600/UMA-KSE.png" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank">The Virtual Welcome event jump started the research and collaborations of the scholars in Ukraine with their faculty hosts at the Isenberg School.</a> To-date, a total of 15 Virtual Scholars have been supported, with 9 of them (Elena Besedina, Nina Chala, Yuriy Dyachenko, Iuliia Kuntsevych, Myroslava Kushnir, Pavlo Martyshev, Viktor Maziarchuk, Maksym Obrizan, Pavlo Prokopovych) placed with Isenberg School faculty, and 5 others (Petro Chorniy, Nadiia Koval, Borys Kormych, Anton Liagusha, Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych) with faculty in Social and Behavioral Sciences and 1 (Georgiy Shevchenko) in Math/Stats at UMass Amherst.</p><p>Thanks to all the faculty hosts at the Isenberg School: Professors Alicia Johnson of Marketing, Anya Mkrtchyan of Finance, Nora Junaid of OIM, Muzzo Uysal of HTM, Ina Ganguli of Management, and yours truly, also of OIM.</p><p>The program is helping to reduce the Brain Drain of researchers from Ukraine and, to-date, has led to a remarkable outgrowth of brainstorming sessions, journal publications as well as submissions, conference presentations, and even engagement of students in accompanying research projects. Importantly, it has also enriched the understanding of Ukraine and challenges in wartime for researchers and higher education. The Virtual Scholars represent not just KSE but also other universities including the Ukrainian Catholic University and the National University Odesa Law Academy.</p><p>UMass Amherst also hosted the visit of the <a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/president-kyiv-school-economics-visits-umass-amherst" target="_blank">President of KSE - Tymofiy Mylovanov on February 2, 2023</a> and that of the Rector - Tymofii Brik on May 3, 2023. Rector Brik took part that day in a Virtual Symposium that we had organized featuring the Virtual Scholars in Ukraine and their faculty hosts and also delivered an excellent seminar. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80yJgzrD2CBVoHVWtT0exL9FP3wRFbhg9PS9het_SigCjV6-udR1H5NA4gFL2Z5EmNUmjmk2AabN-qXbjBFVEfWFerA_Ipi59TPBVxZePipVpqy3_V9RLuf3S01R7z3k1vjQ17WkkFntbueFfsbKBDvnu592lGYDpE9sJaFWRuZkHaSZSJgWs4R_b_A8f/s320/May3symposium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80yJgzrD2CBVoHVWtT0exL9FP3wRFbhg9PS9het_SigCjV6-udR1H5NA4gFL2Z5EmNUmjmk2AabN-qXbjBFVEfWFerA_Ipi59TPBVxZePipVpqy3_V9RLuf3S01R7z3k1vjQ17WkkFntbueFfsbKBDvnu592lGYDpE9sJaFWRuZkHaSZSJgWs4R_b_A8f/s1600/May3symposium.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuVc6P4JBk_-sS9iTedltX8z2_-77YB2BLl-xvXPBS0HxwuziDxCnRkq9W4jz3kZ-gOC5pZbA_QaOv7MhpP1Q7poYexGfQ5vrlFDMiZJPIye1cjvXLbAoSckHBOE-57wVMISo-4TOP9bPJysx9XoIQcrfLQOuP0Smf7w5hfTCcYsCzv101GqPziy_oPBy/s640/Brik-seminar-photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuVc6P4JBk_-sS9iTedltX8z2_-77YB2BLl-xvXPBS0HxwuziDxCnRkq9W4jz3kZ-gOC5pZbA_QaOv7MhpP1Q7poYexGfQ5vrlFDMiZJPIye1cjvXLbAoSckHBOE-57wVMISo-4TOP9bPJysx9XoIQcrfLQOuP0Smf7w5hfTCcYsCzv101GqPziy_oPBy/s320/Brik-seminar-photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Deep gratitude is extended to the UMass Amherst International Programs Office under its Director Kalpen Trivedi, who was instrumental in making<a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-establishes-partnership-ukraines-kyiv-school-economics" target="_blank"> this partnership a reality</a>, with Ukraine and its higher educational institutions dealing with many challenges, since the full-scale invasion by Russia on February 24, 2022. Thanks also to Isenberg Dean Anne P. Massey for her extremely meaningful support of the partnership and of the Virtual Scholars. Thanks to the Isenberg School Virtual Scholar Selection Committee that included Associate Deans George Milne and Nikunj Kapadia and Bogdan Prokopovych and to all the Department Chairs who have been very helpful including the OIM Chair Senay Solak, the Marketing Chair Elizabeth Miller, the former Management Chair Bruce Skaggs, and the former HTM Chair (and faculty host) Muzzo Uysal.</p><p>And, this academic year, UMass Amherst, as part of the partnership, is hosting 4 exchange students from the Kyiv School of Economics. Recently, <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/11/higher-education-in-us-and-ukraine.html" target="_blank">we held a welcome event to introduce them to the community.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqF_dMIuTduCFr2rboNEI_iE5UHybd4XqsMLMoCOaeKyp5SkRFZjAELfy9PmQnGtoIbUOaQl6Z2RLrBzoyejhmb5j65JGjNqfJLnHxUw-MddK6tJRiXnUPuMgI4gVkYJQa2YbQnLuPPPg7mDDnjuE5XqlS8GSxHiWorpSlnn8H78p0YfB1cHpbbYP8zsLf/s1080/KSEExchangeStudentPanel-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1080" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqF_dMIuTduCFr2rboNEI_iE5UHybd4XqsMLMoCOaeKyp5SkRFZjAELfy9PmQnGtoIbUOaQl6Z2RLrBzoyejhmb5j65JGjNqfJLnHxUw-MddK6tJRiXnUPuMgI4gVkYJQa2YbQnLuPPPg7mDDnjuE5XqlS8GSxHiWorpSlnn8H78p0YfB1cHpbbYP8zsLf/s320/KSEExchangeStudentPanel-collage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Some of the research that we have been involved in with Scholars in Ukraine can be found on the <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/dart.html" target="_blank">Virtual Center for Supernetworks website</a>. I am thrilled that even one of my Isenberg School PhD students, Dana Hassani, has been engaged in research with us. To-date, our collaborations, have yielded publications in such journals as: <i>European Journal of Operational Research</i>, <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i>, and <i>Operations Research Forum</i> as well as in the Proceedings of a Workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The research continues as do the growing friendships across the miles.</p><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/commentary.html" target="_blank">Many OpEds and other publications in the media have also been written related to the research and partnership</a> and <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/audiovideo.htm" target="_blank">interviews </a>taken part in.</p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-32657370834214771652023-11-18T18:26:00.002-05:002023-11-18T18:26:47.723-05:00Thankful for the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine<p>Next week we are celebrating Thanksgiving and this post highlights my gratitude for the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine, its President - Tymofiy Mylovanov and its Rector - Tymofii Brik, along with its Management Team, faculty, and staff, as well as students.</p><p>Yesterday and today, starting at 6AM (and it is a Saturday), I took part in the KSE <a href="https://kse.ua/community/stories/international-academic-board/" target="_blank">International Academic Board (IAB)</a> meeting and in its <a href="https://kse.ua/community/stories/board-of-directors/" target="_blank">Board of Directors (BOD)</a> meeting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXwzU24oiYi4FX2Amq7fT9AR-7z8A3AAqWn7_cqQFpbXSBLdHjppcKTTmG9uDr6OYwBCdcjvevfiFNkCBhob1laAeJgF1bLvsbSRZcjtVNauHRjTIXas15BOvByUM2PLJPX9vPIsf3fLYDzgD9Q-Wy3VEnwavjOSYeXf_o9tEqBtWKyaiHmQ25TvKbUFFL/s3840/KSE-nov-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="3840" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXwzU24oiYi4FX2Amq7fT9AR-7z8A3AAqWn7_cqQFpbXSBLdHjppcKTTmG9uDr6OYwBCdcjvevfiFNkCBhob1laAeJgF1bLvsbSRZcjtVNauHRjTIXas15BOvByUM2PLJPX9vPIsf3fLYDzgD9Q-Wy3VEnwavjOSYeXf_o9tEqBtWKyaiHmQ25TvKbUFFL/w400-h150/KSE-nov-collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I have had the honor of serving on both the KSE IAB and BOD for several years now, and, as my readers know, in March 2022, shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I was elected a Co-Chair of the BOD of KSE. The other Co-Chairs are: Olena Bilan, Oleksandr Kravchenko, and Makar Paseniuk. We meet every other Monday and, more often as various board meetings approach or as various crises materialize. I am also serving on several committees associated with KSE.<div><br /></div><div>What KSE has done in wartime is truly extraordinary - opened up multiple new programs, hired new faculty and staff, built a bomb shelter at the university and its staff has engaged in major fundraising campaigns even for humanitarian and disaster relief in Ukraine. Faculty are committed to research, under very challenging circumstances in wartime, and I am extraordinarily grateful for <a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-establishes-partnership-ukraines-kyiv-school-economics" target="_blank">the outstanding partnership established between UMass Amherst and KSE</a>, which has allowed faculty at UMass Amherst to work with 15 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine.<a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank"> 9 of them are associated with faculty at the Isenberg School of Management</a>. And now, we even have 4 exchange students from KSE studying at UMass Amherst and<a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/11/higher-education-in-us-and-ukraine.html" target="_blank"> I have written about them.</a> They are exceptional ambassadors for KSE and for Ukraine.</div><div><br /></div><div>KSE had built an incredible community of scholars, policy makers, administrators, and students as well as alums and board members and supporters. Working with colleagues there, whether in <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/06/thrilled-and-honored-to-be-working-with.html" target="_blank">research</a> or in <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/11/higher-education-in-us-and-ukraine.html" target="_blank">support of its students</a>, as well as with board members, who include superbly talented, dedicated, creative and impactful individuals from a former ambassador to a Nobel laureate, a rock star, a partner at a top consulting company, leaders of corporations, among others, is very meaningful and rewarding. </div><div><br /></div><div>Please support <a href="https://kse.ua/" target="_blank">the Kyiv School of Economics</a> - Thank you! Higher education in Ukraine and reducing its brain drain are essential to its recovery and reconstruction.</div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-27302183537020012152023-11-03T13:38:00.000-04:002023-11-03T13:38:23.354-04:00Higher Education in the US and Ukraine Panel - Meet the Exchange Students from the Kyiv School of Economics at UMass Amherst<p>Yesterday was a very special evening at UMass Amherst. The UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter organized a special event, "Higher Education in the US and Ukraine Panel - Meet the Exchange Students from the Kyiv School of Economics."</p><p>The 4 exchange students from Ukraine, who are now studying at UMass Amherst, are taking courses in my Operations and Information Management (OIM) Department and in Economics, Resource Economics and Mathematics.</p><p>The exchange is part of an outstanding partnership between UMass Amherst and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), made possible through the International Programs Office at UMass Amherst and its Director, the Vice Provost for Global Affairs Kalpen Trivedi.</p><p>Below is a collage of photos from the panel, which took place at the Isenberg School of Management.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO_sAwOQ1CefVMudTzkdZBaLreM5j_CFWAg7BZEPn5g3n8Dp3Uvg2Jz5FJruDDfPuOmHZWnW82CFDL7QEbFdLEEbC10hBv5AG7bBKrZ-aoLsA51ELp1LyTvU23kC3Zr9KvwIxFFdOs-lgHJC9k_S9RFoiue5Y7skh6wmc9qrYn4sjBjqr6BiSnMq6iHL7j/s1080/KSEExchangeStudentPanel-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1080" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO_sAwOQ1CefVMudTzkdZBaLreM5j_CFWAg7BZEPn5g3n8Dp3Uvg2Jz5FJruDDfPuOmHZWnW82CFDL7QEbFdLEEbC10hBv5AG7bBKrZ-aoLsA51ELp1LyTvU23kC3Zr9KvwIxFFdOs-lgHJC9k_S9RFoiue5Y7skh6wmc9qrYn4sjBjqr6BiSnMq6iHL7j/w400-h246/KSEExchangeStudentPanel-collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://blogs.umass.edu/umassinf/officers/officers-2023-2024/" target="_blank">The UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Officers</a>, under its President, Dana Hassani, did an excellent job of promoting the event and it was featured on the UMass Amherst webpage. They also secured the room for the panel and designed the nice poster below.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnp1Ls69IyT7EV05zYf-Hic8SAAaW2sE6m_01WeDlc_dJhzQL-f7u9mQ5lwIlySjpDnsLYd2Pp9fQU1cRKuZC3rb8EbfLuso4V6tucqM-kgfOcjSz6zHWa6Bm6IGmG76W3KT-R08aMMFG_FIXJRem2ilzRJTrovDScbDgIAdxGgqLbJAti0tRDf3n_Xgjj/s960/KSE%20Panel%20Flyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnp1Ls69IyT7EV05zYf-Hic8SAAaW2sE6m_01WeDlc_dJhzQL-f7u9mQ5lwIlySjpDnsLYd2Pp9fQU1cRKuZC3rb8EbfLuso4V6tucqM-kgfOcjSz6zHWa6Bm6IGmG76W3KT-R08aMMFG_FIXJRem2ilzRJTrovDScbDgIAdxGgqLbJAti0tRDf3n_Xgjj/s320/KSE%20Panel%20Flyer.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Assisting me with the moderation last evening was my great colleague from the Management Department, Bogdan Prokopovych.</p><p>In the presentation, background was provided about this unique partnership, which, in addition to the student exchange program, has helped to support 15 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine, who have been matched with faculty hosts at UMass Amherst.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEViqfjmCecC4MK0K1cRb_J6pz8C0-6uVpzEh1j5VfNWok_w9LBOMfBQSzFXDNwTpkMuFmIEV7EkMkNFrvCvBCI4VAGmKRibHCikLCF2RIs4ccx3orpuroCDrOTbI1ROpZ0vJg2dcUH7qDxjzwj-4CUElX6-wRTaqYs7e28B8ZB_4nUGjrZcUfJGD3wdMc/s360/KSEExchangeStudentPanel-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEViqfjmCecC4MK0K1cRb_J6pz8C0-6uVpzEh1j5VfNWok_w9LBOMfBQSzFXDNwTpkMuFmIEV7EkMkNFrvCvBCI4VAGmKRibHCikLCF2RIs4ccx3orpuroCDrOTbI1ROpZ0vJg2dcUH7qDxjzwj-4CUElX6-wRTaqYs7e28B8ZB_4nUGjrZcUfJGD3wdMc/s320/KSEExchangeStudentPanel-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/KSEExchangeStudentPanel.pdf" target="_blank">The full slidedeck can be viewed here.</a> The slidedeck contains background on KSE and the partnership and also includes a video provided by KSE Rector Tymofii Brik to welcome the exchange students from Ukraine.</p><p>In the slidedeck are also posted questions that our panelists responded to yesterday prior to the Q&A with the audience.</p><p>It was a very warm and inspirational evening. The questions began with some "lighter" ones concerning their favorite foods at the award-winning UMass Amherst Dining Commons, to questions on teaching styles of professors at KSE versus UMass Amherst. Questions were also asked on what they will bring back from UMass to KSE. The answers from our panelists were interesting and very informative. I was especially touched by the exchange students' dedication to help in the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine and, hence, their desire to achieve the best education possible.</p><p>They delighted the audience with their expressions of joy at seeing a UMass hockey game and various sports; their enthusiasm at using our stunning Recreation Center; their enjoyment of the many student clubs at UMass Amherst, including our OIM Student Club!</p><p>Our exchange students from KSE appreciate the expansive size of our beautiful UMass Amherst campus, the lovely Amherst Town Center, the beauty of the surrounding nature and the peace.</p><p>In the slidedeck, administrators and faculty are thanked and also 3 special preceding events that we co-organized last year highlighted.</p><p>Thanks to all, who, in support of this partnership, have helped to reduce brain drain from Ukraine; have helped to forge new, impactful research collaborations across the miles in wartime, and these collaborations have led to sustained friendships, and are now educating and supporting students from Ukraine. I believe that we are learning even more from the students than they are from us.</p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-15077616024662505062023-10-24T15:20:00.002-04:002023-10-24T15:20:42.998-04:00Some Highlights of the 2023 INFORMS Conference in Phoenix<p>It is truly extraordinary that this year's <a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/" target="_blank">INFORMS Annual Meeting</a> attracted over 6,000 delegates to Phoenix. The conference took place October 15-28, 2023 and convened operations researchers and analytics professionals from academia, practice and government. All continents except for Antarctica were represented and the INFORMS President Laura Albert remarked that, next year, perhaps even someone from that continent will join us.</p><p>To me, INFORMS is about the people/members, and I especially delighted in seeing several of my former PhD students, who are now thriving as professors at various universities (Dmytro Matsypura at the University of Sydney in Australia, Deniz Besik at the University of Richmond, Shivani Shukla at the University of San Francisco and Sara Saberi at WPI) and having one of my PhD students (Dana Hassani) present at his first such conference the paper that we co-authored with Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) colleagues in Ukraine.