Showing posts with label Operations Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Operations Research. Show all posts
Friday, November 1, 2024

Lanchester prize to Ashlagi, Kanoria, Leshno, Braverman and Shi (post 2 of 2)

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  INFORMS has now announced the details of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize , which went to two teams, one of which worked on matching and ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Lanchester Prize (Post 1 of 2)

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  The 2024 INFORMS meetings in Seattle this weekend was the occasion of a number of awards, including the Lanchester Prize, the big publicat...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Call for papers: special issue on Market Design at Mathematics of Operations Research

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  Paul Milgrom and Martin Bichler write: We are excited to announce that, as an initiative arising from discussions during the fall program,...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

My Morse Lecture at INFORMS 2022, tomorrow

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  Tomorrow, Wednesday October19, from 8-9am Eastern time, I'll be giving the Morse Lecture at the INFORMS 2022 annual meeting in Indiana...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Stability in Matching Markets with Complex Constraints by H. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, and A. Teytelboym

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 Here's a paper motivated in part by the issues that arise in matching refugee families to localities in which to settle (once they have...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

Morse lecture at INFORMS next year: market design and the study of operations

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  In 1974, the year I received my Ph.D. from Stanford's (then) Department of Operations Research, it was unclear in what discipline game...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Informs Auctions and Market Design (AMD) Online Seminar Series

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I recently gave a talk on kidney exchange, to help launch the Informs Auctions and Market Design (AMD) Online Seminar Series.  If I've d...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Auctions and Market Design Friday Seminar Series, organized by INFORMS (starting Oct 2)

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  The auctions and market design section of INFORMS (the Operations Research and Management Science organization) is initiating a new semi...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Kidney Exchange: an Operations Perspective by Ashlagi and Roth

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Here's a survey that puts some emphasis on the many changes in the design of kidney exchange operations and processes that have moved i...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Family legacies in Operations Research (and related fields)

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ORMS Today has an article on multi-generations of operations researchers, broadly defined. Like father, like son and daughter All in the...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Special issue of NRL in honor of Uri Rothblum, February 2019

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Occasionally an Operations journal can bring memories flooding back: here's a special issue in honor of my old friend Uri Rothblum, who...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Afshin Nikzad defends (x2)

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Defense 2, (Offense 0). Afshin Nikzad defended twice in eight days, to qualify for two Ph.D.s, one from Management Science and Engineerin...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Auctions and Market Design Section of INFORMS

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Martin Bichler writes: We are excited about the successful formation of the  Auctions and Market Design Section of INFORMS ! Please visi...
Monday, December 4, 2017

The academic market for operations researchers

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Operations Academia  is a relatively new website, organized by a postdoctoral fellow in his free time (see below) whose purpose is to provi...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Market Design and Operations Research: an interview by the journal Mathematics of Operations Research

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The journal Mathematics of Operations Research , where the main paper from my dissertation was published in 1976, has published an intervie...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture: Ken Arrow on his intellectual history and the history of Operations Research (video)

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I've had occasion to think about Operations Research recently, and it's relationships with Economics.  Here's Ken Arrow recalli...
Friday, November 14, 2014

More on Nimrod Megiddo winning the INFORMS von Neumann Theory Prize

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Here's the citation for Nimrod Megiddo winning the John von Neumann Theory Prize John von Neumann Theory Prize 2014 Winner(s):...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Nimrod Megiddo awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize at INFORMS 2014

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Nimrod Megiddo was announced as the winner of the 2014 von Neumann Theory Prize  at the INFORMS meeting yesterday (although as of this wri...