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FIFTH ANNUAL MINORITY ISSUES FORUM (MIF) STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION
CALL FOR POSTERS
The INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) is pleased to announce a Call for Posters to be presented during the MIF reception held during the INFORMS 2016 conference.
The competition is open to students who are MIF members.
First place winner will receive an honorarium of $250 and a certificate. Honorable Mentions will each receive a certificate.
Important Dates:
1. August 26, 2016: Abstract due;
2. September 16, 2016: Abstract acceptance notification and further information will be made available;
3. November 13, 2016: Poster session and judging.
Details:
1. Abstract should be 500 characters maximum (approximately 50 words), title of abstract - 100 characters maximum. This may be an original abstract or the same abstract as submitted for the INFORMS General or Focused Interactive sessions.
2. Eligibility requirements: Submissions may be made by student INFORMS members, the student must be the lead author and a MIF member, and the submitted poster must not have won any award at any previous INFORMS competitions.
3. In the event that capacity is reached, poster presenters may be limited to one submission.
4. To Enter: Please email a document with the following information to ntaimo@tamu.edu: The entrant and all co-authors' names, current affiliations, email addresses and phone numbers; Poster title and Abstract; A statement that all eligibility requirements have been met.
5. A limited number of travel scholarships to the INFORMS conference will be available for participants of the MIF poster session. Eligibility for travel grants is restricted to US Citizens from underrepresented groups. Please contact Dr. Illya Hicks (ivhicks@rice.edu) directly for more information on this.
For Additional Information, please feel free to contact the MIF Poster Session Co-Chairs:
Gabriel Zayas-Caban, Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Email: gzayasca@umich.edu
Lewis Ntaimo, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, Email: ntaimo@tamu.edu
About MIF
The purpose of the Minority Issues Forum (http://www.informs.org/Community/Minority-Issues-Forum) is to foster under-represented minority participation in Operations Research and Management Science (ORMS); to develop close ties among those interested in increasing the number of minority participants in ORMS and to disseminate information about the issues facing minority researchers and practitioners. Any member INFORMS may become a Forum Member by paying the Forum dues. Non-members of the Institute may become Forum members by paying the special fee for non-members of the Institute. For more information go to: http://informs.org/Membership/Join-INFORMS-and-or-INFORMS-Communities
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Lewis Ntaimo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
4008 ETB, College Station, TX 77843-3131
Phone: 979-458-2360 Fax: 979-458-4299
URL: http://ise.tamu.edu/People/faculty/Ntaimo
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