INFORMS Membership Meeting and Reception Saturday Evening
Saturday, November 6, 5-6pm, Hilton Salon B, 4th floor
Stop by the INFORMS Membership Meeting and Reception. Renew old acquaintances, connect with INFORMS leaders, and find out what INFORMS is up to.

New Member Welcome and Annual Meeting Orientation Session
Sunday, November 7, 4:30-6pm, Hilton Salon C
New members and first-time meeting attendees are invited to the New Member Welcome/Annual Meeting Orientation Session, featuring a presentation on member benefits, information on how to best navigate the meeting, and a chance to relax and network with colleagues.

Welcome Reception
Sunday, 7:30-9pm, Convention Center Exhibit Hall 3 
The perfect venue to meet with colleagues, visit the exhibits, and enjoy light refreshments.

Awards Ceremony and Dessert Reception
Sunday, 8:30-9:45pm, Convention Center Ballroom G, level 4
Celebrate the achievements of your colleagues. Attend the Welcome Reception first and then proceed to the Awards Ceremony. Please note that the reception is part of the ceremony event and is open to the awardees, their friends and colleagues, and all those who attend the Awards Ceremony itself. We are sorry that we cannot accommodate guests to the reception who do not also attend the ceremony.

• Georgia Tech and CDC: "Universal Tool for Vaccine Scheduling: Applications for Children and Adults" and
• Kimberly-Clark: "Latin America Builds an Optimal Scheduling System"

• IBM: "OnTheMark: Integrated Stochastic Resource Planning of Human Capital Supply Chains"

• Blockbuster: "A Short-Range Scheduling Model for Blockbuster's Order Processing Operation" and
• GE Global Research: "Marketing Optimization in Retail Banking"

An INFORMS Committee led by John Birge of the University of Chicago is currently working on asking AACSB, an organization of business school deans that accredits business schools and sets standards for their curricula, to enforce its requirements for teaching management science. Kalyan Singhal of the University of Baltimore is preparing a detailed report tentatively titled, "Management Science: Opportunities for Business Schools." His report will explain how MS/OR has made an impact on business and the society, and will do so partly by describing successful applications. He will draw some of these applications from journals, but there are hundreds of successful benefits of MS/OR that are not published.

If you are aware of any such successful application in your organization or another organization, Dr. Singhal would appreciate if you would send him a one-page description with the nature of application; one-time savings; the annual savings; additional measurable benefits such as lives saved, pain reduced, and waiting time reduced; and other intangible benefits that strategic or operational. Contact him at ksinghal@ubalt.edu.

INFORMS members are invited to present in the Applied Solutions Operations Research (OR) Track at the 2011 Institute of Industrial Engineering Annual Conference & Expo (www.iienet2.org/annual2/). The conference will be held May 21-25, 2011 at the Grand Sierra Resort Hotel in Reno, NV. Presenters will give 35-minute talks on how OR techniques are applied in a real-world environment (there is a possibility for 70-minute sessions if you desire). To register and submit your abstract for consideration, please go here: www.xcdsystem.com/iie/. For additional information, contact Melanie Barker at melanie@barkerzone.com (650-450-9530) or Brandy Heyde Montague at brandyheyde@hotmail.com (765-532-6859).