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Shige Peng, Princeton Global Scholar will visit ORFE
November 16, 2011

Shige Peng, Professor, School of Mathematics, Qilu Institute of Finance, Shandong University, has been appointed as a Princeton Global Scholar in the Departments of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Mathematics, and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. The Global Scholar Program recruits stellar scholars from outside the United States into recurring teaching appointments and engagement in scholarly exchange with Princeton faculty and students.
This Program is managed through the Council for International Teaching and Research.
http://www.princeton.edu/international/doc/GS-Peng-profile.pdf

Princeton’s Master of Finance Program Tops QuantNet Ranking
November 7, 2011

Princeton University's Master of Finance program has placed among the top three Financial Engineering programs available nationwide, as ranked by QuantNet. The 2011 QuantNet Ranking of Financial Engineering Programs surveyed 22 masters programs in the areas of admission, placement success, and career services. Princeton's program repeats a strong showing from the financial engineering news organization's first quantitative ranking of Financial Engineering programs from 2009.

Jamol Pender wins INFORMS Student Contest
October 12, 2011

Jamol Pender, fourth year graduate student in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE), has won the New Jersey Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Student Contest for 2011. Jamol's research presentation, “Skewness-Variance Approximation for Dynamic Rate Multi-Server Queues with Abandonment”, was judged by a panel assembled at the chapter's September meeting and assessed on the criteria of quality, originality, and applicability to real-world problems. More information about the contest rules and award(s) can be found at the web site of the New Jersey Chapter of INFORMS.

Schneider, Princeton Engineers Develop Planning Simulator
August 26, 2011

“In 2003 Schneider decided to invest in a fleet-wide 'tactical planning simulator' that would use software algorithms to mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale. Schneider looked to one of the leading practitioners of logistics simulation, Warren Powell, a professor of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University.” Read the article in the September 12, 2011 issue of Forbes.

Congratulations to the Class of 2011 BSE and PhD Recipients
June 3, 2011

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Professor Warren Powell helps industry chart energy resources
March 14, 2011

From wind power to electric cars, Professor Warren Powell helps industry chart energy resources. Please click here for recent news.

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