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    At the MIT ORC, our vibrant community of scholars and researchers work collaboratively to connect data to decisions in order to solve problems effectively—and impact the world positively. 

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    At the MIT ORC, we highly value research and the important role it plays in operations research and analytics. That’s why our students are actively engaged in research from the start.

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    Our impact can be felt around the world in areas ranging from finance to education to health care. We create mathematical models to help individuals and organizations make smarter decisions—and to improve society as a whole. 

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Ping Xu

Predicting what Amazon's customers will need tomorrow, next week, and beyond

Ping Xu ('05), forecasting science director within Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization, talks about the importance of using science to forecast the future.

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Helping robots avoid collisions

George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics.

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3 Questions: Frank Levy and Arshia Mehta on warehousing and trucking in response to Covid-19

As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new

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Dick den Hertog
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Robust Convex Optimization: A New Perspective That Unifies And Extends

9/24/20 | 4:15pm | Online only

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