Y’all science is so cool. (A) I’m at a quantum workshop in Chattanooga, cool in itself, and the reception is at the aquarium. (B) These two fish are arapaima! They are massive. Gretch (lead of my fish paper) lived on a boat in the Amazon tracking them for nearly a year for her MS thesis.

Side bar for bluesky - I love that we were able to use dancing people as the icons in the final version. This captures some of the underlying joy I have in getting to model :)

New paper: “Developing Optimization Models with Cognitive Systems Engineering” This is the result of Tyler O’Brien’s MS thesis, co-advised with Sudeep Hedge and in collaboration with Steven Foster. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #orms

Fourth Annual Clemson IE Research Group Olympics! Congrats to the combined BEST and PHASE lab team for taking home the trophy. My group got 2nd place!

I was at Western Carolina U today chatting about quantum computing. I had a great visit, and I love getting to drive through the mountains.

New paper in EJOR led by Martha Sabogal De La Pava: "Effects of geopolitical strain on global pharmaceutical supply chain design and drug shortages" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Motivating Research.

I love older papers. Lenstra and Kan, 1979 "Computational Complexity of Discrete Optimization Problems" Annals of Discrete Mathematics #orms

Clemson 😅😅😅 Ended up losing by two. It’s March!!

Ah, yes, the universal symbol of applied mathematics: the yellow cow with orange stripes.

Do you talk about #orms with the media, policymakers, public educators, or other stakeholders? Consider applying for the Public Engagement Award from INFORMS AGC. Deadline May 1, 2025. www.informs.org/Recognizing-...

This article gives some more information on the REU cancellations this summer. It sounds like the current cancellations are coming from programs that were expecting to be renewed but weren't this cycle. More might be coming with the general budget volatility. Tbd. www.science.org/content/arti...

For transparency: At this point, Clemson IE's REU is still on for this summer. We haven't heard anything to the contrary, thankfully. I'll keep y'all posted if that changes. cecas.clemson.edu/hcore/

More NIH news:

I've started organizing my to do list with purpose-driven headings, and it's been a nice lift.

Have you developed and/or implemented an optimization model to solve a real-world use case? We want to hear from you! We're extending our study on workflows in optimization modelling for a couple last interviews: tinyurl.com/3ejdr7su

The Australian Society of Operations Research (ASOR) just uploaded recordings of most of their seminars over the past 5 years. Because of time zones, I haven't gotten to watch any live, but I'm looking forward to watching a few now that they're available: asor.org.au/index.php/ev... #orms

Update to US health agency external communications being paused: These directives also appear to include grant-funding mechanisms (e.g., NIH study sections and councils) as well.

It's a big deal for US health agencies to pause external communications. I hope this is resolved immediately.

We're here! 👋

Great news: Clemson IE is hosting an NSF REU site this coming summer. The theme is H-CORE: Human-Centered Operations Research and Engineering. If you know an undergrad who may like research related to humans, systems, and analytics, this could be a great program for them. #orms #ml #mathsky

I understand many things. But how to consistently get the formatting correct on INFORMS open forum posts is not one of them. Alas.

thank you, Sophie, this helped me a lot; over the years, I tried to distiguish between something like motivation -> applicability -> is it implemented -> they make money from it, as different degrees of how close theoretical considerations are to practice :)

I would say that this article is about the standard of evidence required for statements of the form "X is applicable to Y". When writing papers we have a very low standard of evidence, whereas @jeremykun.com argues that only the highest quality of evidence suffices. (1/4) 🧵

Context behind this one: Gretchen (fish scientist!) is one of my best friends, and one night she mentioned doing AHP to rank threats for this paper. I offered to help, and here we are 🐟 It's really cool to me how concepts of resilience and mitigation show up across disciplines.

New applied paper: Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures Led by Gretchen Stokes in collaboration with colleagues at the UN and USGS. Big question: what does resilience and vulnerability look like for global inland fisheries? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I had a great day visiting NC A&T’s ISE Department. It was fun to talk about our research on global pharma supply chains with grad students and faculty, an REU program Clemson is hosting (more info to come!) with undergrads, and how to get involved in research with the IISE chapter. #orms

Great idea! Anybody want to make a BlueSky list for #orms? (I do not know how 😅 and won’t have the time for a hot minute to figure it out)

Resisting the urge to add him to the #orms group 😂

If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a searchable list of 9000+ starter packs if you’d like find other folks: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

I like to go on lunchtime walks around campus, and the route varies day by day. I just realized I’m optimizing for a new objective function today - maximize time in the sun ☀️ (I’m a smidge chilly, ha)

Hello BlueSky Community! I'm an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Clemson. I develop optimization models and methods to improve access to social good under strain. These problems tend to involve integrality, stochasticity, and trade-offs.

What I'm reading: Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization - new review from Abbas et al., 2024. #orms www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New starter pack if you're looking for the #orms community on here: go.bsky.app/SvBND16 Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.

I spilled tea on today's to-do list post-it note, and half of items are waterlogged/hard to read. Does this mean they're cancelled? Please advise.

Example of partial observability: Me looking out my office window at pedestrians to see if I need a sweater or umbrella on a lunchtime walk. The number of times I have been steered wrong by t-shirt wearing passerby… 😂

Hello BlueSky Community! I'm an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Clemson. I develop optimization models and methods to improve access to social good under strain. These problems tend to involve integrality, stochasticity, and trade-offs.