<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-023-01292-x" target="_blank"> It was published in the J<i>ournal of Global Optimization</i></a> as the lead article in an issue and was on display at the Springer booth in the Exhibit Hall. We got to keep the stunning <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i> issue. It was also very special to see both my<i> L<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3" target="_blank">abor and Supply Chain Networks</a></i><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3" target="_blank"> book, published in 2023</a>, and the <i>Dynamics of Disasters</i> book that I co-edited with Ilias S. Kotsireas, Panos M. Pardalos and Arsenios Tsokas on display at the Springer booth. Lovely to chat with Pardalos, his wife and son in Phoenix!</p><p>Seeing colleagues for the first time in person was also extra special since, in the pandemic, new connections were made virtually but only recently have the travel and the face to face exchanges become possible (and are so very welcome). The technical sessions and plenary and keynote talks were excellent and not all could be attended because quite a few took place "in parallel."</p><p>I thoroughly enjoyed various board meetings, including that of the INFORMS Magazine Editorial Advisory Board with Kara Tucker and committee members at 8AM on Sunday morning, as well as the Editorial Board meeting of the <i>International Transactions in Operational Research </i>(ITOR)<i>,</i> led by its Editor, Celso C. Ribeiro. The Editorial Board meeting of the<i> Journal of Global Optimization</i>, whose Editor is Sergiy Butenko, was also very enjoyable and the food was excellent - thank you, Springer, the publisher!</p><p>It was an honor to present an invited paper and also to speak on two panels: one on optimization and community resilience and the other one - Meet the ITOR Editors! Thanks to Professor Nazanin Tajik of Mississippi State University for inviting me to speak in her session. I was so honored to even receive a gift and special note from her in appreciation. <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/INFORMS-DefenseCritical-Nagurney.pdf" target="_blank">My presentation on defense critical supply chains and risk management can be viewed here.</a> Our other presentations <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals.html" target="_blank">are posted also on the Supernetworks Center site.</a> The resilience panel did not have panelists' slides but it was so good that it went way over and I missed the WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences) lunch! Thanks to Himadri Sen Gupta of the University of Oklahoma for organizing this panel and to his PhD advisor - Andres Gonzalez!</p><p>The business meetings were very well-attended and I especially enjoyed the Transportation Science & Logistics Society business meeting at which <a href="https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/civil-environmental/news-events/news/articles/2023/hani-receives-lifetime-achievement-award.html" target="_blank">Hani S. Mahmassani received the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science</a>.</p><p>The INFORMS Fellows luncheon at which <a href="https://www.informs.org/News-Room/INFORMS-Releases/Awards-Releases/INFORMS-Names-2023-Fellows" target="_blank">the newly inducted Fellows </a>were recognized was deeply engaging and pleasant. It was an honor to share a table with Roman Slowinski, who traveled with his wife from Poznan, Poland, and well as other colleagues, including Ben Lev and Candi Yano!</p><p>It was delightful to meet new colleagues and to reconnect with many others. I wish that I could list everyone that made this conference so memorable for me - you remain in my pleasant memories - thank you.</p><p>Congratulations to all who received awards! Extra proud that our UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter was recognized with<a href="https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Student-Chapter-Awards" target="_blank"> the INFORMS Magna Cum Laude Award</a>.</p><p>Below is a collage constructed as a remembrance of some of the highlights. Many thanks to the organizers and to all those who took part.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKHZLEWsVaNJjTnSyxvv9Po9jgeN8SBb8GBV28ZOPlRwxOdvDtJakgGoix6F2x7Rlw1dGUp1UFPrTaeSMU9oWKDJewYuiNt1L72EqbIN8qVYpegD0JmuRFvKAxs0mCJhrluZYnWvsLqJ7fqzeTWqpurRWj0wP-9yMD7NQih-mvf7kdr9eAIATQjl53E6v/s1308/informs-annual-2023-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1308" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKHZLEWsVaNJjTnSyxvv9Po9jgeN8SBb8GBV28ZOPlRwxOdvDtJakgGoix6F2x7Rlw1dGUp1UFPrTaeSMU9oWKDJewYuiNt1L72EqbIN8qVYpegD0JmuRFvKAxs0mCJhrluZYnWvsLqJ7fqzeTWqpurRWj0wP-9yMD7NQih-mvf7kdr9eAIATQjl53E6v/w400-h368/informs-annual-2023-collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-35870526978313223452023-10-13T11:38:00.000-04:002023-10-13T11:38:15.341-04:00Very Much Looking Forward to the 2023 INFORMS Conference in Phoenix!<p>The 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting is on the horizon, and is taking place October 15-18 in Phoenix, Arizona. The program is filled with numerous sessions, keynote and plenary talks, business meetings, and many award and social networking events.</p><p>I look forward to seeing colleagues from around the globe and also quite a few of my former PhD students. Dmytro Matsypura, for example, will be traveling all the way from Sydney, Australia to take part in this conference! Shivani Shukla will be coming from San Francisco, Deniz Besik from Richmond, and Sara Saberi from Worcester. Zugang "Leo" Liu will be traveling from eastern Pennsylvania.</p><p>It is also very exciting that my present Isenberg School of Management PhD student, Dana Hassani, will be speaking at this INFORMS conference, which is his first. He will be presenting our paper, "Exchange Rates and Multicommodity International Trade: Insights from Spatial Price Equilibrium Modeling with Policy Instruments via Variational Inequalities," which is co-authored with Kyiv School of Economics colleagues in Ukraine - Oleg Nivievskyi and Pavlo Martyshev. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-023-01292-x" target="_blank">The paper was recently published in the <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i>. </a></p><p>I will present the paper, "Defense Critical Supply Chain Networks and Risk Management with the Inclusion of Labor: Dynamics and Quantification of Performance and the Ranking of Nodes and Links," which is now in press in the <i>Handbook for Management of Threats: Security and Defense, Resilience and Optimal Strategies</i>, Konstantinos Balomenos, Major Antonios Fytopoulos, and Panos Pardalos, Editors, Springer Nature, 2023.</p><p>Our talks are prepared and I am honored and delighted to be also speaking on two panels.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-z-o8ZraWSi4fM7gXaUQoPp5xYn3v71FHrpqkHaaZuU1G-mydkia-DF4K7_ugtF8hW44Xd59KAJZ33FAMtS47WYB1TQulMGrJ1vY2tzJlhQ_SeK-I67sjNchomv2tuwQ7b8o4k88ujOw_rB52xmvwOfV02AWgrmtBJGa1p0rskiSEqZUzyXM8gyksIlaG/s360/INFORMS-Defense_Page_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-z-o8ZraWSi4fM7gXaUQoPp5xYn3v71FHrpqkHaaZuU1G-mydkia-DF4K7_ugtF8hW44Xd59KAJZ33FAMtS47WYB1TQulMGrJ1vY2tzJlhQ_SeK-I67sjNchomv2tuwQ7b8o4k88ujOw_rB52xmvwOfV02AWgrmtBJGa1p0rskiSEqZUzyXM8gyksIlaG/s320/INFORMS-Defense_Page_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9dJUrsVaPhq-lQzQoMpCAC0NT2FrBQFdRBXB1QBcvPKjh_uQ3GGEnVKXkn8WX4GAsOFJMRSHSv-ZIsUEV7SENcQq0kFFqG8s4ngTpdnlcpF5ZQ5xHce_1b793O0GCvtLYydfrSLdYxqkFWhFNdyNmvZZeCmvg2_XdubggxdwixXpIhwly_hLFyYoDm6iP/s360/ExchangeRateSPEModels_INFORMS-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9dJUrsVaPhq-lQzQoMpCAC0NT2FrBQFdRBXB1QBcvPKjh_uQ3GGEnVKXkn8WX4GAsOFJMRSHSv-ZIsUEV7SENcQq0kFFqG8s4ngTpdnlcpF5ZQ5xHce_1b793O0GCvtLYydfrSLdYxqkFWhFNdyNmvZZeCmvg2_XdubggxdwixXpIhwly_hLFyYoDm6iP/s320/ExchangeRateSPEModels_INFORMS-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjGA4dvjpfHO02F3kVgFB_R8JAHpWGzwOEJNhKN1B7rWMI2jMCzRwndjJ7xsR87bCP8u-83ykwHlAQIaoBrNFZ_n3Wt2sIoaSuB0q9X5aaJTh6Ro_y1UGAF-_MiBLPcwbyBYvGn1vEqnF6Dq6fUVg2mynwlWA1htOd-DOHukKrHxrPO0AxOv2wQMvcjCU/s360/ITOR-Panel_Page_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjGA4dvjpfHO02F3kVgFB_R8JAHpWGzwOEJNhKN1B7rWMI2jMCzRwndjJ7xsR87bCP8u-83ykwHlAQIaoBrNFZ_n3Wt2sIoaSuB0q9X5aaJTh6Ro_y1UGAF-_MiBLPcwbyBYvGn1vEqnF6Dq6fUVg2mynwlWA1htOd-DOHukKrHxrPO0AxOv2wQMvcjCU/s320/ITOR-Panel_Page_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAI0TBg3agFJ-vAazdLLgf2Oz1kE02s9qbQUygvq5eFe0SfYtsO_H_Cu_hmGlAJDclHJfzQ0poH1BnoF6TYmxnqOM2ae7_ZFQZ7HvpNLoX69hD_hiFJBaZOhujkM1MNyIXx_7IyML0dBAGgKVuWb_r6GxObd2UguOy7nEPZwgP2yCGiV1GGYyM2v31Hph/s800/ResiliencePanel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAI0TBg3agFJ-vAazdLLgf2Oz1kE02s9qbQUygvq5eFe0SfYtsO_H_Cu_hmGlAJDclHJfzQ0poH1BnoF6TYmxnqOM2ae7_ZFQZ7HvpNLoX69hD_hiFJBaZOhujkM1MNyIXx_7IyML0dBAGgKVuWb_r6GxObd2UguOy7nEPZwgP2yCGiV1GGYyM2v31Hph/w400-h225/ResiliencePanel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The above resilience panel is organized by Himadri Sen Gupta and the ITOR Editors panel by the EIC of ITOR (<i>International Transactions in Operational Research</i>) - Celso C. Ribeiro!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I will also be taking part in multiple Editorial Board meetings and in the meeting of the Magazine Editorial Advisory Board (MEAB) of INFORMS that I am now chairing, with the outstanding support of Kara Tucker of INFORMS and committee members.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I look forward to <a href="https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Fellows/Elected-Fellows" target="_blank">the INFORMS Fellows</a> lunch and to congratulating the newly elected members.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It will also be wonderful to see the <a href="https://blogs.umass.edu/umassinf/" target="_blank">UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter</a> receive the Magna Cum Laude Award from INFORMS at this conference. Congratulations to all the student chapters who will be recognized for their activities at the conference!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/" target="_blank">Information on the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix can be found here.</a> Seeing all the exhibits at the Convention Center will be great fun, I am sure, as well as meeting conferees at the various events and even in passing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">And, on Sunday, October 15, for a while, I will take part in an NSF Workshop on Mobility at Arizona State University with both David Boyce and Hani S. Mahmassani speaking. I have forwarded a tribute to David Boyce to the workshop organizers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtW8ly-fD7er7PnqoITLlM8yelhuuhCcT249NgST6qqfNTLToiu3Wv8LdQWia-8othxSPvY_DKwN7mYaSxob_-2ms9Z6a2fz2YDYjpFtfMqCLRaWBiHRRCL9rvnVgxzaS3C5wc3kOK8PCcX_yCnHZIAtOY3S-XHUqn9UkWKrxQjRnlhQaNS5EeNz2-asK-/s1672/NSF%20Workshop%20Flyer%20(October%2015)-reduced.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="1284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtW8ly-fD7er7PnqoITLlM8yelhuuhCcT249NgST6qqfNTLToiu3Wv8LdQWia-8othxSPvY_DKwN7mYaSxob_-2ms9Z6a2fz2YDYjpFtfMqCLRaWBiHRRCL9rvnVgxzaS3C5wc3kOK8PCcX_yCnHZIAtOY3S-XHUqn9UkWKrxQjRnlhQaNS5EeNz2-asK-/s320/NSF%20Workshop%20Flyer%20(October%2015)-reduced.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I have to also take this opportunity to congratulate Hani Mahmassani since he will be recognized at the Transportation Science & Logistics (TSL) Society business meeting in Phoenix with the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science! Robert Herman was his PhD advisor at UT Austin and this award is so well-deserved. Hani is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It will be a very exciting time in Phoenix and we will manage, I hope, with the 100 degree temperature!</span></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-8860988400551553612023-10-07T14:18:00.000-04:002023-10-07T14:18:13.027-04:00Traffic Paradoxes Continue to Fascinate<p>I have been reading the paper, "Bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review of the traffic paradoxes (1968–2022)," co-authored by Jia Yao, Ziyi Cheng, and Anthony Chen, published recently in the journal <i>Transportation Research B, </i>177 (2023) 102832. It contains a very thorough, exhaustive compendium and analysis of a plethora of traffic paradoxes, beginning with the classical Braess Paradox (1968) paper. I had the honor of translating the 1968 paper from German to English, along with Dietrich Braess and my then PhD student Tina Wakolbinger. The translation, "On a paradox of traffic planning was published in <i>Transportation Science</i> in 2005, along with a preface that I wrote with David Boyce.</p><p>Below is a photo taken with Professor Dietrich Braess and Tina Wakolbinger, when we hosted him at the Isenberg School of Management after our translation was published in 2006.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWrixtLQUD77dXpcdsoLNChqQ3tKrU4kUYohILuPWn630LmyrvYNmC7-CKoiLhnhuK481D9RbOzUEFp0qaZgbWa47VXDnixjYclul1bQLAmdg-QC4qvvETOBa8tiWGJazlFQEygu2AYPadFhKl_87yizMhhszsjNQ9Vq9-dUq45-Okev_ugv9q-fA1HuJ/s1820/BraessNagurneyWakolbinger-IsenbergSchool.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="1820" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWrixtLQUD77dXpcdsoLNChqQ3tKrU4kUYohILuPWn630LmyrvYNmC7-CKoiLhnhuK481D9RbOzUEFp0qaZgbWa47VXDnixjYclul1bQLAmdg-QC4qvvETOBa8tiWGJazlFQEygu2AYPadFhKl_87yizMhhszsjNQ9Vq9-dUq45-Okev_ugv9q-fA1HuJ/s320/BraessNagurneyWakolbinger-IsenbergSchool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anna-nagurney" target="_blank">2005-2006 was a very busy year for me since I was then a Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.</a></p><p>The Braess Paradox has inspired many researchers from different disciplines and, over the years, I have written several papers on this paradox and others, which I have co-authored with both PhD students and other collaborators. </p><p>In the study by Yao, Cheng, and Chen, I was thrilled and humbled to see that I am the "top leading author with a minimum of five publications" on traffic paradoxes and that I am in some amazing scholarly company.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpG-8A9Jo_6KgmTlMqk90LbN_5UCmLkhcuJkq_oiGUkwHQF3EZ2nXo_m_hsqbhUtQUNZ-0hdo5uJTzGhFuVC7l7azk_g7TmrWEROvXQkBFDDhLjS-wssR0KvYuQ50l34NNPkZGaeVsIfJCc9Q63SjghvukrFDyXHJFi37WIpt1JLaUgJGJLDrtWOPZt-T0/s2063/ParadoxReviewTransportationResearchB-T4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpG-8A9Jo_6KgmTlMqk90LbN_5UCmLkhcuJkq_oiGUkwHQF3EZ2nXo_m_hsqbhUtQUNZ-0hdo5uJTzGhFuVC7l7azk_g7TmrWEROvXQkBFDDhLjS-wssR0KvYuQ50l34NNPkZGaeVsIfJCc9Q63SjghvukrFDyXHJFi37WIpt1JLaUgJGJLDrtWOPZt-T0/w294-h400/ParadoxReviewTransportationResearchB-T4.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><p>I have had the pleasure of working on paradoxes and the authors of this Transportation Research B bibliometric study have listed the top 50 cited papers, which include not only the translation paper of ours but also my work with my PhD advisor (now deceased) Stella Dafermos, Ding Zhang, and Qiang "Patrick" Qiang.</p><p>Below is a list of the 50 most cited papers that the authors compiled.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXl6Z6gV7nEPbfPEOaP1rSLtNUuneav-4CRfppO9D8v-19m1-EdVuLct8WqkDPFojlB-STNtNVp0s6O-suRBMhRjo9g86rQuYW5amFtK0bFCPTMBZziqOxCo6fl03lHlWsMzc5kkrYWUGGPlxViIiB0V5IyZ4Ll4YO9FEGmvKSuKSX3aCqonkwEBKnvv73/s2063/ParadoxReviewTransportationResearchB-t3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXl6Z6gV7nEPbfPEOaP1rSLtNUuneav-4CRfppO9D8v-19m1-EdVuLct8WqkDPFojlB-STNtNVp0s6O-suRBMhRjo9g86rQuYW5amFtK0bFCPTMBZziqOxCo6fl03lHlWsMzc5kkrYWUGGPlxViIiB0V5IyZ4Ll4YO9FEGmvKSuKSX3aCqonkwEBKnvv73/w294-h400/ParadoxReviewTransportationResearchB-t3.jpg" width="294" /></a></div>I'd like to commend Yao, Cheng, and Chen on their paper, which is an incredibly valuable resource, which, I am sure, will generate much additional research.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtor_J5smD4sf3gTHZ6rMWteUmam6DGdAnVTyxVLXsc4QTK2hsqQtac_xHyF9q1d3PUWry2M41Y9okShTFcFaLxOus4kYdztzX0hkMBGwdYaFx_vARdS1NLeUODRFgAQf5Ft188fuDqjWmY70o_crzLX9Iqxp9F1d8CXbeT6uNVO2UTIOpqDHJ7F4u5wmQ/s3105/ParadoxReviewTransportationResearchB-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3105" data-original-width="2261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtor_J5smD4sf3gTHZ6rMWteUmam6DGdAnVTyxVLXsc4QTK2hsqQtac_xHyF9q1d3PUWry2M41Y9okShTFcFaLxOus4kYdztzX0hkMBGwdYaFx_vARdS1NLeUODRFgAQf5Ft188fuDqjWmY70o_crzLX9Iqxp9F1d8CXbeT6uNVO2UTIOpqDHJ7F4u5wmQ/s320/ParadoxReviewTransportationResearchB-1.