The recent Conference on Optimization of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in Boston incorporated a birthday celebration for Professor Michael Todd. Read more
Microsoft and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have awarded ORIE Field Member Robert Kleinberg fellowships to design more robust adaptive systems for decision-making with limited information. Read more
The Supply and Demand Chain Executive magazine has designated Harpal Singh, Ph.D. '81 as a supply chain industry thought leader. Read more
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Professors Shane Henderson and Huseyin Topaloglu to work on techniques of optimization applicable to a broad class of problems, especially some arising in the delivery of emergency services. Read more
Professors Jackson and Henderson were named Professors of Year and Ph.D. students Huang, Nagarajan and Van Zuylen were each named Teaching Assistants of the Year at a May 13 awards luncheon. Read more
Several ORIE alumni attended the recent Cornell Engineering Alumni Association annual conference, with its theme of sustainable energy systems. They came away with a sense of urgency and a view that Operations Research can help. Read more
At the Research Forum, Seniors Caitlin Hawkins and Cindie Wu presented a poster describing their project to develop software that can be used to develop and test various staffing alternatives to vaccinate or treat a large population. Read more
A 2006 Master of Engineering project has enabled Foodnet's Meals on Wheels program to deliver meals on time while overcoming most of the increase in fuel costs. Read more
The Rice University professor and co-founder of CPLEX will give a series of lectures in April honoring Professor Ray Fulkerson and highlighting 'startling improvements' in the computation of optimal solutions to a broad class of mathematical models. Read more
Jay Tian has won $50,000 as the second place finisher in the third annual Interactive Brokers Collegiate Trading Olympiad. Tian developed software that automatically trades options on stocks and commodity futures. Read more
