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OR 2024 - International Conference on Operations Research in Munich

By Rainer Kolisch posted 05-02-2024
OR 2024 - International Conference on Operations Research Jointly organized by the OR societies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and hosted by the Technical University of Munich. Conference Topic: Data, Learning, and Optimization Munich, Germany, September 3 - 6, 2024 https://or2024.de/ The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to May 15. PLENARY AND SEMI-PLENARY SPEAKERS =================================== PLENARY Speakers: Robert Bixby (Advisor and Co-founder Gurobi) Paul Klemperer ( Edgeworth Professor of Economics, University of Oxford) Dolores Romero Morales (Professor of Operations ...

Hidden Gems at the Informs 2024 Business Analytics Conference – data structures.

By Ken Fordyce posted 05-01-2024
The yearly INFORMS Business Analytics Conference is always packed full of highlights from the keynote speaker to the Edelman Competition to theme sessions to presentation of the Wagner wining paper (this year Intel’s The Sort-Assemble-Blend Routing Problem and its Application to Semiconductors). I always find hidden gems in the Vendor sessions on Sunday. Here I want to briefly highlight two of them. · Irv Lustig (Princeton Consultants): “Pandas for Analytics Practitioners, with Applications in Optimization · Frederic Gardi (Hexaly ): a New Kind of Global Optimization Solver Details about all of the sessions can be found ...

Six Essential Elements Of A Responsible AI Model

By Aaron Burciaga posted 04-01-2024
The United States is in a high-stakes global race to lead and innovate in artificial intelligence, and we can’t compete without making immediate, sweeping changes to our manpower management model. China is on track to reach its goal of AI technology dominance by 2030 — but while AI and data science roles are demonstrating rapid growth in almost every sector, the U.S is lagging far behind. At a high level, our problem isn’t hard to diagnose: we don’t have enough talent to fill existing AI positions, and our current system is too slow and monolithic to keep up with future developments. To catch up with foreign competition, we’ll need broader thinking, a bigger ...

Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University: Hiring Assistant Professors and Lecturer

By Lei Zhao posted 03-10-2024
The Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University invites applications for multiple positions, including tenure-track Assistant Professors and Lecturer in the areas of Fundamental Theory and Application in Optimization and Sustainability for Complex Industrial and Service Systems. The focuses include but not limited to: System intelligence and industrial computing; Human factors engineering and intelligent system interaction; digital engineering and its complex systems; Smart production and logistic systems; Smart healthcare service and sustainable systems. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree in IE or related areas by the date of appointment, ...

Intro to Computer Vision with Keras

By Meghana Kanthadai posted 01-31-2024
Hi Zihaan, I found this article about computer vision using Keras really interesting because it explained how computers learn to recognize things in images. It was cool to learn about Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and how they've evolved from basic versions like LeNet to more advanced ones like AlexNet. The article also talked about how important it is to choose the right settings for these networks, which are called hyperparameters, and how using pre-existing networks through transfer learning can help in new projects. As someone new to AI, I was intrigued by the use of specific datasets like CIFAR-10 for training these networks. It's not just about ...

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Call for Papers

By Margaret Wiecek posted 01-20-2024
Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget Guest Editors: Richard Allmendinger (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Serpil Sayin (Koç University, Turkey) Margaret M. Wiecek (Clemson University, United States) Submission deadline: September 30, 2024 Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is looking for studies that propose multiobjective optimization (MO) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) models, methods, and applications to problems featuring limited resources for decision making. Since MO and MCDA provide optimization-based tools to address decision-making problems under conflicting objectives, they have a myriad of applications ...

Message from the president Margaretha Gansterer

By Layla Martin posted 01-19-2024
Dear TSL members, I wish you a happy and healthy new year. I am looking forward to being the TSL President 2024. First, I want to thank the Past President, Alejandro Toriello, for being extremely helpful and efficient in the process of handing over the presidency to me. Supported by Incoming President Jen Pazour, Secretary and Treasurer Lavanya Marla, and Communications Chair Layla Martin, I will do my best to keep the society flourishing and of high value for all members. Several interesting TSL activities will take place in 2024. We will have the TSL Workshop in Nantes, chaired by Olivier Péton, from September 25 to 27. The topic of the workshop is ...

TSL Business Meeting 2023

By Layla Martin posted 10-23-2023
Like every year, we held our business meeting during the INFORMS Annual Meeting - meaning we got to visit Phoenix, Arizona, this year! We are happy to not only announce our new TSL officers, but also the winners of our awards! Following on Alejandro (2023) and Margaretha (2024), Jen Pazour will be our TSL president 2025. Congrats! Further, four SIGs voted for new vice-chairs (Reem Khir for Facilities, Jeff Ohlmann for Freight, Nikola Markovic for ITS, and Qi Luo for Urban) and three new international liaisons started their duty (Felipe Lagos for Americas, Changhyun Kwon for Asia/Oceania, and Shadi Sharif Azadeh for EAME). Yu Yang will become the new TSL ...

Photos of the TSL Conference 2023

By Layla Martin posted 08-07-2023
... and it's a wrap! TSL 2023 was a blast (once again), and I was so happy to see more than 200 transport enthusiasts in Chicago. A big thank-you goes to the organizers, headed by Sandra for the TSL conference committee and Mike from Loyola University. You turned this into an amazing conference! Also, we owe a big thank you to all sponsors which made this conference possible! Lastly, the conference would not have happened without so many speakers, and of course the many attendees! In total, we had over 150 presentations, two keynotes, and one tutorial. I believe I speak for everyone if I say that ...

