Big Ten Network (May 18) -- A team at Illinois’ Coordinated Science Lab is using sophisticated mathematics and applying it to the job market. “A main difficulty is matching work to workers in the best possible way, to maximize the number of tasks that can be done by qualified people,” says Lav Varshney, a professor of computer and electrical engineering at Illinois. “We develop algorithms that are able to do this nearly optimally, while also maintaining the freedom of choice that people like in work.”