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/braess/braess-new.html#Other" target="_blank">I have prepared a page of photos from the visit of Professor Braess to the Isenberg School and other resource materials, for those who may be interested.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191261523001571" target="_blank">Here is the link to the Yao, Cheng, and Chen (2023) paper. </a></div><div><br /></div><div>Below is a list of some of the papers that I have referred to either explicitly or implicitly in this post.<br /><p><b>References</b></p><p>Braess, D., 1968. Über ein paradoxon aus der verkehrsplanung. <i>Unternehmensforschung</i> 12 (1), 258–268.</p><p>Braess, D., Nagurney, A., Wakolbinger, T., 2005. On a paradox of traffic planning.<i> Transportation Science</i> 39 (4), 446–450.</p><p>Dafermos, S., Nagurney, A., 1984a. On some traffic equilibrium theory paradoxes.<i> Transportation Research B </i>18 (2), 101–110.</p><p>Dafermos, S., Nagurney, A., 1984b. Sensitivity analysis for the asymmetric network equilibrium problem. <i>Mathematical Programming</i> 28 (2), 174–184.</p><p>Nagurney, A., 2000. Congested urban transportation networks and emission paradoxes. <i>Transportation Research D</i> 5 (2), 145–151.</p><p>Nagurney, A., 2010. The negation of the Braess paradox as demand increases: the wisdom of crowds in transportation networks. <i>EPL (Europhysics Letters) </i>91 (4), 48002.</p><p>Nagurney, A., Qiang, Q., 2007a. A network efficiency measure for congested networks. EPL 79 (3), 38005.</p><p>Nagurney, A., Qiang, Q., 2007b. Robustness of transportation networks subject to degradable links. <i>EPL (Europhysics Letters)</i> 80 (6), 68001.</p><p>Nagurney, A., Qiang, Q., 2008a. An efficiency measure for dynamic networks modeled as evolutionary variational inequalities with application to the internet and vulnerability analysis. <i>Netnomics</i> 9 (1), 1–20.</p><p>Nagurney, A., Qiang, Q., 2008b. A network efficiency measure with application to critical infrastructure networks. <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i> 40 (1–3), 261–275.</p><p>Nagurney, A., Zhang, D., 1997. Projected dynamical systems in the formulation, stability analysis, and computation of fixed-demand traffic network equilibria. <i>Transportation Science</i> 31, 147–158.</p><p>Nagurney, L.S., Nagurney, A., 2016. Physical proof of the occurrence of the Braess paradox in electrical circuits. <i>EPL (Europhysics Letters)</i> 115, 28004.</p><p>And, in 2007, a paper that I co-authored with Patrizia Daniele, who was supported by Radcliffe as my collaborator, and with David Parkes (now Dean of SEAS at Harvard) was published! Full citation:</p><p>Nagurney, A., Parkes, D.C., Daniele, P. 2007. The Internet, evolutionary variational inequalities, and the time-dependent Braess paradox. <i>Computational Management Science</i> 4(4): 355-375.</p><p><br /></p></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-91842268010779904232023-09-09T14:54:00.001-04:002023-09-09T14:54:44.629-04:00A Great Start to the New Academic Year and Our Research on UAVs!<p> It was an exciting first week at UMass Amherst of the new 2022-2023 academic year.</p><p>I am delighted to again be teaching my Transportation & Logistics class this Fall. The students with their enthusiasm for a subject that I love keep me energized. And, this week, we discussed innovations in transportation technologies, including UAVs (sometimes referred to as drones).</p><p>Coincidentally, although last year, <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-outstanding-optimization-and.html" target="_blank">I had the great honor of giving a keynote at the outstanding Optimization and Decision Sciences conference (ODS 2022), which took place in Firenze (Florence), Italy</a>, just before classes began, this year, I could not squeeze in this conference since it overlapped with the first week of classes. Nevertheless, I was delighted that my collaborators, Dr. Gabriella Colajanni and Professor Patrizia Daniele, both of the University of Catania, were able to attend and to present our latest work on UAVs. <a href="http://www.airoconference.it/ods2023/" target="_blank">This year's ODS conference took place in another stunning location - Ischia</a>! And, amazingly, we did the galleys for the paper on which our presentation was based this past Tuesday; the presentation took place on Wednesday, and our paper, "Centralized supply chain network optimization with UAV-based last mile deliveries," was published in the journal <i>Transportation Research C</i> this Thursday. It is open access and <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/articles/Last_Mile-TRC.pdf" target="_blank">can be viewed here</a>. The results therein demonstrate how a hybrid fleet can enhance profits and also reduce air pollution.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbSGX_GqJ2c6FohoJlEy7EvgOtna5oqUhbW2IZ_4JQ0ypqlo5fSuJR07USdSKajzyIzhf-pXxGpCxuB4kbQva89XERMLMER3Ek5v2qV59IAMCbzTkdL6StEIn4XWLiJBB9R9gaJMdGVL8jx7G95y2joPHMNx3FROkMuxxNCv8po_UXm2-nfTDdj_Cu-OW/s360/Colajanni_ODS2023-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbSGX_GqJ2c6FohoJlEy7EvgOtna5oqUhbW2IZ_4JQ0ypqlo5fSuJR07USdSKajzyIzhf-pXxGpCxuB4kbQva89XERMLMER3Ek5v2qV59IAMCbzTkdL6StEIn4XWLiJBB9R9gaJMdGVL8jx7G95y2joPHMNx3FROkMuxxNCv8po_UXm2-nfTDdj_Cu-OW/s320/Colajanni_ODS2023-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Professor Patrizia Daniele kindly sent me the photos below of Dr. Colajanni presenting our paper, a nice lunch get-together, and additional photos.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCTYG3qAIKzCPPjCcCyqxgYW43-ALf7gVqFjANWUHoIlEMSIUW12bAgoe68nSrku6-TM5MsBaGJop7LgQjgv8fyON98J1wMwyD6_erVf5hvd5E_2TDDGaJiLdDPE4vnt9k2veWHsxQY3keiDq_imPqKPc2f6_0em1b_pLPCfWfj9n6gOksp4j3JVqYTc-Q/s320/Ischia2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/Colajanni_ODS2023.pdf" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The<a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/Colajanni_ODS2023.pdf" target="_blank"> slide deck of our presentation at the ODS conference can be downloaded here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And just a few weeks ago, our paper on UAVs and 5G with a focus on three phases of disaster management, "A three-stage stochastic optimization model integrating 5G technology and UAVs for disaster management," was published in the<i> Journal of Global Optimization</i>. <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/articles/UAV-jogo.pdf">This paper is also open access </a>and was co-authored with Dr. Gabriella Calajanni, Professor Patrizia Daniele, Dr. Daniele Sciacca, and Professor Ladimer S. Nagurney. In the Spring semester, I teach a course on Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare, and we discuss the four phases of disaster management. Great to have such excellent collaborators to engage on such topic research with.</div></div><br />Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-4088270633245840602023-07-17T10:33:00.001-04:002023-07-17T10:56:59.426-04:00The Amazing IFORS Conference in Santiago, Chile<p>I hope that everyone who took part in the amazing IFORS Conference in Santiago, Chile, which took place July 10-14, 2023, has safely and comfortably returned to their home destinations.</p><p>The conference, which is a triennial one, was face to face and attracted over 700 presentations and 900 registrants from around the globe.</p><p>Kudos to the Co-Chairs of the Local Organizing Committee: Professors Rafael Epstein and Jorge Vera, and to the Chair of the Scientific Program - Professor Alice Smith and to their teams for putting together such an informative and rich scientific as well as social program. And even the weather cooperated - the winter while we were in Santiago was quite mild.</p><p>It has been an incredibly busy several weeks, since, shortly before the IFORS Conference, I had co-organized the Dynamics of Disasters Conference in Greece. </p><p>It was so inspiring to see the great attendance and enthusiasm of the conferees and, I must add that, on my direct flight from Madrid to Santiago on Iberia, there were several conferees from Italy (Paolo Toth, Grazia Speranza, and Claudia Archetti) and, just after passport control, I had the pleasure of seeing the INFORMS President Laura Albert. It was wonderful to stroll to the conference venues and to be greeted and to share greetings with conferees. It was truly special to have exchanges with both Professors Tom Magnanti and Fred Hillier, luminaries in Operations Research.</p><p>The below collage was prepared as a memento of the conference.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPn8-7AkSsjnCbMeaW6xq_HDapmfHriLRwJRzPRWksF45V2wYoDsSFrT5l55aVZ7YZg7YnrZO3UBXbSbOB91kPZGHSvTt8W1F1MfBLOxZz_GoQb3Gp2za9V-iM0Mtqleic-vZk0XAefzztEIo7qTbDN_AuylSFAAzCf_DUyJkl7kjbO8UWT9rpWXf2Y0r/s800/ifors-2023-collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPn8-7AkSsjnCbMeaW6xq_HDapmfHriLRwJRzPRWksF45V2wYoDsSFrT5l55aVZ7YZg7YnrZO3UBXbSbOB91kPZGHSvTt8W1F1MfBLOxZz_GoQb3Gp2za9V-iM0Mtqleic-vZk0XAefzztEIo7qTbDN_AuylSFAAzCf_DUyJkl7kjbO8UWT9rpWXf2Y0r/w400-h300/ifors-2023-collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>I was thrilled to see my latest book,<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3" target="_blank"> "Labor and Supply Chain Networks," </a>on display at the Springer book at the exhibition hall at the conference and very much enjoyed speaking to the Springer Editors: Matt Amboy, Razia Amzad, and Jialin Yan. </p><p>I also very much enjoyed the plenary and keynote sessions as well other sessions plus Editorial Board meetings of both the International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) and the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxzMeRAnEnzNhqx9-zSRYX4CoJ6O4BFnvQjKF41DAtOTLmT2E3Ml6v5nlXAZTPP4uZZfgTrLqkNdQ6ubXz9U_49EGZGUslVL9j_J8aK2UtH_uXcA3vFQQCxyjNWZdQ52kG0wjsYn9mNatZmjTeQpRx1soeXu7BYr7aDoYDpXE6xr3uek67IjbOkgMzZwDi/s680/IFORS-ITOR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="680" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxzMeRAnEnzNhqx9-zSRYX4CoJ6O4BFnvQjKF41DAtOTLmT2E3Ml6v5nlXAZTPP4uZZfgTrLqkNdQ6ubXz9U_49EGZGUslVL9j_J8aK2UtH_uXcA3vFQQCxyjNWZdQ52kG0wjsYn9mNatZmjTeQpRx1soeXu7BYr7aDoYDpXE6xr3uek67IjbOkgMzZwDi/s320/IFORS-ITOR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcxlC2w929eax417833lpoWyV3rLAlOJg_mFgz4jAeY_Vukgycr77zuZLNuIgFgpnhvuvdSFKxChr3GXa7-Sy0iMlEPx2PZEPss1M4FDlueOXGsQVVkuDfHwuM8Tz6z-L70vyfNhkMYnU3IG_DB61AJicNTmj4CBC9L_tth9msul1yppZED651WOIH-qKX/s2016/IFORS-EJOR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcxlC2w929eax417833lpoWyV3rLAlOJg_mFgz4jAeY_Vukgycr77zuZLNuIgFgpnhvuvdSFKxChr3GXa7-Sy0iMlEPx2PZEPss1M4FDlueOXGsQVVkuDfHwuM8Tz6z-L70vyfNhkMYnU3IG_DB61AJicNTmj4CBC9L_tth9msul1yppZED651WOIH-qKX/s320/IFORS-EJOR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>Many thanks to Celso C. Ribeiro, the Editor of ITOR, and to Roman Slowinski, the Editor of EJOR, for such informative meetings!</div><p>With the size of the conference and the two venues, I regret that I did not have a chance to speak with as many conferees as I would have liked to. Additional highlights included meeting colleagues that one had interacted with virtually in the pandemic and finally got to meet in person, including the amazing Anand Subramanian, the developer and interviewer behind <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Subjectto_" target="_blank">the outstanding youtube series Subjectto_</a></p><p>And Professor Subrmanian, with some assistance, brought 16 of his special mugs, to present those who were at the conference and had had the pleasure and honor of being interviewed by him! I will treasure my mug. He has, to-date conducted 72 interviews - an extraordinary effort of historical scientific value.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EjHpakNWvViEwmviqjF97pUqV1mUrL4Yi5dnETbW51fdvH2o2josrheV91Z5Je7SONyL691np_C6ERb3E-WCUGu5CPU0siXwB7eu3rAitzdfAhvt_ef8k1X_l347DX5VJlDw72aAHvgFlUEmhKs1rDjbqG8bYhWLbQdK8pkQZH7CPgqE-nCoSFvRBMN8/s680/AnandAnna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EjHpakNWvViEwmviqjF97pUqV1mUrL4Yi5dnETbW51fdvH2o2josrheV91Z5Je7SONyL691np_C6ERb3E-WCUGu5CPU0siXwB7eu3rAitzdfAhvt_ef8k1X_l347DX5VJlDw72aAHvgFlUEmhKs1rDjbqG8bYhWLbQdK8pkQZH7CPgqE-nCoSFvRBMN8/s320/AnandAnna.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I'd like to thank Professor Margaret Brandeau for her warm introduction to my keynote talk and I am grateful to all those who came to my presentation. I am grateful to my UMass Amherst engineering colleague Professor Chaitra Gopalappa for taking the photo below.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZU84IOAf4vWN23NQd-MG_gfH-R9ko5o1nPbovrEh3h-KAhYdhh_34PNr134mtQRt5zZ1IclC3NTVQaS5be0qnb-CtR-nJt9aLU6n8xs_FVHQNAD4kvg4ynPy9i6gMebAjEEYiBsSDeP2Lt0NaTjQD2TvtUVyv_oXYVsboatXwWU8HK6McTpyLFiq9r4He/s800/IFORS-keynote.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZU84IOAf4vWN23NQd-MG_gfH-R9ko5o1nPbovrEh3h-KAhYdhh_34PNr134mtQRt5zZ1IclC3NTVQaS5be0qnb-CtR-nJt9aLU6n8xs_FVHQNAD4kvg4ynPy9i6gMebAjEEYiBsSDeP2Lt0NaTjQD2TvtUVyv_oXYVsboatXwWU8HK6McTpyLFiq9r4He/s320/IFORS-keynote.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>It was wonderful to also see my UMass Amherst engineering colleague Professor Hari Balasubramanian, who, with his wife, were at the same hotel as I in Santiago - the Ismael Hotel.</p><p>Some resilience on my part was required, since as I was shampooing my hair, with a head full of lather, the hotel had a pipe break, and there was no water. This happened about 2 hours before my keynote. Resilience comes with being Ukrainian.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjarZ-LWdMq790tXzMUqtEHdkMR4XzEAxrdUiZTqPcBRPxtWW29emndHm0eCprzjfM3ZmJioIe7xiN-cmaL38A5K32bnKmwTjxow96aHoWlxPKAfv2AzT46QhXRNi8xnYbiP8oZb7uVHXJHRiG6phF4nXX6njqqma5JZCHXOTQM-lIF8smIbbTJMP3AWan4/s882/IFORS-Santiago-Nagurney-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="882" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjarZ-LWdMq790tXzMUqtEHdkMR4XzEAxrdUiZTqPcBRPxtWW29emndHm0eCprzjfM3ZmJioIe7xiN-cmaL38A5K32bnKmwTjxow96aHoWlxPKAfv2AzT46QhXRNi8xnYbiP8oZb7uVHXJHRiG6phF4nXX6njqqma5JZCHXOTQM-lIF8smIbbTJMP3AWan4/s320/IFORS-Santiago-Nagurney-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/IFORS-Santiago-Nagurney.pdf" target="_blank">I have posted the slide deck of my keynote on the Virtual Center for Supernetworks website.</a> In my keynote, I spoke about, among other work, recent research done with my Isenberg School of Management PhD student Dana Hassani and colleagues at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine Oleg Nivievskyi and Pavlo Martyshev, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-023-01292-x" target="_blank">which was published in the Journal of Global Optimization.</a></p><p>It was truly special to have my former Isenberg School of Management PhD student, Dmytro Matsypura, who is head of the Business Analytics Department at the University of Sydney in Australia come to my keynote as well as Professor Renata Konrad on WPI and Professor Moldovan of Romania.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs2lNelqDIpwtmeI0rNUynSIxmc5XAYsHEWH3Pd2SH3VW0z1t_9zEudWiiX_TeSbcxE-8WYPcNrq9BX4Bzkrht5a01B3ebtBGwfgkkAArro0EIJXSOsKd6N4G2e15oH2VTiWyUBTS6k1KEgl0wRIiBFQRgsk_mJwx-gI9HEXeF__Rtx05JagtzkpHIaFR3/s2016/Renata-Moldovan-IFORS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs2lNelqDIpwtmeI0rNUynSIxmc5XAYsHEWH3Pd2SH3VW0z1t_9zEudWiiX_TeSbcxE-8WYPcNrq9BX4Bzkrht5a01B3ebtBGwfgkkAArro0EIJXSOsKd6N4G2e15oH2VTiWyUBTS6k1KEgl0wRIiBFQRgsk_mJwx-gI9HEXeF__Rtx05JagtzkpHIaFR3/s320/Renata-Moldovan-IFORS.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Many thanks to IFORS for the incredible work on this conference! <a href="https://ifors2023.com/" target="_blank">The conference website can be accessed here.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-52676439901566481832023-07-16T14:11:00.001-04:002023-07-16T14:11:22.230-04:00Thanks to ALL Who Took Part in Our International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters in Greece<p>It has been an incredibly busy, yet energizing, several few weeks with two international conferences on different continents and different seasons (summer and winter).</p><p>I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all those who took part in the 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters, which took place in Piraeus, Greece, July 3-6, 2023.</p><p>The below collage was constructed to capture a few of the highlights.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbui6KhMuRouoozQnjjTqnopwnhvMgq9nV8bTvmLZFzEVrrP3yI3q_h7WSrfh4dcmR1A4DkJSGf7RZatsqe3TvnWwl09qmJAMCN5Al-iUUyPkvxyOn3EEb6OsYuvYL5XAUwOvFc9YSe8aAhxq3LRxDAPzPTYQtysRekN9fHMe7ZJlxXM_0IbnU3sWFOWH/s800/DOD-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="800" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbui6KhMuRouoozQnjjTqnopwnhvMgq9nV8bTvmLZFzEVrrP3yI3q_h7WSrfh4dcmR1A4DkJSGf7RZatsqe3TvnWwl09qmJAMCN5Al-iUUyPkvxyOn3EEb6OsYuvYL5XAUwOvFc9YSe8aAhxq3LRxDAPzPTYQtysRekN9fHMe7ZJlxXM_0IbnU3sWFOWH/w400-h226/DOD-collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The venue of the conference was the Historical Library of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus.