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• Until July 2024, I'm on a sabbatical period. During May and June 2024 I'll be visiting Columbia University. If you are interested in meeting me there, let me know!

• Our paper "Identifying outbreaks in sewer networks: An adaptive sampling scheme under network’s uncertainty" [link], together with J Baboun, I Beaudry, L Castro, F Gutierrez, A Jara, and B Rubio has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) [pnas]. See here for a note about it in spanish.

• I'm in the program committee of LAGOS 2023, FCT 2023, and LATIN 2024.

• Our paper with M. Villagra and L.  von Niederhäusern, On the Geometry of Symmetry Breaking Inequalities, has just been accepted to Mathematical Programming. 

• Our paper A Water-Filling Primal-Dual Algorithm for Approximating Non-Linear Covering Problems with Andrés  Fielbaum and Ignacio Morales has just been accepted to SIDMA.

• I'm giving the talk "A Primal-Dual Approximation Framework for Weighted Integer Covering Problems" at the Encuentro SOMACHI 2021 in UOH, Rancagua. 

• The XV Summer School in Discrete Mathematics will take place online next January with a set of excellent speakers. Don't hesitate to apply! 

• Our paper "Tight running times for minimum l_q-norm load balancing: beyond exponential dependencies on 1/\epsilon" with Lin Chen and Liangde Tao [arxiv] has just been accepted into SODA 2022.

• We just uploaded a new version of our article "On the Geometry of Symmetry Breaking Inequalities" to ArXiv.

• Our Summer School of Discrete Mathematics 2021 appeared in the March 2021 IFORs newsletter.

• I have been invited to give a talk at MIP 2021 (online event). See the talk here.

• I have been invited to give a talk at the OR seminar of Carnegie Melon University, in March 2021.

• Our article "On the Geometry of Symmetry Breaking Inequalities" together with Matías Villagra and Léonard von Niederhäusern has been accepted to IPCO 2021 [pdf].

• I am the chair of the Escuela de Verano de Matemáticas Discretas 2021.

• I gave the talk "Simetrías en Optimización Discreta: Grupos y Geometría pdfpara un Mejor Diseño de Algoritmos" (in spanish) at the IMC seminar (09/09/2020).

• Our paper " Symmetry Exploitation for Online Machine Covering with Bounded Migration" together with Waldo Galvez and José Soto has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Algorithms.

• Our paper "Breaking symmetries to rescue SoS: The case of makespan scheduling" together with V. Verdugo and A. Wiese has been accepted to Mathematical Programming.

• Our paper "A Water-Filling Primal-Dual Algorithm for Approximating Non-Linear Covering Problems" together with Andrés Fielbaum and Ignacio Morales has been accepted for ICALP 2020.