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Doing Good with Good OR Student Competition Finalists
Competition at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 11-14, 2009
Congratulations to the finalists who have been selected to participate in this fall's Doing Good with Good OR student competition, and thanks to the advisors who have helped them bring forward their research. The committee is chaired by INFORMS Past President Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Ozlem Ergun of Georgia Tech.
Network Design for Middle East Water Distribution
Rachel Bullene, Toni Sorrell, James Springer, Charles Stewart, Yasser Tanvir, Drs. P. Brooks and E. Boone (Advisors), Virginia Commonwealth University
Partner Organization: Arava Institute of Environmental Studies, Eilat, Israel
Catch-up Scheduling for Childhood Immunization
Faramroze G. Engineer, Dr. Keskinocak (Advisor), Georgia Institute of Technology, L. K. Pickering, MD (Advisor), CDC and Emory University School of Medicine
Partner Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cost-effective Hepatitis B Prevention and Treatment
David Hutton, Dr. M. L. Brandeau (Advisor), Stanford University
Partner Organization: Asian Liver Center at Stanford University
At What Lipid Ratios Should a Patient with Type 2 Diabetes Initiate Statins?
Murat Kurt, Dr. Schaefer (Advisor), University of Pittsburgh
Partner Organization: Healthcare Policy and Research Division, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Optimal Learning for Drug Discovery in Ewing's Sarcoma
Diana Negoescu, Peter Frazier, Dr. W. B. Powell (Advisor), Princeton University
Partner Organizations: Go 4 the Goal and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University |
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INFORMS Meetings
INFORMS Practice Conference
April 26-28, 2009, Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, Arizona
http://meetings.informs.org/Practice09
Register Today - online registration open through Tuesday, April 21
It's never too late to register! Click here to register now online. Or you can register when you arrive in Phoenix. Registration hours are Sunday 7:00am-6:30pm, Monday 7:00am-3:00pm. Go to the conference website at http://meetings.informs.org/Practice09 for everything you need to know before you arrive in Phoenix: travel information, workshop sign-up, what to wear, weather update, details on the Edelman Awards Gala, and more.
INFORMS Annual Meeting San Diego 2009
Abstract Deadline May 15
October 11-14, San Diego Convention Center & Hilton San Diego. For all meeting information and to submit an abstract, click here: http://meetings.informs.org/sandiego09.
CORS/INFORMS International Toronto
Searchable Program Now OnlineJune 14-17, Toronto, Canada. Early registration by May 11. Click here for all conference information.
More INFORMS 2009 Meetings
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Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science: JIT Disasters, Rubber Roads
This month brings a dozen new TV science stories from Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science for local news.
Just in Time Disaster Training
Engineering students created a specially designed disaster training center that simulates a building collapse--a pile of carefully placed rubble.
Rubberized Roads
Acoustical engineers discovered that coating concrete roads with a layer of rubber reduces the noise produced from car tires rolling over it.
From Forensic to Fashion
Computer scientists designed a software program that can accurately evaluate a person's height, as well as determine gender, weight, chest, and waist size from an image of a person in baggy or bulky clothing.
Are you working on an exciting discovery or breakthrough that you'd like to share on local TV news? Click here or send your ideas to barry.list@informs.org. |
Searchable Databases Updated on IOL
The INFORMS Conference Presentation Database now has 54,388 records based on information on presentations at ORSA/TIMS and INFORMS meetings since 1990. The Annual Comprehensive Index (ACI) has 39,382 entries. INFORMS has converted both databases to a different format, PHP/MySQL, to allow for faster searching. The Conference Presentation Database will be updated as future conferences conclude and is now current through the 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C. |
WORMS Award: Call for Nominations
The committee for the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS is now accepting nominations.This award celebrates and recognizes a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of operations research and the management sciences. Each nominee will be considered based on his or her history of successfully promoting the professional development, success, and recognition of women in OR/MS. All nominations must be submitted via e-mail to the Award Committee Chair, Anna Nagurney ( nagurney@gbfin.umass.edu), by July 1, 2009. The award will be presented to the winner during the 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego. For more information, click here. |
Boston Chapter Meeting
 Professor Venkatesh Saligrama of Boston University will present his talk, "Video Analytics over Camera Networks," at a meeting of the Boston Chapter on Wednesday, April 22. Join the chapter members for an informal reception and pizza dinner before the presentation.
