{"id":51,"date":"2010-06-18T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-09-22T02:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:01:23","slug":"informs-2010-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/informs-2010-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"INFORMS 2010: Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ijWUl1U6puI\/TB5758te2uI\/AAAAAAAAADg\/PzakXXdtXTg\/s1600\/Argentina+-+Iguazu+Falls+048.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ijWUl1U6puI\/TB5758te2uI\/AAAAAAAAADg\/PzakXXdtXTg\/s200\/Argentina+-+Iguazu+Falls+048.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484957631663495906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I have just returned (well returning actually &#8211; I am at the airport) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/\">INFORMS<\/a> conference in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buenos_Aires\">Buenos Aires<\/a>. In fact, we stayed on a few days and a very good colleague of mine is Argentinian and we toured round the North of the country. The highlight, undoubtedly, being <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iguazu_Falls\">Iguazu Falls<\/a>. They are spectacular (see picture for just a small part of the falls).<\/p>\n<p>This is only the second INFORMS conference I have been two (the <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings2.informs.org\/PuertoRico2007\/index.htm\">previous one<\/a> was in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\">Puerto Rico<\/a> in 2007). I find them very good.<br \/>The tutorials are especially useful and the one by <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.gsia.cmu.edu\/trick\/\">Mike Trick<\/a> on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Benders Approach for Hard Problems<\/span> was particularly beneficial. At the time of writing, the powerpoint slides for this presentation we available from Mike&#8217;s web site (<a href=\"http:\/\/mat.gsia.cmu.edu\/trick\/Talks\/alio.pptx\">PPTX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.gsia.cmu.edu\/trick\/Talks\/alio_ppt03.ppt\">PPT<\/a>). If I can ever get my head around the ideas underlying Bender&#8217;s approach, I can see this being a very useful technique for a variety of problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned (well returning actually &#8211; I am at the airport) from the INFORMS conference in Buenos Aires. In fact, we stayed on a few days and a very good colleague of mine is Argentinian and we toured round the North of the country. The highlight, undoubtedly, being Iguazu Falls. They are spectacular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}