This seminar is a kickoff for the 32nd EURO conference organized in Otaniemi in July 2022. EURO is the main European operations research and analytics conference with some 2,500 participants from around the world. The seminar provides an opportunity to hear about how OR and analytics are being utilized in Finnish companies, and what kinds of opportunities the conference offers for companies in terms of visibility, sponsorship, recruitment, and collaboration.

The event is organized at 4 pm at A Grid, Otakaari 5. Please register here. Visit the seminar web site for more information.

Juha Törmänen will defend his doctoral thesis "Systems Intelligence - Measurement and Modelling" on 16 September 2021 at 12.15 on Zoom https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68364617463.

The doctoral thesis is available electronically here.

Edoardo Tosoni will defend his doctoral thesis "Novel methods of scenario analysis for the probabilistic risk assessment of nuclear waste storage and disposal facilities" on 14 September 2021 at 12.15 in lecture hall H304 and Zoom https://aalto.zoom.us/j/64272127247
The doctoral thesis is available electronically here. 

Juho Andelmin will defend his doctoral thesis "Models and Algorithms for Vehicle Routing, Resource Allocation, and Multi-Stage Decision-Making under Uncertainty” on 23 July 2021 at 10.15 in lecture hall H304 and Zoom https://aalto.zoom.us/j/63059713880

Prof. Raimo P. Hämäläinen is recognized with an Award by the Group Decision and Negotiation Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), in honour of his outstanding contributions to research in the field of Group Decision and Negotiation and/or outstanding contributions to the GDN Section. His acceptance talk can be viewed here. 

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Prof. Fabricio Oliveira receives the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from the Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion. He teaches optimisation to help solve complex real-life problems. This year was the first time that the recipient of the Teacher of the Year award was an international technology expert.

Anton von Schantz, M.Sc.(Tech.), defends his dissertation "Numerical simulation and optimization models for socio-dynamical features of crowd evacuation" on Monday 31 May 2021 at 14 at the Aalto University School of Science, remote connection link https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62143003866.