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RE: What games do you use in teaching?

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 12-21-2022 13:40
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Thanks for these great ideas, everyone! ------------------------------ Lawrence Snyder Professor Lehigh University Bethlehem PA lvs2@lehigh.edu ------------------------------

What games do you use in teaching?

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 12-15-2022 10:53
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Karmel Shehadeh (Lehigh), Luis Novoa (JMU), and I are working on a paper about using the Burrito Optimization Game in classes to introduce students to optimization. (I collaborated with Gurobi Optimization to develop the game. It's a free resource that anyone can use in learning about or teaching optimization. ...

Multiple health- and data-related positions at Lehigh University

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 10-12-2022 11:18
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The College of Health (COH) at Lehigh University is accepting applications for multiple faculty positions related to health and data science/analytics: Ellen and Vince Forlenza '75 Endowed Chair in Health Innovation & Technology (associate or full) Health Data Scientist--mHealth or Telehealth (associate ...

Python inventory package

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 06-27-2022 15:23
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Inventory-minded friends: I wanted to let you know about a Python package that I recently published for inventory optimization and simulation called stockpyl. It implements classical single-node inventory models like the economic order quantity (EOQ), newsvendor, and Wagner-Whitin problems. It also ...

REMINDER: INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper Award submissions due soon!

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 06-14-2022 10:20
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We invite applications for the first-ever INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper Award. The award honors outstanding papers on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and social justice-related issues using OR/MS methodologies and written by a student member. The prizes will be awarded at the 2022 INFORMS Annual ...

REMINDER: INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper Award submissions due soon!

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 06-14-2022 10:19
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Live-Stream Option Added: Lehigh workshop on ML+SCM

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 12-06-2021 16:38
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We have added a live-stream option for the Lehigh University I-DISC workshop on ML+SCM. Presentations will be live-streamed via Zoom webinar. Webinar participation is free, but registration is required at go.lehigh.edu/tripods. We hope you can join us in person, but if you can't, we'll be happy for you ...

Registration Deadline Extended: Lehigh University workshop on ML+SCM

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 11-30-2021 12:57
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Registration Deadline Extended to Monday, December 6! Register at go.lehigh.edu/tripods. --- Please join us for a workshop on Machine Learning and Supply Chain Management, hosted by Lehigh University's Institute for Data, Intelligent, Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) and supported by an NSF TRIPODS-X ...

Registration Deadline Extended: Lehigh University workshop on ML+SCM

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 11-30-2021 12:57
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Lehigh University workshop on Machine Learning + Supply Chain Management

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 11-15-2021 17:38
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Please join us for a workshop on Machine Learning and Supply Chain Management, hosted by Lehigh University's Institute for Data, Intelligent, Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) and supported by an NSF TRIPODS-X grant. The focus of this workshop is on the use of ML for prescriptive analytics within the ...

Lehigh University workshop on Machine Learning + Supply Chain Management

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 11-15-2021 17:38
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OR Stack Exchange site -- please help launch!

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 04-23-2019 20:05
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Dear INFORMS Friends, As you may know, there is an effort underway to launch a  Stack Exchange Q&A site for Operations Research , where users can post OR-related questions and other users can answer them. You might already know Stack Exchange's sites for programming (Stack Overflow), math, LaTeX, ...

Session on RL for Supply Chain Management: call for speakers

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 05-10-2018 11:31
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Dear colleagues, We are organizing a session on Reinforcement Learning for Supply Chain and Inventory Optimization in the Artificial Intelligence cluster at the INFORMS annual meeting. This session aims to discuss reinforcement learning applications related to the supply chain, such as inventory optimization, ...

Post-Doc Position at Lehigh: Computational Models of Infrastructure Systems

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 09-24-2015 09:17
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A postdoctoral position at the rank of Research Associate is available at Lehigh University. The successful candidate will have a background in one or more areas of: computational/computer science, civil and systems engineering as this NSF-funded project involves the integration of computational models ...

RE:how about an operations research commencement speech?

Posted By Lawrence Snyder 05-15-2014 20:53
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How about: "When others make decisions you don't agree with, it is often their constraints, and not their objective functions, that differ from yours." This is something I've been thinking about lately. What I mean is that we tend to assume that bad behavior is the result of ill-will, a lack of morals, ...