2010 INFORMS COMBINED COLLOQUIA

The 2010 INFORMS Combined Colloquia will be held Nov. 5-6, the Friday and Saturday preceding the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin,
Texas. The Combined Colloquia will feature the:

• Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium (TEC)

• Future Academician Colloquium (FAC)

• Future Practitioner Colloquium (FPC)

All three colloquia are sponsored by INFORMS,INFORM-ED, the INFORMS Student Affairs Committee and Omega Rho, and are designed to provide the attendees with technical material, career experiences from senior and junior OR/MS professionals and an environment for networking.All colloquia participants are required to register for the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2010 in Austin. The registration fee for the colloquia (for more than one person from a university department) does not include the registration fee for the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

TEC sessions will begin at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 5. FAC and FPC will begin at 6 p.m. that same evening with a welcome dinner for all participants. The Combined Colloquia will continue on Saturday all day with several sessions. Following the conclusion of the colloquia, all participants will be invited to an evening dinner.

Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya ([email protected]) chairs the Combined Colloquia Committee, joined by Dorothee Honhon, Pelin Pekgün-Çakmak, Joel Sokol and Dawn Strickland.

The deadline for all nominations is July 15. For complete nomination requirements, go to: http://meetings2.informs. org/austin2010/colloquia.html.