Dear Colleagues,
The INFORMS Education Outreach Committee (EOC) has 32 members working to encourage students towards careers in Operations Research, Management Science, Industrial Engineering, and analytics. We work to highlight the opportunity of our growing profession and share the resources that INFORMS has to offer.
We have 4 exciting events planned for INFORMS 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, which takes place starting this week: October 26-29. Below you will find a description of the events with date, time, and location. Each of the 3 EOC committees is featuring a panel discussion on their work. Please plan to attend our panel sessions.
In addition, we invite you to join us at the Welcome Reception on Sunday, October 26 at 6:30-8:30p in GWCC Building A, Level 1, Exhibit Hall A3. In the hall, we will display the posters from our recent STEM Spark Poster Contest in which OR/MS/IE students submitted their research with the goal of making it accessible to high school students. You will be able to meet the poster authors and members of the EOC. I look forward to meeting you there.
Attached to this post is flyer describing the 4 events, and a second flyer describing sessions sponsored by the INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning (CTL).
Thanks for supporting Education Outreach and see you in Atlanta!
SA02: Promoting Analytics, OR/MS, and Industrial Engineering to Undergraduate Students: Experience and Aspirations – Sunday, October 26, 8:00a-9:15a, GWCC Building A, Level 3, A302
Chair: Ken Murphy, UC Irvine
Panelists: Mihai Banciu, Bucknell University, James Cochran, The University of Alabama, Cindy Evans, Amazon, Ana Muriel, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Michael Veatch, Gordon College
Welcome Reception – Special Event: First STEM Spark K-12 Poster Competition Display – Sunday, October 26, 6:30p-8:30p, GWCC Building A, Level 1, Exhibit Hall A3
MA02: K-12 Outreach: Collaboration across INFORMS Societies – Monday, October 27, 8:00a-9:15a, GWCC Building A, Level 3, A302
Chairs: Fenglian Pan, University North Carolina Charlotte, Yifeng Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Zihan Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists: Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University, Julie Ivy, University of Michigan, Ken Murphy, UC Irvine
ME66: Leveraging INFORMS Resources for Graduate Students – Monday, October 27, 4:15p-5:30p, GWCC Building B, Level 4, B406
Chair: Richard Staats, US Army (retired)
Panelists: Gokce Palak, Wake Forest University, Max Ji, The Pennsylvania State University, Akshata Kishore, Microsoft.com, Jaime Mora-Vargas, Tec de Monterrey
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Ken Murphy
Program Director, Master of Science in Business Analytics
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Merage School of Business, UC Irvine
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