Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Teaching Face to Face in the Pandemic - The First 3 Weeks

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It has been exciting, and quite interesting, to be back to teaching face to face at UMass Amherst in the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemi...
Monday, September 6, 2021

Our Research on the Inclusion of Labor into Supply Chain Networks

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On this Labor Day, September 6, 2021, I thought it appropriate to write this blogpost in celebration of labor in the pandemic. Indeed, the C...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

First Flights in the Pandemic and Impressions

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We returned from the West Coast at 1AM this morning from Seattle/Tacoma. I had not flown since the INFORMS Security Conference in beautiful ...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Thanks to All Who Made Our 2021 Dynamics of Disasters Conference a Success!

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The 5th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters has now come to a close. It was Professor Panos M. Pardalos who had the vision to ...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Busy Week with the EURO 2021 and the Dynamics of Disasters Conferences

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My Supernetworks group has been hard at work preparing for conferences that we will be speaking at. This Sunday the EURO 2021 Conference beg...
Monday, June 21, 2021

So Honored to Receive the Harold Larnder Prize from CORS (Canadian Operational Research Society)

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It has been a whirlwind past two weeks, beginning with the CORS 2021 Conference , which was virtual because of the pandemic, and at which I ...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Tracking Down Who Was the First Female Full Professor in OR in the World and Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

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In the past few days I have been quite busy and not just with the preparation of plenary talks for conferences this month and the writing of...