Month: February 2018

Today, again, much activity on the Linfa project.  A final version of our report on drug consumption has been published and delivered. We still lack some minor features, but the document is ready. We are now working on finalizing the

We had a very vivid LINFA project meeting  in Prato. All of the partners were present and  we discussed how to perform the next, crucial, steps in the project. We are at an important landmark: we have a relatively reliable

First day of lecture in the semester! A nice class, some 15 students all from Mechanical engineering. The course I teach is Models and Methods for Irganuzation and Management. We will  go through modeling applied problems as optimization ones; then

Our weekly Linfa project meeting today was quite an interesting one: we are running experiments to check whether a machine-learning based, prescriptive optimization model can beat stochastic optimization techniques. We think we found some evidence this might be the case.

All of (well, most of, or, at least, the interesting part of) today was devoted to high schools. In the morning I gave a presentation on “Operations research: the science of decision” to the ITE AMMIN. FINANZA E MARKETING G.GALILEI in

Most of the day, today, devoted to graduation – from our lab, three graduates (Leonardo, Alessio, Cosimo) – denfended their thesis: vry good works, very good presentation, all of them got the maximum! Good job guys, continue this way and

Last Thursday and Friday February 15/16, we had a very interesting meeting outside Paris, the first meeting of the newborn Euro Working Group on Practice of Operational Research – see also the EWG group on Linkedin The workshop took place at

          Great event today at GOL: 5 italian, internationally well known experts have been invited to present a highly significative paper. But… the rules were the paper should not have been authored by them nor by one of