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With renewal season fast approaching, the INFORMS Membership Committee and Board of Directors are happy to announce there will be no dues increase for 2013. Not only will dues levels remain the same, but members will continue to choose two online dues journals instead of one. Print versions of our member magazine, OR/MS Today, will also be sent automatically to all domestic members at no additional postage cost. Watch for your first opportunity to renew early and possibly win an iPad 2. Details coming mid-September.

The Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) promotes the enhancement and dissemination of knowledge, and the efficiency of industrial practice, related to the operations function in manufacturing and service enterprises. The members of MSOM include researchers, educators, consultants, practitioners and students, with backgrounds in these and other applied sciences.

MSOM currently operates five Special Interest Groups (SIGs), representing the varied interests of the society members: service management, supply chain management, Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management (iFORM), health operations management, and sustainable operations. The society publishes a quarterly journal titled Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), which is the premier journal of the operations management research community. To encourage high-quality research, the society has set up several awards including the Student Paper Competition Award and Service Award, as well as the renowned Fellow Award. The society also holds an annual research meeting in the summer, and it has gained increasing popularity.

For more information or to join, visit the MSOM website.

INFORMS is considering the development of an analytics continuing professional education program to help those allied with the analytics movement. We are asking for your input to help us evaluate the need for such a program and, if there is a need, what form and content should be considered. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey and assisting the profession. All respondents will be entered to win 1 of 2 Kindle Fires!

The U.S. Presidential election is not the only important electoral race this year - INFORMS is also at a crossroads and this is your opportunity to select our future leadership. Vote for your leaders of tomorrow. Voting has begun and continues through September 30, 2012. Have your member number and election passcode handy. Technical support for the INFORMS election is available at +1-952-974-2339.

INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012 Phoenix   
October 14-17, 2012, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
http://meetings.informs.org/phoenix2012

Registration Deadline Extended
The early registration deadline has been extended to September 13. Click here to register now and take advantage of the lowest rates.

Meeting Registration Plus Membership Renewal
INFORMS members can register for the meeting and renew their 2013 membership dues at the same time, either by phone now or online beginning September 11 when our online membership renewal goes live.
Online: Click here to go to the meeting registration page and once registered, click on the "Continue Shopping" button to go to the Self-Service Menu. Then click on the menu item for "Renew or Add Items." You will be provided with the option to renew "as is" or to make changes to your membership options. All items will appear in your shopping cart.
Phone: Call our Member Services Department at 1-800-446-3676 and someone will be happy to assist you.

Hotel Availability
While some INFORMS hotels are sold out, please be assured that we are adding new hotels and rooms as needed. All hotel reservations must go through the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Housing Bureau online or by fax. Click here for the latest updates.

Room Sharing
Click here for the information needed and all requirements of placing your name on the room share list.

Pre-Conference FREE Vendor Workshops
Saturday October 13, 9:00am-5:30pm
Plan to come to Phoenix early and take advantage of these workshops. Choose from three time groups. Expand your knowledge of software from AIMMS, American Optimal Decisions, AnyLogic, FICO, Frontline, GAMS, Gurobi Optimization, IBM, Imagine That, LINDO, Lumina Decision Systems, Maximal, McGraw Hill, Palisade, Salford, SAS, SAS-JMP, SAS Global Academic, Spry, and Tableau. Click here for details. You must register for the meeting to sign up for the workshops. If you have already registered, call 800-446-3676, ext. 591 to add workshops.

INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research 2013 - Save the Date   
April 7-9, 2013, Grand Hyatt ,San Antonio, Texas
http://meetings.informs.org/analytics2013

INFORMS Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar.

Congratulations to the 2012 Winners of the INFORMS Impact Prize:

• Johannes J. Bisschop
• Kevin Cunningham
• Robert Fourer
• David M. Gay
• Brian W. Kernighan
• Bjarni Kristjansson
• Alexander Meeraus
• Linus Schrage

The awardees are the primary originators of the five most important algebraic modeling languages: AIMMS (Bisschop), AMPL (Fourer, Gay, and Kerninghan), GAMS (Bisschop and Meeraus), LINDO/LINGO (Cunningham and Schrage), and MPL (Kristjansson). These five have been incorporated in general-purpose systems of large technical software companies, spreadsheet programs, mathematical modeling systems, and object-oriented programming languages.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2012 INFORMS Fellows Award:

• Guillermo Gallego, Columbia University
• Bezael "Ben" Gavish, Southern Methodist University
• Daniel Granot, University of British Columbia
• Patrick Harker, University of Delaware
• Michael N. Katehakis, Rutgers Business School
• Karl Kempf, Intel
• Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon University
• Richard P. O'Neill, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Rakesh Kumar Sarin, University of California, Los Angeles
• Yves Smeers, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Marius M. Solomon, Northeastern University
• Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University

The Fellows will be formally inducted during a luncheon at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix this fall.

The INFORMS board, membership, and administration extend deepest condolences to the family of Elmira Popova, who passed away on July 22 after a struggle with cancer. Elmira, her achievements, and the testament of the many friends she left behind can be found in this University of Texas memorial.

Organization Science - New Issue
Access the 16 new articles in the July/August 2012 issue of Organization Science. Subscribe to the 2012 INFORMS PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 for access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

    •    "How Do Product Users Influence Corporate Invention?"
    •    "The Effect of Going Public on Innovative Productivity and Exploratory Search"
    •    "The Liability of Leading: Battling Aspiration and Survival Goals in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions"

Interfaces - New Issue
Read the 7 new articles in the July/August 2012 issue of Interfaces. Please access the IPOL Portal information for all the current INFORMS journal content and publications news.

    •    "Improving Airline Revenues with Variable Opaque Products: "Blind Booking" at Germanwings"
    •    "On the Development of a Soccer Player Performance Rating System for the English Premier League"
    •    "A Large US Retailer Selects Transportation Carriers Under Diesel Price Uncertainty"

Management Science - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Business Analytics"
Submission deadline is September 16, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.

Interfaces - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"
Submission deadline is November 15, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.

INFORMS Transactions on Education - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Teaching Service Science"
Special Issue Editors: Kevin Ross and Mark M. Davis
Submission deadline is December 1, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.

Transportation Science - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Transportation Science on Freight Transportation and Logistics"
Special Issue Editor: Teodor Gabriel Crainic
Submission deadline is September 28, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.

The Seventeenth Annual Cincinnati/Dayton INFORMS Picnic will take place on Sunday, August 5, 2012 from 3:00pm until 8:00pm. George and Anne Polak will host it at their home. If you plan to join, e-mail George.