UWashington Y Math Seminar: Sharon Arroyo and Joerg Gablonsky
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Flying High with Math
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Sharon and Joerg are members of the Boeing Applied Mathematics organization. They partner with business units to develop applied math solutions and tools that help Boeing reduce costs, improve products and operations. In this presentation, Sharon and Joerg will give an overview of some of the projects on which they have worked and will give insights into what it is like to work as a mathematician in industry. There will be an informal discussion following the talk.
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About the speakers:
Sharon Arroyo is a Senior Technical Fellow in the Boeing Applied Mathematics Group. She partners with collaborators to develop operations research and optimization tools that help Boeing reduce costs and improve products and operations. She also leads the strategy, acquisition, development and transition of applied mathematics and operations research technology that is used company-wide. She has developed operations research and optimization solutions for applications across Boeing including supply chain, airline scheduling, wind tunnel testing, aircraft delivery, robot scheduling, logistics, communication networks, and sensor fusion and scheduling. Prior to joining Boeing, she was an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. Sharon is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Joerg Gablonsky is a Boeing Technical Fellow, technical lead for the numerical optimization group in the Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) Applied Mathematics group, and the Chair of the Enterprise HPC Council. As the Chair of the Enterprise HPC Council he brings together all stakeholders in the Enterprise HPC Service to provide strategic guidance to the Service (EHPCS), support the setting of appropriate budgets, and guide the exploration and adoption of future technologies. In this role he also interfaces with HPC service providers like AWS and government organizations like the Department of Energy and NASA. As the Numerical Optimization technical lead Joerg leads and develops a world class team of applied optimization specialists, and supports Boeing teams in applying the best design space exploration methods to their problems. He received his Diplom in Mathematics and Business Administration from the University of Trier in Germany and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University.