10 is a 1979 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, and Bo Derek. It was considered a trendsetting film at the time of its release and became one of the year’s biggest box-office hits with revenues of $107 million on a budget of about $6 million.
Why 10?
Of course, it is October, the 10th month of the year.
Also:
Dussehra, in Hinduism, is a holiday marking the triumph of Rama, an avatar of Vishnu, over the 10-headed demon king Ravana, who abducted Rama’s wife, Sita. In the epic Ramayana, Rama, with the assistance of the monkey-general Hanuman, attacks Lanka to rescue Sita and slays Ravana. The festival’s name is derived from the Sanskrit words dasha (“ten”) and hara (“defeat”), also known as Vijayadashami, derived from victory and ten, and was celebrated earlier this month.
But what triggered this post’s title was that 10 of our papers – two of them within the last two days ☺️ – were accepted (and/or appeared) this year, with graduate students (my PhD students bold faced) in green:
ANTHONY KARAHALIOS, SRIDHAR TAYUR, ANANTH TENNETI, AMIRREZA PASHAPOUR, F. SIBEL SALMAN, BARIŞ YILDIZ. A Quantum Inspired Bi-level Optimization Algorithm for the First Responder Network Design Problem. Informs Journal on Computing. (See Quantum GAGA and Q-HOPE)
K. GAN, S. JIA, A. LI AND S. TAYUR. Towards a Liquid Biopsy: Greedy Approximation Algorithms for Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing. Management Science. (See Holy Grail of Holy Grail)
C. GOMES, J.P. FERNANDES, G. FALCAO, S. KAR and S. TAYUR. A Systematic Mapping Study on Quantum and Quantum-inspired Algorithms in Operations Research. JACM (Computing Surveys).
C. GOMES, J.P. FERNANDES, G. FALCAO, S. KAR and S. TAYUR. Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging: Model, Complexity, and Heuristics). IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for SmartGrids.
V. SIDDHU, A. CHATTERJEE, K. JAGANNATHAN, P. MANDAYAM, AND S. TAYUR. Unital Qubit Queue-channels: Classical Capacity and Product Decoding. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering. (See Quantum Queueing)
M. AKAN, M. CELDIR AND S. TAYUR. Dynamic Exception Points for Fair Liver Allocation. Service Science.
S. TAYUR. Implementing Innovations in US Transplantation System. Decision Sciences.
SAI SAKUNTHALA GUDDANTI, APURVA PADHYE, ANIL PRABHAKAR AND SRIDHAR TAYUR. Pneumonia Detection by Binary Classification: Classical, Quantum, and Hybrid Approaches for Support Vector Machine (SVM). Frontiers of Computer Science.
SRIDHAR TAYUR AND ANANTH TENNETI. Quantum Annealing Research at CMU: Algorithms, Hardware, Applications. Frontiers of Computer Science.
S. TAYUR. Management Mathematics: The Audacity of BOPE. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.
Talking about PhD students, let me take the opportunity to congratulate Pinar Keskinocak (1997) for being awarded the INFORMS President’s Award (in addition to the Kimball Medal that I mentioned in my previous post Poetry and Quantum).
And Happy Diwali (and Halloween) coming up later this week (on the same day!).