</p><p>We had the pleasure of hearing from outstanding plenary speakers, both practitioners and academics.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96HMjcsn20-65VnqBcHRkedxsygg7n-WFtDrqB3HpQNqOCQ-P0yJp7B4JcBZF5YV5M_CkWW9QllCgIyLjp2mXofbEoWr3XQQZc3FtpV0ES2HotN-L6oimn_dqHPJNz_ImNXeWuEZgIHtRW8RXNNeEg1j9HrApHMN6kSwl3IBgZiCpY9JMntQbps80Mfoj/s9878/dod-2023-promo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7408" data-original-width="9878" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96HMjcsn20-65VnqBcHRkedxsygg7n-WFtDrqB3HpQNqOCQ-P0yJp7B4JcBZF5YV5M_CkWW9QllCgIyLjp2mXofbEoWr3XQQZc3FtpV0ES2HotN-L6oimn_dqHPJNz_ImNXeWuEZgIHtRW8RXNNeEg1j9HrApHMN6kSwl3IBgZiCpY9JMntQbps80Mfoj/w400-h300/dod-2023-promo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>It was inspiring to see conferees representing many different countries including: Austria, Germany, Nepal, Japan, Canada, Greece, Italy, Turkey, the UK, and the US.<div><br /></div><div>In a period in history with compounding disasters, the exchange of knowledge and best practices and working together to address the great challenges that we are faced with are needed more than ever.</div><div><br /></div><div>Information about the conference, including the presenters and their talk titles can be found on<a href="http://caopt.com/DOD2023/" target="_blank"> the conference website.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I had the pleasure of presenting work done with my PhD student at the Isenberg School of Management Dana Hassani and colleagues at the Kyiv School of Economics: Professor Oleg Nivievskyi and Dr. Pavlo Martyshev. <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/SPEBounds_Presentation.pdf" target="_blank">The link to the slidedeck of the presentation can be accessed here.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R1uu8gVAMHfNhEvlnYhxIcPusuNduT8xWCnA3YiWa5_PvPsIhh0Nsv1T-bHfnPX-JpLqlL6bbRugFFOmTuCm0JhPwJlbM2nxE9q3Sk4PTbaPyqikOqB2OzW0sa_mTfgUNBUxUhRp-z-JFwXK7niE3hF4-ewH-g6AQ_lTnBHEwlqY2sSTui8OqvOw9jJm/s1008/SPEBounds_Presentation_Page_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1008" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R1uu8gVAMHfNhEvlnYhxIcPusuNduT8xWCnA3YiWa5_PvPsIhh0Nsv1T-bHfnPX-JpLqlL6bbRugFFOmTuCm0JhPwJlbM2nxE9q3Sk4PTbaPyqikOqB2OzW0sa_mTfgUNBUxUhRp-z-JFwXK7niE3hF4-ewH-g6AQ_lTnBHEwlqY2sSTui8OqvOw9jJm/s320/SPEBounds_Presentation_Page_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Not everyone could join us because of visa and other extenuating circumstances. Sadly, in April, Professor Urmila Pyakurel of Nepal passed away. She was an avid participant in our previous Dynamics of Disasters conference. We paid a tribute to her in Piraeus. A PhD student of hers presented on their joint work. Urmila lost her life to cancer, which she had battled for many years. She was also a Humboldtian. <a href="https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/magazine-humboldt-kosmos/progressdiversity-why-science-needs-more-diversity/how-stony-was-the-path-to-mathematical-heights-ms-pyakurel" target="_blank">You can read about some aspects of her amazing life here.</a></div><div><p>And, while I was at the IFORS conference in Santiago, Chile, July 10-14, 2023, at which I gave a keynote, we heard from Springer Nature that we are getting a contract to edit the volume: "Dynamics of Disasters: From Natural Phenomena to Human Activity." My fellow Co-Editors on this project are: Professors Ilias S. Kotsireas, Panos M. Pardalos, Stefan Pickl, and Chrys Vogiatzis. It was a pleasure to work with them on the organization of this very timely conference.</p></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-11097561542272394362023-06-28T15:09:00.001-04:002023-06-28T15:09:25.045-04:00Very Excited About the IFORS Conference in Santiago (Where It Is Winter) and the Dynamics of Disasters Conference in Athens (Where It Is Summer)<p>Academics are quite good at conferencing and also in optimizing when it comes to packing, etc. Nevertheless, packing for essentially back to back conferences on different continents and seasons can be a challenge especially if the plan is to only have a single carryon as luggage.</p><p>In 2006, I spoke at successive conferences in Cyprus (Limassol), Iceland (Reykjavik), and then in Italy (Erice). Family members joined me <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2010/04/scenes-from-iceland-before-chaos-due-to.html" target="_blank">in Iceland</a> and brought some warm clothing since the temperature, while we were there and it was officially summer, never rose about 48 degrees F. <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2017/06/packing-up-for-humanitarian-logistics.html" target="_blank">Some reflections on packing for the stream of conferences.</a></p><p>Soon I will be flying to Athens, Greece for the Dynamics of Disasters conference that I co-organized, and then, via Madrid, to the IFORS Conference in Santiago, Chile.</p><p>I am thrilled to be delivering a keynote talk, entitled, "Agricultural Supply Chain Networks: From Trade to Resilience and How OR Can Help," at the IFORS Conference.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMb8sUT5_7UFJ7fpRu_hHld5Y4FKk3JJbIM81AtRr9RGzBnAmFdI43HAOSUryhiNFDTpILzphCdixFHLJCnQsjE9Ub1-xhkO5oGCbd48v3GBlozqNBKByBsRH1dFrMog3vIFS2vBj4x5Yy-lLN-4VM3VzufmzJsPVe42BKNFAH5lDNfm1VLSmM1uOeotFE/s882/IFORS-Santiago-Nagurney-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="882" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMb8sUT5_7UFJ7fpRu_hHld5Y4FKk3JJbIM81AtRr9RGzBnAmFdI43HAOSUryhiNFDTpILzphCdixFHLJCnQsjE9Ub1-xhkO5oGCbd48v3GBlozqNBKByBsRH1dFrMog3vIFS2vBj4x5Yy-lLN-4VM3VzufmzJsPVe42BKNFAH5lDNfm1VLSmM1uOeotFE/s320/IFORS-Santiago-Nagurney-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>My keynote will highlight some of our research over the past decade on agricultural supply chain networks including recent work with collaborators in Ukraine.<a href="https://ifors2023.com/" target="_blank"> Information on this conference can be found here.</a> I am very honored to be on <a href="https://ifors2023.com/speakers" target="_blank">the list of plenary and keynote speakers.</a></p><p>Also, at the IFORS conference, I'll be taking part in the "Meet the ITOR Editors" panel, which was organized by the outstanding Editor of the International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) journal Celso C. Ribeiro! Joining us on the panel is the previous President of IFORS Grazia Speranza and Mario Guajardo. ITOR recently celebrated its 30th anniversary <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-3995.special-virtual-issue-30th-anniversary" target="_blank">with a special issue</a>. I was delighted to have my tutorial paper on ``Fragile Networks," co-authored with Qiang "Patrick" Qiang included in this special issue. The tutorial paper was based on a tutorial that I gave at the <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2010/06/faces-at-informs-conference-in-buenos.html" target="_blank">ALIO INFORMS conference in Buenos Aires.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBuEPld68Xh3gvvHkgotbKml3o5PKnhqHV1w_XAuKju90D85DQJEd0jsS9YH0ze5lBtDKR7QFekP-wllg0J_GeyclBclh3iig7tbciPSMrd9dZT5AQcQtRlBDB7v3xypahN3ysgeNfGVk2KsFI59jGKZVR1MFXutd-AULBfPx6up81aGcK1zAI4f5gJ6q/s360/IFORS-Panel-Nagurney-Santiago-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBuEPld68Xh3gvvHkgotbKml3o5PKnhqHV1w_XAuKju90D85DQJEd0jsS9YH0ze5lBtDKR7QFekP-wllg0J_GeyclBclh3iig7tbciPSMrd9dZT5AQcQtRlBDB7v3xypahN3ysgeNfGVk2KsFI59jGKZVR1MFXutd-AULBfPx6up81aGcK1zAI4f5gJ6q/s320/IFORS-Panel-Nagurney-Santiago-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGjC523obHH4wMUZpzkTb07I3RfYb9C9vxQy3z4Rs5RHNBcJVQe9FkARgIxFfZyIZqcQJEOmbORu2t7RSCm91F-WxU947zkGPL6jpxYSRhXWUMPxXgSz1fvQMD-DPGL8Gzd9GiF2T5PZOjLI8fA1G3wxjhCqum8wW4IbyiXzZXIzDmulFKJoYYpBnf2WQU/s948/IFORS-Panel-Nagurney-Santiago-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="948" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGjC523obHH4wMUZpzkTb07I3RfYb9C9vxQy3z4Rs5RHNBcJVQe9FkARgIxFfZyIZqcQJEOmbORu2t7RSCm91F-WxU947zkGPL6jpxYSRhXWUMPxXgSz1fvQMD-DPGL8Gzd9GiF2T5PZOjLI8fA1G3wxjhCqum8wW4IbyiXzZXIzDmulFKJoYYpBnf2WQU/s320/IFORS-Panel-Nagurney-Santiago-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>I am very much looking forward to seeing conferees from many continents at this IFORS conference, including my former Isenberg School of Management PhD student, Dmytro Matsypura, who will travel from Australia. He is Chair of the Business Analytics Department at the University of Sydney. The President of IFORS is now Janny Leung and she is traveling from Macao!</p><p>And, prior to the IFORS conference, I will be experiencing the warmth of a Mediterranean summer at <a href="http://caopt.com/DOD2023/" target="_blank">the Dynamics of Disasters Conference.</a> We have an outstanding lineup of plenary speakers and I thank them all for accepting our invitations. This is the 6th Dynamics of Disasters Conference! It was such a pleasure to work with Ilias S. Kotsireas, Panos M. Pardalos, and Chrys Vogiatzis on this conference.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStrbdoqsQvs51FT0qHjtO6acoPMry5zz2QsL3mgNcfNxBB3intvZmiZRsXZC1P-vYpnbQ8Wd_o6bcUponSYnyTL6wrPw-uomas8Mq3F2SAGlSraKCHUMtq3PX12Khw5mVt3p8w0r1bZm7EgOv4rvt1zCBsToKjQ3qhHq9rgFY5Ek3Kn03x0yTgHmH25Bd/s9878/dod-2023-promo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7408" data-original-width="9878" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStrbdoqsQvs51FT0qHjtO6acoPMry5zz2QsL3mgNcfNxBB3intvZmiZRsXZC1P-vYpnbQ8Wd_o6bcUponSYnyTL6wrPw-uomas8Mq3F2SAGlSraKCHUMtq3PX12Khw5mVt3p8w0r1bZm7EgOv4rvt1zCBsToKjQ3qhHq9rgFY5Ek3Kn03x0yTgHmH25Bd/s320/dod-2023-promo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>My presentation at this conference will be on joint work with my PhD student Dana Hassani and colleagues in Ukraine at the Kyiv School of Economics: Oleg Nivievskyi and Pavlo Martyshev.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEs-ynehgnE4lo1eltw0TQaocVFzGgh6XJDgmXiEDeNQeIZTLaTqOAEaasWWNXM_1Xt9EnUfcvVmdzFmLOPwezTjwmrjRvbeLIObooqs6K6Mb0ARzmhXR_bLeFLviZsy6JLN4D6slVBApy8Mhae5PiiKbsc7ByOfYRTZvnNf3H9i-E_6yazVinbSCP5SXC/s1008/SPEBounds_Presentation_Page_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1008" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEs-ynehgnE4lo1eltw0TQaocVFzGgh6XJDgmXiEDeNQeIZTLaTqOAEaasWWNXM_1Xt9EnUfcvVmdzFmLOPwezTjwmrjRvbeLIObooqs6K6Mb0ARzmhXR_bLeFLviZsy6JLN4D6slVBApy8Mhae5PiiKbsc7ByOfYRTZvnNf3H9i-E_6yazVinbSCP5SXC/s320/SPEBounds_Presentation_Page_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>There is clearly and agricultural theme to my presentations at both these international conferences. In fact, at the Dynamics of Disasters one, we also a special Acknowledgment and Dedication.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsT1AGOfarsBa5YLSYyXnEhxg4cVZVPmp1DUnpbtaIVx99e3VCTAweyh5886ykkKRmONQ79EUghNtc4izVX9uYw6reQt6u3VsGgCGNvhQRxMYIrag0csiMO7CYSSHCpH8e3Vtx1HM6_UbC2j2KcR-XDCbmlNqIcTMulQRL-_-bvA5XTehQOrtPgmibl8Ej/s1170/SPEBounds_Presentation_Page_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1170" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsT1AGOfarsBa5YLSYyXnEhxg4cVZVPmp1DUnpbtaIVx99e3VCTAweyh5886ykkKRmONQ79EUghNtc4izVX9uYw6reQt6u3VsGgCGNvhQRxMYIrag0csiMO7CYSSHCpH8e3Vtx1HM6_UbC2j2KcR-XDCbmlNqIcTMulQRL-_-bvA5XTehQOrtPgmibl8Ej/s320/SPEBounds_Presentation_Page_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Back to packing for the conferences with my new suitcase purchased after I wore out my favorite one!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZDTT7wKPSipP8i8MY_A5d1eFktbMpATgntDhAdJbOgKS5IiVSQQQFlUhh0OywiMIyjAFAA79PLZgBWVX1g6W2gSmSGj1LXQ0EOe-x9QC3BLDq0NbJAyRyikjAQRGMoiEVB0lZd_PF8kFpnASsDV-9U5sAZBw3I-SOvtVHzs6iV4nvAlAJ7vhZZF790BJ/s1920/packing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZDTT7wKPSipP8i8MY_A5d1eFktbMpATgntDhAdJbOgKS5IiVSQQQFlUhh0OywiMIyjAFAA79PLZgBWVX1g6W2gSmSGj1LXQ0EOe-x9QC3BLDq0NbJAyRyikjAQRGMoiEVB0lZd_PF8kFpnASsDV-9U5sAZBw3I-SOvtVHzs6iV4nvAlAJ7vhZZF790BJ/s320/packing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Safe travels to all those heading to conferences!</div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-75106649465560800542023-06-22T13:51:00.003-04:002023-06-22T16:30:54.018-04:00Thrilled and Honored to be Working with Colleagues in Ukraine<p><b>With Russia's war on Ukraine ongoing and resulting in tremendous suffering and loss of lives as well as destruction, one must do what one can to support Ukrainians and those fighting for their freedom and democracy.</b></p><p>As a daughter of Ukrainian WWII refugees, whose first language is Ukrainian, and, as an educator, the partnership between the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) is forging outstanding connections across the miles during this very challenging period in history. The partnership is now supporting 15 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine, 9 of whom are placed with Isenberg School of Management faculty. </p><p>I am thrilled and deeply honored to be working now with colleagues in Ukraine. I would like to specifically thank the Isenberg School Dean Anne P. Massey and the Director of the International Programs Office and Vice Provost for Global Affairs at UMass Amherst Kalpen Trivedi for their outstanding support in making this partnership a reality and having it flourish since its inception over a year ago! Kudos also to Provost Emeritus John McCarthy for his support and to all the members of the Task Force who worked on forging this partnership. Special thanks to the KSE Rector Tymofiy Brik for his great work in making this partnership happen and also for visiting us in person on May 3!</p><p>Below is a photo taken with Rector Brik and Provost Emeritus McCarthy after dinner on May 3.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXy5UOFRZXrBcPOa5xWdeuR_u9TN9XAGhFYiPrBUDDGDsQvJWkLgV9mPJqpxVHWE2EFXY7_dCiQSjKHsrI4BJAss3MItVCtMwGoiVedby3JrR9AysEuuSyofIQt1QhzJYOAKBzkKiMzunWYMhlfxOrCPyHkktrtOKLlfl-I9iQEhBflhHrZoEZyyl_q9lz/s2016/Brik-McCarthy-Nagurney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXy5UOFRZXrBcPOa5xWdeuR_u9TN9XAGhFYiPrBUDDGDsQvJWkLgV9mPJqpxVHWE2EFXY7_dCiQSjKHsrI4BJAss3MItVCtMwGoiVedby3JrR9AysEuuSyofIQt1QhzJYOAKBzkKiMzunWYMhlfxOrCPyHkktrtOKLlfl-I9iQEhBflhHrZoEZyyl_q9lz/s320/Brik-McCarthy-Nagurney.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Some of the research with colleagues in Ukraine is also engaging a PhD student of mine - Dana Hassani. At the forthcoming Dynamics of Disasters conference, which will take place July 3-6, 2023, in Athens, Greece (and which I am also co-organizing), I will present our latest work, "Multicommodity International Agricultural Trade Network Equilibrium: Competition for Limited Production and Transportation Capacity Under Disaster Scenarios with Implications for Food Security," co-authored with Dana and with KSE colleagues Professor Oleg Nivievskyi and Dr. Pavlo Martyshev.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI83XHKL4iTObHfjGxSHvXWYofCVVxdCqfREpf4G22wTgcu426vvkmeQ-dGWUu4BXQEWiU1jj7eHXm4maWfjaRPxJZaMQ7c5mFbRqj7_yfZ4NckT0GtvPoQ3FX_ObLF6AuprJkRpAiijUVwW16jnYjicG2cdAxf7Hz1D9HkULtx8ZFbNGxhEYmnPxC_qMb/s2016/DOD-both.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="2016" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI83XHKL4iTObHfjGxSHvXWYofCVVxdCqfREpf4G22wTgcu426vvkmeQ-dGWUu4BXQEWiU1jj7eHXm4maWfjaRPxJZaMQ7c5mFbRqj7_yfZ4NckT0GtvPoQ3FX_ObLF6AuprJkRpAiijUVwW16jnYjicG2cdAxf7Hz1D9HkULtx8ZFbNGxhEYmnPxC_qMb/w400-h144/DOD-both.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="http://caopt.com/DOD2023/" target="_blank">Information on this conference is available here</a>. </p><p>This work builds on our paper, "Exchange Rates and Multicommodity International Trade: Insights from Spatial Price Equilibrium Modeling with Policy Instruments via Variational Inequalities," <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-023-01292-x" target="_blank">which was recently published in the<i> Journal of Global Optimization</i>.</a> That paper was presented at the PanOptic Conference in honor of Professor Panos M. Pardalos held March 9 and 10 in Gainesville, Florida.