INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, 2012

The 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, October 14-17, 2012. Visit the conference site for more details. ENRE is sponsoring clusters on energy, forestry, environment and sustainability, and a joint cluster on mining, petrochemical and petroleum.

ENRE Cluster Chairs:

• Forestry: Marc McDill, Penn State University
• Energy: Ekundayo Shittu, Tulane University; and Ramteen Sioshansi, The Ohio State University
• Mining, Petrochemical and Petroleum: Marlize Meyer, Sasol; and Alexandra Newman, Colorado School of Mines
• Environment and Sustainability: Hayri Önal, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, 2011

The 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting was held at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 13-16, 2011. For more information visit the conference website. ENRE sponsored clusters on energy, mining, forestry, and a new cluster on the environment and sustainability; with a total of 53 sessions (including 8 joint sessions).

ENRE Cluster Chairs:

• Forestry: Marc McDill, Penn State University
• Energy: Ramteen Sioshansi, The Ohio State University
• Mining: Alexandra Newman, Colorado School of Mines
• Environment and Sustainability: Hayri Önal, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin 2010

The 2010 INFORMS meeting was held in Austin, Texas, November 7-10, 2010. ENRE sponsored clusters on forestry, energy and mining, with a total of 32 sessions, including two joint sessions.

ENRE Cluster Chairs:

• Forestry: Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service.
• Energy: Vishnu Nanduri, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• Mining: Alexandra Newman, Colorado School of Mines.

List of Awards:

1) Best Paper Presentation in Energy Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Energy Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The INFORMS 2010 winners of the Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Session are (award to presented in INFORMS 2011 at Charlotte, NC):

• Title: Reliability Evaluation of Wind Turbine via Computer Simulation and Laboratory Experiments
  Authors: Haitao Liao, Seyed Ahmad Niknam, and Janet Twomey

Thanks to all the 2010 ENRE session chairs that helped in the judging process.

2) Best Paper Presentation in Forestry Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper(s) presented in the Forestry Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation (award presented in INFORMS 2011 at Charlotte, NC):.

• Nóra Könnyu, Sándor F. Tóth (School of Forest Resources, University of Washington)
  A Cutting Plane Method for Solving Harvest Scheduling Models with Area Restrictions.
• Yan Feng, Sophie D’Amours, Luc Lebel, Mustapha Nour El Fath (Department of mechanical engineering, Université Laval, Pavillon Adrien Pouliot, Québec,)
  Strategic Planning for an Integrated and Sustainable Bio-energy and Forest Products Supply Chain

3) 2010 Student Paper Travel Award:

The scholarships facilitate students to travel to an INFORMS meeting to present their work. Travel expenditures up to $300 are paid. The INFORMS 2009 Student Travel Scholarship winner is:

• Li Xu
  Title of presentation: Carbon Emission Permit Price Volatility Mitigation via Financial Options, with Shi-Jie Deng and
  Valerie Thomas

4) 2010 ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy:

This is a new award that is given annually to the best refereed journal article published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. The INFORMS 2009 Best Publication Award winners are:

• Jian Yao, Ilan Adler and Shmuel S. Oren, University
  of California, Berkeley
  Title: Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network

5) 2010 ENRE Best Publication Award in Forestry:

• Alastair McNaughton and David Ryan for their paper "Adjacency Branches Used To Optimize Forest Harvesting Subject to Area Restrictions on Clearfell" that appeared in volume 54 of Forest Science.

The committee for this award included Sophie D'Amours (chair), Dave Martell and Marc McDill (Penn State University).

ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009

The 2010 ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina June 6-9, 2010. For more information about the meeting please visit the conference site. ENRE sponsored a cluster with two mining sessions and one energy sessions.

ENRE Cluster Co-Chairs:

• Daniel Espinoza, Universidad de Chile
• Eduardo Moreno, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
• Juan Pablo Vielma, IBM Research and University of Pittsburgh

INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego 2009

At the 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, the ENRE subdivision sponsored six forestry, three mining, and twenty energy sessions, totaling around 100 talks.

