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 Welcome to the Boston Chapter of INFORMS 

LATEST NEWS:

(10/24/08) Our next talk is on a subject that many of us find interesting and/or very relevant to our work: data mining. Please join us to welcome Prof. Karl Rexer as he talks about his perspectives and findings on this topic.

(10/14/08) The jobs section is being updated consistently with new jobs in the OR fields. Have a job to post? Please let me know. Found a job here? We’d love to know about it!

(9/16/08) Our 2008-2009 season kicks off with a talk by the distinguished Dimitris Bertsimas, titled OR in health care: opportunities, perspectives and progress. It’s a topic that gets a lot of press in this election season. Now is your chance to come hear some of the science!

 

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

 

Boston INFORMS members:

 

To kick off the new academic year, your organizing committee met to plan a stimulating program. At the time of this writing I am pleased to announce that our first speaker will be Prof. DIMITRIS BERTSIMAS, Boeing professor of Operations Research and the co-director of the Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The talk will be on October 1st, 2008.

 

While we are very appreciative that Verizon and Emptoris permit us to host many of our meetings at their facility we are constantly looking for new venues.  If your organization would consider being a host please contact me.

 

I am pleased that our membership and more importantly our participation in the Boston Chapter continues to rise. However, it is my firm belief that the number of potential members in our chapter is at least an order of magnitude larger than its actual size. I welcome suggestions in how to unlock that potential: Are there different types of meetings, at different times or different places which would help? Are there important non-speaker activities we should be more engaged in?

 

As a small first step to support our chapter I hope when you attend one of our meetings you will bring one or two colleagues who never attended a meeting to check us out. If we could double our membership we could explore options for the Chapter which we cannot currently do.

 

We are approaching chapter membership renewal time. Please consider doing so as well as encouraging colleagues to join. The cost of membership to the Boston chapter is at most $15 and while we encourage members to join the parent organization they are not required to.

 

Finally, I write to remind you that last year I was elected to the Board of Directors of INFORMS (as VP Societies/Sections). I hope Boston Chapters members will use that as an opportunity to give me (National) INFORMS feedback that you would like me to take back to the Boardroom.

 

 

Les Servi

Chair, Boston INFORMS

servi@ll.mit.edu

Last Update: 10/24/2008

 

 

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