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A first introduction to probability and statistics. This course will provide background to understand and produce rigorous statistical analysis including estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis ...

When disaster looms, who you gonna call? It could increasingly be a mathematician, if IBM scientists succeed in one of their current research efforts. IBM announced last week that its scientists have ...

Renewable energy is seen as an answer to climate change, yet its uptake is limited by the variability and intermittent nature of most renewable energy sources. A promising solution to this problem is ...

Operations Research, Vol. 58, No. 4, Part 1 of 2 (July-August 2010), pp. 802-816 (15 pages) The allocation of surgeries to operating rooms (ORs) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem.