GREAT ANALYTICS
PRACTICE “MEETING
WITHIN A MEETING”
AT 2014 INFORMS
ANNUAL MEETING
Think the INFORMS Annual Meeting is only for Academics? Think again.
Industry sessions span entire
meeting November 9–12, 2014
Attend the Analytics Section
Meet and Greet
Recology Plant Tour
Receive Individual Consulting
Daniel H. Wagner Prize: Excellence in O.R. Practice
INFORMS Prize: Effective Integration in Organizations
Industry Job Search Panel Discussion
Recology is one of the nation’s 10 largest 100%
employee-owned businesses, and has been recycling
refuse for over 90 years. It piloted the first curbside
compost collection program in the U.S., and launched
the first program in the U.S. to create electricity usin g
anaerobic digestion of source-separated food scraps.
Meet the people that care about what
you care about.
Monday, November 10, 6:15 – 7:15 pm
Analytics Magazine readers are invited to
meet one-on-one or in small groups with
INFORMS Analytics Section officers in San
Francisco. We’ll help you arrange. For details,
email [email protected].
Register Here: meetings.informs.org/sanfrancisco2014/register.html
About the Competition
The purpose of the competition is to bring forward, recognize, and reward
outstanding examples of operations research and the management sciences
in practice. The client organization that uses the winning work receives a
prize citation; the authors of the winning work receive a cash award.
Call for Entries
A $15,000 Competition with a $10,000 First Prize
Application Deadline: October 15, 2014
Key Dates for the Competition
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Deadline to provide a single pdf document
containing a three page summary of your
achievement, and a cover page with a
60-word abstract, and the name, address,
phone number, and affiliation of each author.
Monday, December 16, 2014
Finalists will be selected based on the
summaries and the INFORMS/CPMS
verification process.
Friday, February 14, 2015
Deadline for finalists to provide a full
written paper.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Each finalist group will give an oral
presentation of their work in a special session
at the INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice
in Huntington Beach, CA, April 12-14, 2015.
CPMS
The PracƟce SecƟon of INFORMS
Entry Requirements
Visit the website www.informs.org/edelmanaward for detailed information.
Entries should report on a completed practical application and must describe
results that had a significant, verifiable, and preferably quantifiable impact
on the performance of the client organization. Finalist work will be published
in the January-February 2016 issue of Interfaces.
Any work you have done in recent years is eligible, unless it has previously
been described by a Franz Edelman Award finalist. Previous publication of
the work does not disqualify it. Anyone is eligible for the competition except
a member of the judging panel.
E-mail Submissions
Please e-mail your submission to:
[email protected]
Michael Trick
Chair, 2015 Edelman Award Competition Committee