Dear Colleagues,
The Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Cluster at the INFORMS 2020 Annual Meeting, November 8-11, to be held at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, MD, would like to invite you to organize session(s). If you are interested in organizing an invited session, please use the link,
https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0qZGQF3pK6y0G7H,
to submit your contact information, tentative title and a short description for your session before March 11, 2020. You are welcome to submit a regular session, a jointly sponsored session, or other special sessions. Please indicate your preference in the survey. If you have more than one session, please fill in another survey. The number of speakers per session is suggested as 4. If you only have 3 speakers, you may contact Dr. Kaibo Liu to discuss the merge options. The invitation to senior members is highly encouraged.
The session chair will be responsible to add speakers in the INFORMS conference systems before May 1, 2020. INFORMS Meetings and INFORMS Subdivisions teams have approved a pilot program model for 2020 that limits the number of presentations per participants in the 2020 Annual Meeting.
Presentation Limitation
An attendee may present only one paper at the conference. Only the first presentation submitted with individual's name as a presenter will be accepted. A participant may appear on the program multiple times as a non-presenting co-author on other papers without exceeding participation limits.
The following exemptions do not count towards this limit:
· Participation as a session chair
· Pre-conference Workshop/Conference Tutorials
· Keynote or Plenary Speaker
· INFORMS Tutorial Speaker
· Award Session Presenter
· Poster Presentation
· Theme panel (limit 1)
· Non-presenting co-author (no limits)
There are no other exemptions from the presentation limits. Note, I don't have the authority to create the following sessions:
· Pre-conference Workshop/Conference Tutorials
· Keynote or Plenary Speaker
· INFORMS Tutorial Speaker
Abstract Guidelines and Submission Rules
INFORMS limits speakers to one presentation at the Annual Meeting. Only the first presentation submitted with individual's name as a presenter will be accepted.
All abstract submissions must be entered into the submissions site by May 15, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern.
All presenters must register and pay Annual Meeting registration fees by August 31, 2020 or the session will be removed from the program.
To qualify for membership savings, presenters' INFORMS membership must be active and in good standing at the time of registration and also at the meeting (November 8, 2020).
Once again, thank you for your participation and contribution to QSR subdivision, INFORMS! If you have questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Kaibo Liu, kliu8@wisc.edu
Link to enter session information: https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0qZGQF3pK6y0G7H