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Pictures of the Social Networking and Operations Research Panel

This morning, I attended the “Social Networking and Operations Research” panel discussion, moderated by Laura McLay.  It was interesting and informative to hear the panel’s thoughts on the use of social networking and blogging to further knowledge of operations research techniques and applications.  I found their thoughts on LinkedIn (it’s a good idea, but not necessarily the best implementation) and twitter (it’s useful primarily to promote other things, including blog posts) to be pretty informative.

Panelists (l to r in the pictures):

• Wayne Winston - mathletics (Dr. Winston wrote the introductory OR textbook I used in college; I’m linking a newer version here than the one I have)
• Mike Trick - Mike Trick’s Operations Research Blog
• Anna Nagurney - RENeW
• Aurelie Thiele - Thoughts on Business, Engineering, and Higher Education
• Laura McLay - Punk Rock OR

Dr. McLay has already posted about the panel, as have Dr. Nagurney and Dr. Thiele, so I’ll keep this short.