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2018 JFIG Paper Competition Deadline Extended to July 8th

  • 1.  2018 JFIG Paper Competition Deadline Extended to July 8th

    Posted 07-03-2018 12:16
    Dear Colleagues,
    The deadline for the 2018 JFIG Paper Competition is now extended to July 8, 2018, at midnight (Pacific Daylight Time). Please see the full announcement below.
    Thanks,
    JFIG Team
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    Dear Colleagues,
    The Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum of INFORMS invites submissions to the 2018 JFIG Paper Competition. JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.
     
    The JFIG Award Committee will judge the submissions and select up to six finalists. The papers submitted for the competition will be evaluated based on the importance of the topic, appropriateness of the research approach, and the significance of research contribution. All submissions should be made electronically (as PDF files) at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfig2018. For more information on the guidelines please refer to https://easychair.org/cfp/JFIG2018. The submission deadline for the 2018 JFIG Paper Competition is July 8, 2018, at midnight (Pacific Daylight Time).


    For questions regarding submissions, please contact: jfig.informs@gmail.com.
    Chairs of the review committee:
    Fatma Kilinc-Karzan 
    Tepper School of Business
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Oleg Prokopyev
    Department of Industrial Engineering
    University of Pittsburgh


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    Gokce Palak
    Assistant Professor of Operations Management
    Shenandoah University
    Winchester VA
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