Podcasts about operational research

Bissan Ghaddar is the John M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership and Innovation and an Associate Professor of Management Science and Sustainability at the Ivey Business School working on problems at the intersection of machine learning and non-linear optimization. She is also affiliated with university of Waterloo and DTU. Bissan holds a PhD in Management Science from the University of Waterloo. Before joining academia, she worked on energy, water, and transportation network optimization at IBM Research and on inventory management problems at the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Department of National Defence Canada. Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Optimization, among others. Her research has been supported by national and international grants including NSERC, OCE, Cisco, H2020, and Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. She serves as the Research Lead at the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre and is a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, engaged in the research cluster on AI, Global Governance, and International Public Policy. She is the Associate Editor for the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization. She was recently awarded the best survey paper award at the EURO conference in Copenhagen and the Distinguished International Associate by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Dominique de Werra is an emeritus professor of Operations Research at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) in Switzerland. His research fields include Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, Scheduling and Timetabling. After spending a few years as an assistant professor in Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo (Canada) he joined the Math Department of EPFL. He conducted a collection of Operational Research projects (applied as well as theoretical) with a number of industrial partners. He is an associate editor of Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Annals of Operations Research and a member of a dozen of editorial boards of international journals. From 1990 to 2000 Dominique de Werra was the Vice-President of EPFL; he was in charge of the international relations and represented his institution in many academy networks in Europe (like the CLUSTER network of excellence which he chaired). He was also in charge of all education programs of EPFL. He was President of IFORS (the International Federation of Operational Research Societies) from 2010 to 2012. In 1987-1988 he was President of EURO, the European Association of Operational Research Societies. In 1985–1986 he was President of ASRO, the Swiss Operations Research Society. In 1995 he was the laureate of the EURO Gold Medal. He has obtained Honorary Degrees from the University of Paris, the Technical University of Poznan (Poland) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In 2012 he was awarded the EURO Distinguished Service Medal. He published over 200 papers in international scientific journals. He also wrote and edited several books. He was member of many committees in various countries of Europe and America (evaluation of institutions, accreditation, strategic orientation, etc.).

Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration has – through formal processes and also through extra-governmental extraordinary practices – triggered what many are calling a governmental and/or constitutional crisis. Dr. Christina Pagel has published two important Substack articles in which she groups the activities of the Trump administration into authoritarian and proto-authoritarian actions – and maps the opposition. Her unbelievable Venn diagram reveals which actions are being met with organized resistance – and which are being left unchallenged. She is a data hound – and her data not only clarifies what is happening in the United States but provides tools for those who wish to effectively oppose it in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Christina Pagel is Professor of Operational Research in Health Care, University College London. Operational Research is a pragmatic branch of mathematics to help people solve real-life problems. She is a member of Independent SAGE providing accessible updates on the national and international Covid-19 situation since May 2020. She has published in public-facing venues such as The Conversation and her free Substack, Diving into Data & Decision making. You can follow her on social media. Mentioned in the podcast: Christina's 2/13/25 Substack, "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (categorizing 76 Trump administration actions and demonstrating how they align with authoritarianism). Christina's 2/17/25 Substack, How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration (showing how Blue states, labor organizations, and civil rights groups are doing the most – and what can be learned from them). The Just Security's Litigation Tracker based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Vox's 2/12/25 Unexplainable podcast, “Is Science in Danger?” (20 minutes) Noam Hassenfeld interviewing Derek Dowe (chemist/science writer) Transcript or podcast. Susan's interview with Corey Brettschneider on his new Norton book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration has – through formal processes and also through extra-governmental extraordinary practices – triggered what many are calling a governmental and/or constitutional crisis. Dr. Christina Pagel has published two important Substack articles in which she groups the activities of the Trump administration into authoritarian and proto-authoritarian actions – and maps the opposition. Her unbelievable Venn diagram reveals which actions are being met with organized resistance – and which are being left unchallenged. She is a data hound – and her data not only clarifies what is happening in the United States but provides tools for those who wish to effectively oppose it in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Christina Pagel is Professor of Operational Research in Health Care, University College London. Operational Research is a pragmatic branch of mathematics to help people solve real-life problems. She is a member of Independent SAGE providing accessible updates on the national and international Covid-19 situation since May 2020. She has published in public-facing venues such as The Conversation and her free Substack, Diving into Data & Decision making. You can follow her on social media. Mentioned in the podcast: Christina's 2/13/25 Substack, "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (categorizing 76 Trump administration actions and demonstrating how they align with authoritarianism). Christina's 2/17/25 Substack, How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration (showing how Blue states, labor organizations, and civil rights groups are doing the most – and what can be learned from them). The Just Security's Litigation Tracker based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Vox's 2/12/25 Unexplainable podcast, “Is Science in Danger?” (20 minutes) Noam Hassenfeld interviewing Derek Dowe (chemist/science writer) Transcript or podcast. Susan's interview with Corey Brettschneider on his new Norton book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration has – through formal processes and also through extra-governmental extraordinary practices – triggered what many are calling a governmental and/or constitutional crisis. Dr. Christina Pagel has published two important Substack articles in which she groups the activities of the Trump administration into authoritarian and proto-authoritarian actions – and maps the opposition. Her unbelievable Venn diagram reveals which actions are being met with organized resistance – and which are being left unchallenged. She is a data hound – and her data not only clarifies what is happening in the United States but provides tools for those who wish to effectively oppose it in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Christina Pagel is Professor of Operational Research in Health Care, University College London. Operational Research is a pragmatic branch of mathematics to help people solve real-life problems. She is a member of Independent SAGE providing accessible updates on the national and international Covid-19 situation since May 2020. She has published in public-facing venues such as The Conversation and her free Substack, Diving into Data & Decision making. You can follow her on social media. Mentioned in the podcast: Christina's 2/13/25 Substack, "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (categorizing 76 Trump administration actions and demonstrating how they align with authoritarianism). Christina's 2/17/25 Substack, How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration (showing how Blue states, labor organizations, and civil rights groups are doing the most – and what can be learned from them). The Just Security's Litigation Tracker based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Vox's 2/12/25 Unexplainable podcast, “Is Science in Danger?” (20 minutes) Noam Hassenfeld interviewing Derek Dowe (chemist/science writer) Transcript or podcast. Susan's interview with Corey Brettschneider on his new Norton book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration has – through formal processes and also through extra-governmental extraordinary practices – triggered what many are calling a governmental and/or constitutional crisis. Dr. Christina Pagel has published two important Substack articles in which she groups the activities of the Trump administration into authoritarian and proto-authoritarian actions – and maps the opposition. Her unbelievable Venn diagram reveals which actions are being met with organized resistance – and which are being left unchallenged. She is a data hound – and her data not only clarifies what is happening in the United States but provides tools for those who wish to effectively oppose it in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Christina Pagel is Professor of Operational Research in Health Care, University College London. Operational Research is a pragmatic branch of mathematics to help people solve real-life problems. She is a member of Independent SAGE providing accessible updates on the national and international Covid-19 situation since May 2020. She has published in public-facing venues such as The Conversation and her free Substack, Diving into Data & Decision making. You can follow her on social media. Mentioned in the podcast: Christina's 2/13/25 Substack, "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (categorizing 76 Trump administration actions and demonstrating how they align with authoritarianism). Christina's 2/17/25 Substack, How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration (showing how Blue states, labor organizations, and civil rights groups are doing the most – and what can be learned from them). The Just Security's Litigation Tracker based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Vox's 2/12/25 Unexplainable podcast, “Is Science in Danger?” (20 minutes) Noam Hassenfeld interviewing Derek Dowe (chemist/science writer) Transcript or podcast. Susan's interview with Corey Brettschneider on his new Norton book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration has – through formal processes and also through extra-governmental extraordinary practices – triggered what many are calling a governmental and/or constitutional crisis. Dr. Christina Pagel has published two important Substack articles in which she groups the activities of the Trump administration into authoritarian and proto-authoritarian actions – and maps the opposition. Her unbelievable Venn diagram reveals which actions are being met with organized resistance – and which are being left unchallenged. She is a data hound – and her data not only clarifies what is happening in the United States but provides tools for those who wish to effectively oppose it in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Christina Pagel is Professor of Operational Research in Health Care, University College London. Operational Research is a pragmatic branch of mathematics to help people solve real-life problems. She is a member of Independent SAGE providing accessible updates on the national and international Covid-19 situation since May 2020. She has published in public-facing venues such as The Conversation and her free Substack, Diving into Data & Decision making. You can follow her on social media. Mentioned in the podcast: Christina's 2/13/25 Substack, "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (categorizing 76 Trump administration actions and demonstrating how they align with authoritarianism). Christina's 2/17/25 Substack, How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration (showing how Blue states, labor organizations, and civil rights groups are doing the most – and what can be learned from them). The Just Security's Litigation Tracker based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Vox's 2/12/25 Unexplainable podcast, “Is Science in Danger?” (20 minutes) Noam Hassenfeld interviewing Derek Dowe (chemist/science writer) Transcript or podcast. Susan's interview with Corey Brettschneider on his new Norton book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration has – through formal processes and also through extra-governmental extraordinary practices – triggered what many are calling a governmental and/or constitutional crisis. Dr. Christina Pagel has published two important Substack articles in which she groups the activities of the Trump administration into authoritarian and proto-authoritarian actions – and maps the opposition. Her unbelievable Venn diagram reveals which actions are being met with organized resistance – and which are being left unchallenged. She is a data hound – and her data not only clarifies what is happening in the United States but provides tools for those who wish to effectively oppose it in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Christina Pagel is Professor of Operational Research in Health Care, University College London. Operational Research is a pragmatic branch of mathematics to help people solve real-life problems. She is a member of Independent SAGE providing accessible updates on the national and international Covid-19 situation since May 2020. She has published in public-facing venues such as The Conversation and her free Substack, Diving into Data & Decision making. You can follow her on social media. Mentioned in the podcast: Christina's 2/13/25 Substack, "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (categorizing 76 Trump administration actions and demonstrating how they align with authoritarianism). Christina's 2/17/25 Substack, How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration (showing how Blue states, labor organizations, and civil rights groups are doing the most – and what can be learned from them). The Just Security's Litigation Tracker based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Vox's 2/12/25 Unexplainable podcast, “Is Science in Danger?” (20 minutes) Noam Hassenfeld interviewing Derek Dowe (chemist/science writer) Transcript or podcast. Susan's interview with Corey Brettschneider on his new Norton book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artur Pessoa is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from PUC-Rio and master's and doctoral degrees in Informatics from the same institution. His research interests focus on developing insightful approaches to solving optimization problems in general. Artur has contributed to designing solution methods based on integer programming, column generation, dynamic programming, branch-and-bound, and related techniques to tackle combinatorial, bilevel, robust, and other optimization problems. He is one of the key figures behind several state-of-the-art exact algorithms for vehicle routing, scheduling, and generalized quadratic assignment problems. He has published papers in prestigious journals like Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, Theoretical Computer Science, SIAM Journal on Computing, Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, among others. Artur was honored with the best doctoral dissertation award from the Brazilian Computer Society and has twice won the best paper award at the Brazilian OR Symposium. In addition, he received the 2017 Best Paper Prize from the journal Mathematical Programming Computation, and the 2022 Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award from INFORMS. Artur is one of the developers of the VRPSolver package and the Coluna branch-cut-and-price framework. He is also a co-author of the recent book “Optimizing with Column Generation”, written in collaboration with Eduardo Uchoa and Lorenza Moreno.

