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If you have been an ORSA-TIMS-INFORMS members for 25 or more years, stop by the INFORMS booth in the Exhibit Hall to pick up a ribbon designating your 25+ year membership. We salute our long-time members!
We welcome all those attendees who would like more information about analytics certification, which INFORMS will offer in 2013. Please join us at this reception on Tuesday, 6:15-7:15pm, Hyatt, Regency A. A brief presentation will be given by members of the INFORMS Certification Task Force.
Enter the exhibit hall raffle on Monday and Tuesday to have a chance at winning an iPad2. Watch for information in Phoenix.
The Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) will host its annual luncheon and meeting on Monday, October 15, 12:30pm at Kincaid's Classic American Restaurant, which is located a short walking distance away from the meeting site at 2 South Third Street in Phoenix. A buffet luncheon will be served and the JFIG Paper Competition winners will be announced. All are welcome to attend. Tickets are $25 ($15 for students). Contact meetings@informs.org to register.
All attendees receive free access to the INFORMS 2012 TutORials in Operations Research online book concurrently with the meeting. For access, click here and enter your INFORMS member username and password. Your username and password are printed on your conference registration receipt; you can also request that information when you go to the online tutorials site. You can order the 2012 book and previous volumes (CDs 2005-2009) through the TutORials website. For more information, visit INFORMS booths #58-60 in the exhibit hall.
The plant tour to the Santan Generating Station still has space available (note: no on-site registration available). A downtown Phoenix walking tour is planned for guests. Click here for all details. If you have already registered, call 800-446-3676 or 443-757-3500, ext. 591 to add tours. In addition, Southwest Discovery Tours (offering tours to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and more) will have a tour desk near the registration area.
Open to all INFORMS meeting attendees at no additional charge, this program is held in conjunction with the Society of Medical Decision Making, followed by the SMDM Annual Meeting October 17-20 at the Hyatt. The Wednesday afternoon program features two joint sessions and a plenary at 5pm, a panel session with moderator Mark Roberts (University of Pittsburgh), "What Pilots and the Airline Industry can Teach Clinicians and Hospitals about Patient Safety." Click here for details.
An impressive list of plenary speakers includes Richard O'Lear, Defense Science Board; William Pulleyblank, U.S. Military Academy (Philip McCord Morse Lecture); Edward Prescott (Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture); and a joint SMDM-INFORMS plenary on Wednesday afternoon. Keynotes will be presented by George Poste, Arizona State University; the 2012 Edelman Award winner TNT Express; Alan Gara, Intel Corp.; Wallace Hopp, University of Michigan; Christopher Lofgren, Schneider National; Paolo Toth, University of Bologna (IFORS Distinguished Lecture); the 2012 UPS George D. Smith Prize Winner, University of Michigan, Tauber Institute for Global Operations; Caryl Brzymialkiewicz, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and the 2012 Daniel H. Wagner Prize winner. Click here for abstracts.
Be sure to stop by the General Interactive Sessions on Monday and Tuesday, 12:30-2:30pm, in the Convention Center, Ballroom 301 Foyer. On display will be 50+ posters each day on diverse ORMS topics. Authors will be on hand to describe their work during these times. Three prizes will be awarded each day to competition participants. Three subdivisions will also hold focused poster sessions: Energy, Natural Resources & the Environment, Sunday, 4:30-6pm, Convention Center, North Foyer; Transportation Science & Logistics, Monday 4:30-6pm, Convention Cener, North Foyer; and Health Applications, Wednesday, 11am-12:30pm, Convention Center, West 200 Foyer.
Celebrate the achievements of your colleagues on Sunday, 8:30-9:45pm, Convention Center, West 101. A dessert reception will be served following the ceremony, open only to guests who attend the ceremony. Doors will close at 8:45pm.
