INFORMS Student Union

This list includes announcements that are not new but may still be of interest.

• Sports Operations Research: Several members of INFORMS are organizing a new section - OR in SpORts. In order for this new organization to gain section status with INFORMS, at least twenty-five INFORMS members must sign a petition indicating they intend to join the new section. The OR in SpORts section has planned an organizing meeting and reception for Monday (October 25) from 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. (immediately prior to the General Reception in Denver) - all interested INFORMS members are invited. Contact Christy Kline at Christy.kline@INFORMS.org if you are interested in joining this new section or contact Jim Cochran at jcochran@cab.latech.edu for more information.
• The 2004 Combined Colloquia< /A> is on Friday and Saturday, October 22-23, 2004, at the 2004 INFORMS Annual Meeting. This features the Sixth Teaching Effectiveness, Future Academician, and Future Practitioner Colloquia.
• The international honor society of the Operations Research community, Omega Rho, is offering travel stipends to top Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) and Industrial Engineering (IE) undergraduate students for the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Denver, October 24-27 2004. The application is located at the Omega Rho web site.
• The RASIG (Rail Applications Special Interest Group), a subdivision of INFORMS and Railway Age are sponsoring a student research paper contest on Management Science in Railroad Applications. For more details, see the RASIG web site for the complete contest announcement.
• The George Nicholson Committee is now accepting entries for the 2004 competition. This competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student. For more details, see the application process.
• The Spring, 2004, edition of ORMS Tomorrow, the student membership magazine for INFORMS, is now online. This issue includes features on graduate school, decision analysis applications, the University of Virginia student chapter, and student volunteers.
• Student competition announcements:

  The Technology Management Section of INFORMS is soliciting dissertations to be considered for the 2003 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award. The deadline is June 1, 2003. Please visit the following site for more information: http://tms.section.informs.org/awards.html.

  The Health Applications Section of INFORMS invites applications from qualified doctoral students for the Bonder Scholarship for Research in Health Services. For more information, please visit http://www.informs.org/Prizes/HealthPrize.html

  The Military Applications Society of INFORMS invites applications from qualified doctoral candidates for the Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications. For more information, please visit http://www.informs.org/Prizes/MAS.html

  RASIG (Rail Applications Special Interest Group), a subdivision of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science), and Railway Age are sponsoring a student research paper contest on Management Science in Railroad Applications. For information on eligibility and the application process, please visit the following website: http://www.informs.org/Prizes/RailroadApps.html.

  The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS is reinstating its prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR). For details, please visit the Aviation Applications Section website at http://aviation-appl.section.informs.org/index.htm.

• The 2003 INFORMS Combined Colloquia will be held October 17-18, 2003, in Atlanta, Georgia, immediately preceding the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Please see the colloquia home page for information about the two colloquia: the Doctoral Colloquium and the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium.
• The George Nicholson Committee is now accepting entries for the 2003 Competition. This competition honors outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student. Entries must be submitted by June 30, 2003. Please see the competition announcement for more details.

• The Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics departments of IBM Research have announced their 2003 Summer Intern Program. They are seeking both undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics interested in pursuing an exciting summer of research, prototyping, and exploring new frontiers of these disciplines. Students will have the opportunity to work with an outstanding research team on problems that range from the leading edge of theory to concrete problems of real users. There will also be a unique opportunity to network with scores of other top students from many different fields and schools.

  A description of the IBM Research Summer program can be found at http://www.research.ibm.com/about/career.shtml. There are also summer opportunities in other disciplines such as Chemistry, Material Science and Physics. See also the list of summer positions at Almaden (Calif.), Austin (Texas), Cambridge (Mass.), and Watson (NY).

• COIN-OR seeks to explore an alternative means for developing, managing, and distributing OR software so that OR professionals could benefit from peer-reviewed, archived, openly-disseminated software In November, 2002, INFORMS agreed to host the COIN-OR initiative. The COIN-OR Open-Source Coding Contest is open to students and professionals who are developing better integer progamming codes. Prizes will be awarded in August, 2003, at the 2003 ISMP in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• The Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications, sponsored by the Military Applications Society of INFORMS, has been awarded to Noah Joseph Richmond from Stanford. The Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Applications, sponsored by the Health Applications Society of INFORMS, has been awarded to Xuanming Su from Stanford.

• The Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center invites applications for the 2002-2003 IBM Herman Goldstein Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in mathematical and computer sciences. More information is available at the following URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/math/goldstine.html. Applications are due January 9, 2002.

  The fellowship provides scientists of outstanding ability an opportunity to advance their scholarship as resident department members at the Research Center. The department provides an atmosphere in which basic research is combined with work on technical problems arising in industry.

• Nominations for the Doctoral Student Colloquium are now sought. INFORMS has combined the Doctoral Student Colloquium, the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, and the Industry Colloquium, which will be held on November 2-3, 2001, prior to the INFORMS Miami 2001 conference. All Ph.D. granting programs in operations research and management science are invited to nominate students for participation in the Doctoral Student Colloquium. For information on nominating students, visit the colloquium website and click on "Doctoral Colloquium." Karen Chinander (kchinander@miami.edu, 305-284-4200) is the Doctoral Student Colloquium Chair.
• The George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Committee is now accepting entries for the 2001 award. The award for the best OR/MS dissertation serves to promote greater interaction between academia and industry by encouraging researchers to conduct innovative research that is relevant to practice in any area of operations research and management science. Applications are due by July 15, 2001. More information about the award and past winners is available at http://www.informs.org/Prizes/DantzigAward.html.
• The Professional Development Center has moved and is now maintained by Mohan Sodhi. (July 19, 2001: It has now moved to http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/informs/professional_dev/.)
• The Student Chapter of the University of Chicago has created a website. Stop by and see what the students are doing in the windy city!
• Please welcome the Oklahoma State University INFORMS Student Chapter. Student Chapter President Partha Ramachandran invites you to visit their site.
• The President's Desk: the official announcement of Student Union in OR/MS Today.  

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