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[Maria Mayorga]

Subject:  MIF Poster Competition--Call for Poster Abstracts



The Minority Issues Forum of INFORMS is proud to continue their annual
Student Poster competition.  *Abstracts are due August 7*.  Please see
below for details.  The First Place winner will receive an honorarium of
$250, Honorable Mentions will also receive a certificate.



Apologies for multiple postings.

*2015 MIF POSTER COMPETITION*

*Timeline:*

August 7: abstract due; August 28: electronic copy of poster due; November
1: Poster Session & 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, at least one of the
authors must be a MIF member and the submitted poster cannot 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 memayorg at ncsu.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 at rice.edu) directly for
more information on this.



*For Additional Information, please feel free to contact: *

Maria E.  Mayorga, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University,
Email: memayorg at ncsu.edu

Lewis Ntaimo, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, Email:
Ntaimo at tamu.edu



*About MIF*

The purpose of the 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 of 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:
https://www.informs.org/Community/Minority-Issues-Forum

-- 
Maria E. Mayorga, PhD
Associate Professor of  Personalized Medicine
Edward P. Fitts Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University

Office: 376 Daniels Hall
Mailbox: 400 Daniels Hall, Raleigh NC, 27695
Phone: (919) 513-1690
email: memayorg at ncsu.edu
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