Unlock the secrets of sales leadership and discover the power of tenacity with Sylvain Jacob, Vice President of Sales at MicroServe. Listen as Sylvain takes us on his inspiring journey from a paperboy to leading a dynamic sales team in the competitive IT services industry. You'll learn invaluable lessons on understanding customer needs, building partnerships with OEMs, and the sheer joy of acquiring new customers, as well as navigating the challenges of payment collections.    Sylvain shares his conscious transition from a high-performing individual contributor to a leadership role, underscoring the pivotal role of mentorship. Gain insight into how coaching and guidance helped him overcome initial setbacks and develop his leadership skills. This episode emphasizes the importance of mentoring within organizations and through external programs, demonstrating the rewarding experience of guiding new graduates and the broader cultural impact of giving back to the community.   We'll also explore the entrepreneurial culture at MicroServe, where autonomy and long-term relationships are key. Sylvain explains how the company avoids micromanagement and embraces a performance-driven yet flexible environment. Learn about the benefits of being privately owned, promoting from within, and the strategic importance of engaging early in the sales cycle. Don't miss Sylvain's insights on CRM management and the exciting future plans for optimizing sales processes at MicroServe.  Sylvain Jacob is a dynamic sales and management executive with a strong foundation in IT solutions and strategic partnerships across Canadian enterprise and public sectors. With a Bachelor of Business Administration in Operational Research from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, he began his career at Hewlett Packard and advanced to VP of Sales at Microserve. Known for his communication, business analysis, and strategic thinking skills, Sylvain consistently exceeds sales goals by fostering long-term relationships and uncovering new opportunities. He is bilingual, fluent in English and French.   Quotes: "Sales starts with a 'no.' It's about finding the customer's pain point and having the tenacity to keep the conversation going until you can help them."   "Leadership skills are honed over time, not innate. My journey from an individual contributor to a leadership role was guided by valuable mentorship."   "It's not all about you; it's about the value you provide to the organization. Shift your perspective and think about how you can deliver value."    Links:    Sylvain's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvainjacob1/   Microserve - https://www.microserve.ca     Get this episode and all other episodes of Sales Lead Dog at https://empellorcrm.com/salesleaddog  

Marielle Christiansen is a professor of Operations Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is head of the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management with more than 230 employees. Her primary research interests concern development and implementation of optimization models and methods for industry related planning problems as regards transportation, logistics, and production. She is particularly interested in applications where maritime transportation and supply chain challenges are considered and has been involved in a number of shipping industry – sponsored projects. Her research within maritime transportation has resulted in numerous papers in journals like Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Naval Research and Logistics, OMEGA, Networks, Transportation Research part C as well as Transportation Science. Furthermore, she has contributed with several surveys within maritime transport optimization in general and within combined inventory management and routing and fleet composition and routing in particular. She has been involved in the organization of several international conferences such as TRISTAN VII (Triennial symposium on transportation analysis), Tromsø, Norway, 2010, EURO-XXV, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012 (Programme Committee Chair), and VeRoLog (Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization), Oslo, Norway (2014).

In this episode I converse with to two special guests in relation to an exciting new European project that has just got underway sponsored by CEDR (the Conference of the European Directors of Roads) that is focused on developing recommendations for policies in relation to Intelligent Access to the road networks of Europe.Intelligent Access or IA is an approach that seeks to match the performance and characteristics of road freight vehicles with the state and capability of specific sections of the road infrastructure.The project work is being undertaken by a consortium called ISAC (Intelligent Surface Access Community) which is made up of several specialist companies with expertise in various aspects of road transport, logistics, supply chain and infrastructure. The project is funded by five European countries - the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Ireland.The ISAC consortium is led by the multinational engineering firm AECOM and indeed our two guests today are from AECOM and they are:John Hix: Head of AECOM's Freight and Logistics Team.Scott Stephenson: Associate Director of Operational Research focused on Transport. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can military training in international humanitarian law (IHL) lead to greater adherence to IHL and increased protection for civilians in war? In this post, Andrew Bell, a researcher in the ICRC's Centre for Operational Research and Experience (CORE), outlines recent findings from his work reviewing results from U.S. Army surveys on the effects of IHL training on combatant views and behaviour in war. He demonstrates that training in IHL and norms of restraint can achieve significant effects in military forces, shaping both combatant attitudes and behaviour and generating more restraint in battlefield operations.

Erdem Özcan is an esteemed expert with a rich background in computer science, focusing on innovations in AI. With a PhD in computer science and significant industry experience, including work on IBM's Watson and at Elemental Cognition, Dr. Özcan has been at the forefront of blending symbolic AI and deep learning systems. Today, he is actively engaged in developing solutions that enhance the reliability and explainability of AI applications.Tune in to this enlightening conversation and gain deeper insights into the future trajectories and current challenges within the world of artificial intelligence as explained by one of the leading thinkers in the field.Key takeaways:- Symbolic vs. Statistical AI: Erdem discusses the critical differences and applications of symbolic AI versus statistical methods, emphasizing the need for reliably representing concepts for efficient AI outcomes.- The Role of Cogent English: Insight into how Cogent, a platform developed by Erdem, assists in translating complex business knowledge into APIs and conversational interfaces using a subset of English tailored for formal reasoning.- Challenges in Generative AI: Exploration of issues that arise with generative AI, particularly around reliability and the operational deployment of reasoning systems.- Development of Neurosymbolic AI: Erdem predicts a significant shift towards hybrid AI architectures that combine both symbolic and deep learning approaches to handle real-life complex scenarios more efficiently.- Importance of Explainability in AI: A discussion on why explainability and the ability to audit AI decisions are crucial, especially as AI systems become more integrated into critical decision-making processes.- Comparison of Formal Reasoning Systems and LLMs: Erdem explains why formal reasoning systems can be more reliable than large language models (LLMs) in complex problem-solving scenarios.Quote from the show:"Translating human expertise into AI systems is not just about feeding data into algorithms. It's about creating structures that allow machines to reason and make decisions transparently and reliably." – Erdem ÖzcanLinks:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aerdemozcan/Website: https://ec.ai/Ways to Tune In:Earley AI Podcast: https://www.earley.com/earley-ai-podcast-home Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1586654770 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5nkcZvVYjHHj6wtBABqLbE?si=73cd5d5fc89f4781 iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-earley-ai-podcast-87108370/ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/earley-ai-podcast Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/18524b67-09cf-433f-82db-07b6213ad3ba/earley-ai-podcast Buzzsprout: https://earleyai.buzzsprout.com/ Thanks to our sponsors: CMSWire Earley Information Science AI Powered Enterprise Book

Dr. Maia Dorsett and our newest PEC Podcast member, Dr. Rachel Stemerman, explore the manuscript A National Assessment of EMS Performance at the Response and Agency Level  with the authors Michael Redlener MD Medical Director of Emergency Medicine Mount Sinai West & Remle Crowe PhD Director of Clinical and Operational Research at ESO Click here to download it today! Please visit NEMSQA.org for more information to improve the experience and outcomes of patients and care providers. As always THANK YOU for listening. Hawnwan Philip Moy MD (@pecpodcast) Scott Goldberg MD, MPH (@EMS_Boston) Jeremiah Escajeda MD, MPH (@jerescajeda) Joelle Donofrio-Odmann DO (@PEMems) Maia Dorsett MD PhD (@maiadorsett) Lekshmi Kumar MD, MPH(@Gradymed1) Greg Muller DO (@DrMuller_DO) Ariana Weber MD (@aweberMD4) Rebecca Cash PhD (@CashRebeccaE) Michael Kim MD (@michaelkim_md) Rachel Stemerman PhD (@steminformatics) Nikolai Arendovich MD Elijah Robinson MD

On today's show, Clare Pain discusses her journey into health freedom and the threats of the WHO's plans. GUEST OVERVIEW: Clare Pain is a medical journalist and science writer with over a decade's experience of writing for doctors and the general public. After two years studying Medicine, Clare completed a Chemistry degree, followed by a Masters in Operational Research. She then worked for 8 years in industry in the UK as a statistician. Clare turned to science writing and medical journalism in 2011 and in the past year has been focusing on excess deaths both overseas and in Australia.

Emilio Carrizosa is Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research in the University of Seville, Spain. His research interests include: Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Data Science (Explainable and Fair Machine Learning, Supervised Classification and Regression), Mathematical Optimization and Operations Research (Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, Global Optimization, Vector Optimization). He is President of math-in, the Spanish Network of Industrial Mathematics (2021-), President of PET MSO-ED, the Spanish Platform for Technologies of Modelling, Simulation and Optimization in a Digital Environment (2023-), and has served as Director of IMUS, the Mathematical Institute of the University of Seville, President of SEIO, the Spanish Statistics and OR Society, and Editor-in-Chief of TOP, the Spanish OR journal. He has (Scopus: 18.10.23) 147 publications with 1,848 citations (819 in the period 2019-2023), yielding an h-index: 25. He has papers in top journals in the area Operations Research and Management Science: Operations Research (2), Mathematical Programming (6), Management Science (1), Mathematics of Operations Research (4), Omega (4), European Journal of Operational Research (25), Computers & OR (21). Due to his interdisciplinary research, he has also published indisciplines beyond OR: Statistics and Probability (Biostatistics, ADAC, CSDA, J Multivariate Analysis, J of Applied Probability), Energy (Applied Energy, Solar Energy, International Journal of Energy Research), Chemical Engineering (Computers & Chemical Engineering, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research), Hydrology (J of Hydrology). The Spanish Research Agency has acknowledged 5 research periods (5 sexenios de investigación): 1990-95, 1996-01, 2002-07, 2008-13, 2014-19. He has supervised 14 PhD Theses (plus 4 ongoing in the University of Seville), three of them have been awarded various national and international prizes: Vanesa Guerrero (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado Universidad de Sevilla, Research Award Vicent Caselles RSME-FBBVA, Research Award Ramiro Melendreras SEIO 2018), M. Asunción Jiménez-Cordero (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado Universidad de Sevilla), Cristina Molero-Rı́o (Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award 2022). For his research activity, he has received awards such as the Excellence FAMA Award 2020 (branch: Sciences) in the University of Seville, the Award Academia Sevillana de Ciencias for young researchers (1998) and the Doc2toral Award in the PhD in Mathematics in the University of Seville (1993). He is involved in Transfer of Knowledge activities. He has been leading researcher in industrial projects and contracts in applications of OR to different sectors: Energy (Repsol, Abengoa, TSK Flagsol), Health (UDX), Logistics (Azur Global Business SL), Information Technologies (Junta de Andalucı́a), and also participating in contracts on Environment (Junta de Andalucı́a), Smart cities (IMESAPI), Logistics (Portel). Since 2022 he is Scientific Advisor of the OR-IA company OGA. The Spanish Research Agency has acknowledged 1 transfer of knowledge period (1 sexenio de transferencia): -2013. He has an intense activity of outreach, participating in debates and interviews in tv, radio and newspapers on industrial mathematics and teaching mathematics.

Today I am joined by Seb Hargreaves, the Executive Director of the Operational Research Society (ORS). Seb talks about the recent highlights in the journey of supporting strategic decision making using scientific methods. There is great news. Some of the society's journals are becoming open access, meaning that it will be much easier for busy professionals to access full text papers. We talk about the amazing work of pro-bono within the society. This has enabled 3rd sector organisations to request professional help from the society's members in making strategic decisions.  Seb talks about having a strategic review performed on the ORS, using the tools of Operational Research and how this has helped to align the society with the ever-changing external environment. The review has also provided an independent perspective on ways that the society can enhance its decision making, and where the society can focus strategically and operationally. Following on from the review Seb talks about re-branding, and some re-positioning in the journey that will ensure that the ORS is fit for the future. As well as being the professional society for decision making, the society itself is also an evolving enterprise. 

Thomas Stützle is a research director of the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS (National Science Foundation) working at the IRIDIA laboratory of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He received the Diplom (German equivalent of MSc. degree) in business engineering from the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany in 1994, and his PhD and habilitation in computer science both from the Computer Science Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He has co-authored three books among which are “Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications” (Morgan Kaufmann) and “Ant Colony Optimization” (MIT Press), both being the main references in their respective areas. His other publications include more than 250 articles in journals, international conferences or edited books many of which are highly cited. In fact, his research contributions received so far more than 60,000 citations in Google Scholar and his h-index is 84. His main research interests are in stochastic local search algorithm, swarm intelligence, multi-objective optimization, and automatic design of algorithms. He is probably best known (i) for his contributions to early advancements in ant colony optimization including algorithms such as Max-Min Ant System, (ii) the establishment of algorithmic frameworks for iterated local search and iterated greedy, and (iii) as a driving force in the advancement of automatic algorithm configuration techniques and their usage in the automatic design of high-performing algorithms. He received seven best paper awards from conferences and his 2002 GECCO paper on “A Racing Algorithm for Configuring Metaheuristics” received the 2012 SIGEVO impact award. He is an Associate Editor of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, International Transactions in Operational Research, and Swarm Intelligence and on the editorial board of seven other journals. He is also frequently involved in international conferences and workshops with program or organizational responsibilities. In 2018, Thomas suffered a stroke that affected, among other things, his ability to remember words, but he has improved a lot and he is now working full time again.

