Lecture: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Author Tom Vanderbilt will deliver this lecture as part of the Fall 2008 Operations Research / Management Science Seminar series. All are invited to attend.
He will be discussing his book: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science, and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, Slate, The London Review of Books, Gourmet, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Vogue, Artforum, The Wilson Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine,Cabinet, Metropolis, and Popular Science. He is contributing editor to the design magazines I.D. and Print, and contributing writer of the popular blog Design Observer.
More information about Tom Vanderbilt is available on his web site.
This series is organized by the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of Finance and Operations Management, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund.
