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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I hope you are having a great Spring semester. Apologies if you received this e-mail also from INFORMS connect. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are setting up sessions for the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting taking place on October 15-18 in Phoenix, AZ. We want to invite you to organize and chair a session for the Minority
Issues Forum (MIF) cluster. The topic can be technical or any other relevant to our community. If you are interested, please use the form in the link provided to submit the information about the sessions you will be organizing before March 10, 2023.
<a href="https://forms.office.com/r/grBzq3GsmR">https://forms.office.com/r/grBzq3GsmR</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You are welcome to submit any of the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have more than one session, please complete additional forms.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The session chair will be responsible for adding speakers to the INFORMS conference system before May 2, 2023. If you have three speakers, you may contact Dr. Clara Novoa (cn17@txstate.edu),
Dr. Diana Ramirez-Rios (dgramire@buffalo.edu), or Dr. Sofia Perez-Guzman (perezs2@rpi.edu) to discuss merge options.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have already agreed to organize a session or submitted an abstract, please ask your cluster or session chair to consider co-sponsoring your session with MIF.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Clara Novoa and Diana Ramirez-Rios</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MIF Programs Co-Chairs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sofia Perez-Guzman</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MIF Junior VP of Programs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O:512.245.4343<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#0086F0"><a href="mailto:cn17@txstate.edu">cn17@txstate.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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