David was exposed to West Point early and often in his childhood. His Father was a Class of 1974 Graduate and David remembers posing for pictures on cannons on campus in a yellow West Point t-shirt. David's father and grandfather didn't push West Point on him, but their pride in service and their family history heavily influenced his views. David was a competitor and a perfectionist. Sports, academics, and extracurricular activities were areas he constantly pushed and sought to measure himself against. David maximized the opportunities provided in a small school with a graduating class of 32, but the transition to West Point was big. Beast and the beginning of Freshman year tested David, but his work ethic and competitive nature combined with close friendships helped him grow through the challenges. David would build strong relationships and strong memories at West Point, first as a Cadet in Intramurals and as “A-Man” during sport events and later as an assistant professor in systems engineering. David would commission as an Aviation officer and serve overseas in Afghanistan with his civilian wife, before transitioning to becoming an Operational Research and System Analyst Officer. David explains the motivation behind his transition and his experience at West Point as an assistant professor and as an ORSA before his recent retirement and his current position doing sports analytics in support of the NFL. This is his story. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joe-harrison0/support

To help mitigate climate change the UK government has pledged to decarbonised UK electricity supply by 2035. That's a huge science and engineering challenge on a very tight deadline. In this episode we talk to two people who know all about the challenges involved: Chris Dent, Professor of Industrial Mathematics, and Lars Schewe, Reader in Operational Research, both of the University of Edinburgh. Both helped to organise an intensive two week "deep dive" workshop on the Mathematics and statistics for low carbon energy systems earlier this year as part of a longer research programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge. Chris and Lars tell us why decarbonising the energy network also resents huge mathematical challenges — and why the effort isn't unlike the Apollo mission that got people to the Moon in the 1960s. You can read more about the topic discussed in this episode in this article. This content was produced as part of our collaboration with the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) – you can find all the content from the collaboration here. The INI is an international research centre and our neighbour here on the University of Cambridge's maths campus. It attracts leading mathematical scientists from all over the world, and is open to all. Visit www.newton.ac.uk to find out more.  

The Covid-19 inquiry is nowhere near halfway through, but already we've learned a lot. But there's been so much to learn about how our government worked (or didn't) during the pandemic that it's been a little hard to comprehend. So before we hear the likes of Patrick Valance give evidence Alex Andreou sat down in the Bunker with Prof. Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research at UCL, to explain 7 key moments that we've seen so far and why they're so important to notice. “How can we change the way that we do politics so we have serious people in charge?…I feel like we've not had that in years?” – Prof. Christina Pagel. “We're really good at collecting stuff – we're really bad at acting on it.” – Prof. Christina Pagel. “I find it incredible there were no safety precautions in number 10, and I find it incredible how little attention it's had.” – Alex Andreou. “If you talk to people on that frontline they were absolutely overwhelmed… and they're still recovering.” – Prof. Christina Pagel. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by: Chris Jones. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harshita Khanna was appointed as the Chief People Officer at Home Credit India in June 2021. She has been with Home Credit India since 2015 and was heading the compensation & benefits and Rewards vertical. In her current role, she is responsible for people strategy including talent acquisition and management, employee lifecycle management, HR digitalization, Reward Strategy, performance management and internal communication. A seasoned HR professional, Harshita brings 15 years of rich experience, driving various facets of Performance Excellence in India and International markets across diverse industries. Her core expertise includes Rewards and Performance management, Merger & Acquisition, Succession Planning, Business Partnering, Talent Management and development and HR digitalization. Prior to Home Credit, Harshita has worked with large multinational corporations such as Computer Science Corporation, Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd and AON Hewitt, serving diverse national and international HR mandates for these brands. Harshita has many certifications and accolades to her credit namely Certified AON Hewitt Performance Management expert, Certified CIPD Organizational Design Professional, MEHR'S-Certified OD Analyst, MEHR's Certified Psychometric Test Professional. She has been awarded ‘Knowledge Builder of the Year Award - 2010' in AON Hewitt, nominated as TCC Strategic Lead for Asia-Pacific Region by Regional and Global Leaders in AON Hewitt, nominated for CIPD training on successful completion of European Regulatory In-Home Credit India Finance Pvt to name a few.  Harshita holds a Master's degree in Operational Research and has completed Bachelors in Mathematics Honors from University of Delhi. She is an avid traveler and is determined to build on her strengths of being analytical & self-driven, continuously drive for accurate process improvement with a focus on training and knowledge-sharing.

Paolo Toth is "Professor Emeritus" of “Operations Research” at DEI: (Department of Electrical and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, A.D. 1088), where he was Full Professor from 1983 to 2011. His research interests include Operations Research and Mathematical Programming methodologies and, in particular, the design and implementation of effective exact and heuristic algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Theory problems, and their application to real-world Transportation, Logistics, Loading, Routing, Crew Management, Railway Optimization problems. He is author of more than 190 papers published in international journals and of the book "Knapsack Problems: Algorithms and Computer Implementations" (coauthor S. Martello; J. Wiley, 1990). He is also Co-editor of the books "The Vehicle Routing Problem" (SIAM Monographs on Discrete Mathematics and Applications, 2002) and "Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods and Applications” (MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization, 2014). He was President of EURO (Association of the European Operational Research Societies) for the period 1995-1996, and President of IFORS (International Federation of the Operational Research Societies) for the period 2001-2003. He acted as Chair of the Program Committee for the Triennial IFORS Conference in 1999. He received several international awards, among which: the "EURO Gold Medal" (the highest distinction within Operations Research in Europe) in 1998; the "Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science" (from INFORMS) in 2005; the "INFORMS Fellowship" in 2016; the “EURO Distinguished Service Award” in 2019; the "IFORS Fellowship" in 2020. In May 2003, the University of Montreal conferred him a "Doctorate honoris causa" in Operational Research. In October 2012, at the INFORMS Annual Meeting), he delivered the “IFORS Distinguished Plenary Lecture”; in July 2023, at the IFORS Triennial Conference, he delivered the “EURO Plenary Address”. He supervised more than 200 master theses, 25 PhD students from 6 different countries, and 16 Post-Docs.

Haroldo Gambini Santos is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.com. For 10+ years he was a Professor at the Computer Science department of Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. In 2018-2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the CS department of KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on algorithms and models for combinatorial optimization problems. In 2019 he won the COIN-OR Cup award for his contributions to the CBC mixed-integer linear optimization software. In 2012 his team won the Second International Timetabling Competition. From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the COIN-OR Foundation Technical Leadership Council. He authored several papers on prestigious operations research journals such as Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Scheduling among others. Haroldo is the co-creator of Python-MIP.

Gilbert Laporte is Professor Emeritus at HEC Montréal. He obtained his Ph.D. in Operational Research at the London School of Economics in 1975. He was Professor of Operational Research at HEC Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management until August 2020. He is now Professor at the School of Management of the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and Professor II at Molde University College, Norway. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, and Distinguished Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) and founding member of the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD). He has been Editor of Transportation Science, Computers & Operations Research and INFOR. He has authored or coauthored more than 20 books and 600 scientific articles in combinatorial optimization, mostly in the areas of vehicle routing, location, districting and timetabling. Gilbert Laporte has received many scientific awards including the Pergamon Prize (UK) in 1987, the 1994 Award of Merit from the Canadian OR Society (CORS), and the CORS Practice Prize on four occasions. In 1999, he obtained the Jacques-Rousseau Prize for Interdisciplinarity from the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas), and the President's Medal from the Operational Research Society (UK). In 2001, he was awarded the Grand Prize for Teaching Excellence by HEC Montréal. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1998, and a Fellow of INFORMS since 2005. In 2005, he was the co-winner of the Glover-Klingman Prize. In 2007 he was awarded the Innis-Gérin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. In 2009 he received the Gérard-Parizeau Award, he was inducted as the 42nd Honorary Member of the INFORMS International Omega Rho Society, and he received the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science from the Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS. In 2012, he won the Pierre-Laurin Award from HEC Montréal for his overall career research achievements. In 2014, he was the co-winner of the FICO Global “Optimize the Real World” contest and he received the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award from the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis. In 2016 the Eindhoven University of Technology awarded him a Doctorate honoris causa and he received the Acfas Urgel-Archambault Prize in physical sciences, mathematics, computer science or engineering. He obtained the FRQNT 2016-2017 Excellence Award. In 2018, he received a Doctorate honoris causa from the Université de Liège, as well as the Marie-Victorin prize awarded by the Quebec government to a researcher in engineering or natural sciences. He also became a member of the Order of Canada. In 2019, he was elected international member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA) and he became a fellow of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization. In 2020 he was named Member Emeritus of CORS. In 2021 he won the Killam Prize in Engineering and he received a Doctorate honoris causa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. In 2022 he received the Euro Gold Medal from the Association of European Operational Research Societies, he was a co-winner one of the SEIO-BBVA Foundation prizes and of the Goodeve Medal awarded by the British OR Society.

This month saw the successful conclusion to a year-long collaboration between the ICRC and the Swiss Data Science Centre – a joint venture between Switzerland's two federal institutes of technology, EPFL[1] and ETHZ[2] – on a research project to track patterns of violence.[3] The collaboration produced an algorithm, developed to reclassify open-source data according to international legal norms and trained by machine learning, that will permit the ICRC to have deeper insights into patterns of violence by armed forces and armed groups. The project's findings were launched during an event on the 9th of May at the ICRC Humanitarium. In this post, Fiona Terry, head of the ICRC's Centre for Operational Research and Experience (CORE), and Fabien Dany, CORE adviser, describe the creation of this tool and how it will enable the ICRC to have faster and more accurate insights into who did what to whom and when, which will enhance its protection work and its analysis of violent events that threaten the safety of humanitarian personnel.

learning lessons about deeply decarbonized electricity markets from around the world including optimal prices in non-convex markets, reliability insurance, and system securityFarhad Billimoria, Conleigh Byers, PhD, Ahlmahz Negash, PhD, and Paul Dockery discuss adaptation of market design for the energy transition including fat tails and increased exposure to extremes; batteries and price responsive demand; natural gas fragility and marginal pricing; and inverter-driven resources and system security. Then the team plays a new game where they synthesize expert explanations of convex vs non-convex pricing and reliability insurance. You can find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share with friends that are electric utility enthusiasts, like us!05:30 - Lessons Learned on deeply decarbonized electric systems from electricity markets around the world with “Handbook on Electricity Markets” and P.L. Joskow's “From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals” as background07:06 - Lesson 1: natural gas fragility and marginal pricing17:20 - Lesson 2: batteries and price responsive demand24:23 - Lesson 3: fat tails and increased exposure to extremes38:20 - Lesson 4: Inverter based grids and system security (synchronous condensers and grid inertia)48:15 - Wonky energy game synthesizing expert explanations Farhad Billimoria provides a 2 minute 20 second explanation of A reliability insurance overlay on energy-only electricity markets1; followed by the rest of the crew's interpretation Conleigh Byers, PhD, provides a 2 minute 20 second explanation of Long-run optimal pricing in electricity markets with non-convex costs2; followed by the rest of the crew's interpretation (and discussion of computational time for a solution using the Convex Hull pricing34) 1:27:36 - Ahlmahz's insightful question of the week1:32:18 - Conleigh Byers, PhD's Closing ThoughtsPublic Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, it's work to watch!1 Farhad Billimoria, Rahmatallah Poudineh, Market design for resource adequacy: A reliability insurance overlay on energy-only electricity markets, Utilities Policy, Volume 60, 2019, 100935, ISSN 0957-1787, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2019.100935.2 Conleigh Byers, Gabriela Hug, Long-run optimal pricing in electricity markets with non-convex costs, European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 307, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 351-363, ISSN 0377-2217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.07.052.3 P. Andrianesis, D. Bertsimas, M. C. Caramanis and W. W. Hogan, "Computation of Convex Hull Prices in Electricity Markets With Non-Convexities Using Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 2578-2589, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3122000.4 C. Byers and G. Hug, "Flexibility Compensation with Increasing Stochastic Variable Renewable Energy in Non-Convex Markets," 2022 17th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PMAPS53380.2022.9810627.

In this episode Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by David Foster Who Can Benefit From This Conversation?  Generative modeling is one of the hottest topics in AI at present, seeing as it is now possible to teach a machine to excel at human endeavors such as: painting, writing, and composing music. This episode helps you understand how we got to this point, and how the use of generative deep learning impacts our understanding of authorship and creativity in the arts, such as music, and literature. David and Lauren also discuss the huge impacts that Generative AI will have on children who are growing up with AI. Who is David Foster?David Foster is the co-founder of Applied Data Science Partners, a data science consultancy delivering bespoke solutions for clients. He holds an MA in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK and an MSc in Operational Research from the University of Warwick. He is a faculty member of the Machine Learning Institute and has won several international machine learning competitions. He is the author of Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines To Paint, Write, Compose and Play (O'Reilly), an acclaimed technical textbook focused on novel applications of deep learning to generative modelling. REDEFINING AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

Rubén Ruiz is Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research on leave of absence at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. He is co-author of more than 100 papers in International Journals and has participated in presentations of more than a two hundred papers in national and international conferences. He is editor of the Elsevier's JCR-listed journal Operations Research Perspectives (ORP) and co-editor of the JCR-listed journal European Journal of Industrial Engineering (EJIE). He is also associate editor of other journals like TOP and member of the editorial boards of several journals most notably European Journal of Operational Research and Computers and Operations Research. His research interests include scheduling and routing in real life scenarios as well as cloud computing scheduling.