Location: Verizon Laboratories (Click here for directions)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
For details, contact Olga Raskina at oraskina@emptoris.com. |
INFORMS Internship Service
 We are pleased to reintroduce a member benefit -- the INFORMS Internship Service. This free service helps match organizations that have available paid or unpaid OR/MS internships with students who are looking for an internship experience. If you have an internship available at your organization, we invite you to list it with us so we may make our student population aware. It is fast and easy to list an internship with INFORMS. Simply go here, click on "Add an internship," and complete the form provided. You may specify degree required, geographic location, and OR/MS field your internship covers so that applicants can see exactly what you are looking for. INFORMS will continually promote all available internships in our database to our student member community, which is about 2,500 strong.
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INFORMS Continuing Professional Education Database
Because INFORMS is committed to supporting the continuing education needs of its members, the Continuing Education Committee, led by Bill Klimack, has compiled a database of available OR/MS short courses, seminars, and workshops offered throughout the world. Click here to view the available courses in the database. To find the course that's right for you, search the database by OR/MS topic, date range, location, or provider. Quick links are provided to course information on the provider's site. Try it out! Have a course you would like to add? You may add courses to the database, which are subject to approval by INFORMS. The Committee is pleased to offer this "one-stop shopping" and continually updated educational courses database to INFORMS members. |
Spring Issue of Analytics
 INFORMS invites you to take a look at the latest issue of Analytics, our digital magazine devoted to bringing stories to the rest of the world about how data, modeling, and mathematical analysis are used to drive better business decisions. This issue features timely articles on the role analytics may have played in the economic meltdown, how to sell analytics to skeptics, and how uncertainty, damaged infrastructure, and politics can plague analysts during a disaster. If you are interested in contributing an article, please let us know. Help us get the good word out about the OR/MS and analytics profession by forwarding articles or the entire magazine to colleagues and friends. You can also post a button or link on your personal, departmental, or organization's website. You will find easy instructions at http://analyticsmagazine.com. |
Call for Papers, Interfaces Special Issue - Humanitarian Applications: Doing Good with Good OR. Deadline Extended
 Interfaces has announced a special issue devoted to O.R. and humanitarian applications. This special issue focuses on O.R. models and methods in practice in relation to the "Doing Good with Good OR" efforts pioneered by INFORMS Past President Cynthia Barnhart. Examples of research topics include planning and response to large-scale disease outbreaks, such as pandemic influenza, improved logistics for reaching earthquake victims, implementation of new energy-market structures to enable greater distribution, solutions for fair and sustainable water allocation, more accurate prediction of hurricane paths and devastation, prevention of terrorist attacks through algorithmic identification of perpetrators, and reduction of poverty through new market mechanisms. Appropriate papers include descriptions of practice and implementation of OR/MS in industry, government, nongovernmental organizations, and education.
The deadline for submission has been extended to June 15, 2009.
For additional information, go to http://www.informs.org/site/Interfaces or contact the editors at oergun@isye.gatech.edu (Ozlem Ergun), pinar@isye.gatech.edu (Pinar Keskinocak), or jswann@isye.gatech.edu (Julie Swann). |
Rothkopf Memorial Conference
June 1-3, 2009, Penn State Smeal College of Business
 He left us too soon but his work lives on. A conference in memory of the INFORMS President will include speakers Peter Cramton - University of Maryland; Jacob Goeree - California Institute of Technology; Steve Graves - Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ron Harstad - University of Missouri; Richard O'Neill - Chief Economic Advisor, FERC; Shmuel Oren - University of California, Berkeley; Tuomas Sandholm - Carnegie Mellon University; and Rakesh Vohra - Northwestern University. For additional information and to register, click here. |
In Memoriam, Thomas E. Caywood
INFORMS mourns the loss of Dr. Thomas E. Caywood, 89, who served as president of ORSA in 1969, received the Kimball Award, and was named an INFORMS Fellow Award recipient. Dr. Caywood, of Atlanta, Georgia, died peacefully in his sleep Friday, December 19, 2008. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Mary E. Caywood; three daughters, Dr. Ann Caywood of Peoria, Arizona, M. Beth Caywood of Winder, Georgia, Dr. KayDee Caywood of Glendale, California; and two grandsons. According to his wishes, his body was donated to the Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Caywood was a resident of Flossmoor, Illinois for 57 years. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he and his wife moved to the Atlanta area in April of 2008 to be near their daughter Beth. His struggle with Alzheimer's was short and without many of the complications associated with the disease process. Regards can be sent to: Mrs. Mary Caywood, Courtyard Gardens, 1000 River Centre Place, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045, or Miss. M. Beth Caywood, 789 Bill Rutledge Rd, Winder, Georgia 30680. | |
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