Dear OR/MS Community Members,
We are pleased to share with you the Fall/Winter 2020 edition of OR/MS Tomorrow!
Congratulations to the winners of our first-ever mini-poster competition! We have received very high-quality submissions globally on a wide variety of topics, ranging from evaluation planning for alternative fuel vehicles to parking assignment problems. The first place winning mini-posters in each group (PhD, master, and undergraduate) are published in this issue.
In this issue, we discuss a myriad of topics in different areas, including a system dynamic analysis on declining college enrollments, simulation-based optimization, a brief survey on well-known algorithms that changed the world, wind farm layout optimization, and the urban planning concept of a 20-minutes neighborhood.
Special thanks to Prof. Michael Bell for sharing his view on green urban logistics. We would also like to thank Mr. Mayank Batra for his time to discuss with us the supply chain strategies of Mint pharmaceutical during COVID-19.
We also spotlight the INFORMS student chapter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Last but not least, don't miss out on the information about competitions held by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)!
Submissions for the Spring/Summer 2021 issue are welcomed. Contact us via email at orms_tomorrow@mail.informs.org! We hope you enjoy the content.
You can find the issue here: www.informs.org/Publications/OR-MS-Tomorrow
OR/MS Tomorrow Team
Lead Editors: Amira Hijazi, Jessica Leung
Editorial Staff Writers: Srinivasan Balan, Egbe-Etu Etu, Abigail Lindner, Sepehr Ramyar, Piyal Sarkar, Elham Taghizadeh
Editorial Board Members: Bukola Bakare, Zulqarnain Haider, Kirby Ledvina, Breanna Swan
Webmasters: Xinglong Ju, Alyssa Maquiling
Social Media Coordinator: Yue Wang
Faculty Advisor: Prof. David Czerwinski
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Jessica Leung
PhD Student in Business Analytics
Co-lead editor, OR/MS Tomorrow at INFORMS
Lecturer/Unit Coordinator
Discipline of Business Analytics | Business School
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Australia
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