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As we know, Santa Claus faces some major optimization problems. First, he must fit billions of presents into a single sleigh. Then, he needs to solve a TSP (Traveling Santa Problem)—visiting billions of houses on a whirlwind roundtrip journey. And then there’s the diet problem for the reindeer, who must have the sustained strength to pull the sleigh at top speeds. Santa’s backbreaking problems may be fictional, but they got us thinking about some unusual applications, particularly in the world of puzzles, games, and art (that could also take some burden from Santa through digitalization of games and puzzles).

Get a closer look at some of these applications and how they connect to real-world industrial applications and business challenges. This fun and festive event is a great opportunity to explain mathematical optimization to those unfamiliar with it.

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Dr. Richard Oberdieck

Technical Account Manager – EMEAI

Dr. Richard Oberdieck is a Technical Account Manager at Gurobi Optimization. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from ETH Zurich in Switzerland (2009-2013), before pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK, which he completed in 2017. In his PhD, he worked on a special class of optimization problems called multi-parametric programming problems, where he discovered fundamental new properties related to these problems, as well as implemented them in a software toolbox.

Dr. Kostja Siefen

Director Technical Account Management

Kostja holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Paderborn (Germany). He joined Gurobi in 2015 after many years of experience in the development and design of decision support systems using mathematical optimization. Before joining Gurobi he worked at Daimler Research & Development and as a lecturer at the University of Paderborn. Since 1998, before focusing on optimization and during his studies he continuously worked as system administrator, software developer and support engineer for an IT service company.

Dr. Ed Klotz

Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist

Dr. Ed Klotz has nearly 30 years of experience in the mathematical optimization software industry. He is a technical expert who, over the course of his career, has worked with a wide array of customers to help them solve some of world’s most challenging mathematical optimization problems. In his role as a Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist on the Gurobi R&D team, Dr. Klotz works closely with our customers to support them in implementing and utilizing mathematical optimization in their organizations.

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