Spotlight Seven is a snippet from our upcoming episode: David Foster - Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play . Listen to the full episode, as soon as it comes out by subscribing to Redefining AI. Who is David Foster?David Foster is the co-founder of Applied Data Science Partners, a data science consultancy delivering bespoke solutions for clients. He holds an MA in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK and an MSc in Operational Research from the University of Warwick. He is a faculty member of the Machine Learning Institute and has won several international machine learning competitions. He is the author of Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines To Paint, Write, Compose and Play (O'Reilly), an acclaimed technical textbook focused on novel applications of deep learning to generative modelling.   Why this Episode?Generative modeling is one of the hottest topics in AI at present, seeing as it is now possible to teach a machine to excel at human endeavors such as: painting, writing, and composing music. This episode helps you understand how we got to this point, and how the use of generative deep learning impacts our understanding of authorship and creativity in the arts, such as music and literature. David and Lauren also discuss the huge impacts that Generative AI will have on children who are growing up with AI.

Salvador Carmona is a professor of Accounting and Management Control at IE Business School-IE University, where he serves as Dean of Faculty and Rector, respectively. Salvador's research focuses on the organizational and social aspects of accounting.  More specifically, Salvador examines accounting and gender; the role of accountability in the development of modern nation states; and the role of accounting discourses in religious, non-profit organizations. Salvador has published in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Business Ethics; Organization Studies; Management Accounting Research; Accounting and Business Research; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Abacus; European Journal of Operational Research; and International Journal of Operations and Production Management. A former editor of European Accounting Review and senior editor of Oxford Research Reviews, Salvador is on the editorial board of fourteen international journals. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Almeria and Aalto University and has been granted the Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians and the Anthony G. Hopwood Award for Academic Leadership of the European Accounting Association. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/salvador-carmona/ for the original video interview.  

Episode: 2886 Not Just Gadgets: The Science of Engineering Systems.  Today, beyond gadgets.

Michael Dritsas, CEO of ‘Elevate Greece', the Hellenic Republic's national start-up platform and in-depth information resource on the Greek start-up Ecosystem, is the Head of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister for Development and Investments under Research and Innovation. Mr Dritsas discusses: boosting organisational and corporate synergies to heighten Greece's innovation environment and knowledge transfer with institutional tools, balancing the attraction between excellent global entrepreneurial talents and start-ups and brain (re)gain, advancing the entrepreneurial spirit and mentality away from metropolitan areas and better harness new talents, overcoming the reduction of technology investments in the case of a global-regional-national recession, his transition from business administration and marketing to entrepreneurship and innovation, and considering his greatest achievement 5 years from now. Michael Dritsas is a Chartered mechanical engineer and economist (MSc in Operational Research, Engineering Economics & Management Science- National Technical University of Athens, Greece, MBA- Lancaster University in the UK) with experience and expertise of over 30 years in leading management positions in both the private and public sectors. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/panagiota-pimenidou/message

Ricardo Fukasawa is a Professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He did his undergraduate and Masters in Electrical Engineering at PUC-Rio in Brazil. He worked at GAPSO Inc from 2000-2003. He then did a PhD in the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization program at GeorgiaTech. He was a recipient of the IBM Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral fellowship from 2008-2009, and moved to Waterloo afterwards. He received the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He is an Associate editor of Operations Research, OR Letters, RAIRO-OR and INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, and a Technical Editor for Mathematical Programming Computation. He has publications in several prestigious international journals like Mathematical Programming, Math of OR, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Mathematical Programming Computation and Transportation Science. His research interests are in developing theory and computational tools for the exact solution of hard discrete optimization problems, as well as their applications in practical problems. He has contributions in several areas, including Integer Programming, Vehicle Routing, Stochastic Programming, Bilevel Programming, as well as several applications.

Learning from Machine Learning, a podcast that explores more than just algorithms and data: Life lessons from the experts. This episode we welcome Vincent Warmerdam, creator of calmcode, and machine learning engineer at SpaCy to discuss Data Science, models and much more. @learningfrommachinelearningResources to learn more about Vincent Warmerdam:https://calmcode.io/https://youtu.be/kYMfE9u-lMohttps://youtu.be/S7vhi6RjBZAhttps://github.com/koaningReferences from the Episode:You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place https://amzn.to/3Jt1qjXThe Future of Operational Research is Past https://ackoffcenter.blogs.com/files/the-future-of-operational-research-is-past.pdfSupervised Learning is great - it's data collection that's broken https://explosion.ai/blog/supervised-learning-data-collectionDeon - An ethics checklist for data scientists https://deon.drivendata.org/Hadley Wickham - https://hadley.nz/Katharine Jarmul - https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharinejarmul/?originalSubdomain=deVicki Boykis - https://vickiboykis.com/Brett Victor - https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4Resources to learn more about Learning from Machine Learning:https://www.linkedin.com/company/learning-from-machine-learning/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethplevine/https://medium.com/@levine.seth.p

At this Vital Topics event we will explore how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government, while our panel will also share their thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic. Much has been written over the past two years about how the pandemic will create opportunities for transformative change. But where do we stand today, and is that transformative change really likely to happen? At this Vital Topics event we will look at how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government, while our panel will also share their thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic. Our speakers will also explore the need for society to better engage with this agenda and at what decision-makers need to be doing to further embed the recovery among local communities. Chaired by Dr Simos Chari, joining us on our panel will be Duncan Shaw, Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School, Dr Kathy Oldham OBE, Chief Resilience Officer for Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Andy Wright, former Chief Executive at Braintree District Council and Issa Kassis, the Mayor of Ramallah.

This event is hosted by Yu-Wang Chen, Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics at Alliance Manchester Business School. Knowledge and Data-Driven Decision Making Data-driven decision making is the practice of using data to support decision making, and it becomes more widely recognised with the development of decision science, data science and artificial intelligence. Real-world decision making problems are usually characterised by multiple criteria and associated with uncertainty. Data often come from different sources in different formats. In addition, decision makers' domain knowledge also plays an important role in making informed decisions. In this episode, Yu-wang will introduce his work in this research domain and a number of examples from his own research will be used to highlight how data and knowledge can be aggregated to support decision making in business and management. Yu-wang Chen Prior to joining AMBS, Yu-wang worked briefly as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received the PhD degree in Control and System Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses primarily on Decision Sciences and Data Analytics, including their applications in business analytics, supply chain risk analysis, healthcare decision support, etc. He has published more than 60 research articles in leading journals, such as European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operation Research, and more. He has successfully coordinated and taught across a broad portfolio of course units at all different undergraduate and postgraduate levels at AMBS. He currently acts as the Programme Director (2015-2018 & 2020-present) for the MSc Business Analytics programme (2022 QS Ranking: 2nd in the UK & 10th in the world). The episode is facilitated by Richard Allmendinger, Professor and Business Engagement Lead of Alliance Manchester Business School.

John 'Lofty' Wiseman is a true legend of the British Special Air Service. He set the record as being the youngest person to ever pass selection, at just eighteen years of age! John served with the SAS for over 26 years and rose to the rank of Sergeant Major, B Squadron. His impressive record includes being Head of Operational Research and training the first members of the US Green Berets to return to the USA, to form their Delta Force. He also founded the SAS Counter-Terrorist Team. He has also been named the 'Godfather of every major US Tier One Unit'. Lofty's SAS Survival books have been international best-sellers and still to this day, provide invaluable advice for almost any emergency situation. Part Two features Lofty putting to bed the rumours and myths that have grown from main-stream-media. There is also an in-depth account of the famous battle of Mirbat, where 9 SAS Troopers held off nearly 400 enemy soldiers! Read 'Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland.' Paperback UK: https://amzn.to/2YoeaPx Paperback US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993543944 Support the podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/christhrall (£2 per month plus perks) https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-our-veterans-to-tell-their-story https://paypal.me/TeamThrall Sign up for my NON-SPAM newsletter and FREE books: https://christhrall.com/mailing-list/ Social media Links: https://facebook.com/christhrall https://twitter.com/christhrall https://instagram.com/chris.thrall https://linkedin.com/in/christhrall https://youtube.com/christhrall https://discord.gg/yqvHRUN https://christhrall.com 

Tom Van Woensel is Full Professor of Freight Transport and Logistics in the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control group of the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Since July 2019, he is appointed as the Director of Education and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (around 2500 students in various BSc, MSc and PhD programs). He is also the program chair of the Bachelor Program Industrial Engineering. Tom serves as Academic Director of the Global Supply Chain Management program at the Antwerp Management School, Belgium. As a collaborating member, he is connected to the CIRRELT in Canada. His research is mainly focused on Freight Transport and Logistics. He published over 110 papers in leading academic journals (including Management Science, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part B, C, D, E, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, etc.) and several chapters in international books. As the lead scientist from the TU/e, he was involved in securing several grants coming from industry, national science foundations, and Europe. He is associate editor for several journals in the transportation field. Tom conducted a large number of projects with industry, mainly with and through his Master, Professional Doctorate, and Doctorate students. He is also director of the European Supply Chain Forum, a collaborative effort with about 75 large multinational companies.

Mr. Eric Fournier is the Director General Innovation for the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/ideas-2019-2020-annual-report/introduction.html), which over the past year, has been able to invest more than $100M in organizations across Canada (now over 270 and counting) that are using their innovative thinking and solutions in support of the women and men that are part of Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). IDEaS aims to be Canada's science, technology, and innovation leader, trusted advisor, collaborative partner, and knowledge integrator for defence and security. Mr. Fournier began his career with Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) as a Defence Scientist in the Flight Mechanics Group of the Precision Weapons Section at the Valcartier laboratory in August 1992. He spent most of his scientific career in that establishment, where he held a number of positions in the Weapons field of study. He also spent one year at the United Kingdom DERA Fort Halstead laboratory as an exchange scientist in the late ninety's. In May 2006, Mr. Fournier was appointed Director, Science & Technology Air, in Ottawa, where he managed the Air Force S&T Program portfolio. As part of his duties, he also served as National Representative on the Aerospace Systems group (AER) in The Technical Cooperation Program. From September 2008 to July 2009, he moved to the Canadian Forces College in Toronto where he completed the National Security Program 1 (NSP-1). Upon his return to Ottawa, Mr. Fournier was appointed Director of Defence Research and Development Canada's Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA), and was responsible for the delivery of a Science and Technology program in the areas of operational research, strategic analysis, and scientific and technical intelligence. In 2014, Mr. Fournier took up the position of Defence R&D Counsellor at CDLS (London) where he was responsible for liaison in defence Science and Technology between Canada and the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Upon returning to Canada in July 2017, he was appointed DG for Strategic Decision Support, and also selected to develop and lead the implementation of the IDEaS initiative.

In this post – part of our new series ‘Back to basics: humanitarian principles in contemporary armed conflict' and released in tandem with Just Security – Fiona Terry, head of the ICRC's Centre for Operational Research and Experience (CORE) explains her conversion from a neutrality sceptic to a genuine believer in the purpose and utility of retaining a neutral stance in war, based on first-hand experience. Read the full blog here: https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2022/06/21/taking-action-no…arian-neutrality/

Released  23 May 2022. While propaganda and disinformation have been used to destabilize opposing forces throughout history, the US military remains unprepared for the way these methods have been adapted to the Internet era. This article explores the modern history of disinformation campaigns and the current state of US military readiness in the face of campaigns from near-peer competitors and proposes education as the best way to prepare US servicemembers to defend against such campaigns. Click here to read the article. Keywords: propaganda, disinformation, media literacy, military education, inoculation Author information: Dr. Meghan Fitzpatrick, a strategic analyst with Defence Research and   Canada (DRDC) Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA), is a widely published author on trauma and resilience. Her current work looks at how militaries are navigating the increasing importance of the information environment. Since joining DRDC, she has received recognition for her research, including the CORA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Defence Analysis. Dr. Ritu Gill has a PhD in social psychology from Carleton University and is currently a section head with DRDC. Her research examines online influence activities, specifically, how the Internet and social media influence the information environment, including the analysis of online audiences, and how deception techniques employed by adversaries, such as disinformation, impact audiences. She has been part of international defence research collaborations and was co-lead for the NATO Human Factors and Medicine Research Task Group “Digital and Social Media Assessment for Effective Communication and Cyber Diplomacy.” Major Jennifer F. Giles, US Marine Corps, is currently a communication strategy and operations officer, a foreign area officer who advises commanders' strategic and cultural engagement plans in the Pacific theater, and an instructor at the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Staff Training Program. She wrote Disrupting Disinformation: Force Protection through Media Literacy Training and recently spoke on media literacy and adversary disinformation for the Defense Information School “DINFOS Live.”

