Welcome to INFORMS conference: don’t forget to visit TutORials
INFORMS conference is huge, and lots of sessions are competing for your time. However, if you are a doctoral student or a junior faculty member (or even a senior faculty member looking to upgrade tool set) I highly recommend attending one or more of the TutORials sessions, the schedule can be found here. TutORials are […]
Districting Talks at INFORMS
Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly interested in districting problems, so I was pleased to see a dozen talks on the subject at this year’s INFORMS. They span multiple application areas: political districting, police zone districting, and liver transplant districting. Sunday, October 20 Atlanta Police Zone Redesign via Data-Driven Optimization, Shixiang Zhu (SA32) […]
Welcome from the General Chair
Dear friends, Welcome to the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle! The Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel in the heart of downtown Seattle offer an excellent layout for this conference. They are located in a vibrant area near many restaurants and shops, not far from landmarks such as the Space Needle and the Pike Place Market. […]
Annual Meeting Newcomer Tips
How to get the most out of your first INFORMS Annual Meeting! Find Your Way Double check session location, if you’re giving a talk. Search the program online here or use the mobile app. There are also program kiosks on site, where you can look up session details. Session codes start with two letters. The […]
Approximation algorithms for dynamic pricing and assortment problems
The session started with Stephanus Jasin presenting their work on Multi-product Dynamic Pricing with Limited Inventories under a Cascade Click Model. Click through rates modelling even though popular in CS literature has not been addressed in the OM literature, where customer choice models are dominant modeling strategies. He focuses on the Cascade Click Model as […]
Thank You to Our Student Writers
Violet Chen is a third year Ph.D. student in the operations research program at the Tepper School Business of Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to graduate school, she finished undergraduate at Georgia Tech. Her ongoing research projects study modeling equity and efficiency in optimization, and inverse optimization via online learning. She is involved with the CMU INFORMS […]