Operations Research, Market Design, Approximation Algorithms, Online Decision-Making

Organizer of the "Summer School in Discrete Mathematics", 2020, 2021, for advanced undergrad and graduate students.

Master Students
Javier Cembrano, MSc in Operations Management (Universidad de Chile) expected June 2021, co-advised with José Correa.

TRANSFER AND APPLIED RESEARCH
ESR Project "Strategic Development of Tourism in the O'Higgins Region based on Mathematical and Data Modeling", 2020-2021.
FIC GORE-O'Higgins Project "Transfer and Adoption of Technologies for Risk Management in the Production of Cherries: Towards an Agriculture of Precision in the O'Higgins Region" 2021-2023

INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS
Seminar on Algorithms, TU Berlin, January 2021.
Colloquium of Combinatorics, Queen Mary London, December 2020.
Workshop on Learning and Dynamic Algorithms, UChile, January 2020.
CGO Seminar, London School of Economics, December 2019.
CS Department Seminar, University of Liverpool, June 2019.
IFOR Seminar, ETH Zurich, June 2019.
CSLog Seminar, Universitat Bremen, May 2019.
CS Department Seminar, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, April 2019.
CGO Seminar, London School of Economics, January 2019.
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, November 2018.
Seminar of Math Department, Universidad Federico Santa María, September 2018.
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, ISMP, July 2018.
Universidad de Chile, ACGO Seminar, Santiago, June 2018.
College de France, Workshop on Approximation Algorithms, June 2018.
Dynamic Pricing Workshop, Santiago, December 2017.
Chilean OR Conference, Viña del Mar, November 2017.
Technical University of Munich, OR seminar, Munich, October 2017.
Universite Paris-Diderot, IRIF seminar, Paris, October 2017.
Technical University of Munich, OR seminar, Munich, February 2017.
Universidad de Chile, ACGO seminar, Santiago, November 2016.
Latin American OR Conference, Santiago, October 2016.
Workshop in Dynamic Games and Algorithms, Santiago, January 2016.
Universite degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, June 2015.
Ecole normale superieure, TALGO seminar, Paris, February 2015.

EVENT ORGANIZATION
XVI Summer School on Discrete Mathematics, Valparaíso, Chile, January 2021.
XV Summer School on Discrete Mathematics, Valparaíso, Chile, January 2020.
Workshop on Extended Formulations and Symmetries in Integer Programming at Universidad de O'Higgins, December 9-11, 2019.
Workshop on Hierarchies and Symmetries at Universidad de O'Higgins, January 21-25, 2019.
SOMACHI, the meeting of the Chilean Mathematical Society, December 19-21, 2018.
Organizer of the regular seminar DATO at Universidad de O'Higgins, about Dynamics, Learning, Algorithmic Theory and Optimization, (2018).
Organizer of Students ACGO Seminar of Algorithms, Combinatorics, Games and Optimization, UChile (2017)

RESEARCH VISITS
University of Liverpool, UK (June 2019)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland (June 2019)
Universitat Bremen, Germany (May 2019)
Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (April 2019)
Technical University of Munich, Germany (February 2017)
University of Oxford, UK (July 2016)
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany (July 2015, July 2016)
Institute Dalle Molle for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland (July 2015, July 2016)
Universite degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy (July 2015)
Universite di Roma La Sapienza, Italy (February-March in 2014 and September 2015)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (September-October 2012)

OUTREACH
Lecturer in "Jornadas Divulgacion CMAT" for high-school students: "Stable Matchings", 2017

MORE INFORMATION
https://sites.google.com/view/vverdugo/