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A series of podcasts with unexpected insights into the way that math, analytics, and operations research affect people like you and organizations like your own. In every segment, an expert explains ho... more
FAQs about INFORMS Today: The Podcast Series:How many episodes does INFORMS Today: The Podcast Series have?The podcast currently has 102 episodes available.
December 04, 2009Climate Change: On to CopenhagenHear MIT Professor John Sterman explain how math modelers empower decisionmakers and voters alike to examine the data and its implications of global warming....more30minPlay
November 20, 2009Supernetworks: Building Better Real and Virtual HighwaysHear Prof. Professor Anna Nagurney discuss what's going right in our networks of highways, broadband networks, and financial networks – and why the work ahead is critical....more24minPlay
November 06, 2009The Flaw of AveragesAverages only tell you so much, and Professor Sam L. Savage of Stanford University has made a cause of his career warning against simplistic mathematical assumptions....more24minPlay
October 23, 2009Running the numbers in time for the World SeriesHear Jim Cochran, an expert in sports and analytics, tell you what the numbers reveal in major league baseball, NCAA basketball and football, the NBA, and more....more33minPlay
September 22, 2009Competing on AnalyticsProf. Davenport has been named one of the world’s top three analysts of business and technology – listen to his thoughts about operations research, analytics, and his column in the current issue of Analytics in this special podcast....more25minPlay
September 04, 2009Emergency! PandemicHear operations researcher Sheldon Jacobson discuss his work making sure that vaccines and antidotes reach people speedily at this time of danger....more26minPlay
August 14, 2009The perils of success: one school district's answer in the numbersHear how the Wake County Public School System collaborated with operations researchers at SAS to develop an equitable, easy-to-use solution that is improving by the day....more25minPlay
August 07, 2009Troublemaker or Trusted Advisor?Hear a special interview with Prof. Wein, who delivered the 2008 INFORMS Philip McCord Lecture, on homeland security and staying one step ahead of the next terrorist strike....more25minPlay
July 24, 2009Using Analytics to Battle AIDS: A Lesson from the Clinton FoundationJustin Cohen of CSHOR, the foundation’s Center for Strategic HIV Operations Research, explains how measuring and analyzing bring a surprising boost to the fight against a stubborn challenge....more28minPlay
July 10, 2009Economic Calamity as a Supply Chain ProblemAll the world’s a supply chain, says Prof. Mohan Sodhi, and the answers to the vexing questions about the Great Recession lie in an understanding of how today’s economy connects to the supply chain model. Building on his tour-de-force article in the Financial Times, Prof. Sodhi takes a sobering look at the world’s economic problems and some simple ways to keep companies from the brink....more21minPlay
FAQs about INFORMS Today: The Podcast Series:How many episodes does INFORMS Today: The Podcast Series have?The podcast currently has 102 episodes available.