Ryan Cory-Wright @ryancorywright.bsky.social · 06/04/2025First up we had a fascinating talk from Matthias Holweg (Oxford) on the role of generative AI (chat-GPT etc.) in academic research and right-sizing editorial policies, as discussed in "" 100
Ryan Cory-Wright @ryancorywright.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Second, Nitish Jain (LBS, not pictured) talked about the role that expiry dates play in food waste and policies for mitigating food waste as discussed in "Until Later is Preferred Over Sooner: Multiplicity in Product Expiration Dates and Food Waste in Retail Stores" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comUntil Later is Preferred Over Sooner: Multiplicity in Product Expiration Dates and Food Waste in Retail StoresA grocery retailer incurs expiration waste (EW) at its store when a perishable product crosses its expiration date without being sold. One frequent scenario acc 100
Ryan Cory-Wright @ryancorywright.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Third, Rouba Ibrahim (UCL) talked about threshold policies for reducing the length of queues in queueing systems as discussed in "The Effects of Information on Abandonment and Congestion in Non-Stationary Priority Queues " papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 100