ENRE Cluster Chairs:

• Forestry: Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service.
• Energy: Lizhi Wang, Iowa State University.
• Mining: Alexandra Newman, Colorado School of Mines.

List of Awards:

1) Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Forestry Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The INFORMS 2009 winner of the Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Session is:

• Matthew Thompson of U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. The title of the presentation is "Addressing Sources of Uncertainty in Strategic Fire Planning".

Thanks to the judges Dr. Jeremy Fried (U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station) and Dr. Sandor Toth (School of Forest Resources, University of Washington).

2) Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Energy Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The INFORMS 2009 winners of the Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Session are:

• Paul R. Kleindorfer of INSEAD. The title of the presentation is "Portfolio Risk Management and Carbon Emissions Valuation in Electric Power".

Thanks tothe judges Steffen Rebennack, Golbon Zakeri, Lizhi Wang, Steven Gabriel, Erin Baker, Zhi Zhou, Enzo Sauma, Shmuel Orena and Afzal Siddiqui.

3) Student Travel Scholarship:

The scholarships facilitates students to travel to an INFORMS meeting to present their work. Travel expenditures up to $300 are paid. The INFORMS 2009 Student Travel Scholarship winner is:

• Paul Enders of EQT Corporation. The title of the paper is "Interaction between Technology and Extraction Scaling Real Options in Natural Gas Production"

Thanks to the co-chairs Ekundayo Shittu of Tulane University and Marc McDill of The Pennsylvania State University

4) ENRE Best Publication Award:

This award is given annually to the best refereed journal article published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. The INFORMS 2009 Best Publication Award winners are:

Forestry:

In 2009, based on the judges’ recommendations, no awards will be made for best publication in forestry.

Energy:

In 2009, based on the judges’ recommendations, no awards will be made for best publication in energy.

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC 2008

At the 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, the ENRE subdivision sponsored five forestry, one mining, and twenty-one energy sessions, totaling around 100 talks.

ENRE Cluster Chairs:

• Forestry: Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service
• Energy: Antonio Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha

Thanks to the Cluster Chairs and the Session Chairs for organizing the sessions.

List of Awards:

1) Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Forestry Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The certificate is accompanied by a $100.00 cash award. The INFORMS 2008 winner of the Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Session is:

• Sandor Toth of University of Washington. The title of the presentation is "Optimal Reserve Selection Subject to Contiguous Habitat Requirements".

Thanks to the judges Marc McDill (The Pennsylvania State University) and Bob Haight (USDA Forest Service).

2) Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Energy Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The certificate is accompanied by a $100.00 cash award. The INFORMS 2008 winners of the Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Session are:

• Niko Iliadis (Senior Enginner and Consultant, EnerCoRD). The title of the presentation is "Optimization of Fuel Contract Management and Maintenance Scheduling for Thermal Plants".

Thanks to the judges: Afzal Siddiqui (University College London), Jorge Valenzuela (Auburn University), Shmuel Oren (University of California at Berkeley), Frederic Murphy (Temple University), Benjamin F. Hobbs (The Johns Hopkins University), Steve Gabriel (University of Maryland), Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), Erin Baker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Ekundayo Shittu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Andy Philpott (University of Auckland), Daniel J. Veit (University of Mannheim Business School), Francois Bouffard (University of Manchester), Julian Barquin (Comillas University), Pedro Linares (Universidad Pontificia Comillas) and Enzo Sauma (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile).

3) Student Travel Scholarship:

The scholarships facilitates students to travel to an INFORMS meeting to present their work. Travel expenditures up to $300 are paid. The INFORMS 2008 Student Travel Scholarship winner is:

• Ekundayo Shittu of University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The title of the paper is "Optimal Energy R&D Portfolio Investments in Response to a Carbon Tax"

Thanks to the judges Mulan Xiaofeng Wang of Carnegie Mellon University, David Fuller of University of Waterloo and Augusto Rupérez Micola of Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

4) ENRE Best Publication Award:

This is a new award that is given annually to the best refereed journal article published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. The INFORMS 2008 Best Publication Award winners are:

Forestry:

• Hayri Önal of University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign and his co-author Robert A. Briers of Napier University. The title of the paper is "Optimal selection of a connected reserve network", Operations Research, Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 379–388, 2006.

