At IIMC

On 23rd and 24th December, I visited IIMC for guest lectures on "OR applications in airlines industry". It went well and enjoyed it a lot, I hope students found it interesting.

I started off by asking students to imagine that they are going to start an airline and think about the things that they would need and decisions they need to make (leaving out HR, Finance, Govt. Permissions).

Students came up with flight schedule, markets, aircrafts. I added profitability analysis (which includes passenger demand forecast), fares. I added that we willl need to take decisions about types of fleeets, aircraft scheduling and crew scheduing. Then I went in details of fleet assignment model and shows some demo using spreadsheet solver.

Later Prof. Nag gave me tour of the IIMC campus. Its beautiful, quiet, lots of trees, apparently it has 7 natural ponds, should be great relief in Kolkata summer. In the picture you can see the auditorium.


















Later, I visited Victoria Memorial, will upload more photos of this 90+ yrs old building made of marble stone. I would like create a 3D model of the building and also understand how exactly it was built in 1912.

Say No To Corruption

PM’s keynote address to conference of CBI & State Anti-Corruption Bureaus

"Our Government is also intending to bring forward a Public Services Bill before Parliament. The Bill will define a public services code of ethics and management. It will also protect whistleblowers and have the overall objective of developing public services as a professional, politically neutral, merit based, and accountable instrument for promoting good governance and better delivery of services to all our citizens.

When I recently watched the popular hindi movie, Lage Raho Munnabhai, the one incident that touched me most was the ordeal of a senior citizen trying to get his pension without having to pay a bribe. In stripping his clothes, as an act of protest, this pensioner was stripping our system, exposing the ugly nakedness of the self-aggrandisement of those who man our institutions of governance. Any system in which a retired senior citizen is required to pay a bribe to secure his legitimate dues is a most despicable system. Such corruption must be visited by the sternest action to reform, restructure and rejuvenate the system. The very legitimacy of the State and its various institutions is brought into question by such illegal exercise of power and authority."

For full text :
PM’s keynote address to conference of CBI & State Anti-Corruption Bureaus

For Right To Information Act related information:
http://persmin.nic.in/RTI/WelcomeRTI.htm

Algorithms and Optimization Job In Mumbai

My employer SkyTECH solutions is looking for engineers with background in operation research, optimization, algorithms, programming, travel/transportation/airlines industry.

The job will consists understanding business problems in transportation industry, creating a model (LP/MIP etc.), programming the model (in MathProg, AMPL, OPL or using C API).
This is a ideal job for those looking for small innovative companies with lot of freedom (to decide direction of the project), opportunities to meet clients and design solutions. Also you will work with small team of passionate, smart people with similar backgrounds.

Skills required will include passion for mathematics, algorithms, computers and motivation to use this technology to solve problems in the industry, government etc.

Specific skill requirement includes C/C++, basic knowledge of simplex algorithm, and mathematical programming languages. Experience with LP, MIP, CPLEX, GLPK will help.

The job location is Mumbai (India), may have to visit USA and other countries.

Update: You can send your resumes to me. I have a gmail account, id is vijay.patil.