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With Republican presidential hopefuls looking to score points against their opponents before the country's first caucus in January, how can a contender with an operations researcher on hand plan the shortest route through 99 Iowa counties? Bill Cook of Georgia Tech tackled the problem in a New York Times blog on December 21. Look for an excerpt and a link to the blog in the INFORMS Newsroom at http://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/O.R.-In-the-News.

INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research 2012

April 15-17, 2012, Hyatt Regency, Huntington Beach, CA

http://meetings.informs.org/Analytics2012

Poster Submission Deadline - January 15, 2012

This visual, brief-presentation format lends itself to flexible presentation options. Submit a presentation and receive a discounted registration fee if your poster is accepted. Click here to submit today.

Learn Best Practices, Benchmark Your Organization's Analytics Maturity, Take Away Techniques You Can Use

Two keynote speakers will address how top companies use analytics to drive success: Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, and Bob Page, Vice President, Analytics Platform at eBay. Featured tracks include the Analytics Process, Marketing Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Energy and Environment, Decision Analysis, Public Sector Analytics, and Soft Skills for Analysts. Click here for more program updates.

11th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference

March 15-17, 2012, Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL

http://www.informs.org/Community/Conferences/2012-INFORMS-Telecommunications-Conference
The conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies.

Topics for the conference include telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network design, algorithms, optimization, network economics and techno-economics, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, pricing, quality of service, Internet and multimedia, data mining applications in telecommunications networks.

Important Dates:

• January 9, 2012: Session, tutorial, and single abstract submission deadline
• January 16, 2012: Acceptance notification
• February 16, 2012: Early (discounted) registration deadline
• February 22, 2012: Discounted hotel room reservation deadline

For more details please visit the conference website.

INFORMS International Beijing 2012 - Abstract Deadline: February 13

June 24-27, 2012, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://meetings.informs.org/beijing2012
We urge you to submit early.

ISMS Marketing Science Conference 2012 - Abstract Deadline: February 6

June 7-9, 2012, Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
http://www.bu.edu/marketingscience2012

INFORMS Meetings Calendar

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

Steve Graves of MIT, the chair of the 2012 Franz Edelman Award committee, last week announced the year's award finalists. Congratulations to

• Danaos Corporation, of Greece, for "Operational Research In Ships Management"
• TNT Express, of the Netherlands, for "How Operations Research Became Part of the DNA of TNT Express"
• Carlson Hotels, of the United States, for "Carlson Hotels Maximizes Revenue Through Improved Demand Management and Price Optimization in Collaboration with JDA Software Group"
• Intel, of the United States, for "Optimizing Capital Investment Decisions at Intel Corporation"
• HP, of the United States, for "Delivering Value Through Advanced Analytics"
• The Centers for Disease Control, of the United States, for "Advancing Public Health and Medical Preparedness with Operations Research"

From all your friends on the staff of INFORMS!

INFORMS Analytics Conference Organizing Committee Chair Erica Klampfl tells you why you must attend. Please watch her brief, 3-minute message.

Did You Know?
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Sign Up for Your 2012 eAlerts

You can register your email to be notified when new journal content goes online whether you are a subscriber or not. Choose from a number of alert options, including Articles in Advance, for all 13 INFORMS journals. Be sure to add your second member dues journal to your registration: eTOC Alerts.

Organization Science - New Issue

Read the new articles published in the November/December 2011 Organization Science issue. Subscribe to INFORMS 2012 PubsOnLine Suite for only $99, and get access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

• "The (N)Ever-Changing World: Stability and Change in Organizational Routines"
• "Text Me! New Consumer Practices and Change in Organizational Fields"
• "Status Inconsistency and Product Valuation in the California Wine Market"
• "Behind the Iron Cage: An Institutional Perspective on ISO 9000 Adoption and CEO Compensation"

Interfaces - New Issue

Read the six new papers featured in the November/December 2011 issue of Interfaces. Go to the IPOL Portal to access all new INFORMS journal issues.

• "Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians"
• "NC State's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World"
• "INFORMS and the Analytics Movement: The View of the Membership"

Interfaces Call for Papers - Special Issue: "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"

Submission deadline: November 15, 2012
Special Issue Editor: Michael F. Gorman
Read the Interfaces call for papers here.

Articles in Advance

Subscribers can read papers published ahead of print every month. Members can now access even more content through their INFORMS subscriptions.

Information Systems Research, December 7, 2011
INFORMS Journal on Computing, December 7, 2011
Management Science, December 2, 2011
M&SOM, December 2, 2011
Organization Science, December 2, 2011
Transportation Science, December 2, 2011
Interfaces, November 28, 2011
Operations Research, November 18, 2011

2011 TutORials in Operations Research ONLINE - Annual Meeting Attendee Access

The 2011 TutORials in Operations Research volume is available ONLINE to all 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting registrants. INFORMS members will have access on January 1, 2012. Go to the 2011 and 2010 TutORials online via the TutORials website and LOG IN to read all the content using your INFORMS username and password.

Limited print copies of the 2011 TutORials volume are available for purchase on the TutORials website and in the INFORMS Store.

Does Your Library Have the Journals You Want for 2012?

Now is the perfect time to check on your institution's 2012 ORMS subscriptions. Don't let the year get started without your favorite INFORMS journals. Send a renewal or subscription recommendation via INFORMS Grassroots Web page by following two quick-and-easy steps.

Congratulations to INFORMS member Lauren Hannah of Duke University. A PhD in O.R. and financial engineering, Lauren received a Duke University Provost PostDoc Fellowship in statistical science.

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Aditya Deepak asks, apart from AMPL, Excel and MATLAB, which O.R. software are essential to learn for a grad student looking for an internship in the area of production planning and optimization? Weigh in here.

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