An interesting tenure track position in Game Theory and Strategic Decision-Making in Dynamic Systems has opened at the University of Groningen. The deadline for applications is 18 May 2025. Find more information on the LNMB website: lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno…

Apply now for the postdoc position in "Explainable Reinforcement Learning for the energy-mobility-housing nexus" at Utrecht University. The deadline is on 30 April 2025. Find more information on the LNMB website: lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno…

Four PhD positions are published on the LNMB website: lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno… * Energy-Efficient Scheduling, UT *Resilience of Dynamic Flow Networks, TU/e *Optimisation of cross-border patient flows and healthcare capacities, UT *Cross-border ambulance positioning, UT

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Reviewing for some national science foundation. Their online system is problematic. I accepted the assignments and they vanished from the system. This inspired me to write bad poetry. Enjoy! Three projects once seen— Clicked to confirm, now vanished. Doubt shadows my mind.

The following new items are on the LNMB website: 🌐 lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno… 🔸5-year PhD-TA position on "Load Balancing Dynamics in Complex Networks", Eindhoven University of Technology, deadline 31 May 2025 🔸28th talk ORAHS international seminar series on 13 May 2025

Upset with Albert Heijn. After control (fine), they left my perfectly packed bag unpacked again and told me that if I don't like having to pack things twice to go to the cashier next time. I've just submitted a complaint - not that it will do any good. Just had to vent somewhere.

The following new items are on the LNMB website: 🌐 lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno… 🔸PhD position on OR in Medical Labs 🔸15th International Workshop on Lot Sizing 🔸PhD School on Machine Learning and Optimization Please share with your network!

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Three new positions (junior researcher and two postdocs) all in the domain of Educational Logistics have been published at the LNMB website 🌐 lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno… Have a look and please share with your network!

News items on the LNMB website: 🌐 lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno… 🔸Learned Methods for Operations Research, CWI, 3–6 Nov. 🔸Dutch Day on Optimization 2025, Tilburg University, 13 Nov. 🔸Assistant Professor at Mathematical Optimisation, LSE, deadline: 3 Dec. Share with your network!

News on LNMB: 🌐 lnmb.nl/pages/newsanno… 🔸31st talk ORAHS international seminar series, online, 28.10.25 🔸Learned Methods for Operations Research, CWI, 3–6.11.25 🔸192nd European Study Group Mathematics with Industry 2026, Leiden, 26–30.1.26 Please share with your network!

Many students will attend their first conference at the 2026 LNMB Conference. To make that first experience a success, LNMB is launching a P2P webinar series with Dr. Verena Menzel on "How to Survive (or Even Thrive) at Your First Conference". Register:👉events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9bf010c7…

Our ICT department inspired me to write a haiku... Sigh. Ticket in their queue, Shell awaits a voice to move — Tomorrow, I call.

Is it me, or do "gentle reminders" feel almost invariably passive-aggressive?

The following announcements have been added to the LNMB website: 🌐lnmb.nl/pages/news/ 🔸15 PhD positions in ML and OR, application deadline 6 January 2026 🔸StochMod 2026: Call for abstracts, submission deadline 11 February 2026 Please share with your network!

Alba Sendón Blanco kindly translated the Women in Mathematics Poster in Galician. Find the translation EWM-NL : ewmnetherlands.nl/projects/women… If you speak a language not posted (or still under translation), please contact me to volunteer to help with translating this poster!