TSL Cross Regional Grants 2023

By Jan Ehmke posted 07-13-2023
The application window is open for TSL Cross Regional Grants. These grants were created as part of our efforts to generate more collaboration across the four TSL regions (North America, Central and South America; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia, Australia, and New Zealand). The grants and application process are described below, with one grant aimed at doctoral students to study abroad and two others more broadly focused on driving collaborative research. Note that one Cross-regional Collaborative Grant is funded in partnership with VeRoLog . The deadline for submission is August 31, 2023. The awards will be announced at ...

Spotlight on: Matthias Soppert (Winner of the Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022)

By Layla Martin posted 06-29-2023
For many years, we have been selecting the best doctoral dissertation. Last year, Matthias Soppert from the University of the Armed Forces in Munich (Universität der Bundeswehr) won this prestigious award. Matthias currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at his Alma Mater and combines this position with frequent extended research stays, for example, to Portugal and Canada. TSL: What do you think is the best thing about transportation science? Matthias: The discipline of operations research offers plenty of challenging problems, and I believe that the joy of cracking these tough nuts is one of the main drivers for researchers in this ...

New book (free download) Sequential Decision Analytics and Modeling

By Warren Powell posted 06-01-2023
I am pleased to announce that my book Sequential Decision Analytics and Modeling: Modeling with Python (SDAM) is now available for free download from https://tinyurl.com/sdamodeling/ The print version is also available from the webpage at a discounted price of $50 (use the special code on the webpage). SDAM was written for my undergraduate course at Princeton University. It uses a teach-by-example style - with the exception of chapters 1 and 7, each chapter describes a different application using the same outline, making the book very easy to skim. The book is designed to illustrate a fundamentally different way of approaching and solving sequential ...

TSL Best Paper Award: Extended Deadline

By Layla Martin posted 05-31-2023
2023 TSL Best Paper Award – Call for Submissions Extended Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023 The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must be published in a refereed journal and present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research, analytics, and quantitative methods. An author can submit only one paper; in addition, no individual may be a co-author on more than two papers submitted to the competition. Eligibility Criteria A paper is eligible for the competition ...

Transportation Science Editorial Review Survey

By Layla Martin posted 04-19-2023
Dear Members of the TSL Community, Transportation Science is undergoing its regular editorial review. As part of this review, the TSL community has a chance to weigh in via the editorial review survey. It recently came to our attention that many members of the community did not get this message when it first went out. If you have not filled out the survey yet, you can do so via this link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CZJ5FK2 Note that the survey automatically tracks whether you have already answered it. The updated deadline to answer the survey is Friday, April 28. Best regards, Alejandro Toriello on behalf of the TS Editorial Review Committee

Spotlight on: Niels Agatz (Winner of the Stella Dafermos Award 2022)

By Layla Martin posted 04-04-2023
Last year, we introduced a new award for mid-career researchers, the Stella Dafermos award. Today, we want to introduce last year's winner, Niels Agatz. Niels is a professor of Last-Mile Supply Chain Analytics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Beyond serving as our treasurer at TSL and as an associate editor at TS, he is also the Scientific Director of the Dutch Institute of Advanced Logistics. TSL: Why did you go into transportation science? What was your path towards our field? Niels: I always liked mathematics in school, especially creatively solving word problems. Later, as an industrial engineering student, I was immediately attracted to courses ...

2023 J. Steinhardt Prize

By Gregory Parnell posted 04-02-2023
The J. Steinhardt Prize is sponsored by the CNA Corporation. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to military and security areas within operations research and is awarded for life work rather than for any particular contribution. The selection committee is composed primarily of previous award winners. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $2,000 honorarium. Nomination Process The nomination should include a dossier of the candidate's achievements and eligibility for the award and should be accompanied with a curriculum vita and/or a biography. Candidates may self-nominate or be nominated by a colleague. ...

Odysseus 2024

By Layla Martin posted 03-20-2023
First announcement for ODYSSEUS conference 2024 We are happy to announce that the ninth international workshop on freight transportation and logistics, ODYSSEUS 2024, will be held in Carmona (Spain) on May 20-24, 2024. ODYSSEUS workshops are among the leading scientific meetings for the development of the Logistics and Freight Transportation field. ODYSSEUS 202 4 will be the 9 th edition in the series of ODYSSEUS meetings after Crete 2000, Sicily 2003, Altea 2006, Çeşme 2009, Mykonos 2012, Ajaccio 2015 , Cagliari 2018 and Tangier 2021 (postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) . This international ...

Advertising DELORES23 - A writing workshop for early-career OR researchers

By Catherine Cleophas posted 03-20-2023
DELORES23 - A writing workshop for early-career OR researchers Publishing high-quality innovative research in OR is challenging. Early-career researchers and Ph.D. students often struggle to publish their papers in top OR journals. Rym M'Hallah, Professor of Systems Engineering at King's College London , and Udo Buscher, Professor of Industrial Management at TU Dresden are offering a new workshop to help early-career researchers work on their current papers in different areas of OR, including Scheduling, Packing, and Routing. It will provide them with good practices and essential writing skills. The workshop will provide step-by-step coverage of the ...