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INFORMS BOARD OF DIRECTORS TAKES OFFICE

WITH RUTGERS AUCTION EXPERT AS NEW PRESIDENT

LINTHICUM, MD, February 5, 2004 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today announced its 2004 Board of Directors, which took office at the beginning of the year.

Michael H. Rothkopf is the new President of INFORMS. Dr. Rothkopf is an expert in auctions who has served as a consultant on electricity auctions to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

[A photo of Prof. Rothkopf is at http://www2.informs.org/Press/MichaelRothkopf.jpg ]

Dr. Rothkopf is a professor at Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus, where he is affiliated with the Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR), Rutgers Business School, and the Rutgers Center for Research in Regulated Industries.

His expertise includes energy economics, models of markets and competitive bidding, and applications of operations research.

In addition to his work with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Prof. Rothkopf has consulted to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; US WEST; Merrill Lynch; The Brattle Group; Cambridge Energy Research Associates; the Analysis Group, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb; and the RAND Corporation. He headed the Energy Analysis Program at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory before moving to Rutgers in 1988. He has held positions at Shell Oil and Xerox PARC.

During his many years of service to INFORMS, Prof. Rothkopf has served in many roles, including that of Editor-in-Chief of the society’s journal for practitioners, Interfaces.

Dr. Rothkopf has published extensively. In August, 2003, he co-authored a paper published by the New American Foundation entitled, “Interlicense Competition: Spectrum Deregulation Without Confiscation or Giveaways.” He has edited a handbook on public sector applications of operations research and written over 30 papers that have appeared in archival journals dealing with operations research. He has written more than a dozen papers that have appeared in archival journals dealing with economics, engineering, marketing, medicine, and management.

Professor Rothkopf received his doctorate in operations research from MIT.

The 2004 INFORMS Board of Directors includes the following:

Executive Committee

·        President: Michael H. Rothkopf

·        President Elect: Richard C. Larson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA [ A photo of Prof. Larson is at http://www2.informs.org/Press/RichardLarson.jpg ]

·        Past President: Thomas M. Cook, Chairman and CEO, CALEB Technologies [A photo of Dr. Cook is at http://www2.informs.org/Press/TomCookColor.jpg ]

·        Secretary: Susan L Albin, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

·        Treasurer: Don N. Kleinmuntz, Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaigne, IL

Vice Presidents

·        Vice President, Chapters, Student Chapters, Fora: G. Jack Theurer, President, G. Theurer Associates Inc., New York, NY

·        Vice President, Education and Outreach: Andres F. Weintraub, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

·        Vice President, Information Technology: John M. Lucas, Rochester Hills, MI

·        Vice President, International Activities: Peter C. Bell, Professor, Management Science and Information Systems, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

·        Vice President, Meetings: Paul A. Jensen, Cullen Trust Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX

·        Vice President, Membership: Richard E. Rosenthal, Professor, Operations Research Department, Naval Post-Graduate School, Monterey, CA

·        Vice President, Practice Activities: Grace Y. Lin, Senior Manager and Research Staff Member, e-Commerce Dept., IBM - T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

·        Vice President, Publications: Frederic H. Murphy, Professor, Department of Management Science/Operations Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

·        Vice President, Sections & Societies: Kathryn E. Stecke, Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management, University of Texas-Dallas School of Management, Richardson, TX

INFORMS Transition Director at Large

·        W. Peter Cherry, Vice President, Vector Research, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is at http://www2.informs.org . 

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