Resources

Operations research

• INFORMS is the largest international association for researchers and professionals in OR and related fields. It runs conferences and publishes journals, news, job postings and other resources.
• Subject to is a series of conversations with prominent researchers in operations research and management, hosted by Anand Subramanian.
• Julia Programming for Operations Research by Changhyun Kwon is an introduction to programming, with simple examples that solve well-known optimization problems.
• Solvers for your optimization problems:
  • commercial: CPLEX, Gurobi Optimizer
  • open source: SCIP (MIP, MINLP), GLPK, Google OR-Tools, VROOM (vehicle routing)
• VeRoViz is an open-source package for visualizing vehicle routing problems and generating their data.

General

• The importance of stupidity in scientific research by Martin A. Schwartz is worth reading for anyone pondering the unanswered questions in their field.
• Why You Should De-Optimize Your Life: Maria Cano on the role of occasional de-optimization in long-term productivity.

For PhD students

• LaTeX is the standard writing tool in mathematics, engineering and related fields. Beginners can start with this tutorial.
• Git: if you write code often, or plan to, learn this version control system. This tutorial covers the basics.
• The SEDAC Population Estimation Service estimates population statistics within an area you draw.
• A Happy PhD is a blog about doctoral productivity, supervision and wellbeing.
• Scriptoria collects articles that guide PhD students through writing scientific papers.
• Fontjoy generates font pairings for presentation slides.
• Unsplash is a large library of high-resolution photos free for personal and commercial use.
• Napkin AI offers AI-powered help with refining presentation slides.