Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Monday, November 9, 2015

What is Your Erdos Number and Network Science

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On Friday, October 30, UMass Amherst had the pleasure of hearing Professor Albert-László Barabasi of Northeastern University speak on Networ...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

The Academic Family Tree Going Back to Maxwell, Newton, and Galileo

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I always felt like I was standing on shoulders of giants in terms of outstanding researchers and scientists and, yesterday, my most recent I...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Big Bang Theory in Berlin

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I am attending a huge physics conference - about 6,000 participants in Berlin, Germany and am here since I was invited by Professor Scholl...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

In at the Beginnings with Philip M. Morse, the Father of Operations Research in the U.S.

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I very much enjoyed the plenary lecture that the Morse Award winner Professor Dimitris Bertsimas of the Sloan School at MIT gave at the San...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Terrific Operations + Analytics Conferences in 2015 + More!

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I am very much looking forward to the New 2015 Year! The Spring 2015 semester I will be teaching two of my favorite courses at the Isenber...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

The Serendipity of Science and Why Dreamers are Important - Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow at UMass Amherst

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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Sheldon Glashow , a Nobel laureate in physics speak on "A Parable of the Pure and the Pra...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Defying Gravity and Success is the Best Revenge - Nurturing STEM Talent in Our Students, Females and Males

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The article by Eileen Pollack in The New York Times , Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? is a must read. Eileen was one of only t...
Friday, August 30, 2013

3 Great Books by 3 Great Females

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Usually, when I am writing a book, I am so focused that I don't read other books during that period. This year, our Networks Against T...
Friday, January 11, 2013

The Most Multidisciplinary Supply Chain -- The Medical Nuclear Supply Chain -- Where Operations Research, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology All Meet

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Supply chains underpin our economy and are part of each and every industry. To model and solve supply chain problems, one often has to ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

When the Most Recent Time Feels as Good as the First Time -- Getting a Paper Accepted and Published

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I recently received an email message from a former doctoral student of mine that is the kind of message that is a keep-sake. It highlighted ...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Isaac Newton's Tree Lives On as Does the Academic Family Tree

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My husband, who has a PhD in physics from Brown University, shared with me today that department's annual 2011 newsletter and, in partic...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Our OpEd on Medical Nuclear Supply Chains Published Today

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It is important not only to do research but also to speak about it at conferences and at other forums. There are also topics that one may f...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Medical Nuclear Supply Chains -- Where Physics Meets Operations Research for Healthcare Security

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I came across an interesting presentation given to a pharmaceutical audience on medical nuclear supply chains in which my book, Supply Chain...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Wonderful Videos on the Science of Winter Sports, the Olympics, Thanks to NSF and NBC News

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The National Science Foundation, with NBC News, has produced a series of wonderful videos of winter sports , with a focus on last year's...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Mark Newman Speaks on Networks at UMass Amherst

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I attended a very enjoyable colloquium yesterday in the physics department at UMass Amherst given by Professor Mark Newman of the Universit...