As part of a global engagement and funding development trip in August 2018, Dr. Kerem Akartunali (Management Science) has visited University of São Paulo (USP), Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil, and Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile.
During these visits, he also gave two invited seminars, "Decomposition and Reformulations for Robust Lot-Sizing with Remanufacturing and Backlogging" at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Limeira, Brazil, and "Relaxations and Robust Reformulations for Production Planning" at the School of Business of Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago, Chile.