Tomorrow, Monday, Sep 12, 2022 from 01:00 to 02:00 (ET), we will be hosting a webinar in conjunction with INFORMS entitled Faster, Safer, Healthier: Adventures in OR.
The speaker for the webinar is Dr. Sommer Gentry, Professor of Population Health/Professor of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
While mathematical advances of all sorts have impacted our world for the better, operations research is a branch of mathematics that is expressly focused on applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. Operations researchers have eased traffic jams by closing selected streets, and gotten packages to you more quickly by planning UPS routes with fewer left turns. Operations researchers have shown which personal decisions are the leading causes of death, and planned maintenance schedules to minimize bridge collapses. The mathematical tools of operations research, like using random numbers to simulate a range of outcomes when some data are unknown, or finding clever algorithms that shortcut the need to try every possible decision in order to find the best one, can be recycled to solve problems everywhere in our world. In this talk, Professor Gentry will describe some of her O.R. forays into far-flung fields, and tell her favorite stories about O.R.
We hope you'll be able to join us.
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Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Email:
ggongora@cmu.edu------------------------------