Richard Hollowood and Jim Mann from Close Brothers join me today to speak more in-depth about where to put your money in both the short and long term. We chat about off shore and the pros and cons, Pensions, the difference between Investment Adviser, Wealth Manager and a Relationship Manager. Jim joined Close Brothers in September 2021 to manage a range of global portfolios for offshore institutional and private clients and is based in Guernsey. Jim trained as an equity analyst and worked for Merrill Lynch in London and Boston, USA. He has had extensive experience of running institutional global equity portfolios since 2004. Jim has also worked within a UHNW Family Office, and most recently at BNP Paribas Investment Management. Jim graduated from the University of Exeter with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research. Richard Hollowood is a Managing Director based in Guernsey, having joined the organisation in 2006. Prior to joining Close Brothers Asset Management, Richard was a Private Client Investment Manager at Singer and Friedlander for three years and gained over six years of institutional investment experience managing US and Global equities with Mercury Asset Management and AXA Investment Managers.

Adam Letchford is Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has published over 85 articles in leading journals, and over 15 book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals, including Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, and Operations Research. In 2006, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was made an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the OR Society. From 2008 to 2013, he co-ordinated the optimisation cluster of the LANCS Initiative. In 2013, he led a research programme on optimisation at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. From 2011-2018, he was director of NATCOR, the national doctoral training centre in OR. From 2017-2022, he was a member of the REF Subpanel on Mathematical Sciences. He is also a member of the EPSRC and URKI Future Leaders Peer Review Colleges. His research interest is in optimisation, including theory, algorithms, and applications. He concentrates mainly on integer programming and combinatorial optimisation, but also has some interest in global optimisation. He tends to work on exact methods rather than heuristics. He is interested in applications of optimisation not only in OR, but also in statistics, computer science, engineering and the physical sciences. He is known especially for his work on cutting planes and their application to vehicle routing and facility location problems.

I denne episoden møter du Elin Hauge. Hun er utdannet sivilingeniør innen Biofysikk og medisinsk teknologi, og har i tillegg en MSc i Management Science og Operational Research. De siste 20+ årene har hun jobbet med forretningsverdi og datadrevne teknologier.Elin så tidlig hvor viktig kunstig intelligens kom til å bli for menneskeheten og næringsvirksomheter av alle størrelser, både i dag og i fremtiden. Siden 2016 har nettopp dette feltet vært hovedfokuset hennes.I denne episoden får du høre mer om: Hvorfor yrkestitler er mindre viktig i fremtidenHva er viktig med tanke på fremtidens utdanningerHva skjer om ledere og beslutningstagere ikke henger med på utviklingen Bærekraft, teknologi og digitalisering fra et annet perspektiv Om kunsten å holde foredrag, og det å jobbe hardt og smart58 millioner tonn elektrisk søppel ble kastet i 2021 + har vi nok strøm i fremtidenVil du vite mer om Elin, sjekk ut https://www.elin-hauge.no/om/Vil du vite mer om Elaine, sjekk ut www.elainebloom.no @elaine_bloom See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Martine Labbé is honorary professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Until 2019 she was professor of Operations Research at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences. Her main research area is discrete optimization, including graph theory and integer programming problems and with a particular emphasis on location and network design problems. She is also specialized in bilevel optimization and studies pricing problems and Stackelberg games. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of Discrete Optimization, International Transactions in Operational Research, Journal on Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters and Transportation Science. She was the Editor in Chief of the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization from 2012 to 2020. She is the author or coauthor more than 140 papers published in international journals. In 2007-2008, she was president of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies. She was, in 2014 and 2015, Vice-Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT). In 2019 she was awarded the EURO Gold Medal.

Dr. Henry Mintzberg is a name known to many. He's a writer and educator - most of his work focuses on managing originations, developing managers, and rebalancing societies (which is where his attention is currently focused). After receiving his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal (1961), working in Operational Research for the Canadian National Railways (1961-1963), and doing his masters and Ph.D. at the MIT Sloan School of Management (1965 and 1968), He made his professional home at McGill. He's had extensive visiting professorships at INSEAD in France and the London Business School in England.He's authored 20 books, including Managers not MBAs, Simply Managing, Rebalancing Society, and Managing the Myths of Health Care. He also authored 180 articles plus numerous commentaries and videos. He publishes a regular TWOG (TWeet 2 blOG), as “provocative fun in a page or 2 beyond pithy pronouncements in a line or 2” (@mintzberg141 to mintzberg.org/blog). A collection has recently been published under the title Bedtime Stories for Managers, and following that will be Understanding Organizations...Finally (a revision of his book Structure in Fives).He's also an outdoorsman and collector of beaver sculptures.A Few Quotes From This Episode"There are 23 countries that are now full democracies. With a couple of exceptions, I think most of those are models of balance, particularly the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Sweden), New Zealand...Canada's number five, which is the first middle-sized country...most of them are tiny...you could say that The Economist is claiming that about 175 countries in the world are not balanced in all kinds of ways.""The question I keep asking myself is 'what's dumbing us down?'"Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeWebsite: Rebalancing SocietySeven Basic PointsThe Declaration of out Interdependence Donald Trump is not the problem - five-part essay on the roots of the imbalanceArticle: The Economist - Global Democracy Has a Very Bad YearBook: Sapiens by Harari Book: 21 LEssons for the 21st Century by Harari Podcast: Interview with Robert KeganAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Plan now for ILA's 24th Global Conference Online October 6 & 7, 2022, and/or Onsite in Washington, D.C., October 13-16, 2022.Connect with Scott AllenWebsite      

Our next guests are John Boylan, Professor and Director of Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting (CMAF) at Lancaster University (UK), and Aris Syntetos, Professor of Operational Research and Operations Management at Cardiff University. John and Aris have recently published a book titled “Intermittent Demand Forecasting: Context, Methods and Applications”, a book aimed at practitioners and early career researchers which summarises everything known about intermittent demand forecasting up to date. In this episode, we introduce this book and then talk about good practices for research and industry collaborations.John recommends “Inventory and Production Management in Supply Chains” by E. Silver, D. Pyke, D. Thomas, and Aris talks about “Statistical forecasting for inventory control” and “Smoothing, Forecasting and Prediction of Discrete Time Series” by Robert Goodell Brown.

In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, David Perry discusses the financial implications of continental defence modernization with retired Vice-Admirals Mark Norman and Darren Hawco, retired Colonel Dr. Ross Fetterly, and Dr. Binyam Solomon. This episode was made possible thanks to the support of the Department of National Defence's MINDS Program Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding and Boeing. Read Drs Fetterly and Solomon's DRDC Report on Burden Sharing: https://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc366/p813527_A1b.pdf Participant's Bio: Darren Hawco is a retired naval officer with 36 years of service to Canada. The youngest of four boys, Hawco was born in Montreal where he was fortunate enough to grow up in a loving home, attending local primary and secondary schools prior to joining the Canadian Armed Forces through enrollment in the College Militaire Royale de St-Jean (CMR) regular officer training program. Ross Fetterly retired in 2017 from the Canadian Forces after a 34-year career as the Royal Canadian Air Force's director of air comptrollership and business management.  He previously served as the military personnel command comptroller, and in other senior positions with the Department of National Defence Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance). A 39 year veteran of uniformed service to Canada, Mark Norman retired from the Royal Canadian Navy in the rank of Vice-Admiral in August of 2019 after a high-profile public legal challenge. He is now applying his energy and passion to new challenges. As a CGAI Fellow, Norman intends to explore naval strategy, maritime affairs, defence policy and procurement with particular interests in the Arctic and the South China Sea. Dr. Binyam Solomon is Senior Defence Scientist at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC). He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. Previous appointments include Chief Economist, Department of National Defence and acting Chief Scientist at the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (DRDC). He has published extensively in economics, statistics, and defence topics. His research interests include political economy, aspects of national security, peacekeeping economics, and time series methods. Dr. Solomon holds a PhD in Defence Economics from the University of York, United Kingdom. Host Bio: Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry) Recording Date: 26 Jul 2021 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Christina Pagel is a mathematician and Professor of Operational Research at University College, London. The first female director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit at UCL and an honorary researcher at Great Ormond Street Hospital, she has been one of the most prominent scientists in the media during the pandemic. At the start of the pandemic, she had 1500 Twitter followers. She now has nearly 150,000. In this podcast, she talks about what it's like to be catapulted into the media, the joys and perils of being a boss and why she can't stop doing degrees.

Graham Rand retired as a senior lecturer in Operational Research at Lancaster University, UK in 2016. He has been Council Member and Conference Chairman of the British Operational Research Society, and was editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society for six years from 1991-1996. Since 2014 he has edited the Society's magazine, Impact. For the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) he was Vice-President (1998-2000) and has been editor of both International Abstracts in Operations Research (from 1980-1991) and International Transactions in Operational Research (2000-05). He was editor of the proceedings of the IFORS Conference held in Buenos Aires in 1987, and Chairman of the Program Committee for the IFORS Conference held in Athens in 1990. For the European Association of Operational Research Societies he was chairman of the Gold Medal jury in 1995. He was a founder member of both the International Society for Inventory Research (1983) and the Operations Management Association (1985). He was President of Omega Rho, the international honor society for Operational Research in 2012-2014. The Operational Research Society made him a Companion of Operational research in 2006, and he was made a Fellow by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies in 2021.

José Fernando Gonçalves (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon, with contributions in the fields of operations research, and applied mathematics. He is most known for his work with metaheuristics, in particular Biased Random-key Genetic Algorithms (BRKGA), as well as for his work on the job-shop scheduling. His areas of expertise are Optimization, Heuristics and Metaheuristics, Scheduling, Cutting and Packing, Facility Layout, Inventory Management, and Operations Research Modeling. He has published over 50 papers on combinatorial optimization and edited a book on inventory management. He is on the editorial board of International Transactions in Operational Research. He was a Professor at the School of Engineering and the School of Economics of Porto University 1986-2016.

