I strongly encourage everyone to attend the next department colloquium,
which is about big data and optimization (from the O/R perspective). We want
to strike a collaboration with Andrea Lodi (the speaker) who just started
a huge chair funded by the Canadian government.

http://diro.umontreal.ca/departement/colloques/une-nouvelle/news/andrea-lodi-big-data-and-integer-programming-34047/

-- Yoshua