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Renew Your 2010 Membership
There is strength in numbers. We want you with us in 2010 as we embark on several exciting strategic initiatives to spread the good word about O.R. and improve your member benefits. Online renewal is now open. Remember, you'll need your member ID to renew online. Don Kleinmuntz and Susan Albin recap 2009 successes and preview exciting plans for 2010 in their presidential letter to members.
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2011 INFORMS Nominations
The INFORMS Nominating Committee is seeking nominations for 2011 President-Elect, Treasurer, VP-Information Technology, VP-Education, and VP- Meetings. Please send suggestions to the committee chair: Don N. Kleinmuntz Strata Decision Technology LLC 2001 South 1st Street Suite 200 Champaign, IL 61820-7479 217-531-2612 217-359-8688 Fax dnk@strata-decision.com |
It's Almost Here - New and Improved INFORMS Website Coming Soon
 November 30 is the official roll out date for INFORMS completely redesigned and re-architectured website. Finally we will have a website that matches the sophistication of O.R. Watch the multimedia demo of the new site and tell us what you think. |
INFORMS Meetings
INFORMS Practice Conference 2010
April 18-20, Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL
Presentation/Poster Submission Deadline is December 15
Selected presenters save 40% off the lowest regular rate for the INFORMS Practice Conference. Submit your proposal for a talk or poster by December 15, 2009 and become eligible for a discounted registration fee of $495. Click here for all the details.
Disney VP to Headline the Conference
Mark Shafer, Senior Vice President of Pricing, Forecasting & Revenue Management at Disney Parks, will deliver a plenary talk. A high-level panel on supply chain strategy and a reprise of the winning Edelman Award presentation are other key features. The planning committee is focusing on five topic areas for the invited tracks: sustainability; service science and health care; decision analysis; supply chain management and logistics; and forecasting, risk, and uncertainty. Methodology tutorials, software solutions, select talks, and poster presentations will also be offered.
Richard E. Rosenthal Young Researcher Connection
Nominate a junior faculty member or young industry practitioner for this select program. Young Researchers nominated and selected for this honor receive a 57% reduction of the conference registration fee to $355. Nomination deadline is March 30, 2010. Click here more information.
INFORMS Professional Colloquium
Recommend a practice-oriented master's or PhD student for this one-day career workshop. IPC registration fee of $355 covers the Colloquium on Sunday, April 18 (included all meals), full registration to the conference, and a half-year INFORMS membership (July-December 2010). Nomination deadline is March 30, 2010. Click here for more information.
ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting 2010 - Submit an Abstract Today
June 6-9, Law School, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Click here to submit your abstract. If you are interested in organizing one or more sessions, please contact the General Chair, Irene Loiseau, irene@dc.uba.ar or any cluster chair.
INFORMS Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar. |
DBIS: Emergency Response
 Research by INFORMS member Shane Henderson of Cornell is the focus of a Discoveries and Breakthroughs (DBIS) segment this month on improving emergency response rates. View the new TV segment and see more segments here. Are you working on an exciting discovery or breakthrough that you'd like to share on local TV news? Visit here or send your ideas to barry.list@informs.org. |
INFORMS Podcasts: Anna Nagurney on Supernetworks
Why did closing New York's Time Square to cars improve traffic? How are energy and finance like large networks? Can biologists learn from operations researchers? Anna Nagurney, Director of the Virtual Center from Supernetworks at UMass Amherst shares fascinating insights about networks in the latest INFORMS podcast. Tune in at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast. |
INFORMS Publications Announcements
Transportation Science - Special Paper Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing
Fifty years ago, Dantzig and Ramser published an article in Management Science that they called "the truck dispatching problem." This was the starting point of a long series of papers now known as "the vehicle routing problem." The research still goes on after 50 years and to highlight this anniversary Transportation Science is publishing an overview paper highlighting the main contributions in the history of the VRP. Professor Gilbert Laporte of HEC Montréal has written this survey paper for the November 2009 issue of the journal.
Marketing Science - Current Issue & Call for Papers
Check out the November 2009 issue of Marketing Science and its ten new articles focusing on Retailers' Multichannel and Price Advertising Strategies, Estimating the Value of Brand Alliances in Professional Team Sports, and Overselling in a Competitive Environment to name a few. There is also Call for Papers for the Special Issue of Marketing Science on User-Generated Content (UGC) (Deadline: January 15, 2010).
Information Systems Research - Special Issue (September 2009)
Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development
Process flexibility and globally distributed development are two major current trends in software and information systems development (ISD). The topics discussed in this special issue provide a fresh view of an emerging research area. Many of the topics reflect research areas that have been on the IS research agenda for a long time. Yet, the current IS landscape clearly involves new modes of working and new challenges induced by globalization and steadily increasing demands on flexibility and speed.
Interfaces - Special Issue Analytics in Sports: Call for Papers
Sports-related business activities constitute a multibillion dollar industry in which difficult decision-making problems exist at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Fostered by the increasing availability of data and advances in computational power, the use of quantitative analysis to improve decision-making in sports has enjoyed growing popularity. In this special issue of Interfaces, we seek to highlight the role of analytics in the sports industry. For more details please go to the Interfaces site.
