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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The INFORMS Data Mining Society (DMS) is delighted to invite you to organize and chair sessions at the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeetings.informs.org%2Fwordpress%2Fseattle2024%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cafacb7da05f84cd4182908dc4ceebe23%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638469835483279009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5U4vdabLh1%2BS0G6vh9wxKSbiDIGSyub0IBuvF%2FBJ3H8%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/" shash="mpAlubp/BwSfw8aOnL9vut+s4Hvg5ikg5HcoFdNJwZEOTaX/hEXipcTfOWw1NZNTPprb3oaQJ8kj7Dv4sXKPnKWfsXJ4dedka9v7PEBz8EXDaMYrheh089qd4+1uTqjJG3yKYESZHl50vC+XuRTyaqRx3rFV83UGhPM0rEZSOK4=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">2024</span></a><u> </u></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeetings.informs.org%2Fwordpress%2Fseattle2024%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cafacb7da05f84cd4182908dc4ceebe23%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638469835483279009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5U4vdabLh1%2BS0G6vh9wxKSbiDIGSyub0IBuvF%2FBJ3H8%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/" shash="mpAlubp/BwSfw8aOnL9vut+s4Hvg5ikg5HcoFdNJwZEOTaX/hEXipcTfOWw1NZNTPprb3oaQJ8kj7Dv4sXKPnKWfsXJ4dedka9v7PEBz8EXDaMYrheh089qd4+1uTqjJG3yKYESZHl50vC+XuRTyaqRx3rFV83UGhPM0rEZSOK4=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72">INFORMS
Annual Meeting</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">! The meeting will be held on October 20-23, 2024 at Seattle, WA, USA.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds, including students, faculty, and industry/nonprofit professionals, who share an interest in chairing regular-talk/flash-talk/panel discussion sessions focused
on the applications and methodologies of data analytics and decision making. As chairs of regular-talk sessions, 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.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">If you are interested in organizing a </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">regular-talk/flash-talk/panel discussion </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">session at
the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, please fill this form </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fr%2F3uSeB9NGv0&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cafacb7da05f84cd4182908dc4ceebe23%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638469835483279009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6ex398wEe4kisJ5nYrAaYt6n%2BZIiGQD70yPUJh2Hojk%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://forms.office.com/r/3uSeB9NGv0" shash="K8o9t4bOWcidzq7jBrUm1lmUU8wgaBF/Bq/q7CXua54O0+GDjXKC9PjYJHaSF/HdKW3kl1dk4tfdusqtjKCv0JHvSMm3R+HRIksDWsavKV0ite/FEPhBqVNTl0Fn7QwJMZ2CMa5BndhkUd9lKiQvITDdaoas49271BXLrzVeaX8=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72">https://forms.office.com/r/3uSeB9NGv0</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">by <b>April
15, 2024</b>.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We will review your session request and create a session for you in the system.
You will then receive an email with detailed instructions to invite and enter presenters in your session.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:red">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"> </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">April 15:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"> Deadline
to indicate interest of being a Session Chair </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">April 17: Deadline for
Cluster Chairs to submit Sessions and Session Chairs </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">May 1: Deadline for Session Chairs to
submit Presenters</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Presenters to submit Abstracts</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Aug 1: Deadline for Presenters
to register for INFORMS</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">If you have any questions regarding the session organization, please feel free to contact us at </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:informs.dms@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72">informs.dms@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Thank you for your participation and contribution to the Data Mining Society of INFORMS! We look forward to hearing from you.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Best regards,</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Department of Industrial Engineering</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">University of Houston</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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