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmBdX4NVegFKNlo3yd09RNwteL1aElogI9C0E_hjbWXWO4U2S32UIZ5g2MMlKom27tDH8pGtzd5Uylia5CCpWYrkNfU9NvT-vfz5Kg4dZgTudVBphP7Gh0ZOwerC-v32k2_F6aILw2ie-x4p9nQGl9ClOJJJ9jHLbnL3mvzRBpygI2qzMKwIIwu_SKneP/s360/ExchangeRateSPEModels_Presentation-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmBdX4NVegFKNlo3yd09RNwteL1aElogI9C0E_hjbWXWO4U2S32UIZ5g2MMlKom27tDH8pGtzd5Uylia5CCpWYrkNfU9NvT-vfz5Kg4dZgTudVBphP7Gh0ZOwerC-v32k2_F6aILw2ie-x4p9nQGl9ClOJJJ9jHLbnL3mvzRBpygI2qzMKwIIwu_SKneP/s320/ExchangeRateSPEModels_Presentation-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>We heard yesterday the good news that the above paper has been accepted for presentation at the INFORMS conference in Phoenix and Dana Hassani will present it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UU831VMLj9DXJaPVflCj6ueO5koRnli5xOcE8c9sAU-0FVAmva-joLpjfYxuW6Z7BarsE7kTAvTjDD0S1lhIORTBA_FBW97MgYq6IGw86hB0oyxKOC3OecHQ1IB2bKXvu9tOCK-at-1l-utGVJw8TMXXMiBGlA-b4iBlARBrIRZzoBypheL1MdCbLcYX/s800/2023-INFORMS-Annual-Meeting_cardlarge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UU831VMLj9DXJaPVflCj6ueO5koRnli5xOcE8c9sAU-0FVAmva-joLpjfYxuW6Z7BarsE7kTAvTjDD0S1lhIORTBA_FBW97MgYq6IGw86hB0oyxKOC3OecHQ1IB2bKXvu9tOCK-at-1l-utGVJw8TMXXMiBGlA-b4iBlARBrIRZzoBypheL1MdCbLcYX/w320-h320/2023-INFORMS-Annual-Meeting_cardlarge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">And, with Professor Elena Besedina of KSE, I have co-authored a paper, "A Multicommodity Spatial</span><span style="text-align: left;"> Price Equilibrium Model with Non-Tariff Measures for Agri-Food International Trade."</span></div><p>In addition, Professor Myroslava Kushnir of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv more recently joined our program and we are excited to be collaborating now with her on various supply chains of relevance in Ukraine in wartime.</p><p>Below, I have posted a group photo from the May 3 symposium at UMass Amherst which featured the Virtual Scholars from the Isenberg School and also those from the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Amherst.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdQzj8ZGM4Y415URGRlgUwtwZMG7m2baxZpKW5x0kYEIKZ_MVFlOSt468OF44WPDWF1Bsiine7gFkprcGpPGbOdHlaRLpeIBOhbyxG7MxK6ur2oR3w9Hbr-3jb87zzBLoxLEhIsgyFGfpRmLorLA9-y_7sm1cKqTdv-xGin0-LzXjMrM9f4qr5cUhvK2-/s640/UMass-KSE-symposium-photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdQzj8ZGM4Y415URGRlgUwtwZMG7m2baxZpKW5x0kYEIKZ_MVFlOSt468OF44WPDWF1Bsiine7gFkprcGpPGbOdHlaRLpeIBOhbyxG7MxK6ur2oR3w9Hbr-3jb87zzBLoxLEhIsgyFGfpRmLorLA9-y_7sm1cKqTdv-xGin0-LzXjMrM9f4qr5cUhvK2-/s320/UMass-KSE-symposium-photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>In the photo from l-r are: Professors Muzzo Uysal, Lauren McCarthy, Rector Brik, yours truly, Professors Ina Ganguli, Alicia Johnson, Vice Provost Kalpen Trivedi, and Professor Bogdan Prokopovych.<a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank"> More information about the Virtual Scholars and their Faculty Hosts at the Isenberg School can be found on this link.</a></p><p>This partnership has worked towards reducing brain drain from Ukraine, enhancing research as well as friendships, and has also provided important financial and emotional support. More such partnerships are needed to support higher education in Ukraine, now and during the recovery and reconstruction. </p><p><a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-establishes-partnership-ukraines-kyiv-school-economics" target="_blank">A press release by UMass Amherst on the partnership is available here.</a></p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-54761276892237579882023-06-20T11:26:00.000-04:002023-06-20T11:26:10.502-04:00A Conference that Ended in a Standing Ovation, Thanks to WPI!<p><b>How often have you experienced a standing ovation at the end of a conference?</b></p><p>I must admit that I had, for the first time, such an experience on June 2, 2023, at the outstanding Innovations in Immigration Analytics Conference at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Kudos to the conference organizers: Dr. Geri Dimas (who will be an Assistant Professor at Bryant University, starting this Fall), and WPI Professors Andrew Trapp and Daniel Reichman.</p><p>The program, <a href="https://www.wpi.edu/c/iiac" target="_blank">which can be viewed here</a>, brought together faculty, practitioners, as well as students, who are very much engaged in issues of migration and immigration.</p><p>The format, consisting of individual presentations, lightning talks, as well as a panel, was excellent, and with coffee breaks and a delicious buffet lunch provided. And there were no registration fees!</p><p>The conference opened up with remarks by the WPI Provost Winston "Wole" Soboyejo, who set the stage for the importance of the issues and challenges that we discussed at the conference including: refugee resettlement, dynamic migrant flows and operational responses, matching refugees to employment opportunities, strategic border resource deployment challenges, and even the modeling of US immigration courts using discrete-event simulation.</p><p>My presentation was entitled, "Refugee Migration Networks with Regulations," and <a href="https://lnkd.in/epM3E8jc" target="_blank">it has been posted on the Supernetwork Center site at the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9pdJERE6wLyG1qTYi2kdmFEB5XKe0UXwruURPqno5RNb8YVwH73PJl4iqluOwq8X_3Hlv9SrAtBHk4HARiOfQX6gRteexegxUo1Qqp16JInk5z0-xSObnXTY2pRW0XW7ye7vyIDQ7XX4N7acXjU2YMDv_UNy1DPsu2EznkrNMABWx8JTr-UETFefhMWm/s360/WPI-ImmigrationAnalyticsConference-Nagurney-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9pdJERE6wLyG1qTYi2kdmFEB5XKe0UXwruURPqno5RNb8YVwH73PJl4iqluOwq8X_3Hlv9SrAtBHk4HARiOfQX6gRteexegxUo1Qqp16JInk5z0-xSObnXTY2pRW0XW7ye7vyIDQ7XX4N7acXjU2YMDv_UNy1DPsu2EznkrNMABWx8JTr-UETFefhMWm/s320/WPI-ImmigrationAnalyticsConference-Nagurney-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The presentation was based on a paper published in the Springer Nature <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i> and was co-authored by Professor Patrizia Daniele of the University of Catania and Professor Ladimer S. Nagurney of the University of Hartford. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYPj5ywxoOOkb_JXiyV-v3a3CNq_1cdUu4jDXcZ6GqwX_G6_oeTspq1dOAbCx_uXLl-BlY7CLjj6YkEeFlakqP94GKXcYXlrIs_QyVpCFnLq5IxpSquEtwhgWX5tJmORDis-YvSBPBgVo_8n0h0ycuF7ET1U7OWeDjIvbP4SHTBLoeEh_LoKCYzeJ1GejL/s1851/JOGO-NDN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1851" data-original-width="1221" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYPj5ywxoOOkb_JXiyV-v3a3CNq_1cdUu4jDXcZ6GqwX_G6_oeTspq1dOAbCx_uXLl-BlY7CLjj6YkEeFlakqP94GKXcYXlrIs_QyVpCFnLq5IxpSquEtwhgWX5tJmORDis-YvSBPBgVo_8n0h0ycuF7ET1U7OWeDjIvbP4SHTBLoeEh_LoKCYzeJ1GejL/s320/JOGO-NDN.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><p>I also spoke in my presentation on recent work on investing in immigration to alleviate labor shortages in supply chains and coalition formation among countries to address migrant issues. The former topic is a chapter in my latest book, "Labor and Supply Chain Networks," with<a href="https://lnkd.in/eyQqWN8i " target="_blank"> info on the book here</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoM7JTcjUxD0eNVvVp3u6ZwomW3CDjjqJq_Oqnr-38mFNTSU1f02HS7oMz3vREx8kQLDm48ld-cCeLHmu-O6fa_HJRMMlqgi1V7RReNpvg6wEBBXekCcJmxxo_N1_Vo_MMRs5-TLMG-eAa1sdnNeqQaZroboOgYU6Xaz1cJHFwgK-n-OBlSwLGb6r4PpXH/s150/Labor-cover-150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="96" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoM7JTcjUxD0eNVvVp3u6ZwomW3CDjjqJq_Oqnr-38mFNTSU1f02HS7oMz3vREx8kQLDm48ld-cCeLHmu-O6fa_HJRMMlqgi1V7RReNpvg6wEBBXekCcJmxxo_N1_Vo_MMRs5-TLMG-eAa1sdnNeqQaZroboOgYU6Xaz1cJHFwgK-n-OBlSwLGb6r4PpXH/w205-h320/Labor-cover-150.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><p>The latter topic was explored in<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192440623000060" target="_blank"> a recently published paper that I co-authored with Professors Passacantando and Raciti and is available open access</a>!</p><p>It was terrific to meet conferees with the passion and focus to address one of the greatest challenges of our time with 103 million people around the world having been forced to leave their homes. I was deeply touched to hear, time and time again, Ukraine mentioned at this conference and the impacts of Russia's war on it, including by Dean Debora Jackson of the WPI Business School in her brilliant closing remarks. Research matters and making it accessible to organizations, nonprofits, and governments can create positive change and truly benefit humanity. </p><p>Below, I have posted a collage of photos from the conference. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wMKYlAZ1QtY_lCpph2lpr4Cby1qBhBzFoiw9eodC8n67gUCo8JIkkJsg8QatE1aaaikzeZ0wK3jBc66ato9K82JWl7AWy4NtXCb_I6892yMnDw4sNw4-BI42aSGbjphHS0QCNmCoMt5p4S3F1dZMcKq4dEGqC7HdecNXx26KvlSIOA5nXzk7PELc1KGO/s768/WPI-Collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wMKYlAZ1QtY_lCpph2lpr4Cby1qBhBzFoiw9eodC8n67gUCo8JIkkJsg8QatE1aaaikzeZ0wK3jBc66ato9K82JWl7AWy4NtXCb_I6892yMnDw4sNw4-BI42aSGbjphHS0QCNmCoMt5p4S3F1dZMcKq4dEGqC7HdecNXx26KvlSIOA5nXzk7PELc1KGO/w400-h225/WPI-Collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Many thanks to the organizers: Dr. Geri Dimas and Professors Andrew Trapp and Daniel Reichman for bringing us together in such a warm and engaging event. Much work remains to be done but, together, we can accomplish much good and we will.<div><br /></div><div>And for those who are interested in additional work of ours on human migration networks, a topic that we have been researching for several decades, <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2020/07/our-recent-research-on-human-migration.html" target="_blank">have a look at my post.<br /></a><p><br /></p></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-63549792722832206732023-05-28T14:42:00.001-04:002023-05-28T15:16:02.220-04:00Some of the Highlights of the Great POMS Conference in Orlando!<p>I hope that everyone who took part in the POMS Conference in Orlando, which took place May 22-25, 2023, has returned safely to their homes. It was wonderful to be at this in-person POMS conference, the first such one since the 2019 POMS Conference, which took place in Washington DC.</p><p>I thought it important to document some of the highlights of the 33th Annual POMS Conference in Orlando, albeit, of course, from a personal perspective. I am sure that each conferee has their own special memories and experiences. This was truly an international conference and I was delighted to see and meet colleagues from many countries, including from The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Finland, and even Brazil. Asia was also well-represented. </p><p>I arrived mid-afternoon on Monday and at the Exhibit Hall I was thrilled to see Springer Nature Editor Matt Amboy and the display of Springer books. And there, on display, was my newest book, "Labor and Supply Chain Networks," which was published in 2023.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizWSvyEGrp96wss4Wkk6hiTsNu0LDkSU2R3sOoriGbvOS23lJLl_u9GAwaJhCpuJ2cV-L6r_w4-iIuvZc2yi3TMo4mKfCtA7meANOg0LgjrUF0L_sOZuAhlAqHSSeVRumhstHIhOIPkXx8VdRtc-v8CulqPIO9-TPKC4sNJS-1qJD-Tal7SAPFQoYq6w/s2016/POMS1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizWSvyEGrp96wss4Wkk6hiTsNu0LDkSU2R3sOoriGbvOS23lJLl_u9GAwaJhCpuJ2cV-L6r_w4-iIuvZc2yi3TMo4mKfCtA7meANOg0LgjrUF0L_sOZuAhlAqHSSeVRumhstHIhOIPkXx8VdRtc-v8CulqPIO9-TPKC4sNJS-1qJD-Tal7SAPFQoYq6w/s320/POMS1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>The venue for the conference was stunning - the Hyatt on International Drive. <a href="https://pomsmeetings.org/conf-2023/" target="_blank">The full program for the conference can be accessed here.</a> Below is a photo of a late afternoon view taken from the 26th floor.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim_a38psOWShIKBE-smlhs3VuJGXVpZsEYC2IbB65KnCXxpdWPjFf37j27fcqOysUgcnM5ClS66wF6t2zKsZXpWwSVU5WILe-nZr0IdQ9oJFDVn2U6qNk7QMS_qixvj3sJr_GQv6XfWuSvWfaFbiwMaVR79CViYJSZ2Kog1ORj7DFf-1OMDF8rzwq7zQ/s2016/POMS2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim_a38psOWShIKBE-smlhs3VuJGXVpZsEYC2IbB65KnCXxpdWPjFf37j27fcqOysUgcnM5ClS66wF6t2zKsZXpWwSVU5WILe-nZr0IdQ9oJFDVn2U6qNk7QMS_qixvj3sJr_GQv6XfWuSvWfaFbiwMaVR79CViYJSZ2Kog1ORj7DFf-1OMDF8rzwq7zQ/s320/POMS2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><div>I enjoyed the keynote talk by Scott Colloredo, the Director of the Engineering Directorate at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida (but sadly missed the keynote by Dr. Nada Sanders since I was traveling). It was interesting that the 2 keynote talks were both scheduled for last Monday. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4-rL7S2GzbY5T8Y9TuRhum-jpFkZwNX55M-EPpDo_v3WVobJAF6NDkty8WHHQyuRXml9b3uyhA1033dc1ve3A9tNWjZJnXyotDpHi8LP9Zxi7jlyvbYs-c-lUj55DbhesEdocs31_8BYsESEnwNswepTAPeSQZNspwXSWcZN-KkjyKz4d_0ItS4QvQ/s2016/POMS3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4-rL7S2GzbY5T8Y9TuRhum-jpFkZwNX55M-EPpDo_v3WVobJAF6NDkty8WHHQyuRXml9b3uyhA1033dc1ve3A9tNWjZJnXyotDpHi8LP9Zxi7jlyvbYs-c-lUj55DbhesEdocs31_8BYsESEnwNswepTAPeSQZNspwXSWcZN-KkjyKz4d_0ItS4QvQ/s320/POMS3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The sessions that I attended were organized in the Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management track and I especially appreciated the breadth of innovative problems that are being tackled and addressed. Below is a sample.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnO7AC_4rZ4eNPW1rcE3QdVxd6iBakeykk5P_BY5E2JNFoSckNBLcH_Qu7_ugpnk-d7IEHwAkKaTk9er7jC0iOQnSirFviN6TZJKmIREZ_lNK4w3wwizgxJC69YOen3eT-yVqJ9jqsMFbS8d8ZEHTLuh-umJTwYfs2WHRBb-x4QZNlNO8HE7c_GO6MJg/s2016/POMS5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnO7AC_4rZ4eNPW1rcE3QdVxd6iBakeykk5P_BY5E2JNFoSckNBLcH_Qu7_ugpnk-d7IEHwAkKaTk9er7jC0iOQnSirFviN6TZJKmIREZ_lNK4w3wwizgxJC69YOen3eT-yVqJ9jqsMFbS8d8ZEHTLuh-umJTwYfs2WHRBb-x4QZNlNO8HE7c_GO6MJg/s320/POMS5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM4gp-LGcBYJP7-hyiWOIfAUnKk7E5lP26ma7ASB4ZK-AOngUEO029J1L-Dti6_l6y5N9NRkBtRYKbpNVzZHGxkLWYCoVjNr1Nx2cJItrhTq1c_aI7T_r1yM9hqgMJF0vNX4TRxLCP0BR0-URucWNqt86ldQAQNsqLLcy61Yz-f3jLF5FYL9oeSDAqLA/s2016/POMS7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM4gp-LGcBYJP7-hyiWOIfAUnKk7E5lP26ma7ASB4ZK-AOngUEO029J1L-Dti6_l6y5N9NRkBtRYKbpNVzZHGxkLWYCoVjNr1Nx2cJItrhTq1c_aI7T_r1yM9hqgMJF0vNX4TRxLCP0BR0-URucWNqt86ldQAQNsqLLcy61Yz-f3jLF5FYL9oeSDAqLA/s320/POMS7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkJVuQs4Z4JkjWLQlI0HCmcbSTzEM0Y7zooi5xgIOgg9B-y2FYkM_FgoYMfRX6zymd1SiYulDB-D9QdlE1AVmOGKVZXBumGWYYOx56HhDrjUjdBmTIbDPyB9ZQuE8KQar7pCc-qPwO_lcH6SITusD16prRBeikVNjQUnXPybjESMJ8a1nCIuSw-LxVbw/s2016/POMS6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkJVuQs4Z4JkjWLQlI0HCmcbSTzEM0Y7zooi5xgIOgg9B-y2FYkM_FgoYMfRX6zymd1SiYulDB-D9QdlE1AVmOGKVZXBumGWYYOx56HhDrjUjdBmTIbDPyB9ZQuE8KQar7pCc-qPwO_lcH6SITusD16prRBeikVNjQUnXPybjESMJ8a1nCIuSw-LxVbw/s320/POMS6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7X3Hhsg73qlscg0FGUQDgHkv7NdaXB5qhwff8AlGcSnvH3IPsjx9sifOHPcSx5dduyrJhIS0wzoOy8dbir2YQ73MRDuQ14PNHFRaBILCXlQihmRs516vJxmoo9lhKBUM82MUevkmvAEMpkcE0aLlVe_O28d97SGOsSXV6EMpvt609Osi80Fl_a8ke2Q/s2016/POMS8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7X3Hhsg73qlscg0FGUQDgHkv7NdaXB5qhwff8AlGcSnvH3IPsjx9sifOHPcSx5dduyrJhIS0wzoOy8dbir2YQ73MRDuQ14PNHFRaBILCXlQihmRs516vJxmoo9lhKBUM82MUevkmvAEMpkcE0aLlVe_O28d97SGOsSXV6EMpvt609Osi80Fl_a8ke2Q/s320/POMS8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I thank Dr. Mohammad Arbabian for the invitation to speak in his session. Coincidentally, he is at the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland, where my former PhD student, now an Associate Professor there, Dr. Min Yu, is also on the faculty. It was wonderful that she came to our session. Below are photos of the speakers in our session, a group photo, and also a photo with some of the members of the audience. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXTLhIEi0VtstxMK0PvISDhL1QfFW3NcBmGxsWB5bhZtz1b-zg1QmBiyPLs4c8jg5rGuXLrduTJz4UTucyxANfTvXsfPR9SzQDS_NyXqQThVmAugtsCGHI6JMfXCd7F4G8_cpQFcSHHquZlNN6Wn9PA7-NYlKCzi1i5L5ZBeDZrCNA7X8FFFy4ajGMg/s2016/POMS12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXTLhIEi0VtstxMK0PvISDhL1QfFW3NcBmGxsWB5bhZtz1b-zg1QmBiyPLs4c8jg5rGuXLrduTJz4UTucyxANfTvXsfPR9SzQDS_NyXqQThVmAugtsCGHI6JMfXCd7F4G8_cpQFcSHHquZlNN6Wn9PA7-NYlKCzi1i5L5ZBeDZrCNA7X8FFFy4ajGMg/s320/POMS12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Although there were many conferees that I did not got get a chance to see - the conference was quite large with over 2 dozen parallel sessions, I did, through pure serendipity, encounter and exchange pleasantries with Renzo Akkerman, whom I have cited in quite a few papers on perishable food supply chains co-authored with Min Yu and Deniz Besik (both of whom were in attendance at the conference).<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIu5VpxElHietHfRQBL3gKQYvcOJCWcdznkFQZoVLhKSd6ngdYBmQFQ792D47rrZD9chLES5TYIz4AO2PXN_61NjxH8gtfD4Oa21p1c4OJZ5nbONth5oaDVrqZ4zR5dMQOBA4iaiwf9p-8zWcKDipEWTEccmbKhgcuxYlF01c0c1w7ydg9Ux3tpr3ZA/s2016/POMS14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIu5VpxElHietHfRQBL3gKQYvcOJCWcdznkFQZoVLhKSd6ngdYBmQFQ792D47rrZD9chLES5TYIz4AO2PXN_61NjxH8gtfD4Oa21p1c4OJZ5nbONth5oaDVrqZ4zR5dMQOBA4iaiwf9p-8zWcKDipEWTEccmbKhgcuxYlF01c0c1w7ydg9Ux3tpr3ZA/s320/POMS14.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>It was also great to see Marianne Jahre of Norway and Sarah Schiffling, who is now at Hanken in Finland. I was with Marianne in Cartagena, Colombia, back in 2019, where we were both invited speakers at a logistics conference organized at the Escuela Naval.