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INFORMS International Beijing 2012
June 24-27, 2012, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://meetings.informs.org/beijing2012
Register Now - Avoid Lines at On-site Registration
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Important: Visa Needed to Travel to China - Apply Early
Most attendees will need a visa to travel to China. Plan to obtain a visa before you depart: It is recommended that you do this at least one month before the date of departure. Visas can be obtained from a Chinese embassy or consulate. Click here for several helpful links.
Hotels - Reserve Now
A wide range of hotel options at exclusive discounted rates is available. All hotels are within walking distance of the China National Convention Center (CNCC) where the meeting will be held and in or near Olympic Park. As the headquarters hotel, the CNCC Grand Hotel is connected to the convention center and has direct access. Click here for information on reservations.
ISMS Marketing Science Conference, June 7-9 - Register Now
Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
http://www.bu.edu/marketingscience2012/
INFORMS MSOM Annual Conference, June 17-19 - Register Now
Columbia Business School, New York, NY
http://msom.society.informs.org/conferences/
INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing Section Conference, June 29 and 30 - Early Registration by May 14
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin, Germany
http://www.esmt.org/info/informs
INFORMS Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar.
John W. Chinneck is completing his second and final term as editor-in-chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing on December 31, 2012. The president of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a search for the next editor-in-chief. All members of INFORMS are invited to participate in this process. Further information can be found here. Nominations deadline: May 15, 2012.
Daniel Levinthal will complete his first three-year term as Organization Science editor-in-chief at the end of 2012. The president of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a strategic review of the journal. The goals of this strategic review are to understand the state of the journal; to identify new issues, new challenges, and new ideas; and to listen to the journal's customers. Organization Science has evolved to become one of the premier international journals in management and organization theory. All INFORMS members are welcome to send their input to Jesper Sorensen, Committee Chair, at sorensen@stanford.edu. More information can be found here.
In the military, the talent and aptitude of individual soldiers can lead to good planning, superior intelligence, better war gaming, frontline excellence, and lives spared. Poor soldiering can lead to defeat and death. So shouldn't there be metrics put to every soldier? That's what U.S. Army Major Rob Dees argues. He presented his findings at the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research earlier this month. Hear him make his case at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.
The INFORMS board, staff, and membership join in extending condolences to the family of Alberto Caprara, an editor for the INFORMS Journal on Computing and the 1997 winner of the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. Prof. Caprara died in a mountaineering accident in Italy earlier this month; he was 44 years old. His colleague at the University of Bologna and fellow JOC Editor Michela Milano remembered him with these words: "We are all really sad and astonished. Not only was Alberto a colleague and a friend, but he was one of the smartest minds in the field of O.R."
The INFORMS board, staff, and membership join in extending condolences to the family of Jerzy Holubiec, who died in Poland at the age of 80. Dr. Holubiec was a strong presence at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the founding member of the INFORMS Chapter in Poland. An obituary of Dr. Holubiec appears here.
The INFORMS board, staff, and membership join in extending condolences to the family of veteran operations researcher Jeremy Shapiro. The MIT professor died on April 14; he was 72 years old. Prof. Shapiro served for nine years as codirector of MIT's Operations Research Center. More recently, he had focused on designing and applying modeling systems to analyze real-world decision problems in supply chain management, finance, and marketing. The second edition of his book, Modeling the Supply Chain, was published in 2007. At the time of his death, he was scheduled to speak at the INFORMS Analytics Conference. An obituary appeared in the Boston Globe.
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, June 30 - July 3, 2012
The Scientific Committee of FUR and the Local Organizing Committee from ExCEN and CEAR announced that the FUR XV International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory is being held at Georgia State University. The deadline for submission of abstracts or full papers has been extended to April 30, 2012. More information about FUR XV and the history of FUR conferences and the network is available here.
Access to Nielsen consumer panel data from the Kilts-Nielsen Data Center can support your research agendas in the areas of marketing, economics, public policy, and more.
These data are provided through a new arrangement with Nielsen and the Kilts Center for Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
All tenure-track faculty and PhD students from accredited U.S. colleges and universities can apply for data access.
The first available data set, Consumer Panel Data, includes information on product purchases made by a panel of 40,000-60,000 households across all retail outlets, in all U.S. markets, and all Nielsen-tracked categories (including food, nonfood grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise).
The Kilts-Nielsen Data Center is now accepting proposals online >
Read the press release >