Setzt man sich mit den Prämissen technologischen Regierens auseinander, so gewinnt man nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis der Gegenwart, sondern auch eine Perspektive auf die drängende Frage: Wie könnten fundamental andere Techno-Logiken aussehen? Shownotes Vincent Augusts Homepage: vincentaugust.de Vincent auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/vinaugust Buch "Technologisches Regieren. Der Aufstieg des Netzwerk-Denkens in der Krise der Moderne. Foucault, Luhmann und die Kybernetik" (2021) von Vincent August: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5597-1/technologisches-regieren/?c=310000085 (Open Access) "Political ideas of the network society: Why digitalization research needs critical conceptual history, political theory, and the sociology of knowledge" von Vincent August. In: Journal of Political Science (ZPol): https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/allgemeine-soziologie/team/vincent-august/resolveuid/dadf0b9b82794501b4919dde38010edf (Open Access) "Network Concepts in Social Theory: Foucault and Cybernetics" von Vincent August. In: European Journal of Social Theory, 24 (online first): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431021991046 (Open Access) "Hierarchie, Markt, Netzwerk: Stabilitätsmodelle spätmoderner Demokratien" von Vincent August. In: Leviathan: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748907565-96/hierarchie-markt-netzwerk-stabilitaetsmodelle-spaetmoderner-demokratien?page=1 (paywalled) „Die Ordnung der Transparenz. Jeremy Bentham und die Genealogie einer demokratischen Norm“ von Vincent August https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-12277-3 Weitere Materialien: Buch "Strangers in Their Own Land. Anger and Mourning on the American Right" von Arlie Russell Hochschild: https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land Jerem Bentham (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Kybernetik: Ackoff, R. L. (1979). The Future of Operational Research is Past. The Journal of the Operational Research Society: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3009290 Ashby, W. R. (1956). An Introduction to Cybernetics: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology: https://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1972.-Gregory-Bateson-Steps-to-an-Ecology-of-Mind.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Dokumentation der Macy-Konferenzen: Pias, C. (Hg.). (2003). Cybernetics – Kybernetik: The Macy-Conferences 1946-1953 (Bd. 1): https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/cybernetics-3301 Foerster, H. von & Pörksen, B. (2019). Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Lügners: Gespräche für Skeptiker: https://www.carl-auer.de/wahrheit-ist-die-erfindung-eines-lugners Bzgl. Günthers "Kritik an den Wald-und-Wiesen-Kybernetikern" (seine Kritik an Habermas ist andernorts zu finden): Günther, G. (1975). Selbstdarstellung im Spiegel Amerikas. In L. J. Pongratz (Hg.), Philosophie in Selbstdarstellungen: https://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/gg_selbstdarstellung.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Kline, R. R. (2015). The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/cybernetics-moment Bzgl. Dispute in der frühen Kybernetik und die Relevanz für die Entstehung der Kognitionswissenschaften: Dupuy, J. P. (2000). The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science: https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400823819/the-mechanization-of-the-mind Technokratie-Kritik: Ellul, J. (1964 [1954]). The Technological Society: With an Introduction by Robert K. Merton: https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Ellul_Jacques_The_Technological_Society.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Schelsky, H. (1961). Der Mensch in der wissenschaftlichen Zivilisation: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783663002468 Habermas, J. (1973 [1968]). Technik und Wissenschaft als ›Ideologie‹: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/juergen-habermas-technik-und-wissenschaft-als-ideologie-t-9783518102879 Marcuse, H. (2002 [1964]). One-dimensional man: https://www.routledge.com/One-Dimensional-Man-Studies-in-the-Ideology-of-Advanced-Industrial-Society/Marcuse/p/book/9780415289771 Von Vincent August empfohlene Sekundärliteratur dazu (allerdings mit reproduziertem Kybernetik-Bild der Debatte): Seefried, E. (2015). Zukünfte: Aufstieg und Krise der Zukunftsforschung. 1945-1980. De Gruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/hzhz-2018-1181/html Beispiele zu technologischem Denken in den Sozialwissenschaften: Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist. Random House: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/110/1107761/doughnut-economics/9781847941398.html Für Vincent August ist Technologisches Denken eine unausgesprochene Grundlage von Foucaults neuer Macht-Theorie und -Praxis: Foucault, M. (1983 [1976]). Sexualität und Wahrheit I: Der Wille zum Wissen: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/michel-foucault-sexualitaet-und-wahrheit-t-9783518283165 Foucault, M. (2014). Dits et Ecrits: Schriften in vier Bänden (D. Defert & F. Ewald, Hg., 3. Aufl.).  Nr. 86 & 88 (GIP), 194 (Machttheorie): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/michel-foucault-schriften-in-vier-baenden-dits-et-ecrits-t-9783518583715 Luhmann, N. (1987). Soziale Systeme: Grundriß einer allgemeinen Theorie: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/niklas-luhmann-soziale-systeme-t-9783518282663 Aus der Debatte der 70er Jahre: Wiki zu: Crozier, M. (1975). Western Europe. In M. Crozier, S. P. Huntington & J. Watanuki (Hg.), The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Democracy Crozier, M. & Thoenig, J.-C. (1976). The Regulation of Complex Organized Systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(4), 547–570: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2391716 Aus der Digitalisierungsdebatte etwa: Floridi, L. (2014). The 4th Revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-fourth-revolution-9780199606726?cc=at&lang=en&   thematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden: Benjamin Seibel zu politischer Kybernetik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e01-interview-mit-benjamin-seibel-zu-politischer-kybernetik/ Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/ Joseph Vogl zur Krise des Regierens: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e25-joseph-vogl-zur-krise-des-regierens/ Urs Stäheli zu Entnetzung: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e54-urs-staeheli-zu-entnetzung/ Kalle Kunkel zu Herrschaftstechnologien in der Krise: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e53-kalle-kunkel-zu-herrschaftstechnologien-in-der-krise/   Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast oder auf Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords #VincentAugust, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #Interview, #TechnologischesRegieren, #Netzwerk, #Neoliberalismus, #Netzwerkdenken, #Kybernetik, #Liberalismus,  #Netzwerkgesellschaft, #Foucault, #AlternativeRegierungskunst, #Gouvernementalität, #Luhmann, #Crozier, #Netzwerk-Paradigma, #Regieren, #Governance, #Digitalisierung, #Herrschaftstechnologien, #Technokratie, #Souveränität, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren

Dolores Romero Morales is a Professor in Operations Research at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her areas of expertise include Supply Chain Optimization, Data Mining and Revenue Management. In Supply Chain Optimization she works on environmental issues and robustness. In Data Mining she investigates interpretability and visualization. In Revenue Management she works on large-scale network models. Her work has appeared in a variety of leading scholarly journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research, and has received various distinctions. Currently, she is Editor-in-Chief to TOP, the Operations Research journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, and an Associate Editor of Omega. She has worked with and advised various companies on these topics, including IBM, SAS, KLM and Radisson Edwardian Hotels, as a result of which these companies managed to improve some of their practices. SAS named her an Honorary SAS Fellow and member of the SAS Academic Advisory Board. She currently leads the EU H2020-MSCA-RISE NeEDS project, which has a total of 14 participants and a budget of more than €1.000.000 for intersectoral and international mobility, with the aim to improve the state of the art in Data Driven Decision Making. Dolores joined Copenhagen Business School in 2014. Prior to coming to Copenhagen Business School, she was a Full Professor at University of Oxford (2003-2014) and an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University (2000-2003). She has a BSc and an MSc in Mathematics from Universidad de Sevilla and a PhD in Operations Research from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Claudia Archetti is an Associate Professor in Operations Research at ESSEC Business School in Paris, since September 2019. She was previously Associate Professor at the University of Brescia. She teaches courses for undergraduate, master and PhD students in OR and logistics. The main areas of the scientific activity are: models and algorithms for vehicle routing problems; mixed integer mathematical programming models for the minimization of the sum of inventory and transportation costs in logistic networks; exact and heuristic algorithms for supply-chain management; reoptimization of combinatorial optimization problems. Claudia Archetti has carried out the scientific activity in collaboration with Italian and foreign colleagues and published joint papers with some of the best researchers at the international level. She is author of more than 70 papers in international journals. She was Area Editor of Computers & Operations Research. She is Associate Editor of Omega, Transportation Science, Networks, TOP and EURO Journal of Computational Optimization and member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Operational Research. Claudia Archetti is VIP3 of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies, in charge of publications and communication.

A month ago, people across England were celebrating 'Freedom Day'. Initially, it seemed the British Government's high-stakes gamble was paying off: despite all COVID restrictions in England being lifted, case numbers across the country briefly went down. But a few weeks in, they're again on the rise, with similar patterns in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. So has Britain's latest COVID experiment failed? And with governments here aiming to reopen once 80 per cent of Australian adults are vaccinated, what's Britain's lesson for us? Featured: Dr Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research, Department of Mathematics, University College London

A month ago, people across England were celebrating 'Freedom Day'. Initially, it seemed the British Government's high-stakes gamble was paying off: despite all COVID restrictions in England being lifted, case numbers across the country briefly went down. But a few weeks in, they're again on the rise, with similar patterns in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. So has Britain's latest COVID experiment failed? And with governments here aiming to reopen once 80 per cent of Australian adults are vaccinated, what's Britain's lesson for us? Featured: Dr Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research, Department of Mathematics, University College London

A month ago, people across England were celebrating 'Freedom Day'. Initially, it seemed the British Government's high-stakes gamble was paying off: despite all COVID restrictions in England being lifted, case numbers across the country briefly went down. But a few weeks in, they're again on the rise, with similar patterns in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. So has Britain's latest COVID experiment failed? And with governments here aiming to reopen once 80 per cent of Australian adults are vaccinated, what's Britain's lesson for us? Featured: Dr Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research, Department of Mathematics, University College London

Eduardo Uchoa is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil. His research areas include the theory and application of integer programming approaches for solving large NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, he had made groundbreaking contributions for the joint use of column and cut generation techniques, in the so-called branch-cut-and-price (BCP) algorithms. He is an author of many efficient exact algorithms for a number of problems such as Steiner problems, vehicle routing, scheduling, network design, 1D and 2D cutting problems, among others. He also worked on several applied problems from the industry, and has been nominated as finalist of the Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for Optimizing the Helicopter Transport of Oil Rig Crews at Petrobras. He had also been awarded as co-author of the Best Paper Published in 2017 in Mathematical Programming Computation. Recently, Uchoa is involved in the development of VRPSolver, a generic and customizable BCP solver that currently provides the best exact algorithm for most classic VRP variants and also for some other kinds of optimization problems. He is author and co-author of several papers that have appeared in leading journals such as Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Networks and Interfaces and in conferences like IPCO.

David Pisinger is professor in operations research at DTU Management Engineering, and former professor at DIKU, University of Copenhagen. David graduated in mathematics and computer science in 1990, and finished his PhD at University of Copenhagen in 1995. His main research topics include maritime optimization, energy optimization, vehicle routing, railway optimization, and cutting problems. He has written more than 100 papers in leading journals, and a monograph on Knapsack Problems. David Pisinger received the PhD prize of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences in 1995 for his thesis on Knapsack Problems. Moreover he received the Hedorfs Fonds prize for Transport Research 2013; award of teaching excellence Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen 2000; and the Teaching Prize at DTU Management in 2016. He received the Glover-Klingman prize in 2018 (with Martina Fischetti) and in 2019 he was one of the finalists for the Frans Edelman Award. David has supervised more than 20 PhD students, many of which have received awards and distinctions. Two PhD students have received the VeRoLog dissertation prize, one has received the TSL dissertation award, and one has received the Danish innovation Prize. He is Area editor of Transportation Science, and Associate editor of Transportation Research part C, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, and many more. Having a background in Knapsack Problems, David can be recognized on always wearing a knapsack.

Sophie N. Parragh is a full professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, where she is head of the Institute of Production and Logistics Management, member of the dean team of JKU Business School and director of the MSc program "Economic and Business Analytics" She received her PhD from the University of Vienna in 2009 and completed her habilitation in 2016. She worked as a visiting researcher at the CIRRELT, Montreal and as a postdoc fellow at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Porto. She won a Hertha Firnberg Postdoc Fellowship (funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)) at the University of Vienna, she was visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), and she has been involved in several applied and fundamental research projects in OR in health care, field staff routing and scheduling, and multi-objective combinatorial optimization (both as PI and project collaborator). She serves as associate editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and for OR Spectrum. Furthermore, she is a regular reviewer for international journals such as Transportation Science, Transportation Research B, European Journal of Operational Research or Computers & Operations Research.

In the latest of our series of podcasts (in partnership with The International Emergency Managers Society – TIEMS, and Capacity Building International - CBI) our speakers will explore more of the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the Covid-19 crisis, concentrating on the perspectives of strengthening resilience planning and the implications for the emergency management profession going forward. We will examine how Covid-19 has required different ways of resilience partnership working in the UK, placing new demands on emergency managers; the dynamics of national direction of responses to a health-led emergency, and some of the early challenges of planning for recovery and renewal at the local level. In introducing a subject that we will explore in further detail with TIEMS, later in this series, we also ask the question of how prepared for Covid-19 the Emergency Management profession feels it was, the challenges that may have arisen for members of TIEMS, and the opportunities for further enhancing the work of the profession. Panel: Duncan Shaw - Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems, Alliance Manchester Business School David Powell - Principal Advisor in Recovery, Renewal, Resilience, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute Harald Dragar – President of The International Emergency Managers Society (TIEMS)

M. Grazia Speranza is a full professor of Operations Research at the University of Brescia, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Deputy Rector. She is a former President of EURO (association of European Operational Research Societies) and of TSL (Transportation Science and Logistics society of INFORMS). As EURO President she founded the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization and the EURO Journal on Decision Processes. She is currently President of IFORS (International Federation of the Operational Research Societies). Grazia's research focuses on mixed integer programming and combinatorial optimization with applications to transportation, supply chain management, scheduling and portfolio selection. She models real problems, designs exact and heuristic algorithms, and applies worst-case analysis to off-line problems and competitive analysis to on-line problems. Recent research is oriented towards the study of routing problems enabled by technological developments. Grazia is author of about 200 papers that appeared in international journals and volumes. She has been plenary speaker at several international conferences and member of the scientific committee of the major international conferences in the field. She was visiting professor at the London School of Economics and at Brunel University during her sabbatical and has given talks and seminars at many universities around the world. She has been guest editor of special issues of journals, editor of several international journals and is co-editor-in-chief of the series of books ‘EURO Advanced Tutorials in Operational Research'. Grazia has been a member of many evaluation committees, including the European Research Council (ERC) mathematics panel. She is included in https://100esperte.it/ and in the book ‘100 donne contro gli stereotipi per la scienza', Egea, 2017 as one of the best 100 Italian women in the STEM area. In 2019 she was awarded with the Laurea honoris causa by the University of Freiburg, Switzerland. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of A2A, the 15th largest Italian company. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ‘Fondazione Marta Nocivelli' and ‘Fondazione Comunità Bresciana'.

In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester launched The Manchester Briefing, a UK funded research project influencing global and local recovery and renewal strategies. A year on from when the crisis first struck, this special podcast is specifically aimed at students who are interested in hearing how academic research can have a real-world impact through the application of tools, theories and social science. Our speakers will explore the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the crisis, talk through the societal benefits of this important and timely academic work, and share their views on the big questions that the world faces right now. What makes Covid-19 so different from other disasters? What we are learning from global responses and early recovery efforts? And how do you develop specific guidance on recovery, renewal, resilience? After the presentations students are given the opportunity to engage with our panellists through a Q&A session. Panel: Duncan Shaw - Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems, Alliance Manchester Business School David Powell - Principal Advisor in Recovery, Renewal, Resilience, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute Roisin Jordan – Project Co-ordinator in Recovery, Renewal, Resilience, University of Manchester Dr Nat O'Grady – Lecturer in Human Geography and Disaster, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

Ruslan Sadykov is a researcher in the Bordeaux center of Inria, French National Institute for Informatics and Automatics. He received his master degree in Operations Research in Kazan State University, Russia, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 2006 at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Ecole Polytechnique in Paris before joining the ReAlOpt team at Inria Bordeaux as a research fellow in 2008. He was a visiting researcher at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil during one year in 2015-2016. His research interests are in integer programming based decomposition approaches for solving combinatorial optimization problems with applications in vehicle routing, scheduling, cutting and packing. He is an author of many papers published in prestigious journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Journal on Scheduling, Mathematical Programming, Transportation Science, and Operations Research.

In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute launched The Manchester Briefing – a fortnightly document that brings together international lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal in the wake of the pandemic. The Briefing, which has been successfully distributed across the world, has been specifically aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers. One year on since its launch, this special event will explore and collate the key lessons and themes that have emerged from around the globe during the crisis, and we will be joined by a panel of emergency managers who will share their local experiences of COVID-19 responses, early recovery efforts, where their cities are now, and the challenges that lie ahead in terms of recovery and renewal. Speakers: Duncan Shaw – Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems, Alliance Manchester Business School Piero Pelizzaro - Chief Resilience Officer, Milan, Italy Luis Carvalho - Civil Protection, Municipal Service, Amadora, Portugal Katia Tynan - Manager, Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction, City of Vancouver, Canada Chair: Harald Dragar, President of The International Emergency Managers Society (TIEMS), Norway

Why are there still so few Black professionals in top positions? What are the obstacles and how can they be overcome? Tony Effik, Managing Director at Google, shares his insights on how to get Black talent to the top, his view on the voice of brands in racial equity, and what trends to expect in media planning and digital advertising. Effik is also the Co-founder of Black and Brilliant, an advocacy network aimed at creating more diverse workforces in partnership with his wife - Perky Noah-Effik. Tony Effik is Managing Director at Google and the Founder of the advocacy network Black and Brilliant. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of Industrial Engineering and Operational Research. Born in Nigeria and raised in the UK, Effik has worked across Europe, Asia, and the US, and is widely recognized for his global perspective on workforce diversity. #BlackandBrilliant blackandbrilliant.org linkedin.com/in/tonyeffik TIME CODES 1:07 - Tony's background 3:26 - Tony's work with his initiative ‘Black and Brilliant' and why we're not seeing more diversity in the workplace 23:25 - Is equal opportunity enough or do we need to start giving more opportunity to people that did not have in the past? 32:18 - Are we seeing brands run anti-racist campaigns or is it still just “blackwashing” 35:30 - How Tony's experience has differed from London to Brooklyn 41:56 - Trends Tony is seeing right now and rapid fire questions

Mauricio G. C. Resende is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon Science and an Affiliate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro (BR), West Lafayette (IN-US), and Amherst (MA-US). He did his undergraduate training in electrical engineering (systems engineering concentration) at the Pontifical Catholic U. of Rio de Janeiro. He obtained an MS in operations research from Georgia Tech and a PhD in operations research from the U. of California, Berkeley. He is most known for his work with metaheuristics, in particular GRASP and biased random-key genetic algorithms, as well as for his work with interior point methods for linear programming and network flows. Dr. Resende has published over 200 papers on optimization and holds 15 U.S. patents. He has edited the Handbook of Heuristics (Springer, 2018), the Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications (Springer, 2006), the Handbook of Massive Data Sets (Kluwer, 2002), and the Handbook of Applied Optimization (Oxford, 2002), and is coauthor of the book Optimization by GRASP (Springer, 2016). He has a Google Scholar h-index of 80. He sits on the editorial boards of several optimization journals, including Networks, Discrete Optimization, J. of Global Optimization, R.A.I.R.O., and International Transactions in Operational Research. Dr. Resende is an INFORMS Fellow. Prior to joining Amazon in 2014 as a Principal Research Scientist in the Modeling and Optimization group, Dr. Resende was a Lead Inventive Scientist at the Mathematical Foundations of Computing Department of AT&T Bell Labs and at the Algorithms and Optimization Research Department of AT&T Labs Research in New Jersey for over 25 years.

This round table, recorded at the nuffield summit 2021, asks what does following the science actually mean - do ministers understand the nuance of the science in the pandemic, and how does uncertainty get interpreted through the lens of ideology and the power of compelling stories. Taking part are: Kamran Abassi, executive editor of The BMJ Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology Deborah Cohen, health correspondent for BBC Newsnight Tom Sasse, associate director at the Institute for Government Christina Pagel, professor of Operational Research at University College London Matt Morgan, intensive care consultant Andy McKeon, chair of the Nuffield Trust Isobel Hardman, assistant editor of The Spectator Mary Dixon-Woods, director of This Institute Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI Alexandra Freeman, executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication Will Moy, chief executive of Full Fact Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust

Roberto Roberti is an Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Department of Operations Analytics. In 2012, he obtained a PhD in Control System Engineering and Operational Research from the University of Bologna. His PhD dissertation received the Premio Lorenzo Brunetta and the VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize. His research focuses on the development of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems arising in the fields of Transportation and Logistics. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, Computers & Operations Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Transportation Science.

Rafael Martinelli is an Operations Research professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His published research includes papers in different fields, such as Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Decision Sciences. He has experience solving industry problems, working on multiple projects from different companies. His research has been published in prestigious international journals such as Transportation Science, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Journal of Global Optimization, Discrete Optimization and Optimization and Engineering.

Maria Battarra is a Senior Lecturer in Management Science at the University of Bath, School of Management. In 2010, she obtained a PhD from the University of Bologna in Operational Research and she specialized in the study of combinatorial optimisation problems. Her research mainly focuses on developing innovative exact and metaheuristic algorithms for real world applications, including but not limited to vehicle routing problems, scheduling problems, disaster relief management, and maritime logistics. Her research has been published in prestigious international journals such as Operations Research, Transportation Science, Naval Research Logistics, Networks, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, and European Journal of Operational Research.

Jean-François Côté is an associate professor in the Department of Operations and Decision Systems at Laval University in Quebec City. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Montreal in 2014. During his studies, he worked in the private sector for many companies to solve many different types of operation research problems. His research interests are vast and include combinatorial optimization, stochastic programming, cutting, packing, vehicle routing and scheduling problems. His research has been published in top-tier journals like Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science and European Journal of Operational Research.

On the 16th February 2021 we held the online launch of of our latest briefing ‘Health Versus Wealth? UK Economic Policy and Public Health During COVID-19'. The briefing considers how a false dichotomy between public health and economic wealth has contributed to the pandemic taking such a tragic course in the UK. It also considers how cuts to essential health and social services over decades and decades have torn at the social fabric of our communities ─ and what can be done right now to mend this fabric and build up our social immunity. We heard from a panel of experts on the subject, including: • Professor Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research at University College London and member of Independent Sage • Christine Berry, trustee of Rethinking Economics, fellow of the Democracy collab and contributing editor of Renewal journal • Dr Monica Sharman, an NHS junior doctor based in Yorkshire & Humber , Medact member and co-author of the briefing • Daniel Carter, Research fellow in social epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Medact member and co-author of the briefing Read the briefing: https://link.medact.org/healthvswealthbriefing Sign up for email updates from our Economic Justice & Health Group: http://link.medact.org/economicjustice​ Sign up to email updates from our Medact Research Network: https://link.medact.org/researchnetwork Find out more about joining Medact as a member: https://www.medact.org/membership/

Collective Problem Solving with AIFor today’s episode, we’ll hear from AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio who is a Turing-award winning computer scientist, AI XPRIZE advisory board member, and one of the “godfathers of machine learning”. Yoshua takes us on a deep dive into how machine learning is helping us in the fight against Covid-19. Yoshua pulls the curtains back on two AI projects, one around prediction of contagiousness, and a second on antiviral drug discovery. Both projects lead to a discussion about the need to change our economic and social structures to maximize collective well-being.Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning. Following his studies in Montreal, culminating in a Ph.D. in computer science from McGill University, Professor Bengio did postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.Since 1993, Yoshua Bengio has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. In addition to having held for its maximum duration a Canada Research Chair, he is also the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning. In 2016 he also became the Scientific Director of IVADO and co-Chair of the Canada’s Advisory Council on AI in 2019.His contribution to research is undeniable. In 2018, Yoshua Bengio is the computer scientist who collected the largest number of new citations in the world, thanks to his three books and some 500 publications.His ultimate goal is to understand the principles that lead to intelligence through learning and his research has earned him multiple awards. In 2017, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in addition to receiving the Prix Marie-Victorin and being named Scientist of the Year by Radio-Canada. In 2018, he was awarded the 50th Anniversary Medal by Quebec’s Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian AI Association. In 2019, he was awarded the Killam Prize, the IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award, as well as the ACM A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing”, jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. These honours reflect the profound influence of his work on the evolution of our society.Concerned about the social impacts of this new technology, he actively contributed to the development of the Montreal Declaration for Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.https://www.xprize.org/aiforgood See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How has COVID-19 affected Brexit? This week’s episode is all about Brexit - what could have been the greatest challenge the UK had faced in several decades if it didn’t have to compete with a global pandemic. Join host Vivienne Parry as she speaks to UCL experts in law, maths and the social and historical sciences to help us understand how Brexit and coronavirus have impacted each other - and what the next few months could look like as both issues intensify towards the end of the year. Our guests this week: - Dr Uta Staiger (Executive Director of the EI and UCL’s Pro-Vice-Provost for Europe) - Prof Piet Eeckhout (Dean of Laws and EU expert) - Prof Christina Pagel (Professor of Operational Research, Department of Mathematics) Join the Beyond Boundaries Conference on 19-26 October: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/beyond-boundaries-realising-un-sustainable-development-goals More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/transcript-episode-23 If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.

This week's episode is all about Brexit - what could have been the greatest challenge the UK had faced in several decades if it didn't have to compete with a global pandemic. Join host Vivienne Parry as she speaks to UCL experts in law, maths and the social and historical sciences to help us understand how Brexit and coronavirus have impacted each other - and what the next few months could look like as both issues intensify towards the end of the year.Our guests this week:- Dr Uta Staiger (Executive Director of the EI and UCL's Pro-Vice-Provost for Europe)- Prof Piet Eeckhout (Dean of Laws and EU expert)- Prof Christina Pagel (Professor of Operational Research, Department of Mathematics)Join the Beyond Boundaries Conference on 19-26 October: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/beyond-boundaries-realising-un-sustainable-development-goalsMore info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirusTranscript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/transcript-episode-23If you've got a question about the pandemic you'd like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL's Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we'd love to hear from you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 620 is something out of the ordinary. Ola Omiyale joined me as a co-host and we interviewed Nalin Parbhu, the Founder and CTO of Infuse, and useMango™. We talked about testing and test automation which is a passion for all three of us. We also explored the future of the role of the manual tester.   Nalin Parbhu, Founder & CTO: Infuse & useMango™  Nalin’s passion, mission, and vision is to enable customers to get the most of out their software. He has worked on hundreds of projects across the globe and has over 22+ years of experience in software engineering delivery in a variety of roles.  Nalin has a BSc in Statistics, Computers, Operational Research and Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London, and did his postgraduate studies in Advanced Information Technology at London Southbank University. Despite his London education, Nalin proudly states he is a citizen of the city of Leicester. When not evangelizing from the pulpit about modernizing software delivery. Nalin is happily married with 2 children living in Central London. He is also a Rugby coach for Blackheath Rugby Club U11’s. LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nalinparbhu Infuse website: https://infuse.it/ Ola Omiyale is from a social science background and has started her journey within the software industry. Being a beginner and developing a career in selling test automation solutions, she is eager to learn new information and innovations around software testing.  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adodoolaomiyale Re-Read Saturday News  I have taken the last two weeks off from Re-Read Saturday.  A combination of household duties and work had to be managed. I will be back next week.  In the interim, catch up on the re-read.  Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s  Tame your Work Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!   Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter – https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) – https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi Week 3: Explicit Mental Models – https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN  Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact – https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL  Week 5: Flawed Mental Models – https://bit.ly/3eqj70m   Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts – https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN  Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture – https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT  Week 8: Accounting F(r)iction and  Show Me the Money – https://bit.ly/2XmDuWu  Week 9: Constraints in the Work Flow and in the Work Process - https://bit.ly/33Uukoz  Week 10: Understanding PEST Environments and Finding the Constraint in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3ga3ew9  Week 11: Drum-Buffer-Rope Scheduling - https://bit.ly/32l0Z3Q  Week 12: Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/31Ea4WC  Week 13: Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards - https://bit.ly/32rYUVf  Week 14: Outcomes, Values, and Efforts in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3jd52qw Week 15: Introduction to Execution Management Signals - https://bit.ly/3mS9j4V  The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following events! Women in Tech Conference Learn, be inspired, and connect with others working to advance inclusion in the technology industry with a live@Manning event. The “Women in Tech” online conference will be held on Oct 13, starring women that are rocking the tech boat! http://mng.bz/5pmz  Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too. https://bit.ly/3gNR2Bw  Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 621 will feature our essay on why agile coaches need a code of ethics. Its time for coaching to grow up and be a profession. We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley who will bring his Alpha and Omega of Product Development to the podcast.

Video version https://vimeo.com/460252023 About the Podcast In this edition of “State of Readiness”, I invite Dr. Morphis Tsalikidis. Morphis is an experienced professional in the field of Operational Excellence who I have known for a great many years and with whom I have shared the stage at several conferences. Our conversation is on the impact of COVID on businesses and their operations. Even though we know we have not made it through to the other side of this event, and in fact we are still in the midst of it, we share our observations of what companies have done, what they are doing, and what they might still need to consider. We start off with a discussion on "disruptors"; specifically what are non-credible disruptors and what are credible disruptors. The difference between the two is that a credible disruptor has truly destructive powers and where true transformation will occur; necessity being the mother of invention. One of the most obvious results of the COVID transformation is how quickly businesses made the transition from working at an office to working at home; something which was anathema prior to COVID. But what was especially remarkable was that the business leaders with whom each of us have spoken almost universally share that their productivity and the productivity of their staff has actually increased markedly; although the activity on the production floor has not fared as well for a variety of reasons. Since we are both OpEx/CI professionals, we delve into into the role, organization, and delivery of OpEx/CI programs and the observations we have had with respect to their effectiveness during this transformative period. In this regard, the OpEx/CI programs have had mixed results and we do a deep dive in sharing our observations and opinions with regards to why. Give a listen... About Dr. Morphis Tsalikidis Dr. Morphis Tsalikidis has a passion is for helping organizations develop their in-house capabilities in Continuous Improvement tools, techniques and mindset. Morphis earned a PhD at Lancaster University studying the effects of Lean Six Sigma deployment on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Creation and his Masters in Management Science and Operational Research from the Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick. Morphis is an internationally experienced operational excellence and business transformation executive who has had experiences around the world. His areas of expertise involve Lean Six Sigma, change management and developing and deploying business models and his experience has been with manufacturing and insurance. His professional training and qualifications include: Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I); PROSCI – Change Management; EFQM – Organizational Excellence; PRINCE 2 – Project Management; Master Black Belt exam- Lean Six Sigma; IASSC – Accredited Training Associate. Presently, he is the founder of Morphis Consulting, a consultancy that helps organizations improve their operational performance. Prior to starting his own firm, he was the Regional Operational Excellence and Business Transformation Director at AXA He has worked with companies of various sizes; ranging from 150 to over 3000 employees and with revenues from 80 million to over 2.5 billion euros and has experience in Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The public appetite for scientific evidence during the coronavirus pandemic has been voracious. But communicating it well is a fiendish challenge. How can governments give clear advice while also acknowledging uncertainty? How can scientists debate complex evidence while supporting strong interventions? And how can the media scrutinise public health measures without undermining them? Joining David to navigate the principles and pitfalls of communicating evidence in a pandemic are: Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor for C4 News Tracey Brown OBE, Director of Sense About Science Professor Christina Pagel, Operational Research at UCL and member of Independent SAGE Access the full transcript here. *** Views to share? Get in touch on Twitter @RiskyTalkPod or email riskytalk@maths.cam.ac.uk Risky Talk is produced by Ilan Goodman for the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge.

BIOGRAPHY Nic was once described as a “Statistician with a Soul” because of his unusual combination of ‘hard’ statistical skills and ‘soft’ people skills, he draws on scientific evidence to show that everyone benefits when businesses take happiness seriously. Nic founded Friday Pulse an innovative tech business based in London to be the catalyst in changing the world of work for the better.   After studying Mathematics, Economics and Management at the University of Cambridge, Nic gained postgraduate qualifications in Operational Research at Lancaster University and Organizational Change at the University of Surrey, also completing a three-year practical training in Counselling and Psychotherapy along the way.    In 2001 he founded the Centre for Wellbeing at the London-based think tank the New Economics Foundation. Nic and his team produced a stream of ground-breaking reports including the Happy Planet Index, Five Ways to Wellbeing and National Accounts of Wellbeing. In 2008 they were awarded the “Betterment of Humankind Award” from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies for their work on wellbeing in public policy.   Nic was an advisor to the UK Government Office for Science on the Wellbeing Foresight Programme and has written over 20 publications. In 2010 Nic was invited to speak at the prestigious TED global conference. His TED talk has now been watched well over a million times, and he authored one of the original three TEDbooks, entitled ‘A Happiness Manifesto’. Nic was named as one of the Top Ten Original Thinkers by the UK’s Institute of Directors magazine and his work was listed as one of Forbes Magazine’s Seven Most Powerful Ideas in 2011.   Nic is an in-demand public speaker, giving talks at a wide range of events from keynotes at HR conferences to an exclusive Virgin Unite gathering on Necker - Richard Branson’s private island - though undoubtedly his favourite recent talk was in a circus tent at the Wilderness music festival.   PICTURE SHOWNOTES Nic started out working in the public health field and over time started refining his skills working with the U.K. government and companies to help their employees. His priority to help to communicate health and happiness statistics to relay data in a meaningful way on how to live a better life. “Friday pulse” is about using KPIs to show how you measure staff engagement levels. It places an emphasis on how people “feel” and aim to have more good weeks than bad weeks and try to help with resilience in the workplace. Nic encourages people to be more open with people when they are working. Playing to their strengths, acknowledging their efforts and working on frustrations before they fester. Connect, being fair (balance), empowerment (delegation/autonomy), challenge, inspiration are examples of things organisations can do to help the happiness and well-being of their employees. Nic talks about staff morale in the time of Covid. Nic talks about the Happy Planet Index. Nic’s definition of happiness is feeling good and feeling well. Nic likes starting the morning slowly and eases into the day The top three things that make Nic’s heart sing is that he walks every day for an hour on his own to reflect and ponder, he likes dancing and being with people especially deep friendships, and being altruistic. Nic’s fantasy meal would alternate between salmon and salad or sausage and mash potato. Walking would be his non-negotiable thing he makes sure he does every day. Nic likes clever, improvised comedy and humour to make him laugh. Nic’s fantasy dinner guests would include his 80-year-old big-hearted friend Riccardo, Tim Minchin, Sandi Toksvig, and his wife Zoe. Jason Mraz “Have it All” and Leonard Cohen songs would be his theme songs BOOKS The Strange Order of Things – Antionio Demassio Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts THINGS DISCUSSED https://nicmarks.org/ fridaypulse.com Connect on LinkedIn Connect on Twitter  

Dr. Jamal Ouenniche, Professor & Chair in Business Analytics, University of Edinburgh Business School is the guest speaker in this new interview series for citiesabc. Asked by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda, Dr. Jamal Ouenniche discuss from an academic point of view the role of academia and education in today's business analytics, data and AI machine learning models and how important it is to create links, build relationships and utilize prominent researches in data and business analytics to thrive and drive business and innovation. And all of that in a convoluted world dominated by a global pandemic and the prospect of an economic recession. INTERVIEW STRUCTURE1. Profile overview: Academic and Professional career2. Education, PhD and research focus3. Role in Edinburgh University4. How does Dr Jamal Ouenniche see business data, AI, machine learning, technology and education5. The role of Data, smart cities in the present global technological developments6. How do you see AI, Blockchain, 5G tech and AI working together7. The role of Edinburgh University and research in innovation and digital transformation8. The circumstances of COVID-19 and the effects in the world education, economy and tech economies9. How business data ownership and research can be optimized to avoid a data arms race10. Highlight some of the case studies of usages of business data for good and best practicesDr. Jamal Ouenniche BiographyDr Ouenniche is Professor and Chair in Business Analytics at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UK), Member of the Business School Executive Board, Head of the Management Science and Business Economics group, and Director of the MSc in Business Analytics. He holds BSc. in Mathematics and MSc. in Operational Research from the University of Montreal (Canada), and PhD in Operations Management from Laval University (Quebec, Canada).

This is Listen to the Editors, a series of interviews with journal editors to unveil the trends in research for Operations and Supply Chain Management. In this episode, we are interviewing two of the guest editors for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) Special Issue on Covid-19, Chris Voss and Xiande Zhao. The host for this show is Iuri Gavronski, Associate Professor for the Graduate Program in Business for the UNISINOS Jesuit University. Listen to the editors is an initiative of the Operations and Supply Chain Management division of the Academy of Management. We post our interviews monthly in our division website. You can discuss any of the topics of this episode using our interactive tool, https://connect.aom.org. Using the discussion section of our site, you can also post suggestions for questions, journal editors you would like to hear from, and requests for clarifications. You can also subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or with the Podcast Addict app on Android. Website for the Journal: ======================== https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18731317 Call for Papers: ================ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/18731317/JOM%20CFP%20-%20COVID-19%20and%20Global%20Supply%20Chains-1586282145923.pdf Editors’ Bios: ============== Dr. Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His areas of specialization include global value chain innovations, supply chain management, global logistics, inventory modeling, and environmental and social responsibility. He was the founding director of the Stanford Institute for Innovations in Developing Economies, and is a co-director of the Stanford Value Chain Innovation Initiative. He has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc. He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals. From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science. In 2006, he was President of the Production and Operations Management Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. Dr. Xiande Zhao is JD.COM Chair Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His recent research interests mostly focus on supply chain and business model innovations, supply chain finance, digital supply chain, and supply chain optimization using big data. He has published over 150 journal articles in leading journals including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Consumer Research, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research and International Journal of Production Economics. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He is also the co-Chief Editor for Journal of Data, Information and Management. He is the founder and honourable president of Association of Supply Chain and Operations Management (ASCOM), and was the President of Asia Pacific Institute of Decision Sciences (APDSI). He also received more than 10 academic awards including the Jack Meredith best paper award from Journal of Operations Management. Dr. Xiang Li is a professor with the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. His recent research interests mostly focus on transport management, logistics management, and optimization under uncertainty, big-data analytics and applications. He has published over 80 articles in international journals including Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, Information Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Computer and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and so on. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Data, Information and Management, Associate Editor for Information Sciences, Transportmetrica B, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, and editorial board member for International Journal of General Systems. He was the president of International Conference on Intelligent Transportation and Logistics with Big Data (2017, 2018, and 2019). Dr. Chris Voss is Professor of Operations Management at Warwick Business School and Emeritus Professor of Operations Management at London Business School where he has served as deputy dean. His recent research has included supply-chain management, service supply chains, architecture and modularity, e-services, and service innovation. He has published in leading journals including Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, IEEE Transactions, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Decision Science Journal, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Journal of Production Economics, and Journal of Service Research. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Service Research. He was co-founder and long-term chair of the European Operations Management Association, and serves on several editorial boards. He has received many academic awards including distinguished scholar of the OM division of the Academy of Management. Deadlines: ========== The full-paper submission: January 31, 2021 First Round Review and decisions: April 30, 2021 Second Round Revision Submission: July 31, 2021 Final round review and decisions: September 30, 2021 Acknowledgements: ================= Background music: ================= “Night & Day” by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/years_and_years_ago/08--Dee_Yan-Key-Night___Day 2020-04-14 - Episode 014