You are invited to join the festivities. We can help you make arrangements for accommodations on or near campus. Look for your reunion registration and further information coming to you in April. If you would like to play a role in planning your reunion please let us know, as we are looking for committee members.
Optimization is an inherent activity in the world.
Nature optimizes, mostly minimizes, the potential energy of various systems. In engineering and business, humans try to produce smaller, cheaper, lighter, more efficient equipment. In everyday life, efficient organization of transportation, crew assignment, flight scheduling, chip design, are challenging optimization problems. Further examples and applications could be quoted endlessly. Optimization has also at least two more aspects.