<a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2019/08/fascinating-experiences-at-logistics.html" target="_blank"> I blogged the conference and unique experiences there.</a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz02_ZU1t22qwk0qu4E25pHUcrU3NkrMhl30AsZO4CGONYVZ_2lHI0X6HJm3wYpfQGZShlAjs_hOiEoLa7_rFG4-8Yp6nga5ZcSq_OuoXI28qeZfbcx3Ga_Ki30I8glkNGqqfgVWsVPk7eQupC8xITeFXnuB0DJahPh63kxSIofkDxnnFkyub3Q-3c3g/s2016/POMS15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz02_ZU1t22qwk0qu4E25pHUcrU3NkrMhl30AsZO4CGONYVZ_2lHI0X6HJm3wYpfQGZShlAjs_hOiEoLa7_rFG4-8Yp6nga5ZcSq_OuoXI28qeZfbcx3Ga_Ki30I8glkNGqqfgVWsVPk7eQupC8xITeFXnuB0DJahPh63kxSIofkDxnnFkyub3Q-3c3g/s320/POMS15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />And, of course, sharing meals with Deniz Besik, who is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, was terrific and also with Min Yu. It was great to have Ladimer S. Nagurney accompany me to the conference!</div><div><a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2019/08/fascinating-experiences-at-logistics.html" target="_blank"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2019/08/fascinating-experiences-at-logistics.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLgsmza8HkoaNFkMLX93yfv6W4Oc9LGOiSzv-U7GjfW-0CaPTwzKnQ0BTwAOgK2AmysMc1lxjzV9cl0m8Wcke-M8gy1vBVjbgOgTbz8M9K1AVynMoaHRqvEP7qcHuI2WoIMs9fHF5VsKEAdDS52G5FbcK6JGUxbJDvUezTLOoFCa6rK4jKnX688R3dQ/s2016/POMS4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLgsmza8HkoaNFkMLX93yfv6W4Oc9LGOiSzv-U7GjfW-0CaPTwzKnQ0BTwAOgK2AmysMc1lxjzV9cl0m8Wcke-M8gy1vBVjbgOgTbz8M9K1AVynMoaHRqvEP7qcHuI2WoIMs9fHF5VsKEAdDS52G5FbcK6JGUxbJDvUezTLOoFCa6rK4jKnX688R3dQ/s320/POMS4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjpbeT11wqdeenULKR5pjEbWkby47n3g6wGvYr6i5C9di1qOHgI80sDsE3E_4XewGLGJRnDgLZtuVvaSrxamFjKV3lW0wfBeFOfRjLOEfR2hOa-5bpqB0OM3qxOoFI9djDjkO5uMaGoTtkhX_APLFXCKrZy25afF3oVSM4cZDAwcq4wbNVF9A9DedfA/s1920/POMS00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjpbeT11wqdeenULKR5pjEbWkby47n3g6wGvYr6i5C9di1qOHgI80sDsE3E_4XewGLGJRnDgLZtuVvaSrxamFjKV3lW0wfBeFOfRjLOEfR2hOa-5bpqB0OM3qxOoFI9djDjkO5uMaGoTtkhX_APLFXCKrZy25afF3oVSM4cZDAwcq4wbNVF9A9DedfA/s320/POMS00.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>The title of my presentation at the conference was: "Supply Chain Game Theory Network Modeling Under Labor Constraints: Applications to the COVID-19 Pandemic." The presentation was based on a paper that I authored that was published in the European Journal of Operational Research. I was deeply honored when it received an Editor's Choice Award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxeRZkSn1BRG1e6i9OetWTnltM2Ur1m0vRwWYiGIuTQP7-i-GIu4J2QPz7PdBVuhFLg_4g56HDZ958LSLwAeD8IMlic17gFs9M0IcZhZrBnMIhmg1ziDTXr0A7qDxUyPSnTALazl0rLHcliUCkXVPHd3lerk-p2Vb_boIgfdD-SleHyDxZxNjes4e6w/s948/POMS2023-Nagurney-TalkSlides_Page_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="948" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxeRZkSn1BRG1e6i9OetWTnltM2Ur1m0vRwWYiGIuTQP7-i-GIu4J2QPz7PdBVuhFLg_4g56HDZ958LSLwAeD8IMlic17gFs9M0IcZhZrBnMIhmg1ziDTXr0A7qDxUyPSnTALazl0rLHcliUCkXVPHd3lerk-p2Vb_boIgfdD-SleHyDxZxNjes4e6w/s320/POMS2023-Nagurney-TalkSlides_Page_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BCFIPtDxxESdQcK6DcpaiPzh1LzgreJRauhSmT_PR7j0KAuWJiF2IGCbQxhWZZZoB74SvXGzOxC3rhEN1KuSYnXvdAJJ-8J4HN06asgwGFAv_tmSPI-EneC2v7TKL_N4TEG8rY_u8n1vn_qv1M_MlFykedFsdPq5U5wZF3yByAY18a7qK_heuRR6dQ/s6537/POMS2023-Nagurney-TalkSlides_Page_5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4903" data-original-width="6537" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BCFIPtDxxESdQcK6DcpaiPzh1LzgreJRauhSmT_PR7j0KAuWJiF2IGCbQxhWZZZoB74SvXGzOxC3rhEN1KuSYnXvdAJJ-8J4HN06asgwGFAv_tmSPI-EneC2v7TKL_N4TEG8rY_u8n1vn_qv1M_MlFykedFsdPq5U5wZF3yByAY18a7qK_heuRR6dQ/s320/POMS2023-Nagurney-TalkSlides_Page_5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/POMS2023-Nagurney-TalkSlides.pdf" target="_blank">The complete slide deck of my presentation can be downloaded here.</a></p><p>Kudos to the staff at the Hyatt. Their friendliness and professionalism were so appreciated. I very much enjoyed meeting Alexandra from Haiti and Natalia from Lviv, Ukraine, who are working at The Diner at the Hyatt. It was very moving to speak with Natalia in Ukrainian. She had arrived in the US only 6 months ago.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfOwLxRWbeHQjUc1ZjcvRlIih9NJR0LhcrjHsGfulwi1XPJLTptX5iYpunPWrd2aHHQTKUPBN6TF_N_3-gAIhgzIzEDP9l8-O_FU3gc4pHTp314Td1qu0mZu26iX3sccqhiY1lbDn4UBEksJhInnwwW7fDQxcd79HLZDtk1B6ZuYiwVJ30mgeWvnL7w/s2016/POMS13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfOwLxRWbeHQjUc1ZjcvRlIih9NJR0LhcrjHsGfulwi1XPJLTptX5iYpunPWrd2aHHQTKUPBN6TF_N_3-gAIhgzIzEDP9l8-O_FU3gc4pHTp314Td1qu0mZu26iX3sccqhiY1lbDn4UBEksJhInnwwW7fDQxcd79HLZDtk1B6ZuYiwVJ30mgeWvnL7w/s320/POMS13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And, it so happens that, next Friday, I will be giving the opening talk at the<a href="https://www.wpi.edu/c/iiac"> Innovations in Immigration Analytics Conference at WPI</a>. My talk will be on refugee networks and regulations. Many thanks to Andrew Trapp for inviting me to speak.</p><p>And, for those wishing to walk down Memory Lane, <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2019/05/exciting-poms-conference-in-dc-with.html" target="_blank">please visit my blogpost on the POMS Conference in Washington DC!</a></p><p>Many thanks to the organizers of the POMS Conference for such a rewarding conference both scientifically and socially!</p><p><br /></p></div></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-68812848891519343442023-05-16T16:26:00.002-04:002023-05-16T16:26:23.146-04:00My Letter to the Editor on the Great UMass Amherst - Kyiv School of Economics Partnership is Published!<p>I do believe that it is very important to share news with the public, especially if it concerns very timely initiatives and higher education and the partnership between the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine is an outstanding example!</p><p>Below is the Letter to the Editor that I wrote that was published in The Republican, the major newspaper in western Massachusetts.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4K39qUaJLWs8PDLGB0Fj9J4xJ9IiLTRcselabpXuGYZ15ML4lXHN5Yt3Kjb8n5k7FudQSkhjloMgFscIbnYwoPZN8kBKz0jTNSnz0NkCSDtfELqF_2j86bIR0r118spikFq84vJAA55kY_n_--TEMPtagaHfjIAh_amY-HnLIiPcvI4vIB6MU7X92w/s2176/Republican-20230511-Nagurney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2176" data-original-width="1620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4K39qUaJLWs8PDLGB0Fj9J4xJ9IiLTRcselabpXuGYZ15ML4lXHN5Yt3Kjb8n5k7FudQSkhjloMgFscIbnYwoPZN8kBKz0jTNSnz0NkCSDtfELqF_2j86bIR0r118spikFq84vJAA55kY_n_--TEMPtagaHfjIAh_amY-HnLIiPcvI4vIB6MU7X92w/w298-h400/Republican-20230511-Nagurney.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><p>The letter, which was accepted for publication by the Executive Editor, Larry Parnass, in a very warm message to me, recognizes the importance of the 1 year partnership, which was established shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24, 2022. </p><p><a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-establishes-partnership-ukraines-kyiv-school-economics" target="_blank">Some background information on the partnership can be found in this UMass Amherst press release.</a></p><p>The partnership is now helping to support 15 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine, who are working with faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I have the honor of serving as the faculty host of 4 scholars. This partnership is reducing brain drain from Ukraine and is enhancing research of all those involved. New research topics have also been identified and papers already published.</p><p>We hosted 3 events this academic year. The first was on November 30, 2022, at which we welcomed the 8 scholars working with the Isenberg School faculty. An additional scholar has since joined. <a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank">You may read the nice article that the Isenberg School has posted on this event.</a> The courage of our colleagues in Ukraine is awe-inspiring as is their dedication to continuing to teach and to conduct research.</p><p>On February 22, 2023, the President of KSE, Tymofiy Mylovanov, visited UMass Amherst and met with faculty hosts as well as university leaders during<a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/president-kyiv-school-economics-visits-umass-amherst" target="_blank"> a very dynamic, engaging, and moving visit to our campus.</a></p><p>And, on May 3, 2023, we hosted the Rector of KSE, Tymofii Brik, at UMass Amherst, and I expounded on his visit in my Letter to the Editor! We began the day with a symposium and, in the afternoon, Rector Brik spoke on the Resilience of Ukrainian Universities and Communities!</p><p>Below I include collages that we constructed to highlight the special visit in photos. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0w_NL_Ue7UNJzYOZwpDYjJi9hzd90at6QFIq_BijLp4HhCP5xcX3KULwoXxvFZH9kPndJMv9pRyHHZmLjQUJgU0y2ym5KreuzaOqnLktlktR2l79zJqkCuIGeKt0Q6M3n99nfETGJXonWZI1o7AlXyrjiYBci1kfxbe8Iu8XoBfnj3MFOYBm3x1AEw/s1818/Collage-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="1818" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0w_NL_Ue7UNJzYOZwpDYjJi9hzd90at6QFIq_BijLp4HhCP5xcX3KULwoXxvFZH9kPndJMv9pRyHHZmLjQUJgU0y2ym5KreuzaOqnLktlktR2l79zJqkCuIGeKt0Q6M3n99nfETGJXonWZI1o7AlXyrjiYBci1kfxbe8Iu8XoBfnj3MFOYBm3x1AEw/s320/Collage-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcHyqN8SYLfIE6tWNq02lg9-jCMNMH-C-V-A_BURISTbyWTMl2uzsBAE2RB12au-hG1LJAv9O0Y1om4KYtWJhP2sRuzO2bTORbE21NocJXZkPOf2Sg0Kc6yC-6nMoC-V7pSOEnzkvDMnc22jQnrcuLmsnrwy3U1xM0ZVAHUZYS96qR-xhK-wL5P7KLpw/s1536/collage-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1536" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcHyqN8SYLfIE6tWNq02lg9-jCMNMH-C-V-A_BURISTbyWTMl2uzsBAE2RB12au-hG1LJAv9O0Y1om4KYtWJhP2sRuzO2bTORbE21NocJXZkPOf2Sg0Kc6yC-6nMoC-V7pSOEnzkvDMnc22jQnrcuLmsnrwy3U1xM0ZVAHUZYS96qR-xhK-wL5P7KLpw/s320/collage-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I am very grateful to the Vice Provost for Global Affairs Kalpen Trivedi and to his team at the International Programs Office at UMass Amherst for the extraordinary support provided to make this unique partnership in wartime so special and synergistic. </p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-30236520972950971382023-05-08T10:13:00.000-04:002023-05-08T10:13:05.980-04:00Do You Remember Your First Journal Article Acceptance? Celebrating Several "Firsts!"<p>Last Wednesday, we had the great honor of hosting the Rector of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) Dr. Tymofii Brik at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The day began with a 2 hour symposium, under the auspices of the International Programs Office, which is directed by the Vice Provost for Global Affairs Dr. Trivedi Kalpen. The visit of Rector Brik and the day's events were to mark the outstanding 1 year partnership between UMass Amherst and KSE. Below is a photo taken after the symposium with 13 scholars from Ukraine zooming in and with (l-r) Professors Uzzo Muysal, Lauren McCarthy, Rector Brik, yours truly, Ina Ganguli, Alicia Johnson, Vice Provost Trivedi, and Professor Bogdan Prokopovych in front with the Ukrainian flag. The symposium consisted of introductory remarks by university leaders, as well as by Rector Brik, and had a total of 4 panels. Faculty hosts of scholars through our partnership participated and we took a joint photo featured below.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr_x-x1_E8Dyh1sP8VoTfllujTm8mvDI1TTRt3kOkUViMBt3pF9sp1rYMW1T9vHOs4Uj8rBKbv7WG-8Y7tWVpmG94Rp6aJRyh7wXp0Mq_h5k92EjvD4Qth8yb9QpkKHloq9JoUM92D0KCeZNS0IK_wu8BM6NzlysNfTbntrW38iYrVrCqQXbxDvCwLQ/s2016/May3symposium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr_x-x1_E8Dyh1sP8VoTfllujTm8mvDI1TTRt3kOkUViMBt3pF9sp1rYMW1T9vHOs4Uj8rBKbv7WG-8Y7tWVpmG94Rp6aJRyh7wXp0Mq_h5k92EjvD4Qth8yb9QpkKHloq9JoUM92D0KCeZNS0IK_wu8BM6NzlysNfTbntrW38iYrVrCqQXbxDvCwLQ/s320/May3symposium.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And, shortly before the very busy, inspiring day began, we received a message from Springer Nature with great news that the paper, "Exchange Rates and Multicommodity International Trade: Insights from Spatial Price Equilibrium Modeling with Policy Instruments via Variational Inequalities," co-authored by Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi and Dr. Pavlo Martyshev of KSE and by my Isenberg School of Management PhD student Dana Hassani and me, had been accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Optimization!</p><p>This is the first paper acceptance for my PhD student Dana Hassani and the first paper that we have co-authored with scholars in Ukraine that we have been working with through our partnership!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsSGY7ATDcEy52_I9HRiid2Lpv3USFReOy8zMEuKkD1HOv1G3CnqecsfjGkZ8woASuANU38Hvrj0VkcmKzOefO8Vxb805-0AV67bOwvqGU-PblNnHbju_8nQBz_T4ZWTUvXFSnuXfGwF6D2GaIgpSS2Z8gjT7HgeICi2f7cSAXXsieWJB5DburqQaFmA/s2200/ExchangeRateSPEModels-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsSGY7ATDcEy52_I9HRiid2Lpv3USFReOy8zMEuKkD1HOv1G3CnqecsfjGkZ8woASuANU38Hvrj0VkcmKzOefO8Vxb805-0AV67bOwvqGU-PblNnHbju_8nQBz_T4ZWTUvXFSnuXfGwF6D2GaIgpSS2Z8gjT7HgeICi2f7cSAXXsieWJB5DburqQaFmA/s320/ExchangeRateSPEModels-1.jpg" width="247" /></a></div>Both Dr. Nivievskyi and Dr. Martyshev spoke at our symposium on the first panel, "Agricultural Supply Chains in Ukraine in Wartime," which I moderated.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63OwztdQKYs0Ra8vDIsM_Klubs33aEzzhqwpTQ1O8ZcYLYVBV5m77FdggGBPp3pkXPkURRxRu_XJIGTeAoxcAWhDk1vfW58-BlP7I1fYPZUi6c6s8nVNikA6JXiNdXS_-Be69zb3sNkMaCX1FWmf1lj9rWBIUHA9TpeVONIS483tRixqC0fYq_WBv7g/s2016/OlegN-symposium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63OwztdQKYs0Ra8vDIsM_Klubs33aEzzhqwpTQ1O8ZcYLYVBV5m77FdggGBPp3pkXPkURRxRu_XJIGTeAoxcAWhDk1vfW58-BlP7I1fYPZUi6c6s8nVNikA6JXiNdXS_-Be69zb3sNkMaCX1FWmf1lj9rWBIUHA9TpeVONIS483tRixqC0fYq_WBv7g/s320/OlegN-symposium.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JF47-NZLhbcngbcvHDd6OT87OgvF5cCkhlpjob_rL3W4sFVrwNo9WjWWoh_y-oL4uUU7WuDH5mIwKRxA7zmAGQGbMnOgDAmlwDcHzlgBCoJcMyjDSZvNre4lo60dqyFNsjoz0Cjt-c1lTIo0M9K0svsiJcDaACxBonjEeDUMEanGxYEBW8beimLCPg/s2016/PavloM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JF47-NZLhbcngbcvHDd6OT87OgvF5cCkhlpjob_rL3W4sFVrwNo9WjWWoh_y-oL4uUU7WuDH5mIwKRxA7zmAGQGbMnOgDAmlwDcHzlgBCoJcMyjDSZvNre4lo60dqyFNsjoz0Cjt-c1lTIo0M9K0svsiJcDaACxBonjEeDUMEanGxYEBW8beimLCPg/s320/PavloM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/articles/ExchangeRateSPEModels.pdf" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">A preprint of the paper can be downloaded here.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">We acknowledge the anonymous reviewers of our paper and the Editor for the constructive comments and suggestions on the Acknowledgment section of our paper. We also acknowledge the support provided by the UMass Amherst - KSE partnership, which has been a bright beacon of light in wartime and has helped to reduce brain drain from Ukraine.</span></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-84878632389623388182023-04-18T13:00:00.004-04:002023-04-18T13:08:45.335-04:00Thanking Mr. David Gutierrez of the American Red Cross for His Brilliant Guest Lecture in My Humanitarian Logistics & Healthcare Class<p>Having expert practitioners speak to students and share their experiences and lessons from the field supports transformative education.</p><p>Last week, we had the honor and pleasure of hosting Mr. David Gutierrez of the American Red Cross (ARC) as a guest lecturer in my Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare class at the Isenberg School of Management. Mr. Gutierrez was an outstanding Professor for a Day! The certificate was kindly signed by the Isenberg School Dean - Dr. Anne P. Massey.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZWX1xAILz0gq57yv5ptIgAgKuzZ_TMEbXXg_zMt8hZ9TeEA2ekafzI4Euctm6txX8K6tUJQ4X6IlOemTOKSZHUlOgK3OxfRL5cncGd1xb8hx4Y4Pu6QXuMsNBXY71td3A6Y6neMfCULvQ-ui85wI1gaInisR_RViCkXik4E2LNniIV72mcAshZoi4rQ/s679/ARCdoublejpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="679" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZWX1xAILz0gq57yv5ptIgAgKuzZ_TMEbXXg_zMt8hZ9TeEA2ekafzI4Euctm6txX8K6tUJQ4X6IlOemTOKSZHUlOgK3OxfRL5cncGd1xb8hx4Y4Pu6QXuMsNBXY71td3A6Y6neMfCULvQ-ui85wI1gaInisR_RViCkXik4E2LNniIV72mcAshZoi4rQ/w400-h127/ARCdoublejpg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The original date of his lecture was rescheduled because he had been intensively responding to<a href="https://apnews.com/article/tornado-mississippi-delta-rolling-fork-silver-city-78b84695687a7c9f6f0ea574001fbc16" target="_blank"> the aftermath of the tornado in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Mr. David Gutierrez in the Senior Director of the National Incident Command Team of the American Red Cross. The National Incident Command Team was established about 1 year ago due to the unprecedented number of disasters. According to Mr. Gutierrez: "disasters have been nonstop." The ARC has been dealing with many challenges including climate displacement.