[Iefac.list] Please Post: MIF POSTER COMPETITION

[Maria Mayorga]

*FIFTH ANNUAL MINORITY ISSUES FORUM (MIF) STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION*

*CALL FOR POSTERS*



The INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) is pleased to announce a Call for
Posters to be presented during the MIF reception held during the INFORMS
2016 conference.



The competition is open to students who are MIF members.



First place winner will receive an honorarium of $250 and a certificate.
Honorable Mentions will each receive a certificate.



*Important Dates:*

1.       August 26, 2016: Abstract due;

2.       September 16, 2016: Abstract acceptance notification and further
information will be made available;

3.       November 13, 2016: Poster session and 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 and a MIF member, and
the submitted poster must not 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 ntaimo at tamu.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 the MIF Poster
Session Co-Chairs:*

Gabriel Zayas-Caban, Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Email:
gzayasca at umich.edu

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



*About MIF*

The purpose of the Minority Issues Forum (
http://www.informs.org/Community/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 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:
http://informs.org/Membership/Join-INFORMS-and-or-INFORMS-Communities

-- 
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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