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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Section of INFORMS invites you to organize and chair sessions for the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, which is scheduled
to be held in Phoenix, AZ on October 15-18, 2023. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#292929"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We encourage proposals that range over theories, applications, and methodologies of QSR in addressing relevant
issues of research and practice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We welcome anyone who is interested to chair a session, including students, faculty, and industry/nonprofit professionals. As session chair, you will be responsible
for inviting 4-5 speakers to give a 15-minute presentation each, in a 75-minute session. Note that INFORMS restricts each speaker to only ONE presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you are interested in organizing an invited session, please use the link
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/63vMwJBmqT4owsbu8"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://forms.gle/63vMwJBmqT4owsbu8</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> to submit your session proposal.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please submit this information by
<b><u>March 14, 2023</u></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#292929">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#292929"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">March 14</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Deadline for session chair identification<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 2: Deadline for session chairs to submit presenters<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 16: Deadline for presenters to submit abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">August 1: Speaker registration deadline<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#181A1C;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thank you for your participation and contribution to the QSR Section of INFORMS! We
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">look forward to hearing from you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">---------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yisha Xiang, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Industrial Engineering<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Houston<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://xiang.ie.uh.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://xiang.ie.uh.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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