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Mr. Gutierrez shared his "story" with us and his incredible career with the ARC, which continues. Professionally, he started out as a High School teacher and began volunteering with the ARC in 1992. Over more than three decades, he has served in various roles including: Health & Safety Director, AFES Station Manager, Chapter Executive, Chapter Operations Manager, State Relations Disaster Liaison, State Resource Office Coordinator, Emergency Services Director, State Disaster Officer, Division Disaster Director and Division Disaster Executive. In his current role as the Senior Director for the National Incident Command Team, he is responsible for initiating a Red Cross disaster response for level 5 disasters and higher. This includes oversight and direction of all activities related to disaster leadership development, disaster response training, partnerships with government and non-government agencies, and capacity building for the organization. An example of a level 1 disaster is a house fire, that the ARC would also respond to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">He spoke about the 3Hs - Health, Hunger, and Housing, and how the ARC provides security to victims of disasters for up to 1 year. Many of those impacted by disasters are experiencing poverty and disasters create further stressors on the most vulnerable. The #1 priority of the National Incident Command Team is to respond. The other priority is to build capacity and to make sure that the workforce is trained. The students were very inspired and also amazed that 98% of the ARC workforce consists of volunteers! I very much appreciated that Mr. David Gutierrez noted the relevance of the logistics behind the workforce and in getting the workers to impacted areas in a timely manner. Sometimes there can be as many as 2,000 volunteers. The ARC pays for the travel expenses as well as the room and board. He discussed the specific case of Hurricane Ian and the impact on Tampa Bay, along with the response of the ARC.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Gutierrez has deployed to over 50 relief operations throughout his tenure with the Red Cross. He also serves as a National Disaster Relief Operation Job Director for the ARC. He served as the job director for Hurricane Ian, Hurricane Laura, Hurricane Ida, and Hurricane Harvey. In the role of job director, Mr. Gutierrez is responsible for leading a team of individuals who provide a range of clients with a comfortable, safe, welcoming environment by delivering mass care services, which include shelter, feeding, distribution of relief supplies, reunification, Disaster Health Services, Disaster Mental Health Services, Disaster Spiritual Care, Casework and Recovery Planning, and access to a host of services provided by partners in the community.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He emphasized the importance of needs assessment and in learning from previous disaster experiences. This reinforced what the students have learned from other guest speakers this semester, including Dr. George Karagiannis of Resilience First and Mr. Jeff Hescock of UMass Amherst! Lessons learned must be captured and shared. He also noted the necessity behind collaboration with partners; coordination with response partners, and also effective communication.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Gutierrez's dedication to the American Red Cross shone through his presentation Along with his team, he works to ensure timely, efficient disaster response efforts, ensuring that local community organizations and the Red Cross are coordinating and collaborating in order to efficiently and effectively meet community needs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Gutierrez is a role model. His dedication, work ethic, kindness, and effectiveness are awe-inspiring. On behalf of my students, and all those that he and his team have helped, I send my deepest gratitude.</div></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-63146411587030025982023-03-12T16:33:00.000-04:002023-03-12T16:33:49.060-04:00We Celebrated the Distinguished Career of Panos Pardalos at the PanOptiC Conference on Global Optimization at the University of Florida<p>On March 9 and 10, 2023, the PanOptiC Conference on Global Optimization took place at the University of Florida Gainesville. The conference was organized to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Panos M. Pardalos.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxOWp8q0AF4Z2xXaO77UHhqQunD2qGqLzEh4dLUwgKZdEIOcQ8OhClEKoD6nsEhnJwriO-8e8xGboWVSrWLdixcmpGtcyA7VPTPBh0KRH1mzXk7ycum3J3Z50fUpuZdxjlUgYg52uDFcCDKpfoQbXBVWGOCaOkyuquXRNslmLMg2KprB3BrnN3vcB7Cw/s640/thumbnail_IMG_4878.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxOWp8q0AF4Z2xXaO77UHhqQunD2qGqLzEh4dLUwgKZdEIOcQ8OhClEKoD6nsEhnJwriO-8e8xGboWVSrWLdixcmpGtcyA7VPTPBh0KRH1mzXk7ycum3J3Z50fUpuZdxjlUgYg52uDFcCDKpfoQbXBVWGOCaOkyuquXRNslmLMg2KprB3BrnN3vcB7Cw/s320/thumbnail_IMG_4878.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>The conference was excellent and brought speakers together from many countries. <a href="https://www.ise.ufl.edu/panoptic/" target="_blank">The full program can be downloaded here.</a></p><p>Panos (if I may) has chaired the PhD dissertations of 71 students, which is an incredible accomplishment and <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4e_KEdUAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">has an h-index of 105!</a> His nurturing of students, colleagues, both junior and senior, and his warmth and entrepreneurial spirit in the founding of journals and book series are truly laudable. He has co-directed the Center for Applied Optimization at the U. of Florida for many years and Bill Hager presented him with an award at the banquet this past Thursday, along with a testimonial. Many of his former PhD students and friends were in attendance. Panos also spoke as did his former PhD students Vladimir Boginskii and Clayton Commander (who has both a PhD and an MD).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2PyhJL_0UGnz-5hRTOUIC-QzoJEu2KpucxK689vL--hYdHmer6tNP3_8YYL3FTb1AK-REPUcUVAqyT9Jz1FywVdEzaZC2L8eRbI3rEd4EDQj_LCY3c18XDnwfbwfnak9jEIjThulHi1uqP691-m5B9z2FTVxAy59mK1YLjgo__TPdEO7nN890bv6CA/s640/thumbnail_IMG_0238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2PyhJL_0UGnz-5hRTOUIC-QzoJEu2KpucxK689vL--hYdHmer6tNP3_8YYL3FTb1AK-REPUcUVAqyT9Jz1FywVdEzaZC2L8eRbI3rEd4EDQj_LCY3c18XDnwfbwfnak9jEIjThulHi1uqP691-m5B9z2FTVxAy59mK1YLjgo__TPdEO7nN890bv6CA/s320/thumbnail_IMG_0238.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOoi-CmFC1n30s3jyHHa1IRxs3V9cZxF9RVCISemgZQ39jrmh6fGTY3IK1wOEJQFj-FlojeWo1E9xNcTY4DCEDVKznj1zxZq7EspM1E9zQo0ySYWDt2bnU8KjZnaaVLCabjDE33Q43zv_lF8_0h7NN17xhz1CuDd7AGl27zRuwQ1vH1efbw91fHZKCA/s640/thumbnail_IMG_0240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9lm8VnttX3lvPFD2p5s05zZTqRbjYLIinVRUY4-TBxSlt5FqADwTAinVtakbmtlylfL6Z4z-RdStlpY7JjEN-cCrSOsjGpSYmSiaHAhxgXfku5G_lNlbbe75jSvrZeo2lxN0bRvjBRLs7eOaPSg_bIsW4gPI00_Kiqix8Yc501pHt_dwPchcf-Q3Aw/s2016/IMG_4833.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9lm8VnttX3lvPFD2p5s05zZTqRbjYLIinVRUY4-TBxSlt5FqADwTAinVtakbmtlylfL6Z4z-RdStlpY7JjEN-cCrSOsjGpSYmSiaHAhxgXfku5G_lNlbbe75jSvrZeo2lxN0bRvjBRLs7eOaPSg_bIsW4gPI00_Kiqix8Yc501pHt_dwPchcf-Q3Aw/s320/IMG_4833.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlsTni2Yps6dEmmyduuRge4pRSlk9FMh_0htSNsJoMrhReKE_q26ApSjZ-5PvC23tR_sGu88yLvlLQ60nOFr2gLUvwkQeyPegzWDNaG4mLXkdvqc_VOTO3Fp3dBjwN73wRgJLz15S7wBWthaB0f-XqXLCm2yEJRP_TM0qk5JQ7Zo_SacRbHIvx7qF1A/s640/thumbnail_IMG_4853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlsTni2Yps6dEmmyduuRge4pRSlk9FMh_0htSNsJoMrhReKE_q26ApSjZ-5PvC23tR_sGu88yLvlLQ60nOFr2gLUvwkQeyPegzWDNaG4mLXkdvqc_VOTO3Fp3dBjwN73wRgJLz15S7wBWthaB0f-XqXLCm2yEJRP_TM0qk5JQ7Zo_SacRbHIvx7qF1A/s320/thumbnail_IMG_4853.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It was extra exciting for me to be at this conference since my PhD student Dana Hassani and I were </span><span style="text-align: left;">presenting our work with colleagues at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) - Oleg Nivievskyi and</span><span style="text-align: left;"> Pavlo Martyshev through the partnership that UMass Amherst established with KSE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA97QdCssYXvMSmbccd6_dS8a3R6Yvta2EDz5XRa05WE5L_0v79ZXAgC3py25Uw_dvILNTEOePlumVDAyKkuH_uvE5YL1WOKv1HIpNFh41_U2XBVG6eD3OZQaqj51pywgHrXDmJBp5l7DwmJN9UxFIzHTnA75_U22MvUKGvJtEYGbnyoBB6IaLa5VOw/s320/thumbnail_IMG_4840.jpg" width="240" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>In our presentation, I had included two collages of events with Pardalos from Greece to Bellagio in Italy as examples with many colleagues and even students in the images.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpGJ9blygQtAzoa3hFaRCZ6D_I9kBEsousX2Om4BpXJ0pRVgrnb4U8Oi2NZ9zchwKOOJ09xSn3nlqMjxx0kD0XHy7JF8zr10Y22lUY5Y0JlqT8JAmCzLaVLIezQNdO69teJw1oVlSyJtstzqHUY5KCfQAyr_d3PGdciSE-82yFbVGejeslVpZ52uHSg/s768/Panos-collage.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The display included my new Labor and Supply Chain Networks book as well as the latest Dynamics of Disasters book that I co-edited with Ilias Kotsireas, Panos Pardalos, and Arsenios Tsokas. It was wonderful to see our Editor Elizabeth Loew of Springer!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXtUezng0ryZL1-ZDp-kV0dCVl6NF5BNE9INJ0xU2hGf2eaVPbAEl632cXJHncLPBaGE4_8m8qsC_RBYkUlNXWEN7qlFoAzMOrlbcYLKXc5AdvdldF6rZxtwPwoku2qiizJLDnB-lNB1KXV_cERqcjORMF_VOk-51FGGJlSCiotfCUI-W2bu-0qtXVQ/s2016/IMG_4831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXtUezng0ryZL1-ZDp-kV0dCVl6NF5BNE9INJ0xU2hGf2eaVPbAEl632cXJHncLPBaGE4_8m8qsC_RBYkUlNXWEN7qlFoAzMOrlbcYLKXc5AdvdldF6rZxtwPwoku2qiizJLDnB-lNB1KXV_cERqcjORMF_VOk-51FGGJlSCiotfCUI-W2bu-0qtXVQ/s320/IMG_4831.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0jWub7lFyvFa_dI_vVzOxAD2OXzt-50Sh3FI8AJqoKQM03Ptnpib11pkB15S1URQD5qZV77u7xXU66Pk0tsb3rs7xSrTKSVLF_x2BLa9mNdEvr-Tcwb7QpK_LXxzH_ZXWUOgpPEdGPrFdq-BVc_vJCAaS_ZnhZ3RoMMVV6Z-HjIwyEEbW5yXy0dydQ/s640/thumbnail_IMG_0256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9GDbeJ56UYowxMv9fo64lffKYcUB-0fRMFgAQ9gFdiCp7q1Q2bS62dmyOVJ0cafLh3B9jl5kqGLb-m3VlRiVh4Zpv-Kc8q9ZpwF5qFfwI3tXHUrQ5kkq6P9aq2T190y-kgV_dS8SsD1_LZCVkggjwqUl7xDN4CUzOL5Vp7qfNt0i10jsdBMibMl60w/s2016/IMG_4862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9GDbeJ56UYowxMv9fo64lffKYcUB-0fRMFgAQ9gFdiCp7q1Q2bS62dmyOVJ0cafLh3B9jl5kqGLb-m3VlRiVh4Zpv-Kc8q9ZpwF5qFfwI3tXHUrQ5kkq6P9aq2T190y-kgV_dS8SsD1_LZCVkggjwqUl7xDN4CUzOL5Vp7qfNt0i10jsdBMibMl60w/s320/IMG_4862.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div>We are lucky to have such an amazing scientific scholar and human being in our discipline. Thank you, Professor Panos M. Pardalos!</div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-20716428450162439692023-02-27T16:38:00.000-05:002023-02-27T16:38:01.546-05:00The Visit of the President of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) Tymofiy Mylovanov to UMass Amherst<p>On February 22, 2023, we had the honor and pleasure of hosting Tymofiy Mylovanov, the President of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), at UMass Amherst. He had left Ukraine about 10 days earlier, after successfully crossing the border. </p><p>This visit was extremely meaningful since, in wartime, UMass Amherst had signed a series of memoranda with the Kyiv School of Economics with <a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-establishes-partnership-ukraines-kyiv-school-economics" target="_blank">UMass Amherst releasing this press release on the partnership.</a> </p><p>The visit was planned with great attention to detail by the International Programs Office, under the leadership of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Kalpen Trivedi. Special thanks go to his Executive Assistant, Kim Stender, for finalizing an itinerary that included Vice Provost Kalpen Trivedi, Provost Tricia Serio, Emeritus Provost John McCarthy, Isenberg Dean Anne P. Massey, the Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Karl Rethemeyer, and the Interim Dean of the College of Natural Sciences Nate Whitaker! <a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/president-kyiv-school-economics-visits-umass-amherst" target="_blank">UMass Amherst released this article on his visit</a> and the timing could not have been better because the day after UMass was closed due to inclement weather!</p><p>There were multiple brainstorming sessions that took place with faculty and additional administrators. The conversations were moving and very inspiring. UMass Amherst is helping to reduce Brain Drain from Ukraine by funding 15 Virtual Scholars that have been matched with Faculty Hosts at the Isenberg School (we have 9 and room for 1 more); the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences has 5; and the College of Natural Sciences has 1. All the Virtual Scholars remain in Ukraine and the Faculty Hosts are working in collaboration with them on multiple fascinating projects, many of which are also relevant to the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine. This support also shows the scholars that they are not alone. The research collaborations have already generated papers that have been submitted to journals as well as submissions to conferences! On November 30, 2022, the Isenberg School<a href="http://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-terrific-umass-amherst-kyiv-school.html" target="_blank"> welcomed its Virtual Scholars through a special event that I had blogged about.</a> The majority of the Virtual Scholars in Ukraine joined us via Zoom from a bomb shelter at KSE. <a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank">The Isenberg School wrote up this special event and our Virtual Scholars program.</a> The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is working on its welcome event for its Virtual Scholars, which we expect to take place in March. We are also planning a Virtual Symposium this spring featuring all the Virtual Scholars who are part of the UMass Amherst - KSE partnership. It is important to note that the Virtual Scholars include faculty from KSE, from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Volodymyr East Ukrainian National University, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and even an advisor to the Ukrainian government.</p><p>It was wonderful to have President Mylovanov join Ken Reade of the International Programs Office, Bogdan Prokopovych, a Ukrainian colleague of mine at the Isenberg School, and me for lunch at The Commonwealth Restaurant at UMass Amherst.</p><p>We were able to get President Mylovanov to the airport for the next leg of his journey and are pleased to report that he has now made it back to Ukraine. Earlier today, I was at a Zoom meeting of the Co-Chairs of the Board of Directors of KSE, and Mylovanov joined us from a vehicle that he was in while in transit in Ukraine. Looking forward to more joint initiatives through the truly unique partnership between UMass Amherst and KSE.</p><p>I leave you with a photo collage constructed to capture this historic visit. Looking forward to others and, of course, to victory for Ukraine and peace.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaEvIXHXNyaj-bHE8AgVfazGJtVRd7j94LFGXZVNYYo2WR2hihZwU6azAGVfl_ITvO3FgZMJj_BO4tSmZHxNW3pNV5iwsGFlSiLI_d3W2FZhbOl5QljiX4P04DpGUA-wFRJdVUC1cprm5tZrO8x7dZb-DxYzSm_1QFK6DjYWLyI2p9UM093Lc5X-PCjQ/s768/KSE-TM-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaEvIXHXNyaj-bHE8AgVfazGJtVRd7j94LFGXZVNYYo2WR2hihZwU6azAGVfl_ITvO3FgZMJj_BO4tSmZHxNW3pNV5iwsGFlSiLI_d3W2FZhbOl5QljiX4P04DpGUA-wFRJdVUC1cprm5tZrO8x7dZb-DxYzSm_1QFK6DjYWLyI2p9UM093Lc5X-PCjQ/s320/KSE-TM-collage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Thanks to all who made this visit a reality and so very productive and inspiring! Much good can be accomplished by working together.</p>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131146678235590697.post-88374066211492057232023-02-11T17:34:00.003-05:002023-02-11T18:00:49.907-05:00Reflection on the 1 Year Anniversary of Russia's Major Invasion of Ukraine<p><b>This is an extremely difficult post for me to write but it is important to do so and not to be silent.