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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\nThis shows how eager is our community to share and learn from the experiences and successes on using OR techniques in business, governmental or environmental related challenges we face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stream organized by Joaquim Gromicho and Sofiane Oussedik included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- A one-on-one speed networking session, managed by Ruth, that allowed people in the room to know each other and uncover synergies. Attendees exchanged contact details, this will, we hope, initiate some good and fruitful collaborations. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n- A \u2018fast and furious session\u2019 that was highly rated in the stream surveys, organized and facilitated by Ruth and with a very tight timetable, 5 minutes for each talk with presentations around OR in the UK government, OR to support radiography, air traffic control, staff scheduling at airports, among other topics. Speakers shared their achievements but also the challenges they faced when modelling and building the solutions. Presentations on how to build a successful OR team and how to build optimization solutions that have an impact were also delivered. Attendees learned a lot from these presentations, great atmosphere and knowledge sharing in the room! Excellent feedback including comments such as \u201cIt’s a great format!\u201d and \u201cInteresting session!\u201d or \u201cneed for a larger room\u201d (even if that was a room that was twice larger than the other regular conference rooms) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n- Matteo from Optit delivered a presentation that summarized the work group event in Bologna in March, a one day and a half event in March 2019 that was dedicated to Machine Learning and OR combined. Follow-up activities on this topic that generates a lot of interest are planned by the work group. Follow this link to read more about the Bologna event: https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n- We also had the pleasure and chance to welcome, Rafaele Maccioni for a Franz Edelman Award finalist presentation on Forecasting, Simulation, and Optimization for Vehicle Rental with important Return on investment achieved and shared with the attendees along with the challenges faced. What a \u201cbest\u201d solution really means was at the heart of the solution design. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n- A workshop on Optimization with python (EURO-2019, June 26). The first half of the tutorial was given by Joaquim Gromicho and consisted in a light but general introduction to mathematical optimization with python, he started with the presentation<\/a> and proceeded with a demonstration of the notebook<\/a>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAfterwards Gurobi excited us with a preview of the upcoming support to quadratic equations, in fact mixed integer bilinear programming, in version 9.0, mixed integer bilinear programming in version 9.0<\/a>, and invited those interested to request an alpha version of the upcoming solver if they cannot wait until the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then Fico gave an overview of the many linear, integer and nonlinear functionalities of their solver. Fico kindly provided their notebook<\/a> and two additional files required to run it, qplib_2702.lp<\/a> and sampleprob.mps<\/a> (note that you may need to ask a suitable license from Fico.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- A workshop on Optimization with python (EURO-2019, June 26). The first half of the tutorial was given by Joaquim Gromicho and consisted in a light but general introduction to mathematical optimization with python, he started with the presentation<\/a> and proceeded with a demonstration of the notebook<\/a>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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