The 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting was held at the Austin Convention Center from November 7-10, 2010. The theme was “Energizing the Future”. SPPSN assembled 23 sessions at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on topics ranging from humanitarian logistics to the legalization of marijuana. The following list summarizes the session title and chair. We are very grateful to our officers, keynote speakers, panel and session organizers and participants for making the 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting a successful event.

2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting Sessions

Threats to Life and Limb, Chair: Arnold Barnett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Decision Making for Wildfire Response and Evacuation, Chair: Nada Petrovic, UC Santa Barbara

Public Health Models [Joint with HAS], Chair: Hannah Smalley, Georgia Institute of Technology

Humanitarian Logistics [Joint with MIF/TSL], Chair: Lauren Davis, North Carolina A&T State University

Surveys and Models for Logistics Management in Disasters [Joint with TSL], Chair: Burak Eksioglu, Mississippi State University

Health and Humanitarian Applications of Revenue Management [Joint with HAS], Co-Chairs: Melih Celik and Mallory Soldner, Georgia Institute of Technology

Statistical Issues in Public Policy [Joint with MIF], Chair: Kobi Abayomi, Georgia Institute of Technology

Models in Public Health [Joint with HAS], Co-Chairs: Jacqueline Griffin and Hannah Smalley, Georgia Institute of Technology

Community-Based Operations Research [Joint with MIF], Chair: Michael Johnson, University of Massachusetts Boston

Public Health - Strategies for Population Protection [Joint with HAS], Chair: Eva Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Emergency Medical Services: New Directions [Joint with HAS], Chair: Laura McLay, Virginia Commonwealth University

Decision Support for Emergency Response and Public Safety [Joint with TSL], Chair: Alex Savachkin, University of South Florida

Health and Humanitarian Supply Chains [Joint with MSOM], Chair: Paul Griffin, Penn State University

Methods to Support Regional Evacuation [Joint with TSL], Chair: Irina Dolinskaya, Northwestern University

Mitigating Disaster Impact through Planning for Emergency Response [Joint with TSL], Chair: Elise Miller-Hooks,University of Maryland

Aiding Disaster Relief through Optimization [Joint with TSL], Chair: Irina Dolinskaya, Northwestern University

Pandemic Planning and Modeling [Joint with JFIG/HAS], Chair: Dionne Aleman,University of Toronto

Risk and Recovery of Transportation Networks to Disaster [Joint with TSL], Chair: Nicholas Lownes, University of Connecticut

Resource Allocation Modeling for Infectious Disease Control [Joint with HAS],Chair: Sabina Alistar,Stanford University

OR and Public Health Care [Joint with HAS], Chair: Ruben Proano, Rochester Institute of Technology

Optimization Models for Disease Management [Joint with HAS], Chair: Jennifer Mason,North Carolina State University

Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Control [Joint with HAS], Chair: Elisa Long, Yale School of Management

Analyses of Several Public Health Problems and Solutions [Joint with HAS], Chair: Nilay Argon,University of North Carolina

In addition, the SPPSN business meeting was held at during the first SPPSN lunch. The lunch was a large success. We are grateful to the following sponsors for supporting this year’s SPPSN business meeting and lunch: Lehigh University (College of Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology (School of Industrial and Systems Engineering), and Penn State (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering). We hope to make the business lunch a SPPSN tradition in the years to come.