Applications for the New Faculty Colloquium to be held immediately before the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN (dinner on Friday November 11 and all day on Saturday November 12) are due August 30. Target audience for the colloquium consists of faculty members who are in their first three years of being a faculty member at the time of the colloquium.
Sessions will be on NSF funding, sponsored (non-NSF) funding & consulting, collaborative research & working with graduate students, tenure & reappointment, professional service, teaching effectiveness, differences between engineering and business schools, and soft skills.
Confirmed speakers include, in alphabetical order:
- Elif Akcali, Associate Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida
- Damian Beil, Associate Professor of Technology and Operations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
- John Birge, Jerry W and Carol L Levin Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Shane Henderson, Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
- Julie Higle, Professor and Chair, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Southern California
- Sheldon Jacobson, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Eva Lee, Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ozalp Ozer, Ashbel Smith Professor of Management Science, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
- Edwijn Romeijn, H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- J Cole Smith, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University
- Mike Trick, Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Operations Research and Senior Associate Dean, Faculty and Research, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
- Candace Yano, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty, Gary & Sherron Kalbach Chair in Entrepreneurship, Professor and Group Chair, Operations and Information Technology Management Group, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.
More information on how to apply is available here.
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Aurelie Thiele
Associate Professor
Southern Methodist University
Dallas TX
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