It was an honor and a pleasure to chair the 2025 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop from June 2 to 6 in Minneapolis, MN. For everyone that missed it, we missed you too but you may catch up on the talk/poster details and competition winners via mixedinteger.org/2025 and the #mip2025 workshop program.

The Mathematics Jobs Wiki is open for the 2025–2026 season. notable.math.ucdavis.edu/wiki/Mathema... #MathSky

Teddy knew what he was talking about.

An interesting new website just launched for folks in the optimization community. optimization4all.com

This quote seems to harken some public figure, but for the life of me I can't think of who it might be.... (h/t to 7Takeaways [.com]. Worth a free subscription.)

Matthew Hiller started making anti-Elon Musk stickers for Teslas after Musk's X takeover. He's made six figures selling them.

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’

During the campaign, Trump said it would be so easy to end the war in Ukraine he could do it in 24 hours and in fact would do it before being inaugurated. Three months after his inauguration, his chief diplomat now says it is so hard he may stop trying. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

My dad's mom died when I was 15ish. I didn't use my mom's mother as an excuse; instead, I sat with her as she died several years after I graduated college. But I do remember "my grandmother died" being used by several other students as an excuse during my college years. Some 'died' several times!

Thiago Serra has posted a list of summer schools on OR-related topics. thiagoserra.com/2025/02/04/s...

Today, the daughters of Dr. Marguerite Frank wrote me that she passed away on Dec. 11 at the age of 97. I had written a post about her & Ailsa Land when they turned 93: annanagurney.blogspot.com/2021/03/cele... No obituary yet. Marguerite was a friend. I helped with a paper award in her honor. #orms

Santa may be late this year.

Santa may be late this year.

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.

Erwin Kalvelagen posted slides for a talk he gave about large scale #optimization models. It contains some interesting stuff. yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2024/07/prac...

Random thought for the day: a completely logical AI program would probably crash trying to fill out a US federal tax return; but an LLM prone to hallucination would have no trouble with it.

Interesting post by Nate Brixius about a mixed integer programming model ahead of its time. nathanbrixius.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/d...