Showing posts with label Operations Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Operations Research. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2025

Market Design Impact Award to Hassidim, Romm, and Shorrer

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 The Hebrew University breaks the news with this congratulatory message : "Congratulations to our very own Assaf Romm  and coauthors! ...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

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 Grace Guan defended her Ph.D. dissertation this past Friday. Welcome to the club, Grace.       Here's my earlier post about one of the...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Kidney exchange in Operations Research (and elsewhere)

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 Kidney exchange is an important medical innovation that has given rise to literatures not only in medicine but in economics, computer scien...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

INFORMS celebrates Yash Kanoria

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Last month, INFORMS ' Division of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management awarded Yash Kanoria   the 2025  MSOM Young Scholar...
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...