[May 15 Abstract Deadline] 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting 🌐 bit.ly/3JOAYQS 📍Seattle 📆 October 20-23, 2024 Smarter decisions for a better world. #operationsresearch #datascience #AI #ML #analytics #orms #optimization #simulation #industrialengineering #appliedmathematics

The last SPS seminar of the season, a tutorial by Marco Campi, starts at 10am EST today! Hoping to see many of you soon!

📌The deadline for applications to the Esi Summer Institute in Ischia May 15 2024. Submit your application. euro-online.org

Spoilers from Opt Online [May2024]: (SP) Cutting planes for multistage stochastic integer programs; Distributionally robust covariance estimators; Multistage stochastic facility location; Subgradient/subdifferential convergence on weakly convex functions

Two conferences are around the corner: Euro and ECSO-CSM ! Both have many very interesting talks on stochastic programming ! Consider checking them out here (euro2024cph.dk) and here (ecso-cms2024.blogs.dsv.su.se)

The most recent issue of IFORS News features very nice content, including a recap of our last SPS seminar season. ifors.org/newsletter/ifo…

🗓️If you are attending ISMP2024, we are looking forward to seeing you all at our informal SPS Business Meeting on July 24 in room 516D starting at 6:30pm. We aim to gather feedback on several COSP initiatives including new prizes, website, and seminars. ismp2024.gerad.ca/schedule/meeti…

Today, our informal business meeting at #ISMP2024 will be held in room 516D at 6:30-7:30pm. (We have the room booked until 8:30pm in case anyone would like to stay longer to chat.) Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Spoilers from Opt Online [June2024] - Part I: (SP) Generalized Stiefel manifold; Exploiting overlap info in CCPs; Dec. algo. for nonconvex 2SP with strong multisec. branching; Benders dec. with scaled cuts for MSMIPs; CC approach to MDVSP; Facility plan. for EV battery recycling

Spoilers from Opt Online [June2024] - Part II: (RO) Robust system identification; Robustness analysis for adaptive opt; Stackelberg games with k-submod fnc under dist. receptiveness and robustness

Spoilers from Opt Online [July2024] - Part I: (SP) DRO with dec-dep poly. ambiguity; Contextual SPs with exp. value consts; Dec. algo. for dist. robust CCPs with poly. amb. set

Spoilers from Opt Online [July2024] - Part II: (RO) Toll-setting+robust Wardrop eq; Wass DRO w. heterogeneous data sources; Dist. and adversarial logistic regression intersecting Wass balls; IP approaches for DR-CCs with adj. risks; Exact method for a robust nonlinear opt class

Spoilers from Opt Online [Aug2024] - Part I: (SP) Markovian model for learning-to-opt; New framework to gen. Lagrangian cut in MSMIP; Two-step SQP method for nonlinear equality constrained SO; Consensus ADMM under uncertainty; Lipschitz regularization and Lagrangian cuts in MSMIP

Spoilers from Opt Online [Aug2024] - Part II: (SP) Trade-off btwn distributionally belief and ambiguity; Probing-enhanced SP; Two-stage stoch. multi-obj LPs; Strategic customers in personalized pricing

We are excited to resume our Virtual Seminar Series on September 13. We have a wonderful Fall 2024 line-up. For more information and sign-up link, please visit our website: sites.google.com/view/sps-semin…

Unfortunately, our seminar series email list server has been recently down. We are working on finding a solution to this issue asap. We will make an announcement once everything is back on track. Apologies for the inconvenience for those who are trying to sign up.

Our SPS seminars email list sign-up issue has been resolved. If you would like to sign up to receive our seminar announcements (including connection links), please follow the instructions provided on our seminar website: sites.google.com/view/sps-semin… Sorry for the inconvenience.

We are very excited to start the new season of our virtual seminars tomorrow! sites.google.com/view/sps-semin… (If you are new, please sign up for our seminar mailing list to receive the Zoom links. For tomorrow, if you have not received the Zoom link yet, please email the organizers.)