January 18, 2010
I missed the business meeting to have dinner with a non-SODA-attending friend and so missed the voting over the location of SODA 2012 which was apparently a close tie.
I’m a little dismayed at SODA being outside of North America. As a graduate student I would have probably been excited in my responsibility-free state. But now [...]
January 18, 2010
Many people have been blogging on the technical content at SODA, but I won’t. Given that David has already hinted that I only value the first 10 minutes of most talks, clearly I’m not in the position to expound on the more than the definition of problems and all but the highest level of analysis.
I’ve [...]
October 12, 2009
I hadn’t heard of the “smart grid” until I arrived in Oregon. Our department is pushing for a sustainability research collaboration initiative, SENERGI, and so it wasn’t long before I heard our former director, Terri Fiez, talking about the smart grid. Now, at INFORMS in San Diego, I’m listening to a keynote on the smart [...]