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Introducing Your New INFORMS Website
 Our newly redesigned and re-architectured website is live and ready for your perusal. Please take a look at http://www.informs.org and tell us what you think. Over the coming weeks, we'll point out all the new features. Please bear with us as we continue to improve the site. |
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It's Membership Renewal Time
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INFORMS Meetings
INFORMS Practice Conference 2010
April 18-20, Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL December 15 - Deadline for Select Presentations - Submit Today!
Selected presenters save 40% off the lowest regular rate for the INFORMS Practice Conference. Submit your proposal for a talk by December 15, 2009, and become eligible for a discounted registration fee of $495. Click here for all submission requirements Call for Posters - Deadline Extended to January 15, 2010
Submit a poster and become eligible for a discounted registration fee of $495. You can submit a poster on analytics projects still in progress; new, cutting-edge topics and projects on which you're looking for feedback; case studies of projects that were NOT successful, and what you learned; corporate or consulting work subject to nondisclosure restrictions that can still be presented at a high level; and more. Click here for all details about poster submission. Hilton Bonnet Creek - Hotel Reservations Open
The Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek is a new world-class hotel located in a natural setting on 482 acres and surrounded on three sides by Walt Disney World. Call the hotel directly at 407-597-3600 or 888-353-2013 for reservations; be sure to refer to INFORMS for the special conference rate of $199. ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting 2010 - Abstract Deadline is February 1, 2010
June 6-9, Law School, University of Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFeaturing over 20 invited clusters with representation from around the world - click here for a complete list of cluster topics. Click here to submit your abstract. Plan now to allow plenty of time before or after the meeting to tour Buenos Aires and Argentina. The early fall weather in June is a perfect time to see all the sights of this beautiful city and country. Announcing INFORMS Southern Regional Conference 2010
April 5-7, Embassy Suites Hotel, Huntsville, AL
Hosted by the INFORMS Deep South Chapter and INFORMS Military Applications Society. Abstract submission opening soon. INFORMS Meetings Calendar
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New Member Benefit: On-Demand Annual Meeting Presentations Available Now
 Now is your chance to see and listen to some of the key talks from this year's annual meeting. Go here to access via the Web
- the Monday morning plenary talk
- the Monday keynote address, and
- your choice of five excellent Wagner Prize presentations relaying projects that represent the very best in operations research practice.
A brief log-in will be required. This is an exclusive free offer to all INFORMS 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 The deadline for consideration by the Nominating Committee is January 10, 2010, so that the slate can be completed and the Secretary can submit it for publication in the April issue of OR/MS Today. |
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INFORMS Podcasts: John Sterman on Copenhagen
 When world leaders gather later this month in Copenhagen to discuss global warming, they will probably agree on one point: how hard it is to interpret the data. Following his plenary at the INFORMS annual meeting, MIT's John Sterman, a participant in www.ClimateInteractive.org, explains how new modeling techniques allow decision makers and the public to understand climate change information and do sensitivity analysis. Hear his new INFORMS podcast at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast. |
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Blog On: Anna Nagurney Writes About Music Supply Chains and Serving on International Dissertations
 "I came across a very interesting dissertation on music supply chains that was successfully defended for a Masters degree recently in Bergen, Norway at NHH." Read More. |
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Southeastern Michigan Chapter Reactivating
 A group of volunteers is forming to help reactivate the Southeastern Michigan chapter. Do you live in the area? Are you interested in helping to organize activities for the chapter? We want to hear your ideas and opinions! Contact tracy.byrnes@informs.org. |
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INFORMS Publications News
Management Science - Call for Papers
Special Issue on Marketing Within the Enterprise and Beyond
Management Science is inviting manuscripts that explore important research issues covering the interface between marketing and other functional areas or addressing important public policy implications of marketing decisions. (Deadline February 26, 2010)
Operations Research - Forthcoming Papers
"Information Sharing in a Long-Term Supply Chain Relationship: The Role of Customer Review Strategy"
"Data Envelopment Analysis as Nonparametric Least-Squares Regression"
"Equilibrium Capacity Expansion Under Stochastic Demand Growth"
"Robust Optimization for Unconstrained Simulation-Based Problems"
Click here to see more upcoming papers. 2010 Pubs Suite Online - $99 for all 12 Journals
Upgrade your 2010 subscriptions to INFORMS Pubs Suite Online for only $99! You will have online access to all 12 INFORMS journals at almost half the cost. Pubs Suite is a special benefit reserved only for members that delivers online access to all journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1. Articles in Advance
Read Journal Articles before Publication to Keep You on Top of OR/MS Research INFORMS offers Articles in Advance, the release of peer-reviewed, revised, typeset, copyedited, and author-approved articles made available online in advance of their appearance in a printed issue. Articles in Advance is available only through institutional subscriptions. Publications Grassroots Efforts
Promote subscriptions of INFORMS journals at your institution. Use our easy search field to check your institution's subscriptions. If your organization does not currently subscribe to any journals, click here to send a recommendation email. Call for Papers: Interfaces Special Issue: Analytics in Sports
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.
December Issue of OR/MS Today Due Soon
Keep an eye out for your December issue of OR/MS Today, projected to mail on December 7.
Article Line Up for Winter Issue of Analytics Due January 4
The winter issue of Analytics due to post on January 4 features articles on how to organize your analytical talent, virality, marketing and social media, the agile enterprise, humanitarian relief logistics, analytics in athletics, time to payback, and more. To scan recent issues go to http://analyticsmagazine.com. |
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In Memoriam, Marvin Mandelbaum
 INFORMS regrets to inform members that Prof. Marvin Mandelbaum, 68, of York University in Ontario, Canada, passed away on September 8. Working with colleagues, he developed the concept of split and match queues and the concept of flexibility of manufacturing systems. His work also extended the concepts of flexibility from manufacturing systems to queueing systems. More about Prof. Mandelbaum is here. | |
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INFORMS Meetings Calendar
 Winter Simulation ConferenceDec 13 -16, 2009
 INFORMS Practice Conference
April 18-20, 2010
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INFORMS Poll
Which feature of the new INFORMS Website do you like the most? Vote here.
Results from last poll.
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