Michael Trick

Dean, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Professor of Operations Research, Sports Scheduler, Blogger. Check me out at

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

Hey, @nytimes . I get it: I travel too much. But it's just me. Do you really need to accuse me daily of sharing my account, requiring endless security codes and pushing the family plan at every opportunity?

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

It works be nice if National Car @nationalcares standardized a bit more. Jasper's (Alberta) $1000 drop off and just 200km mileage is abusive. Or is that standard for National?

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

@goodreads "Too Expensive" for books I want over $10. I check it periodically to see if the price has gone down.

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Kelly Easton, my sports scheduling colleague and friend. Kelly was instrumental in our scheduling MLB and countless other leagues. She was my coauthor on all the Traveling Tournament Problem papers. And she left us too young. #orms

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

I no longer post here but will make an exception to acknowledge the passing of Hugh Bradley, instrumental in TIMS, ORSA, INFORMS @INFORMS and particularly IFORS @iforsofficial as treasurer through a key period. I will miss him greatly. https://t.co/cuobYtAp4x

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

I've seen enough. Follow me on blue sky https://t.co/LDBTdXPhkg I'll keep my @dean_trick account here, but all #orms posts, likes, etc. will be in the other site.

[Subject to @Subjectto_]

Season 5 of the s.t. podcast has wrapped up, and the playlist featuring all 20 episodes is now available on YouTube: https://t.co/wLjQkroB4w.

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

@thyunes You are lucky I didn't recommend Manitoba! But the public transportation in Seattle is fantastic, so I am glad you used it to get to the airport.

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

@msjalali @INFORMS2024 You can pick what you want in the app (engagefully) #informs2024

[Tallys Yunes @thyunes]

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[Negin Golrezaei @NeginGolrezaei]

I'm sad to share that John D.C. Little, a long-time member of the MIT Sloan community, passed away on September 27, 2024. He made huge contributions to Operations Research, including the famous Little’s Law. RIP John. https://t.co/B69zCmzd3Y

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

This is a very cool result. I wonder what is the 100 node TSP with the most necessary subtour constraints (given the computational tests such most have very few).

[Margaretha Gansterer @marganst1]

It is my distinct pleasure to announce that Martin Savelsbergh is the winner of the 2024 @TSLSociety Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award! We will celebrate with Martin at the TSL Business Meeting, held Monday evening during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle. Join us!

[Michael Trick @miketrick]

My son and I loved Twenty-sided Tavern. Adding @feliciaday is awesome! I wish we could see it again, but travel precludes another NYC trip.

[Tim Roughgarden @Tim_Roughgarden]

Periodic reminder that at my website you can find over 1000 pages of lecture notes on algorithms, data science, game theory, market and mechanism design, blockchain protocols, and more (see replies for link)

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

This is the coolest "application" of LLMs I have seen in a while: instead of using an LLM to solve a problem set, flip the table and ask the student to TEACH the LLM how to solve the problem set. Really lovely.
Thx to Jordan Hoffmann for sharing this :-). https://t.co/cHQaOGFUVZ

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In an horrible moment, Donald Trump claims the staff, who tend to the cemetery that is the resting place for those who served our nation, are bad people. This is as unpatriotic and un-American as it gets. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Eduardo Uchoa @ed_uchoa]

Excited to release Part I of Optimizing with Column Generation. Not a draft. Two years of hard work led to 300 pages covering CG principles in depth. Check https://t.co/njDTUaCJmf Your feedback will help us with the forthcoming Part II on advanced techniques!

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

Things like this tend to happen for people who live in Connecticut but run for the Senate in Pennsylvania.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Vice President Harris: On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America