The cool thing about proving a theorem is that you made a permanent contribution to humanity. But will it be useful, who knows? The cool thing about empirical work is that you make an immediately relevant contribution to humanity. But will it last forever, who cares?

PhD student progression. Phase I: I tried your idea and it didn't work. Phase II: And this is why it didn't work. Phase III: And so I came up with my own idea. Phase IV: I changed the problem slightly, it's actually more practical, and I have an idea to solve it.

Teaching a PhD seminar this fall on contextual and fair optimization. Feel free to suggest 1 or 2 papers (especially your own) to put on the reading list.

Finding and selecting good reviewers is probably the most important task as an editor. I'm proud that I've had over 100 reviewers without asking anyone more than once (yet). If you want to be more involved with reviewing, just reach out to (associate) editors and tell them!

Columbia IEOR is hiring an assistant or associate professor, apply here! apply.interfolio.com/157379

Columbia is hosting a workshop on Nov 8-9 celebrating Don Goldfarb and his many amazing contributions. Details and (free) registration are here: ieor.columbia.edu/content/celebr…

Had a very fun and productive week at Schloss Dagstuhl for a seminar on Machine Learning Augmented Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems! Many thanks to the organizers Deepak Ajwani Bistra Dilkina Tias Guns and Ulrich Meyer

Don't forget to apply, deadline is a couple weeks away. IE/OR is a broad field, if you do things with data applied to energy, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profits, transportation, etc.... apply!

Is academic Twitter moving? Do we stay here? What's happening. I just want to learn about cool research updates and academia news

Thanks, I just joined and used your starter pack

Want to work in Columbia IEOR as a lecturer or senior lecturer? Beyond teaching, many of my colleagues also do research and work with industry. Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/157380

The phrase "Edits become suggestions" for "Reviewing" is confusing. The edits seem to actually change the LaTeX/pdf directly, so they are not quite suggestions. I think "Edits are tracked" would make more sense.

Excited to join this panel on May 18 at 10:30 AM ET! We’ll discuss career paths in academia and research labs for PhDs in #OM and #OR. Tune in LIVE on YouTube: youtube.com/live/AIn_7faIc… Dimitris bertsimas, Mohammad Hajiaghayi (IG@mhajiaghayi,YT:hajiaghayi), Shmoys, Zeevi, and myself Negin Golrezaei. #PhDJobMarket

Deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Hani Mahmassani (H Mahmassani). Hani was a scholar like no other and a true community builder at his core. Conversations with him were always a source of inspiration. He was deeply respected and admired by all who had the privilege of

How does one add requested figures/plots in a rebuttal for NeurIPS? NeurIPS Conference Open Review