The INFORMS Military Applications Society (MAS) & Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Student Webinar

Friday, November 30,
12-1pm EST

How does industry use O.R. to support the military? Join us online to hear Jack Levis, Director of Process Management at UPS and Vice President - Practice at INFORMS, "The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Analytics Movement - highlights of how INFORMS is moving forward with embracing analytics to support military and industry decisions." Jack's talk will provide an overview of the steps that INFORMS is taking to maintain a leadership position in the analytics movement, including examples of how UPS is using analytics to support key planning and management decisions. Norman Reitter, Senior Director, Analytics, Syngineering, LLC and Board Director of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS): "Industry Consulting to Military Problems using Operations Research Methods." His talk will provide the student perspective on the types of relevant problems that the military is facing and how operations research techniques can be used to help provide insight into the best options forward. His brief includes several examples of past project work with the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army, and NATO to show how operations research has been used in this domain.

Webinar Information
Topic: MORS/MAS Joint Student Webinar
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012
Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Meeting Number: 628 766 241
Meeting Password: morsmas
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