Today Ukraine celebrates Borshch Day so @hawkeceprof.bsky.social and I had some homemade borshch that we had made for lunch from local produce. It was delicious!
Anna Nagurney
@annanagurney.bsky.social
Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies and Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, UMass Amherst, plus on the Board of Directors of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). My first language is Ukrainian. I like to write books. I love OR.
As the 25th aniversary of #9/11 approaches, I am linking to a blogpost that I wrote about that horrific day to marks an earlier anniversary annanagurney.blogspot.com/2011/09/mty-... #NeverForget
My Father Had Worked at the World Trade Center
My father had worked at the World Trade Center and one of my fondest memories of coming home for breaks during my college years at Brown Uni...
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We received the great news that the @umassinforms.bsky.social Student Chapter will be recognized with the Magna Cum Laude Award at the @informs.bsky.social conference in SF. Thanks to everyone @isenbergumass.bsky.social & @umassamherst.bsky.social for the support. websites.umass.edu/umassinf/ #orms
Farmers are among my heroes, and especially Ukrainian farmers. This article is heartbreaking kyivindependent.com/how-russia-i...
'We will sow' — Odesa farmers defiant in face of relentless Russian assaults
ODESA OBLAST — Volodymyr Varbanets sinks his hands into a mound of wheat, letting the golden kernels slip between his fingers. This year brought an unusually good harvest, the best since the beginnin...
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Very excited about the 1st day of the new academic year @isenbergumass.bsky.social & @umassamherst.bsky.social and getting to know the students in my Transportation & Logistics class! It's a gorgeous September morning in @townofamherst.bsky.social.
Happy Labor Day with thanks to all the hard workers everywhere!
What a wonderful article about an inspiring collaboration of female mathematicians across the ages. Thanks to @nytimes.com for publishing it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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⚡️ "With their strikes, the Russians prevented Witkoff and Kushner from flying to Kyiv by plane, even though our airports were ready," says President Zelenskyy.
The Sept 2026 IFORS newsletter is online. Thanks to all the editors, authors, conference organizers, speakers & participants for making this summer a truly great one www.ifors.org/september-20... 3 of the conferences that I spoke at, including one in Naples that I gave a keynote at, are highlighted.
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⚡️Global food prices climb to highest level since 2022 amid Black Sea strikes, UN reports. Grain prices spiked 2.5 points in August from the previous month, partly due to "continued uncertainty surrounding Black Sea export flows," the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization reported.
Global food prices climb to highest level since 2022 amid Black Sea strikes, UN reports
Grain prices spiked 2.5 points in August from the previous month, partly due to "continued uncertainty surrounding Black Sea export flows," the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization reported
kyivindependent.com
Today we had an @isenbergumass.bsky.social PhD Area Coordinators meeting. I am the Coordinator for the Operations Management PhD track. Nice to have 15 new doctoral students joining us across the tracks: www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/isenber...
Isenberg Welcomes 15 PhD Students in 2026 : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst
The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst is pleased to welcome 15 new doctoral students to the community this 2026-2027 academic year.
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The Fall @isenbergumass.bsky.social OIM Department's newsletter is out, just in time for the start of the new academic year @umassamherst.bsky.social next Tuesday! www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/oim-new...
OIM Newsletter Fall 2026 : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst Isenberg OIM Newsletter Fall 2026 features Operations & Information Management news, student achievements, research, events, and updates.
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The hydrangeas in our @townofamherst.bsky.social neighborhood are bursting with happiness. #Nature is so beautiful.
Honored and delighted to have been invited to speak at a very timely Sustainability Symposium at UC Berkeley just before the @informs.bsky.social conference in SF. Many thanks to the co-organizers, including Owen Wu: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
On Saturday before INFORMS (October 31, 2026), please join us for the Annual Symposium on Environmental and Social Sustainability in Supply Chains, on the UC Berkeley campus. Registration is now open…...
On Saturday before INFORMS (October 31, 2026), please join us for the Annual Symposium on Environmental and Social Sustainability in Supply Chains, on the UC Berkeley campus. Registration is now open ...
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“The governor of the Bank of England has warned G20 finance ministers that artificial intelligence could cause a global economic downturn and pose a significant cyber security risk to financial systems.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI could cause global economic downturn, Andrew Bailey warns G20
The governor of the Bank of England warned of AI's “volatility” caused by energy shocks from the US-Iran war.
bbc.co.uk
New #orblog The Mathematics for the Real World Conference in Odense - Kyiv was Outstanding and Inspiring annanagurney.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
The Mathematics for the Real World Conference in Odense - Kyiv was Outstanding and Inspiring
I am back from a whirlwind trip. Last week, I took part in my 4th conference of this summer and it was extra special - the Mathematics for t...
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It's a beautiful day @umassamherst.bsky.social with students starting to move in for the new academic year.
Visitors this morning in our backyard as we are having breakfast.
Thanks to the organizers of the outstanding Mathematics for the Real World Conference & to all the speakers and participants. The intellectual engagement set new standards. Thanks to @umassamherst.bsky.social for highlighting my keynote www.umass.edu/news/article... Honored to speak after Viazovska.
Anna Nagurney Delivers Keynote at Joint Odense-Kyiv Conference on Mathematics for the Real World | UMass Amherst
Nagurney, the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies delivered the keynote talk, “Networks, Supply Chains, and Variational Inequalities,” at the Mathematics for the Real World Conference, on ...
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Thanks to all who made the Mathematics for the Real World conference in Odense and Kyiv a big success! I am sure that new collaborations and research will come out of this great event!
A big highlight for me of the wonderful Mathematics for the Read World conference is meeting so many Ukrainian students in Odense!
Thanks to all who came to my plenary talk today and my new best friends even gave me dark chocolate from Munich after lunch for dessert!
The Fields Medalist Maryna Viazovska is now speaking at the Mathematics for the Real World Conference!
Excellent talk on Statistics in the Age of AI by Jane-Ling Wang this afternoon at the Mathematics for the Real World Conference.
Very engaging presentation by UConn Professor Oleksyi Mostovyi this morning.
The second day of the Mathematics in the Real World Conference is about to begin! Today's sessions are on Math in Finance and Math in Data Science!
I had to travel all the way to Odense to meet @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social, the renowned cryptographer at Brown University.
Had lunch at the conference in Odense with a group of Ukrainian students now studying in Germany. It was a pleasure to meet them at the Mathematics for the Real World conference!
Fascinating talks on math in biology including on genomics today at the joint Odense-Kyiv Mathematics for the Real World conference with methodologies from dynamical systems to Markov chains.
