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贴个insider提供的信息: UMass Management Science has a strong point --- supply chain network. The research team is quite active in INFORMS (as a PhD applicant in MS/OR domain, you should know INFORMS quite well). Dr Nagurney, the leader of the group, has been awarded highly by INFORMS and transportation societies. You may check with her if you decide to go to UMass. The main innovation of this research is that (1) it takes an (game theoretic) equilibrium perspective of supply chain network, rather than an optimization perspective; (2) it takes a holistic view of supernetwork, which allows the researchers to treat endogeneously the price, demand and orders of the players. Amherst is extremely quiet and peaceful. It only has one single street as "downtown area"... It is consistently ranked as the "most safest" town in US. But it is not a place for people who like big-city life. |