Holocaust Remembrance Day Presentation & Fireside Chat with Edieal Pinker, Deputy Dean for Strategy and BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research

The Office of Inclusion and Diversity commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day with a presentation and fireside chat with Deputy Dean for Strategy and BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research Edieal Pinker. Professor Pinker will present an exploration of the many dimensions of the Holocaust through the personal experiences of his own family. Lunch will be served to those who participate in-person.
 

Description From Professor Pinker:

Some people view the Holocaust as a single giant horrible event in human history summarized by the shocking statistic of a total of approximately 6 million Jews killed.  I believe to gain a useful understanding, it is helpful to understand that people experienced the Holocaust over years, and it played out differently in each country in Europe.  In this presentation, I will focus primarily on the wide range of experiences of one Jewish family (my mother’s) in one country, Slovakia. I will give an account of the Holocaust from the perspective of someone who’s close family directly experienced it, who feels its reverberations to this day, and whose existence is because of the heroic compassion of others.  I will draw on general historical facts that are widely known, actual documents from that time, and personal testimonies.  I hope to illustrate the ways Jews were actively trying to find ways to survive throughout the war, what it looks like when the society you live in and your government turn on you, and how even in these incredibly dark and difficult situations some people, Jews and non-Jews, managed to maintain their humanity through both mundane and heroic actions.
 

About Edieal Pinker:

Edieal Pinker is the BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research at the Yale School of Management where he also serves as Deputy Dean for Strategy. He has a PhD and MS in Operations Research from MIT and BA in Mathematics from Columbia University. Pinker’s current research includes predictive modeling in healthcare using machine learning methods and demographic analysis of the US Jewish community. His previous research on management topics has included the use of flexible workforces, work and workflow design in healthcare, online auctions, and responses to terrorist threats among others. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading journals in his field such as Management Science and Operations Research. Pinker has consulted for the United States Postal Service, the financial services industry and the auto industry. His work has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Journal of Oncology Practice, IIE Transactions, Production and Operations Management, and the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery.