We will be having our traditional end of semester party! Mark your calenders!
Topic: Wildfire Fuel Management: Network-based Models and Optimization of Prescribed Burning
Presenter: Dr. Dmytro Matsypura, Associate Professor, Business Analytics, Sydney Business School
Title: Leveraging Social Influence and Social Networks To Improve Driving Safety
Presenter: Dr. Shannon Roberts
As usual, we will hold a tune-ups event for INFORMS Annual Conference and the other upcoming conferences. This event will help conference presenters fine-tune their presentation skills. When the presenters and their presentations for the tune-ups are finalized, we will announce them here on the website.
Topics and presenters are on the poster below:
Title: Opportunities to Address Human Trafficking Using Operations Research and Analytics.
Presenter: Dr. Renata Konrad
We will spend some time together for dinner/drinks at Campus Center.
We will spend a couple of hours on University of Massachusetts Cold Spring Orchard Research & Education Center, picking up apples and then having a dinner together. This will help foster team building for our new officers.
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