We definitely beat the heat today! Here are some "hot" faces from this semester's #UT#INFORMS picnic! π₯ A "warm" welcome to UT to those who just joined us this Fall π
(ok I'm done with the heat puns)
Voting drive, driving votes: We got a bunch of folks to seal their envelopes and stick their stamps for the @INFORMS constitutional amendment votes! #MakeItCount
All @ut_orie students, faculty members, and alumni are welcome to join us this Sunday (11/13) for our Fall 2022 semester ORIE Potluck! It will take place from 1-4 PM at Festival Beach near Lady Bird Lake. We hope to see you there! π€ππ
Students often come talk to me about whether they should do a #PhD.
The first question I always ask is, "Do you think it would be FUN?"
This is the key. If a PhD program is fully funded (should be), could only boost your career, and you'll ENJOY it, then go for it! #gradschool
One thing I love about #operationsresearch is that I constantly encounter new application domains where our methods are valuable, and then get to learn all about them! It's a terrific discipline for "generalists" who are intellectually curious about many domains, and one of the
I'm delighted to be at @IIASAVienna this week and next with @ut_orie PhD student @RachelMoglen, thanks to a seed grant from @UTexasGlobal π€ππ¦πΉ
We are researching the full, economy-wide #decarbonization potential of changes at the consumer demand level, including upstream
A big thank you to @PVAMU and @1AliFares for hosting a fantastic course on Rising Technologies and Analytics for a Sustainable #WEF nexus as part of the @INFEWS_UT program! I wish more of my classes involved petting goats...
Thanks to @BrentAustgen for not only sharing this, but also teaming with @A_RShukla on this paper that brought the award to @ut_orie, @UTAustin and @EnergyUT. Proud of them and looking forward to their future accomplishments.
Proud of @A_RShukla for winning the @IISE_ES Best Student Paper Award at #IISEAnnual2022. I wish I could have been there. It is always fun to work with such hard working, productive, and always sincere students.
Congrats to @A_RShukla for representing us (@KutanogluE & @jhasenbein) so well and taking home the best energy systems student paper award with "Budget Allocation in Optimizing Power Grid Resilience to
Extreme Weather: Hardening, Preparation, or Recovery?" at #IISEAnnual2022!