In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of those materials were truly necessary to build houses, buildings and bridges?

I am a sucker for a great sports analogy. In fact, my PhD thesis was literally titled From the Locker Room to the Boardroom, and to this day, Al Pacino's epic 'Game of Inches' speech from Any Given ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Abstract: This article is devoted to the distributed convex optimization problem for a class of nonlinear multiagent systems under set constraints. The optimization objective function is composed of ...

Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as an executive, leading multi-billion dollar mortgage, credit card, and savings portfolios with operations ...

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert ...

Better sleep supports your overall health, while poor sleep can harm mood, thinking, heart health, immunity, and raise obesity and diabetes risk. Improve your circadian rhythm by getting bright light ...

Enterprises across industries, from energy to finance, use optimization models to plan complex operations like supply chains and logistics. These models work by defining three elements: the choices ...

From workplace to “culture space” by Anne-Laure Fayard, John Weeks and Mahwesh Khan In June 2019 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened Olympic House, its new headquarters, in Lausanne, ...

Note: The official name for the course is “Convex optimization for electrical engineering”. However, the course is suitable for any student within SEAS (or beyond) provided you satisfy the math ...

Neel Somani points out that while artificial intelligence may look like it runs on data and algorithms, its real engine is optimization. According to Somani, every breakthrough in the field—from ...