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MSA Current Events Professors Georgia Perakis and Andreas Schulz of the MSA Operations Research group were recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations to both of them on this great news! Congratulations to Hongmin Li upon the birth of a daughter, Ellie Wang on December 3, 2004. Hongmin is a Ph.D. student in the Operations Management group.   Glen Urban is quoted in this CFO story: How Their Garden Grows Erik Brynjolfsson and the eBusiness Center are mentioned in CommsDesign: Cisco extends sponsorship of MIT research Erik Brynjolfsson is interviewed by NetworkWorldFusion: Hallmarks of the 'digital organization' Benjamin Grosof is quoted in Oracle: Let's Get Real A team of researchers including Andreas S. Schulz has just received one of the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards supporting new Information Technology Research (ITR) projects. The research team, which also includes several researchers from Georgia Tech, received $1.2 million of funding over a 3-year period for the development of methodology and technology to support effective inter-company logistics collaboration. "Over the past five years, the ITR priority area has expanded the scope and size of the nation's research effort in the development and use of information technology," said Peter Freeman, head of NSF's directorate for computer and information science and engineering. "This year's awards, supported by all of NSF's directorates, continue to emphasize interdisciplinary opportunities and the key issues facing our society at large." Benjamin Grosof is quoted in the Boston Globe: Getting back in the game--US to retake lead in supercomputers with IBM machine Erik Brynjolfsson talks to InformationWeek: Productivity Growth Slows, But I.T. Will Lead To Gains Jim Orlin, Michael Yee, Ely Dahan and John Hauser are finalists for the American Marketing Association's Explor award in marketing research. From the AMA: "The EXPLOR Award was established in 1999 to award exemplary performance and leadership in online research, as well as highlight innovative applications in online research initiatives."   Read previous MSA Current Events   Last modified January 26, 2006

MSA Spotlight Welcome to MSA   Professor Kimberly Thomson Professor Thompson's research interests and teaching focus on the issues related to developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, and consideration of the implications associated with including diverse background, she seeks to effectively integrate technological, social, decisions. Professor Thompson released the first study of the Fortune 1000 companies aimed at assessing their commitments to children in March 2003. Her research currently focuses heavily on system dynamics and dynamic modeling, particularly in the context of modeling policies for polio risk management after the success of global eradication, and on characterizing the value of information. Professor Thompson received her B.S. and M.S. from MIT (Course 10) and her Sc.D. from Harvard University. She is Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the Kids Risk Project (www.kidsrisk.harvard.edu).On August 10, the MSA staff had an outing to the Butterfly Garden exhibit at the Museum of Science http://www.mos.org/doc/1475 .   Professor Aharon Ben-Tal (Israel) Ronnie is Professor of Operations Research and Head of the MINERVA Optimization Center at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1973. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, University of Copenhagen and Delft University of Technology. His recent interests are in Continuous Optimization, particularly nonsmooth and large-scale problems, conic and robust optimization, as well as convex and nonsmooth analysis. In the last 10 years, he has devoted much effort to the engineering applications of optimization methodology and computational schemes. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and co-authored two books: Optimality in Nonlinear Programming: A Feasible Direction Approach (Wiley-Interscience, 1981) and Lectures on Modern Convex Optimization: Analysis, Algorithms and Engineering Applications (SIAM-MPS series on optimization, 2001). He was dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion (1989-1992). He served as a council member of the Mathematical Programming Society (1994-1997). He was Area Editor (Continuous Optimization) of Math. Of Operations Research (1993-1999), and member of the Editorial Board of SIAM J. Optimization, J. Convex Analysis, OR Letters and Math. Modelling and Numerical Analysis.     Previous MSA Spotlights

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