| Fall 2008 UMASS
Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series |
Date: Friday, November 14, 2008 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Isenberg School of Management, Room 112 |
| Speaker: Tom Vanderbilt Author - Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) |
| Biography: Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture for Wired, Slate, The New York Times, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn and drives a 2001 Volvo V40. |
| TITLE: Traffic: Why We Drive
the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) |
This series is organized by the
UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is
provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of
Finance and Operations Management, INFORMS, and the John F. Smith
Memorial Fund. Dr. Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations
Management in the Isenberg School of Management, is the Faculty Advisor
of the Speaker Series. |