{"57620":{"#nid":"57620","#data":{"type":"news","title":"George Nemhauser Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award from Northwestern University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University\u003C\/em\u003E; Alumni Newsletter - Fall 2007\u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor George Nemhauser was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the IEMS Department at Northwestern University on May 5, 2007.  His methodological research focus is on discrete optimization and large-scale mixed integer programming problems.  He works on many applications, especially crew and fleet scheduling problems in the airline industry and professional sports season scheduling, which was the topic of his speech.  \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2007-10-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}