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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;color:#31302E">Call for Participation: QSR Best Student Poster Competition at INFORMS 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1D">Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Cluster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1D">INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1D">Phoenix, Arizona, October 15-18<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1D">The Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) cluster of Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) is inviting QSR student members to participate in the
<b>Best Student Poster Competition </b>at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1D">A winner will be selected by a panel of judges, announced at the QSR business meeting, and awarded a certificate. A printed brochure will be prepared which includes all speakers’ bio and posters.
The brochures will be distributed to all attendees and among the QSR community for publicity and exposure. Invitations to this session will be sent to department chairs and employers that have interests in recruiting QSR students.
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<p class="Default" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;color:#1F1F1D">Registration.
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%">Participation in this session is free of charge. Number of participants is capped at 20
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black">student speakers due to limited capacity. Students who are on the job market will be given higher priority. If interested, please use this registration link,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://forms.gle/ChCgsJXX3viDoe7E6">https://forms.gle/ChCgsJXX3viDoe7E6</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to register before September 1st, 2023. Prior to the conference, selected students will be notified and asked to submit the poster electronically, and the students are expected
to bring their printed poster to the competition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have any questions, please contact the session co-chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Session co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Minhee Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Assistant professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Email:
<a href="mailto:mkim3@ufl.edu">mkim3@ufl.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wenmeng Tian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mississippi State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Email:
<a href="mailto:tian@ise.msstate.edu">tian@ise.msstate.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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