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Little Operations Research Joke

When following some different blogs about Operations Research the other day, I found the following very nice OR joke on the ThinkOR blog:

At the end of his course on mathematical methods in optimization, the professor sternly looks at his students and says: “There is one final piece of advice I’m going to give you now: [...]

Explaining what is Operations Research

Towards the end of my studies, I started to work in the field of Operations Research. After that, my PhD topic was also in the field of Operations Research. Currently I work for paragon, which is the developer of AIMMS and as can be seen on the website of our company, we strive to enable people [...]

Preventing the “Whoops, here you have the attachment” second email with outlook

Who has never encountered the following problem:

You want to send somebody an email with an attachment. You create the message, hit send and the second you let go of the send button, you think “%$@!%!^, I forgot to attach the file”

One of my colleagues had a possible work around for this problem: prevent outlook from [...]

Facebook panel for Xperia X1

Recently I got a new phone: the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Before this I had pretty much every phone of the MDA series of T-Mobile (the branded version of the HTC phones). From the first windows mobile phone I got I have always had the ones with a QWERTY keyboard. I found this to be [...]

The life after my PhD years :)

It has been quite some time since my last post already again. During my PhD years I really got used to the fact that I had loads and loads of spare time besides work. The main reason for this was that I was living about 15 minutes biking away from the university.

Unfortunately, at the moment [...]

Finally, finished!!! :)

After just a bit over 4 years, last wednesday there was the grand finale of my time as a PhD student: the defense of my thesis, entitled: “Column Generation Algorithms for Machine Scheduling and Integrated Airport Planning”

First there was the dressing up, not only for me, but also for my two paranimfs (My dad on [...]

Lots of things have happened lately

The last couple of weeks have been rather busy for me. First of all there has been the fact that I had to have my PhD thesis finished to get everything to the printer to be able to make it in time for the oral defense of my thesis on the 10th of September. Luckily [...]