INFORMS MEETINGS

NFORMS meetings offer you the ultimate in networking—the opportunity to exchange information, ideas, and perspectives with your colleagues, person to person and face to face.

INFORMS Conference Calendar » Comprehensive listing of current and past INFORMS conferences, INFORMS Subdivision conferences, and non-INFORMS conference

INFORMS Annual Meeting The INFORMS Annual Meeting, with more than 800 sessions and 3,000 papers, covers the broad landscape of OR research and practice. Many events organized by INFORMS communities and committees are held during the meeting. Scheduled annually in the fall. 2008 October 12-15, 2008 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel & Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC Chair: Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University Conference Website » 2009 October 11-14, 2009 San Diego Convention Center Hilton San Diego San Diego, CA Chair: Soheila Jorjani, California State Univ.-San Marcos 2010 November 7-10, 2010 Austin Convention Center Hilton Austin Austin, TX Chair: Jonathan Bard, University of Texas at Austin

International Meeting Organized solely by INFORMS or in conjunction with other OR societies, International Meetings attract about 1,000 researchers and practitioners, with tracks on the full range of OR specialties. Held two out of every three years, typically during the summer. As a member of IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies), INFORMS participates in the IFORS Triennial every third year. 2008 No INFORMS International Meeting. IFORS 2008, the 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, will be held July 14-18, in Sandton, South Africa (http://www.ifors.org/) 2009 June 14-17, 2009 CORS/INFORMS Joint International Toronto Westin Harbour Castle Toronto, Ontario, Canada Chair: Liping Fang, Ryerson University

Conference on OR Practice This conference on “Applying Science to the Art of Business” features presentations on real-world applications of analytic solutions, presented by industry and university leaders. Highlights include the Franz Edelman Competition for excellence in applied OR, methodology and software tutorials, and facilitated networking. Held annually in the spring. 2008 April 13-15, 2008 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Baltimore, MD Chair: Karl Kempf, Intel Corp. Conference Website » Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium The Colloquium, previously held as a free-standing workshop in the summer, is now part of the 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting. This colloquium brings together a focused group of participants and a faculty of experts, with the goal of improving teaching effectiveness. The colloquium provides a practical background in learning theory, communicates effective strategies for teaching management science, and creates an ongoing learning community for monitoring and sharing pedagogical experiments. 2008 October 12-15, 2008 Washington, DC Dates and locations for future years to be announced