Final Clarkson University Science Café of the Semester on April 19

The final Science Café of the spring semester will be held on Wednesday, April 19, with Food Banks in the Fight Against Hunger.

Food banks are not-for-profit organizations that aid in surplus food recovery/food rescue and redistribution. They collect donations from individuals, farmers, corporations, retail chains, food industries, and restaurants and distribute them either to charitable agencies or directly to people in need. Having operated for decades in North America, food banks are only now starting up in several European and Asian countries, where people struggle for resources and with local setbacks. In this talk, Clarkson University Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Systems Ajinkya Tanksale will share his experience with nascent Indian food banks and his research on improving their effectiveness and efficiency using mathematical programming.

This semester, these Science Cafés will only be held on one night in Potsdam in the Potsdam Civic Center Community Room at 2 Park Street at 7:15pm.