Thanks to the judges: Marcos Goycoolea of Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, David Martell of University of Toronto and Mikael Rönnqvist of Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Energy:

• Enzo E. Sauma of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and his co-author Shmuel S. Oren of University of California at Berkeley. The title of the paper is "Proactive planning and valuation of transmission investments in restructured electricity markets", Journal of Regulatory Economics, Volume 10, pp. 261-290, 2006.

Thanks to the judges: Andy Philpott of Univerisity of Auckland, Daniel Veit of University of Mannheim and Tapas K. Das of University of South Florida.

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle 2007

At the 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, the ENRE subdivision sponsored six forestry, four mining, and eighteen energy sessions, totaling around 100 talks.

ENRE Cluster Chairs:

• Forestry: Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service
• Energy: Shmuel Oren, University of California at Berkeley

Thanks to the Cluster Chairs and the Session Chairs for organizing the sessions.

List of Awards:

1) Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Forestry Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The certificate is accompanied by a $100.00 cash award. The INFORMS 2007 winners of the Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Session are:

• Sophie D'Amours of University of Laval and her co-author Mustapha Ouhimmou (University of Laval). The title of their paper is "Hardwood Supply Chain Tactical Planning in a Furniture Company using a Time Decomposition Approach".

Thanks to the judges Mikael Ronnqvist (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) and Robert Haight (USDA Forest Service).

2) Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Energy Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The certificate is accompanied by a $100.00 cash award. The INFORMS 2007 winners of the Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Session are:

• Vishnu Nanduri (PhD student, University of South Florida) and his co-author Tapas K. Das (University of South Florida). The title of their presentation is "A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Finding Nash Equilibrium of Multi-player Matrix Games".

Thanks to the judges: Daniel Veit (University of Karlsruhe), Jorge Valenzuela (auburn University), Uday Shanbhag (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Ian Dobson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Shmuel Oren (University of California at Berkeley), Benjamin Hobbs (The Johns Hopkins University), Steve Gabriel (University of Maryland), Julian Barquin (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), Yihsu Chen (University of California, Merced), Enzo Sauma (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), and Afzal Siddiqui (University College London).

3) Student Travel Scholarship:

The scholarships facilitates students to travel to an INFORMS meeting to present their work. Travel expenditures up to $300 are paid. The INFORMS 2007 Student Travel Scholarship winners are:

• Mulan X. Wang of Carnegie Mellon University. The title of the paper is "Valuation of Downstream Liquefied-Natural-Gas Storage"

Thanks to the judges Victoria Chen of The University of Texas at Arlington, Derek Bunn of London Business School, and Albert Banal-Estanol of City University.

4) ENRE Best Publication Award:

This is a new award that is given annually to the best refereed journal article published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. The INFORMS 2007 Best Publication Award winners are:

Forestry:

• Marcos Goycoolea of Universidad Adolfo Ibanez and his co-authors Alan T. Murray (The Ohio State University), Francisco Barahona (IBM Watson Research Center), Rafael Epstein (Universidad de Chile), and Andres Weintraub (Universidad de Chile). The title of the paper is "Harvest scheduling subject to maximum area restrictions: exploring exact approaches", Operations Research, Volume 53, Number 3, pp. 490-500, 2005.

Thanks to the judges: Joseph P. Roise of North Carolina State University, Howard M. Hoganson of the University of Minnesota, and Pete Bettinger of University of Georgia.

Energy:

• J.E. Harrington of The Johns Hopkins University and his co-authors B.F. Hobbs (The Johns Hopkins University), J.S. Pang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) A. Liu (The Johns Hopkins University), and G. Roch (The Johns Hopkins University). The title of the paper is "Collusive game solutions via optimization", Mathematical Programming , Series A and B, Volume 104, No. 2, pp. 407-435, 2005.

Thanks to the judges: Antonio Conejo of Universidad de Castilla, Enzo Sauma of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and Tapas Das of University of South Florida.