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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">For the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2023), ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will once again sponsor the Ph.D. Colloquium for Ph.D. students who are within
two years of graduation (planning to graduate by December 2025). Students close to graduation will be given an opportunity to showcase their work in a short presentation session during the Colloquium (apart from the regular tracks). Presenting your Ph.D. work
to your peers and the larger simulation community will give you the opportunity to receive valuable feedback and ideas, as well as introduce you to a network that can be very helpful with your career once you graduate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">WSC 2023 will be held from December 10 to 13 at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio, Texas. The keynote talk of this year’s colloquium will
be given by Dr. Stephen Chick of INSEAD. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">There are three options to participate in the Ph.D. Colloquium with different benefits:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Poster Only</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">: Submit a 2-page extended
abstract and participate in the Ph.D. Colloquium poster session only. <i>Benefit 1</i>: If accepted, both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim provide a complimentary one-year membership.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Poster and Presentation</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">: Submit a presentation
in addition to your 2-page extended abstract. <i>Benefit 1</i>: Both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim provide a complimentary one-year membership. <i>Benefit 2</i>: ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will reimburse the conference registration fee.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Poster, Presentation, and Full Paper</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">:
Submit a 2-page extended abstract and a presentation for the Ph.D. Colloquium. In addition, you have submitted a full paper to a regular track (a contributed paper, not an invited paper) and it has been accepted. <i>Benefit 1</i>: Both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim
provide a complimentary one-year membership. <i>Benefit 2</i>: ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will reimburse the conference registration fee. <i>Benefit 3</i>: You will be eligible to compete for a Best Paper award, provided that your full paper has been accepted
in a regular track.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will each award a paper prize.
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Important Dates:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">September 1</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">: Submission deadline<br>
<b>September 15</b>: Notification of acceptance (including details on submitting slides and poster formatting)<br>
<b>September 29</b>: Final extended abstracts due</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">For more information about WSC 2023 Ph.D. Colloquium, please visit
<a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2023/phd-colloquium/">https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2023/phd-colloquium<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">/</span></a>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We look forward to seeing you in San Antonio!
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">WSC 2023 Ph.D. Colloquium Committee</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Siyang Gao, City University of Hong Kong (chair)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Anatoli Djanatliev, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Cristina Ruiz Martin, Carleton University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Eunhye Song, Georgia Institute of Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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