Spring/Summer 2026 Issue
The online student membership magazine for INFORMS. The bi-annual publication provides a look at operations research and management science from the perspective of young people in those fields. Edited by a team of students and junior faculty, the magazine is written for students and aims to introduce topics relevant to them, highlight their accomplishments, and promote awareness of current events and issues in OR and MS.
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Articles & Interviews
OR/MS Tomorrow Spotlights
Almost 8 years after defending my PhD, I am still figuring out what is the right way to pursue one. In retrospect, I was lucky to stay in academia given how I completed mine. I have also seen other students doing the right things, certainly more often than I did only to run out of luck at critical points. But now I must tell my own students something and, more importantly, direct them in a way that would help them succeed and hedge against that luck component. So let’s start with what I think I should have done, but which I didn’t.
AIRO Young (AY) is the youth section of the Italian Association of Operations Research (AIRO), dedicated to fostering collaboration among students and early-career researchers in Operations Research (OR). Through annual workshops, networking events, and career development initiatives, AY creates opportunities for young researchers to advance their careers, expand their professional networks, and bridge the gap between academic and industry opportunities in the OR field.
How do you become a forecaster, or even better a Superforecaster? And why would you wish to take on such a role? For many years, forecasting as an academic discipline was a bit of an orphan. Were you an operations researcher, a statistician, or an econometrician? Each of these subject disciplines had their own requirements – in OR some of the premier institutions didn’t even have an advanced course which included forecasting so research posts were rare.