</b></p><p>I remember the morning of February 24, 2022 vividly. I was about to teach my Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare class at the Isenberg School and the guest speaker, Dr. Denise Sumpf, Head of the UN Resident Coordinator Office and Senior Development Coordination Officer in Armenia, was a bit late. She was speaking to my class via Zoom and had just taken part in a UN Security Council meeting because of Russia's major invasion of Ukraine. It was a guest lecture on her experiences working for the UN and she also spoke about Nagorno Karabakh with interspersed comments on the invasion of Ukraine. <a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2022/05/thanking-fabulous-guest-speakers-in-my.html" target="_blank">Some background on her talk and those of others in my course is here.</a></p><p><b>Ukraine, a sovereign nation in Europe, was being invaded and attacked by its neighbor - Russia. </b></p><p>I was shaken to the core as were all of my Ukrainian relatives and many friends.</p><p>This past year has been unlike any other that I have experienced - filled with concern, trepidation, and outright terror. As an academic and as a daughter of WWII refugees from Ukraine, who was born in Canada, I had heard many stories from my parents and relatives who had to flee the Nazis and Soviets. I felt it essential to do what was possible. Not to act or to speak out was not an option. I might add that my brother had entered hospice in February 2022, while battling cancer, which made the year even more challenging. We laid him to rest in September.</p><p>Shortly after the major invasion (and I might add that Russia had already taken parts of eastern Ukraine and Crimea in 2014 illegally), which is de facto a war, I was contacted by reporters and the first interview that I did was published on February 28, 2022. <a href="https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/02/i-fear-a-cultural-genocide-ukrainians-in-western-mass-watch-worry-and-help.html" target="_blank">The article, entitled, "'I fear a cultural genocide'; Ukrainians in Western Mass. watch, worry and help,"</a> was written by Jim Kinney for <i>The Springfield Republican</i> and published also on masslive.com.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmWvdEClT9lEP0tAqnPdJ2oqWumP5hs5vDi_QfnIna3SVUDhaXxZ85HN-39Hhyildr1Sq8v8GltZVaxzk0kPhIIuWftgr_4pjlBTgaYg8VLV6fqVxNrtKUqL-x7wkUAgfJsq4BhEq3PIT1r8M9Ua7ZWQju6dPsAodpxvKo8d1hLb1WyuysRHkQfH5QA/s800/February28Masslive..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="800" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmWvdEClT9lEP0tAqnPdJ2oqWumP5hs5vDi_QfnIna3SVUDhaXxZ85HN-39Hhyildr1Sq8v8GltZVaxzk0kPhIIuWftgr_4pjlBTgaYg8VLV6fqVxNrtKUqL-x7wkUAgfJsq4BhEq3PIT1r8M9Ua7ZWQju6dPsAodpxvKo8d1hLb1WyuysRHkQfH5QA/s320/February28Masslive..jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The media interviews continued and I felt it was my responsibility to respond and to inform on topics related to the war that I felt knowledgeable about from impacts of the war on agricultural supply chains and food insecurity to issues of refugees as well as higher education. I had already been contacted by several international media outlets in January 2022 and said that I believed that Putin would invade Ukraine and why.</p><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/media/media.htm" target="_blank">Some of the interviews, which include those with <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, The <i>Bulletin of Atomic Scientists</i>, and other print media can be found here.</a></p><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/audiovideo.htm" target="_blank">Interviews for radio and TV programs can be accessed here.</a></p><p><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/commentary.html" target="_blank">Letters to the Editor and OpEds that I wrote can be read here.</a></p><p>Shortly after the major invasion, I was elected Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://kse.ua/" target="_blank">Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine</a> and, already in late February, I was fielding messages from administrators and faculty there. I have served for several years on <a href="https://kse.ua/community/stories/international-academic-board/" target="_blank">the International Academic Board of KSE</a> and also on its <a href="https://kse.ua/community/stories/board-of-directors/" target="_blank">Board of Directors</a>. These are service activities that are very meaningful to me. The last time that I was in Kyiv was for a board meeting in September 2019 and<a href="https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2019/09/fascinating-visit-to-kse-kyiv-school-of.html" target="_blank"> I blogged the wonderful experience.</a> It is such an honor to work with my fellow Co-Chairs: Olena Bilan, Oleksandr Kravchenko, and Makar Paseniuk. We meet regularly during this extremely challenging period in the history of Ukraine. </p><p>KSE has done a truly remarkable job sustaining education and even innovating during this wartime period. Plus KSE, through <a href="https://foundation.kse.ua/en/" target="_blank">the KSE Foundation</a>, has been involved in major fund raising for disaster relief that includes the building of bomb shelters for schools. I commend all the faculty and students there, along with the top administrators: KSE President Tymofiy Mylovanov and KSE Rector Tymofii Brik. </p><p><a href="http://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2022/09/extraordinary-event-in-support-of.html" target="_blank">In September 2022, my husband and I had the honor of taking part in the conference and fundraiser organized by KSE, which took place in NYC at the Harvard Club, that I also blogged about.</a> It was extraordinary to see KSE faculty such as Oleg Nivievsky and Nataliia Shapo there, as well as Tymofii Brik and Svitlana Denysenko. My KSE colleagues are authors of extremely important white papers during wartime and regularly speak to the international media. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fCfMjnJQapCSDKMK6rpbvQyDx4kEox_O1eleIUvdjELbAwjAaVnYEDUbvl2MmysMPI3wydqP5yMc96G847O995wtnuoEhBlTLt_FXL9vJQy0uZyKGmLIRDv2nBsR26i2eLn0iCwldxvTBRw7T_jSB_ZvWL-9LmrmHyi7-wCRBZThyiEfdTAGpHouPQ/s320/KSE2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fCfMjnJQapCSDKMK6rpbvQyDx4kEox_O1eleIUvdjELbAwjAaVnYEDUbvl2MmysMPI3wydqP5yMc96G847O995wtnuoEhBlTLt_FXL9vJQy0uZyKGmLIRDv2nBsR26i2eLn0iCwldxvTBRw7T_jSB_ZvWL-9LmrmHyi7-wCRBZThyiEfdTAGpHouPQ/s1600/KSE2.jpg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfkAZJKwIa3B4a3dA6R6MGsJ41i1ZuDlktWjTwOY7EA39_IlMMCwsyPgOmuoCkVyI2a13PtIjCM8vW1SLiX2qt8_2x-K7CS8YEu4HSwJN3Dc4pJHjgUn7TBT9NiaP9MHE9MqvrdprscSTljVguuinbB69hfhjc9jX3Iok-z6iSF7KeODOBIHAK_ix3uQ/s1200/KSE3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfkAZJKwIa3B4a3dA6R6MGsJ41i1ZuDlktWjTwOY7EA39_IlMMCwsyPgOmuoCkVyI2a13PtIjCM8vW1SLiX2qt8_2x-K7CS8YEu4HSwJN3Dc4pJHjgUn7TBT9NiaP9MHE9MqvrdprscSTljVguuinbB69hfhjc9jX3Iok-z6iSF7KeODOBIHAK_ix3uQ/s320/KSE3.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><b>The deaths, destruction, terror, and atrocities perpetrated by the Russians continue to inflict an immense cost to Ukrainian lives, culture, the environment, and the safety and security not only of Europe but the free world. </b> Thanks to all in the free world who have provided significant support of Ukraine and continue to do so as it defends its land and its people. <a href="https://kse.ua/about-the-school/news/the-total-amount-of-damage-caused-to-ukraine-s-infrastructure-due-to-the-war-has-increased-to-almost-138-billion/" target="_blank">The costs to infrastructure alone due to the war are horrific.</a> The resilience of Ukrainians, their resolve and dedication to defending their lands and way of life against the invaders and terrorists are awe-inspiring.<div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The University of Massachusetts Amherst established a truly special partnership with KSE with signed memoranda in March and July.</b> Kudos to Provost Emeritus John McCarthy and Vice Provost for Global Affairs Kalpen Trivedi for spearheading this effort with immense support also from Isenberg Dean Anne P. Massey and KSE Rector Brik. Extra thanks to colleagues: Ina Ganguli, Bogdan Prokopovych, and Lauren McCarthy. <a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-establishes-partnership-ukraines-kyiv-school-economics#:~:text=%E2%80%93%20The%20University%20of%20Massachusetts%20Amherst,by%20Russia's%20war%20with%20Ukraine." target="_blank">A press release on the partnership can be read here.</a> A substantive outgrowth of this partnership is the Virtual Scholar Program where scholars in Ukraine work with faculty at UMass Amherst for a 5 month period with financial support. We now have 9 Virtual Scholars working with faculty at the Isenberg School; 1 with a faculty member in the Math/Stats Department, and 5 Virtual Scholars in Ukraine working with faculty in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.</div><div><br /></div><div>On November 30, we held a welcome event for the Isenberg placed Virtual Scholars <a href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/supporting-ukraine-through-academic-partnership" target="_blank">with a wonderful writeup on the event done by the Isenberg School.</a> Our colleagues in Ukraine were at a bomb shelter at KSE for the event. The courage, resilience, and dedication of academics, students, practitioners, and defenders in Ukraine is heroic. <a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/UMassAmherst-KSE-VirtualScholarWelcome-Nagurney-2022.pdf" target="_blank">The slide deck of my introductory remarks, which include those from Dean Massey, can be found here.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSpBgp3ZsCiC3OB4EP2cPfr7vnMYwFR5nO17KWksTAhe0JI8DK7CY3C82edGbUOjWlUEVoZZOP5eGq_vNqlGGEI8CjAxwfoGKTR-Z8XiU6-q1Ydh8MDx8iVRuXxaz6HErzD6LNuQurOb72RD8I-66CTiWyM-k-Wp-xDVKM5L9eceWFETiBCYlqBzMig/s992/UkrainianVirtualScholars.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="992" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSpBgp3ZsCiC3OB4EP2cPfr7vnMYwFR5nO17KWksTAhe0JI8DK7CY3C82edGbUOjWlUEVoZZOP5eGq_vNqlGGEI8CjAxwfoGKTR-Z8XiU6-q1Ydh8MDx8iVRuXxaz6HErzD6LNuQurOb72RD8I-66CTiWyM-k-Wp-xDVKM5L9eceWFETiBCYlqBzMig/s320/UkrainianVirtualScholars.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>And, in December, <a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/orms.2022.05.01" target="_blank">I wrote an invited article for the INFORMS magazine <i>ORMS Today</i>, with photo on its cover</a>, "Operations Research for the Recovery and Reconstruction of Ukraine."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fdK_oqEBIwJrgjzMFNrX7SEPPIQBOo_QRoEArrX_BTL4ASG01e60Aav9TgAo1uJO4Q89qF1AnVOWLW7e1RT_Y3meAo5Mr3Vk05amFmt2JUzb95J_0Hkydmh_hkHt-Sl0OIDUXOUEbKRnaEzhcGenIUGmTUGmWBwGLsNImc_EmvB48vfFn5WftmZBZg/s1280/Ukraine-ORMSToday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fdK_oqEBIwJrgjzMFNrX7SEPPIQBOo_QRoEArrX_BTL4ASG01e60Aav9TgAo1uJO4Q89qF1AnVOWLW7e1RT_Y3meAo5Mr3Vk05amFmt2JUzb95J_0Hkydmh_hkHt-Sl0OIDUXOUEbKRnaEzhcGenIUGmTUGmWBwGLsNImc_EmvB48vfFn5WftmZBZg/s320/Ukraine-ORMSToday.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><p><b>With the support of many, and fueled by adrenaline, I completed my book, "Labor and Supply Chain Networks, which was published by Springer Nature in January 2023. <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3" target="_blank">The preface and acknowledgments are available for free download.</a> The book is dedicated to: <i>essential workers and to those fighting for freedom in Ukraine, with deep gratitude for your heroism. </i></b></p><p><b>Last April, the Shevchenko Scientific Society held an all day remarkable expert-a-thon that I spoke at.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhouXu2jIH9oMrg8xhfhy5wQsmdGEdP2ltK-ttaj9qVf1l01JeeFPJFN2oz9mKKVL6taqqk1jwxtF5CZpbJEc8sHwcspDcN66odcDSDEAygMG_uQ0AGPs9EG4k80i43nDwmFhqUtNH577pl0q0JhL9vl0FKWYxegEypjlzT_WjA6OcydqsLRwIP-MtvDg/s360/Shevchenko-Society-Nagurney-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhouXu2jIH9oMrg8xhfhy5wQsmdGEdP2ltK-ttaj9qVf1l01JeeFPJFN2oz9mKKVL6taqqk1jwxtF5CZpbJEc8sHwcspDcN66odcDSDEAygMG_uQ0AGPs9EG4k80i43nDwmFhqUtNH577pl0q0JhL9vl0FKWYxegEypjlzT_WjA6OcydqsLRwIP-MtvDg/s320/Shevchenko-Society-Nagurney-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/Shevchenko-Society-Nagurney-TalkSlides.pdf" target="_blank">My slide deck can be viewed here.</a> The full 8 hour expert-a-thon program, with an introduction by Dr. Halyna Hryn, who is President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and is at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGJDO40j93E" target="_blank"> can be viewed on youtube.</a> We raised funds for the Shevchenko Emergency Fellows and I had the great honor to be on the selection committee. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://shevchenko.org/news-events/news/first-round-sef-fellows/" target="_blank">The first round of 50 Shevchenko Emergency Fellows has been announced.</a> We hope that the pain and struggles that the artists, poets, historians, linguists, scientists, and other creative folks that were selected Fellows are reduced at least, in part, with some funding that should support their work. Reading their applications was heartbreaking and the need is so great!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Research with the UMass Amherst - KSE Virtual Scholars is now taking place and a symposium is planned for this spring. The work that is being done is timely and highly relevant and energizing for all concerned. The Virtual Scholars are dealing with missiles, blackouts, and Internet disruptions, and their persistence and integrity and love of Ukraine are a bright light to us all during these very dark times.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>All that needs to be done is that Russia leave Ukraine, return all of its lands, and stop the killing and destruction and stay out of Ukraine. Ukraine is part of Europe and its people deserve freedom and peace. This horror in the 21st century must end. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>On February 10, we witnessed an amazing performance by</b><a href="https://www.umass.edu/events/concert-lviv-national-philharmonic-orchestra-ukraine" target="_blank"> the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine at the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.</a> There were 1,000 in the audience and the orchestra was welcomed with a standing ovation and remarks even made by our western Massachusetts state rep Mindy Domb that moved me. She spoke against the aggression of the Russians against Ukraine and that we all Stand with Ukraine! Below are photos taken towards the end of the concert.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4aO2xFiJGmlGkNPI7TnJE07OpkFF0UqVknQJGYc3x0ogwYec9-lU6f2oKqK8k7TfcLb9HsB1bBnAeRczjOAVOspjJhpydUW0XWcgTbx5ACN8C5dv22odJILiRLhTNGcT7ibr0bA_5BA3vrZf7owO8K8OEt-1Ur3ptEWDlaOinoQnCQ05j4tqO71CNw/s1280/Lviv2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4aO2xFiJGmlGkNPI7TnJE07OpkFF0UqVknQJGYc3x0ogwYec9-lU6f2oKqK8k7TfcLb9HsB1bBnAeRczjOAVOspjJhpydUW0XWcgTbx5ACN8C5dv22odJILiRLhTNGcT7ibr0bA_5BA3vrZf7owO8K8OEt-1Ur3ptEWDlaOinoQnCQ05j4tqO71CNw/s320/Lviv2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJSidZiTf7gJ5rS4q4SMQVt3Hz87a6M29hXR-NYhJHapXsgAiUklC7SkOE4JzzWnJAXIGiqb4NeI9xkB76lWvcBjTCzgj-guvyyPLtN9yHW5t1oct32g0GHtu944IgdBWwRBaYSxYID7QZdAaSlnPnw-8mpFrOUhz1ep83YMhjM9GJ8TzoTWI-4M30Hg/s333/Lviv3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="333" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJSidZiTf7gJ5rS4q4SMQVt3Hz87a6M29hXR-NYhJHapXsgAiUklC7SkOE4JzzWnJAXIGiqb4NeI9xkB76lWvcBjTCzgj-guvyyPLtN9yHW5t1oct32g0GHtu944IgdBWwRBaYSxYID7QZdAaSlnPnw-8mpFrOUhz1ep83YMhjM9GJ8TzoTWI-4M30Hg/s320/Lviv3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzP_U8hDrOr4EdAl_NNNpastu3qzrECsspFAsMAS__9TNDt2H464mw87imqOg8nomS7Ag-0EPZBpbQEc2WF03eYbq6gQcM-fAVdVrV4JQ5skEfWVO8-dJcEy3MaNLRGrxg2dYqPDDz7ZR0QypuzMse_F3zkpSf2yQHhjKF6TPcKljThxQ0ZN4Us31-7g/s333/Lviv4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="333" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzP_U8hDrOr4EdAl_NNNpastu3qzrECsspFAsMAS__9TNDt2H464mw87imqOg8nomS7Ag-0EPZBpbQEc2WF03eYbq6gQcM-fAVdVrV4JQ5skEfWVO8-dJcEy3MaNLRGrxg2dYqPDDz7ZR0QypuzMse_F3zkpSf2yQHhjKF6TPcKljThxQ0ZN4Us31-7g/s320/Lviv4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>It was so special to see at this concert several of the administrators at UMass Amherst that supported our partnership with KSE as well as colleagues who helped so much with the Virtual Scholars Program. I am so grateful to the Isenberg Dean Ann P. Massey, to Provost Emeritus John McCarthy, and to Provost Tricia Serio, as well as to Dean of the Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst Nate Whitaker for the conversations at the reception and the intermission. Together, we can do so much good and those suffering in Ukraine need to know that they are not alone. #SlavaUkraini! <b>Thank you!</b></div>Dr. Anna Nagurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08055464448610526927noreply@blogger.com