Abhi Gosavi

Good to read that. A couple of years ago the lines were long. I saw your post on LinkedIn; you have many students presenting: my best wishes to them all.

No, I'm not attending this year, but our student is presenting our research on digital twins.

Hope you have a terrific time in Atlanta at @informs.bsky.social 2025!

Congrats to Dr. Elmagrabhy and all the other newly elected members of the board. My very best wishes to them!

Truly excited about teaching a course on Markov Decision Processes #MDPs after a gap of 8 years. #Gratitude to many for making this happen. Am making the notes from the first module publicly available here (comments welcome):
simoptim.com/course-notes...

YouTube video by The Democracy Forum ‘Supply chain vulnerabilities and the need for diversification'

Please join us tomorrow for a timely panel & discussion on #supplychains & #vulnerabilities, thanks to The Democracy Forum, Lord Bruce & @humphreyhawksley.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyqP... @isenbergumass.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social @informs.bsky.social @theorsociety.bsky.social

Will have to disagree a little here and *open to discussion*: Is this really something that a human brain can't catch? I know productivity is a good thing, yet uploading unpublished research into AI means it can get into databases. Plus, I'm repeatedly being told readers like my chatty Indian tone 😂

Passengers exit plane via emergency slide after aborted takeoff Passengers evacuated onto the runway via emergency slides after an American Airlines flight aborted its takeoff on the runway in Denver on Saturday.

Scary: abcnews.go.com/US/passenger...

What to know after plane crash near Indian airport with 242 people on board Footage posted to social media shortly after the crash and verified by NBC News, shows plumes of thick black smoke rising into the sky to the south of the airport in Ahmedabad.

Plane crash: Ahmedabad, India, to London, UK www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Streamlit This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈

New addition to website optimization4all.com devoted to operations research, a repository for freely available material on #ORMS. Here is our latest case study w/ codes included for airline revenue management: airline-revenue-managment-or.streamlit.app Detailed write up: github.com/adhikaripraj...

Optimization Expertise Hub

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

optimization4all.com

I have not deactivated my X account and occasionally do go there. But I agree it has become wild. And I have been thinking about deactivating it.

There has to be something wrong about a President openly taking a gift from a foreign entity.

The last week of classes for me. It has been a long semester. The last few months have not been easy for me or my siblings due to the passing of our mom. I'm looking forward to the summer now.

"Life is too short for wasting energy on anything that isn't mutual. I don't fear growing old. I fear losing myself just to please others. At this point in my life, I choose peace ---above everything else" Meryl Streep

The pandemic stole about two years from our life. Does anybody feel that way?

Wow!

Zelensky and Trump meet inside St Peter's Basilica before Pope's funeral The two leaders held talks ahead of attending the service in Vatican City on Saturday.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do hope good sense will prevail and this horrible war will end now!

Do any of you in #ORMS take the journal impact factor into consideration when submitting a manuscript for peer review? I'm also v. interested in knowing what the younger generation is thinking for--let's face it--they are the future 😃

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'

Interesting thoughts on research productivity from Higgs: www.theguardian.com/science/2013...

Am trying to download a user interface for Python simulator, and guess what? At the top of the website, it says "please support Ukraine." Thought of you immediately. Hope the war ends soon!

Attend Woman of the Year ceremony April 9 The Woman of the Year and winner of the Dr. Elizabeth Cummins Women’s Advocate Award will be announced at the Woman of the Year award ceremony and luncheon 12-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, at Hasselma...

The Woman of the Campus Award, which is something very special & unique to Missouri S&T, will be announced today. Unfortunately, I have a lab scheduled for my Layout course at the same time. Please to attend if your schedule permits: econnection.mst.edu/2025/03/atte...

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I would love to go back to the days when it was about quality rather than quantity. Certainly publishing was not a game then. Many of those folks are now in their 70s; they were passionate about the work they did, & it showed in the quality of the work they accomplished.

A lot of Gen Z folks are comfortable sharing their career lows as well as highs, which has led to its high popularity!

I get almost no reaction here anymore. Is it just me or has interest in Blue Sky diminished?

Difficult news from Myanmar about the #earthquake & the devastating death toll. Many buildings were not designed to withstand an earthquake.

Do you know we also have such buildings in St. Louis, MO, which is in an earthquake zone? #disaster simoptim.com/main/paper_d...

Overwhelming community response to tornado cleanup efforts The spirit of voluntarism is alive and well in Phelps County and its neighboring communities.

Overwhelming volunteer response to the EF2 tornado that struck Rolla recently, bringing the situation under control! #DisasterResponse www.phelpscountyfocus.com/news/article...

It's truly nice how my Yahoo calendar nicely synchs with my smartphone calendar, but I've never gotten the MS Outlook calendar to do the same 🤦‍♂️

Digital twins: The next frontier of factory optimization Digital twins revolutionize factory decision-making, driving efficiency and optimizing operations for forward-thinking manufacturers.

Fantastic news for reinforcement learning and the Bellman equation! This McKinsey report shows they used #RL within a digital twin for process improvement! www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...