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INFORMS members, board, and staff extend their condolences to the family of Morris Hamburg, an emeritus professor of statistics and operations research at the Wharton School, who died on November 14 at the age of 89. A remembrance of the former INFORMS member is in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Georgia Tech Center for Health & Humanitarian Logistics has introduced a new Health and Humanitarian Logistics Professional Education Program. This executive learning program is designed for practitioners in nongovernmental organizations, government, and industries who are active participants in humanitarian relief operations or long-term health or development environments and are seeking to logistics strategies and to build skills to improve decision making in preparedness, response, and system design. Information is available here.

Are the members of your INFORMS chapter seeking a scintillating speaker on the rise of analytics? Do the young people in your student chapter want to learn from a top expert about an O.R. specialty that isn't practiced within 100 miles of your university? The INFORMS Speakers Program website has been redesigned and updated to make your search for a speaker easier - and the results more satisfying. With more top O.R./analytics experts now speaking and more women in O.R. part of the program, chances are you'll not only find a speaker who can address the interests of those in your group but a leading researcher or spokesman who can make your event special. Take advantage of the INFORMS Speakers program today; go to http://www.informs.org/Connect-with-People/Speakers-Program.

Congratulations to incoming INFORMS Vice President, Chapters/Fora, Olga Raskina of Con-way. TDWI, The Data Warehousing Institute, recognized Con-way and Olga's O.R. group with its TDWI Best Practices Award in the category of analytics.

Congratulations to Stefan Karisch, who concludes his term as INFORMS Vice President, Chapters/Fora, at the end of this year. Stefan is now President of AGIFORS, the Airline Group of IFORS.

Management Science - New Issue

Read the new articles published in the November 2011 Management Science issue. See also "Management Insights," providing a brief overview of all 12 articles.

• "The Effects of Focus on Performance: Evidence from California Hospitals"
• "Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis"
• "Skill, Luck, and the Multiproduct Firm: Evidence from Hedge Funds"
• "Modeling Security-Check Queues"

Transportation Science - New Issue
Read the six new papers featured in the November 2011 issue of Transportation Science. Go to the IPOL Portal to access all new issues.

• "Robust Airline Scheduling Under Block-Time Uncertainty"
• "Designing Mechanisms for the Management of Carrier Alliances"
• "Fleet Management for Vehicle Sharing Operations"

Operations Research - Latest Issue
Read the new articles published online in the September/October 2011 issue of Operations Research as well as the "In this Issue" article. Go to the Publications site for updates on all INFORMS publications.

• "Dynamic Reserve Selection: Optimal Land Retention with Land-Price Feedbacks"
• "Process Flexibility Revisited: The Graph Expander and Its Applications"
• "Integration of Inventory and Pricing Decisions with Costly Price Adjustments"
• "Rating Customers According to Their Promptness to Adopt New Products"

Mathematics of Operations Research - New Issue
See all 11 newly published articles from the November 2011 issue of Mathematics of OR. Subscribe to INFORMS 2012 PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 and get access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

• "The Simplex and Policy-Iteration Methods Are Strongly Polynomial for the Markov Decision Problem with a Fixed Discount Rate"
• "A Stochastic Portfolio Optimization Model with Bounded Memory"
• "Discrete Fixed Points: Models, Complexities, and Applications"
• "Optimal Selling Scheme for Heterogeneous Consumers with Uncertain Valuations"

INFORMS Journal on Computing - New Issue
Access the 11 new papers in the Fall 2011 issue of the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Go to the IPOL Portal to access all new journal issues.

• "Enhancement of Sandwich Algorithms for Approximating Higher-Dimensional Convex Pareto Sets"
• "A Clock-and-Offer Auction Market for Grid Resources When Bidders Face Stochastic Computational Needs"
• "Optimization of Supply Chain Systems with Price Elasticity of Demand"

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.
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 contents using your INFORMS username and password.
Limited print copies of the 2011 TutORials volume are available for sale on the TutORials website and in the INFORMS Store.

Remind Your Library to Renew Your INFORMS Institutional Subscriptions!

Alert your librarian to INFORMS 2012 institutional subscription rates posted on INFORMS Librarian Portal. Send a recommendation to your librarian in seconds using INFORMS Grassroots Web page.

Software packages for visualizing job schedules, operations research tutorial software and website, cutting optimization, Groebner basis, and more. OR-Exchange, your INFORMS-hosted and INFORMS-sponsored O.R. Q-and-A site.

Carl Henning asks, "Do you know courses that give an overview of O.R., programming, (applied) math, statistics that can be taken in a few months or in the evening/weekend - suitable for working people?" Weigh in here.

INFORMS Executive Director Melissa Moore has been gracious enough to share her Google+ page with us until Google+ was opened to groups. INFORMS has been approved, and you can find the page here. Please add INFORMS to your circles.