Professor Nick G Hall is current President of INFORMS. His talk will cover four topics at a nontechnical level:
- The first part of the talk should be of interest to the leaders of the OR and analytics profession. It describes INFORMS’ organization, strategic goals, current situation and activities. A particular focus is INFORMS’ first ever national Policy Summit to be held on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21st.
- The second part of the talk should be of interest to researchers and practitioners. The speaker will provide his perspectives on Analytics, what it means and does not mean, where it is leading the field, and some unintended consequences.
- The third part of the talk should be of interest to younger scholars and graduate students. The speaker will discuss the currently active directions and research potential of three topics: the sharing economy, precision healthcare, and project management.
- The last part of the talk provides a brief discussion of the challenges faced by the operations research and analytics profession currently and over the next 10 years.
Lunch will be provided for registered participants.
Nicholas G. Hall is Berry Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1986), as well as B.A., M.A. degrees from the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in project management, incentives, and scheduling. He has published over 80 articles in the journals Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Games and Economic Behavior, Interfaces, and several other journals. His main teaching interest is in project management.
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