Pubs Suite Online - Still Only $99 in 2010
Upgrade your subscriptions in 2010 to INFORMS Pubs Suite Online and save! For only $99 you will have online access to all 12 INFORMS journals. Pubs Suite is a special members-only benefit that delivers online access to all journals back to volume 1, issue 1.
eTOCs Alerts
The fast and easy way to keep up with all areas of OR/MS research, INFORMS eTOC service allows anyone who registers their email address to be notified via email when new content goes online. You don't even have to be a subscriber. Sign-up today: eTOC Alerts Order Your Copy of the 2009 TutORials CD and Book Nine tutorial presentations available in easy-to-search CD-ROM format and in print, providing you with enduring information from the 2009 Annual Meeting. Specialist authors cover a broad range of state-of-the-art applications and methodologies. Special 50% savings until the end of the year. |
News from INFORMS Communities
Health Care O.R. in San Diego 
Recent INFORMS conferences have seen a dramatic rise in the number of talks related to health care. The San Diego meeting was no exception. More than 250 talks at the conference were related to health care. This was a large increase over the previous year, and it continues a pattern of rapid growth in recent years.
Health care related talks were sponsored by a number of sections and societies in San Diego, including the INFORMS Health Applications Section (HAS). Thanks to Dionne Aleman (University of Toronto), the 2009 HAS cluster chair, HAS sponsored more than 40 sessions at the conference. HAS also held its annual business meeting on Monday evening of the conference, with approximately 125 people in attendance.
Interested in learning more about health care O.R.? Have a look at the HAS website.
Or better yet, become a member! You can select HAS as an option on your 2010 INFORMS renewal form or contact the current HAS Chair, Brian Denton (bdenton@ncsu.edu), for a membership form.
Data Mining Contest
The Data Mining Section of INFORMS invite proposals for INFORMS Data Mining Contest 2010. INFORMS Data Mining Contest is the 3th annual Data Mining Contest of INFORMS. The result of the contest will be presented at the INFORMS 2010 conference held in Austin, Texas, USA, November 7-10, 2010. Proposals should include description of the problem addressed, description of the available data, description of the competition tasks, description of the evaluation procedures and whether the competition is new or has been held before. Please send your proposals to louis.gosselin@hotmail.com by March 31, 2010.
San Antonio and Austin Chapters to Reactivate
The 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting is coming to Texas! In preparation for the big event, we are working to reactivate both the San Antonio and Austin chapters.
On Thursday, November 19, a group of volunteers met to discuss the reactivation and future of the San Antonio chapter. If you would like to be included on this mail list, please contact Tracy Byrnes at tracy.byrnes@informs.org. If you are interested in what was discussed at the organization meeting, please contact Mary Grace Crissey at MaryGrace.Crissey@sas.com.
Do you live in the Austin, TX area? If you are interested in helping to revitalize that chapter, INFORMS wants to hear from you! Contact tracy.byrnes@informs.org. |
INFORMS Job Placement Service, Latest Postings
 INFORMS latest job listings are:
The Information & Operations Management Department in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is seeking to fill a tenure/tenure track position with an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Supply Chain Management (SCM) and/or Management Information Systems (MIS).
The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) is seeking pioneering scientists to join our faculty in the HSSR Program.
The State University of New York--Buffalo has a tenure-track faculty position beginning in August 2010.
For information on these and other job postings, go to http://jps.informs.org/view.php. You must register at the website to view job details. |
Coming Soon: Key Annual Meeting Presentations on Demand
In early December INFORMS will make available on demand, via the Web, seven key presentations from the Annual Meeting. This is your latest member benefit. Watch the INFORMS website for access instructions to five Wagner Prize presentations for excellence in operations research practice, the plenary presentation from Dr. Richard O'Neill on the Smart Grid, and Professor Christopher Tang's keynote talk on Supply Chain Risk Management. |
INFORMS Prize Submission Deadline December 1
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Blog On: Michael Trick Writes About Dead Words in Operations Research
Some time ago, when writing about Stafford Beer, I wrote: "Stafford Beer was one of the founding people in British operational research. He was one of the people who saw operational research in World War II and adapted those methods to work in practice, in his case at United Steel, followed by some consulting companies Read More. |
Georgia Tech's Supply Chain and Logistics Institute offers 10% off for INFORMS Members
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December Issues of OR/MS Today and Analytics Due Soon
Keep an eye out for your December issue of OR/MS Today, projected to mail on December 7, and the winter issue of Analytics, due to post by December 30. Special bonus - Analytics changes from a quarterly to a bimonthly publication in 2010. |
Dissertation Proposal in Direct Marketing
The 2010 Shankar-Spiegel Award for the Best Dissertation Proposal in Direct/Interactive Marketing will be awarded at the Direct/Interactive Marketing Research Summit in San Francisco in October 2010. The Direct Marketing Educational Foundation will award up to $6,000 ($3,000 to the winner(s); $1,500 to the Honorable Mention(s)) in financial assistance to be used for conducting the research and data collection to support their dissertation. Winning candidates will be assisted in gaining the cooperation of D/IM firms for data collection and generous use of databases held by or accessible to DMEF. Click here for more details about the award. |
In Memoriam: INFORMS Fellow Gerald L. Thompson
 INFORMS veteran Egon Balas remembers the contribution that INFORMS Fellow Gerald L. Thompson, who died at age 85 on November 9, made with his seminal book on finite mathematics in the 1950s. "This was the first book which introduced mathematics into the study of management and business problems," Balas told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read the tributes there, and also see the remembrance by former INFORMS president Mike Trick, Thompson's Carnegie Mellon colleague, here. |
INFORMS Poll
How has the down economy affected your professional life?
Vote here.
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