<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">The INFORMS Telecommunication and Network Analytics Society (TNA)
is inviting session chairs for the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle. We cordially welcome individuals from both academia (students and faculty members) and industry.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Possible session types are Regular-talk, Flash-talk and Panel Discussion. Chairs are responsible
for organizing 4-5 presentations of 15 minutes in a 75-minute session (regular), or 8-12 presentations of 5 minutes (flash). Each presentation will be in-person only - speakers can only present once. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Topics of interest include but are not limited to telecommunications
modeling, network optimization, network science, machine learning on graphs, network economics, network design, network survivability & reliability, sensor networks, wireless & broadband networks, semantic networks, vehicle & mobile computing, information
security & privacy, quality of service, social networks, internet, and multimedia.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">If you are interested in organizing a session, please contact us via
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:jinzhu.yu@uta.edu" id="OWA22941752-3f31-0ab1-e4f2-b00354b468d1" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="rgb(17, 85, 204)" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">jinzhu.yu@uta.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> or
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:alessandro.hill@gmail.com" id="OWA946ed3d1-6619-04f5-0440-2d393e98e169" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="1" data-ogsc="rgb(17, 85, 204)" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">alessandro.hill@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> <b>by
April 15</b>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Please provide the following information: session chair name(s), email, affiliation, session type, tentative session
title, and a short session description. We will review your request and provide instructions on how to invite presentations for your session.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); background-color: white;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); background-color: white;"><b>Important Dates:</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">- April 15: Deadline Session Chair application</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">- May 1: Deadline for Session Chairs to submit Presenters</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">- May 15: Deadline for Presenters to submit Abstracts</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">- Aug 1: Deadline for Presenters to register for INFORMS</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">- October 20-23:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: white;"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeetings.informs.org%2Fwordpress%2Fseattle2024&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C3de54eb982c746ebba2508dc4d20efe1%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638470051058792844%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fYLp4Ng99K%2FpGNubpdtpoC%2BV9Vl6tWr8JS8hQxrrX4g%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024" shash="KoW7DSrZ3J2WgSYNn9eUzFwUhz87Hov9RTnZBacplGTQliJ5eJcUaIgAniZcDjYoEfx1Pvwid1uZnLmMBVKeO0JQjiJnla04NwH6BQF84kQC5B/cZpsnbowPnLtTmma7OFb9JQAbUNsKwW5nK4Dve4xHgrFXJvANdvmEan7R984=" target="_blank" id="OWA122ecf53-c954-f72d-c80f-797fd3fcbd16" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="2" data-ogsc="rgb(17, 85, 204)" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">INFORMS
Annual Meeting</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); background-color: white;">(<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%7C3de54eb982c746ebba2508dc4d20efe1%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638470051058792844%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=BYNcnEFYgRUdl%2B5FJtCGYN0ksp2WvfGPSVJyc%2BLK2aM%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/" shash="MS5UjczdfNB6HB4VgolF7hX9VsXgkEwv4WHOVBgGSpc3HxwdFyQho3paMq+/VlEtlaRQnXjoHUQ5Dkq/BxyC/jtOiRHZnAKERBzmHeYG9H7JOrAHgpKwOFUSugMmJf/s1LU7S+zfT1LbBgL9YkOfVDItU0CwzxjLDx0Bx/5sCxI=" target="_blank" id="OWA1c743fbf-faa2-e35c-2afa-2cb9736e19b9" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/</a>)</span></p>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br>
</span></div>
<p style="line-height: normal; background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Thank you for your consideration! If you have any questions regarding
the session organization, please feel free to contact us. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><br>
Best regards,<br>
Jinzhu Yu and Alessandro Hill</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Cluster Chairs</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="line-height: normal; background-color: white; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Telecommunication and Network Analytics Cluster at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024</span></p>
</body>
</html>