Experiencing the Annual Conference – Then and Now
As I was hunting for the Registration area today (4th floor for anyone who hasn’t checked in or registered yet), I couldn’t help comparing the experience with my first Annual conference as a PhD student (Houston, 2003). I had recently wrapped up my literature review and narrowed down my topic and my advisor encouraged me […]
BDD who??
There are several sessions at #informs2019 centered on decision diagrams (mainly binary decision diagrams, or BDDs). If you’re a user of integer programming (linear or nonlinear), and you’re not familiar with BDDs, you might want to hit one of the sessions just to get a sense of what they are and what they might be […]
Blockchain everywhere
I started working on the topic of blockchain technology a couple of years ago. At that time there were hardly any talks on blockchain, maybe 2-3 at the entire conference and even these were mostly informational. The tide is finally rising. A quick search yields 51 presentations with the word “blockchain” in it. A session […]
2019 INFORMS Case Competition
The finalists for the 2019 INFORMS Case Competition will present their cases for judging on Sunday, October 20, from 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM in the Virginia room of the Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel (1400 6th Avenue). From 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM, members of the team of Marie-Ève Rancourt, Émilie Dufour, Selene Silvestri, and […]
Pro Bono Analytics Micro Volunteer Event
Welcome to Seattle! I know your schedule is filled with interesting sessions and activities, but I want to encourage you to take a few minutes to participate in this year’s Pro Bono Analytics (PBA) micro volunteering event. To give back to our host city, PBA has teamed up with FareStart, a Seattle based nonprofit organization […]
INFORMS 2019 BINGO!
With over 6,000 attendees, 1862 presentations, and 351 sessions, there’s a lot to do at INFORMS 2019! Keep track of your activities and see how many times you can get a Bingo.
The O.R Dog That Did Not Bark
“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” “To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.” “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes. – Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze (1892). By Sidney Paget (1860-1908) – http://www.sshf.com/encyclopedia/index.php/The_Adventure_of_Silver_Blaze, Public Domain, Link In data […]
Sports Analytics and The Mixed Blessings of Success
Like several INFORMS members, my first interest and exposure to the usefulness of data was through sports. I enjoyed collecting sports cards as a child, and became enamored with trying to figure out which stats meant what, and whether a player was “good” or not. It has thus been quite satisfying to watch analytics become […]
Is your research “responsible”?
There are whopping 86 tracks at INFORMS this year which can easily disorient an attendee. As I decide which talks to attend at INFORMS, I increasingly gravitate to talks which fit into the framework of “responsible” research. This all started for me a few years back when 28 academics from across the fields and schools […]
Looking for an academic job at INFORMS conference? There is a resource that you should know…
Our academic job market is terrible: it always surprises me how operations people can be so inefficient when it comes to looking for academic jobs. Some schools interview at INFORMS conference, others don’t. Some schools decide to fly out candidates in October, other in March. Some schools use Interfolio, other ask for recommendation letters using […]