Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Sunday, March 12, 2023

We Celebrated the Distinguished Career of Panos Pardalos at the PanOptiC Conference on Global Optimization at the University of Florida

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On March 9 and 10, 2023, the PanOptiC Conference on Global Optimization took place at the University of Florida Gainesville. The conference ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Becoming an Operations Research Newsmaker Through the Media

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A few years ago, at the INFORMS Charlotte conference, there was a terrific (I am a bit biased, I admit) panel entitled: Becoming an O.R./Ana...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

STEMing the Tide: Brilliant Lecture On How Female Experts and Peers Act as "Social Vaccines" to Protect Young Women's Self-Concept in STEM

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Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a Distinguished Faculty Lecture at UMass Amherst given by the experimental social psycho...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Fabulous STEM Slam Organized by the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter

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I just returned from a very exciting event organized by the award-winning UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. The event was a STEM (Sc...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Congrats to Recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from Obama

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I heard today the wonderful news that one of my UMass Amherst colleagues, Professor Sandra Petersen, is one of the fourteen recipients of th...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Networks: Energy, Cities and the Control of Complex Systems

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Last May, I had the pleasure of speaking in warm and beautiful Erice, Sicily on Sustainable Supply Chain Networks for Sustainable Cities , ...
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...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Blood Supply Chains and Great Journalists

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My suitcase is packed and I am pumped for two conferences in Italy and in Greece at which I will be presenting research with collaborators o...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Celebrating a Great Operations Researcher and Friend Professor Panos M. Pardalos

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Very soon the conference in honor of Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Fl...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Kafkaesque Operations Management and the Good Jobs Strategy

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Yesterday's Sunday New York Times was waving the flag for operations management and operations research and management science. In the...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Be an Advocate for Female Researchers

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I was (very) pleasantly surprised and pleased when the Editor of a journal in Operations Research recently approached me to suggest names of...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Investing in Science for Economic Growth and Our Future in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

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The power had gone out in our neighborhood last night in Amherst, Massachusetts at 8PM sharp. We had been expecting that it would, at some...