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
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
Our group at ISMP2018 Bordeaux
First presentation today by a member of our GOL team at the Mathematical Programming conference in Bordeaux, a huge scientific meeting with more than 1550 presentations! Tommaso presented his research on sparse multiobjective optimization: a fantastic presentation, perfect in timing,
Three of our new putative optima for sphere packing have been published
The www.packomania.com site has certified that 3 (out of our 5 submissions) of new putative optima are indeed improvements. The other two had already been discovered but not yet published. From the official web site for sphere packing: 29-Jun-2018: Three
Machine learning applied to soccer
On June 10th, 2018, Repubblica has published a short news on an interesting application of Artificial Intelligence to soccer developed in our lab.
New results in sphere packing
We are performing experiments with a new global optimization algorithm based on clustering. While experimenting on the sphere packing problem (the problem of placing N identical, non overlapping, spheres of maximum radius inside the unit cube) we discovered 5 new
Machine learning, Optimization, Management
Today my master course on “Models and Algorithms for Organization and Management” has finished. I have had a very good class, with quite a lot of students – it has been a great satisfaction for me. But, differently from previous
Two papers now on line, the same day!
In the same day, two different papers appeared on line. One is a paper devoted to scheduling a sport tournament, publisehd on INFORMS Interfaces: https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2017.0932 “Scheduling the Italian National Volleyball Tournament”, by Guido Cocchi, Alessandro Galligari, Federica Picca Nicolino, Veronica Piccialli, myself and
Introductory lecture on Operations Research at Istituto Dagomari (Prato)
This morning I gave my third (and last for 2018) lecture in the Pianeta Galileo series at the Istituto Dagomari in Prato. Again, exactly as in my previous two experiences, it has been an exciting morning for me. The audience