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The new SMU student chapter of INFORMS is having its student/faculty mixer and kick-off meeting on Monday, November 2, 4 p.m., at the Huitt-Zollars Pavilion of the Embrey Building. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the professional society for practicing management scientists and OR professionals. All interested parties are invited and welcome, and refreshments will be served. Read more »

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The new SMU student chapter of INFORMS is having its student/faculty mixer and kick-off meeting on Monday, November 2, 4 p.m., at the Huitt-Zollars Pavilion of the Embrey Building. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the professional society for practicing management scientists and OR professionals. All interested parties are invited and welcome, and refreshments will be served. Read more »

Faculty

The Office of Naval Research has awarded the following research grant to EMIS faculty Jeff Kennington and Eli Olinick:

Using Optimization to Design Wireless Local Area Networks

Developing a good design for a wireless local area network for a multistory building is a challenging problem.  The designer must determine the number and location of the access points (radio
transmitters and receivers), the best power setting for these access points, and the frequency to be assigned to the access points. Since the exact location of the mobile devices (i.e. users) is not known, evaluation of a given design requires a statistical analysis over a random sample of potential locations.  Our objective is to
develop optimization-based prototype design tools for both current and future versions of these networks.

Funding level: $135,000.

Students

Jerome Bortoluzzi (B.S. Management Science, 2008) was silver medalist in the Men’s Hammer Throw event of the XVI Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy, on July 2, 2009. (Shown on left in photo.)

At present he is competing at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.  (See IAAF bio, results., video)

Caruth

A series of photographs chronicling the construction of the new Caruth Hall, future home of the EMIS department, is posted at:

• our CaruthWatch gallery (updated July 30)
• a webcam history of the Caruth construction