I have been invited to Vienna by my friend and colleague Manuel Bomze for the OGDA 2018 workshop. It was an excellent workshop with top level talks. My role has been that of opening the panel discussion on the theme:
OBA2019 announced
The Second Edition of the Summer School on Optimization, Big Data and Applications (OBA) June 30th – July 06th, 2019 has been announced. Please register to this important scientific event.
Call for ideas for high social impact research
We started a brainstorming session to find a “high” research theme with strong social impact. Work in progress, please contribute on the gsuite doc: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1ZVy0U65ibUa_9uU6Na5AVLJJgoY3qNlM
Discrete optimization on a quantum computer
This thesis is devoted to experiment numerical optimization techniques on the D-Wave quantum computer We will simulate some combinatorial optimization problems and try to find innovative problem mapping in order to fully exploit the capacity of the quantum annealing machine.
4+1 new PhD students in our research group!
We are glad to announce that next November 1st we will significantly expand our research group with 4 students enrolled in a new PhD course at GOL plus one who is starting his PhD program as an employee at Verizon
Three research positions are available for data products at Verizon Connect / Florence (Italy)
Three calls for permanent research positions are now open at Verizon Connect, via Paisiello 26, Firenze. All of them are for Data Products, one is for a Senior Data Scientist, one for a Research Engineer and another one for a Data Scientist. The reason
The new academic year starts!
This week we are starting our Fall semester courses. It is always a very welcome event in our lab! We begin these courses: Fundamentals of Operations Research (for Computer Science Engineering) by Marco Sciandrone Fundamentals of Operations Research (for Management
Optimal decision trees
Based on a paper by D. Bertsimas, we experimented on discrete optimization algorithms for the optimal training of a decision tree. Assigned: July 2018, discussed December 2018 Student: Francesca Del Lungo
Scheduling staff in an hospital ward
This thesis dealt with developing an optimization algorithm for health care staff planning, based on a real ward requirements. Required skills: linear programming, possibly python, Java or C++ Student: Giulia Forasassi (based on an initial model prepared by Ayca Sarikaya,
PhD ceremony
Today all PhD students of the University of Florence who got their degree in the last year participated to the official ceremony. We are proud of our Alessandro, who received the degree from the Rector prof. Luigi Dei. Here is