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  • 1.  What should we read for the May INFORMS Book Club?

    Posted 03-20-2025 20:16

    Have you read an interesting book lately or is there one on your list that you've been looking forward to reading? If so, please share. We're looking for the next book for the INFORMS Book Club and would appreciate your suggestions. Either share the title here or email me. Once I receive a few suggestions, I'll send out a poll. Thank you and happy reading!



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    Jill Capello
    Membership Associate
    INFORMS
    Catonsville MD
    jcapello@informs.org
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  • 2.  RE: What should we read for the May INFORMS Book Club?

    Posted 03-22-2025 04:32
    Edited by Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber 03-22-2025 04:41
    Dear Dr. Capello,
    Dear Jill,
     
    Thank you very much for this inspiring and May-like refreshing incentive "What should we read for the May INFORMS Book Club?" to the entire OR-MS family worldwide. It also reminds us how important reading is for us, regardless of whether we are theorists or users of OR-MS.
     
    At this point, I would like to make three recommendations:
     
    (i) We at INFORMS and its many befriended OR societies are also in IFORS, which publishes its IFORS News four times a year (see https://www.ifors.org/category/newsletter/). Towards the end of each issue, there is a book review, including citation data for the book. You are welcome to browse through these issues and take a look at these reviews. I am happy to help you contact the authors by email if necessary.
     
    (ii) The book reviewed in the last IFORS News (March 2025 issue) was very special in terms of content:
     
    Maria Grazia Speranza, "Il Cognome Delle Donne", translated "The surname of women", Independently Published, April 2024; ISBN 13: 979-8323375776. 
     
    The upcoming June 2025 issue will also feature excellent contributions to the following book:
     
    Zilla Sinuany-Stern (Ed.), Handbook of Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74051-1.  
    (The authors of these two and other reviews are Prof. Jinal Parikh and myself.)
      
    (iii) My book "Times and Lives" is nearing completion.
     
    Sincere thanks again to you and the whole INFORMS team, which faithfully provides and maintains this useful and exciting discussion platform.
     
    With kind regards,
    best wishes,
    Willi (Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber)



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    Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
    Professor
    Poznan University of Technology
    Poznan
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  • 3.  RE: What should we read for the May INFORMS Book Club?

    Posted 03-22-2025 07:45

    Dear Jill,

    I second Professor Willi's recommendations. 

    In addition, this is to recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick 

    Kind regards and best wishes



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    Jinal Parikh
    Assistant Professor
    Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University
    Ahmedabad
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  • 4.  RE: What should we read for the May INFORMS Book Club?

    Posted 03-23-2025 13:51

    Hello Jill,

    Thanks for starting the thread.Here is a book recommendation;

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     A city on mars; can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through by Kelly Weinersmith 

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    Regards



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    Jayant Singh
    Analyst
    Oak Park IL
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