Ji Gu named Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cites Professor Ruppert for His Contribution to Her College Experience
December 3, 2007
Graduating senior Ji Gu was one of 36 Cornell Seniors honored last May together with the high school and university teachers who made important contributions in their lives. Read more
Advisory Council for Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan Holds Inaugural Meeting
November 28, 2007
The newly named ORIE office at 55 Broad Street, Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM), now has an Advisory Council of 13 financial industry luminaries. The Council met together for the first time on November 8 at the Cornell Club in New York. Read more
The Road to a Financial Engineering Masters Degree Begins in Ithaca and Leads Straight to Manhattan
November 26, 2007
Next fall, students in the Financial Engineering Concentration will move to New York City to complete their 3-semester program. Their capstone Financial Engineering project and final course work will take place at ORIE's CFEM near the Stock Exchange.
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ORIE Professor Publishes Best Seller
November 11, 2007
Sidney Resnick's new book. "Heavy-Tail Phenomena: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling", is number 14 on the best seller list.
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OR Pioneer Balinski Delivers Messenger Lectures on Representing, Electing and Ranking
September 27, 2007
Professor Balinski discussed the mathematics of some essential mechanisms for the regulation of human activity in one of Cornell's most prestigious university-wide lecture series. Read more
Director of IBM's Mathematical Sciences Division Promotes Operations Research in the Service Sector
September 11, 2007
INFORMS President Brenda Dietrich. ORIE Ph.D. '86, discussed accomplishments and opportunities for Operations Research in the business services industry at the ORIE Colloquium. Read more
ORIE Students Display Their Work at Research Showcase
September 11, 2007
Two ORIE projects were featured at the College of Engineering Reseearch Showcase on September 11 in the Duffield Atrium. The student researchers used posters to describe their work to industry representatives and fellow students. Read more
Adrian Lewis, David Williamson Win Teaching Award
September 5, 2007
Professors Adrian Lewis and David Williamson have received the 2006-7 Sonny Yau '72 Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award. Read more
Paul Klug, Managing Director and COO of Deutsche Asset Management Asia, opens the 2007 Enterprise Engineering Colloquium.
August 28, 2007
Paul Klug '73, Managing Director and COO of Deutsche Asset Management Asia, was the first speaker in the Enterprise Engineering Colloquium. He provided a perspective on the role of the asset or portfolio manager. Read more
New Financial Engineering Students Attend Orientation at OR-Manhattan
August 24, 2007
The School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) welcomed new students in the Financial Engineering Masters Concentration Aug. 16 at an orientation session designed to quickly immerse students in the real world of financial services. Read more
ORIE PhD Students' Paper on Viral Marketing Against a Competing Product is Nominated for a "Best Paper" Award
August 19, 2007
Tim Carnes, Chandra Nagarajan, Stefan Wild and Anke van Zuylen presented a paper on "Maximizing Influence in a Competitive Social Network: A Follower's Perspective" at the Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce in Minneapolis. Read more
Emergency Response Logistics Conference held at OR Manhattan
August 17, 2007
On Aug. 2-3, leading researchers discussed public health emergency response logistics at the Manhattan campus of Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering. Read more
Bloomberg Markets Magazine Profiles Robert Jarrow as "The Innovator"
August 1, 2007
In the August 2007 issue of Bloomberg Markets Peter Carr describes the history and mathematics of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model for valuing interest rate derivatives. Jarrow belongs to the field of OR and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Read more
Seth Cochran, BS '00, M. Eng. '02, climbs Kilimanjaro for Charity
July 26, 2007
With his climb Cochran, a financial manager for the telecomm manufacturer ADC, raised nearly $25,000 for The Smile Train, a charity that provides cleft palate and lip repair surgeries for children in underdeveloped countries. Read more
Kathryn Caggiano becomes Associate Director for M. Eng.
July 11, 2007
Kathryn Caggiano, who received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 1998, has returned to ORIE as Associate Director for the Master of Engineering program. Read more
Victoria Averbukh to Direct Financial Engineering Manhattan
July 11, 2007
Victoria Averbukh has been named the Director of Financial Engineering Manhattan, the educational and research center of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at 55 Broad Street in the Wall Street district of Manhattan. Read more
Cornell Hosts Twelfth Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
June 27, 2007
The conference, organized in Ithaca by Professor David Williamson, attracted scholars who work on the theory, computation and applications related to allocating scarce resources that can only be used in discrete (i.e. whole number) quantities. Read more