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Optimization Software TutORial

We held a brand new event called optimization software tutORial on December 5th. Tom, the esteemed webmaster of our student chapter, gave a presentation on different algebraic modeling languages (such...

Board Game Night

We had everyone’s favorite event-the board game night-for the first time this semester on Oct 25. It was right after INFORMS and the fall break, a perfect time as mini...

2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting Practice Talks

On Oct 12, four days before the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, the CMU INFORMS student chapter hosted a practice talk session. Those who planned to speak at INFORMS...

YinzOR2022

After one year of postponement and one year of virtual conference due to Covid, the CMU INFORMS Student Chapter was very excited to host the 5th YinzOR Conference in person....

Industry Panel

The CMU INFORMS Chapter hosted three alumni currently working with the Amazon Modeling and Optimization (MOP) Group. Dr. Amitabh Sinha was a tenured professor of Operations at Michigan Ross and...

David Shmoys: Algorithmic Tools for Congressional Districting

The American winner-take-all congressional district system empowers politicians to engineer electoral outcomes by manipulating district boundaries. To date, computational solutions mostly focus on drawing unbiased maps by ignoring political and...