<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear All,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The INFORMS Data Mining Society (DMS) is delighted to invite you to organize and chair sessions at the </span><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><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%7C202af6c80bbf4752cf6108dc4f67272b%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638472551657262821%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ss6AUdzy%2BR9zJs0%2B6%2F%2Bbj6q%2BcGS42OAbRYSiHIankBc%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/" shash="HS58wOW/GemFAKx/4ZcCeGVkCtw+GT/UeBpNF6OMYpD0lgl0YoHxZsMp45yCMkDwTbVFIMhwjK+ugP+uYugZqnkd5ooJ9ffCAfEVRiQNwqOGw8YMCgtR5uaMJHPxYaxR/nnrFQG+cW503oYsBS+85stXML5FV8ICh8NSCraw2zA=" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">2024</a><u> </u></span><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%7C202af6c80bbf4752cf6108dc4f67272b%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638472551657262821%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ss6AUdzy%2BR9zJs0%2B6%2F%2Bbj6q%2BcGS42OAbRYSiHIankBc%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/" shash="HS58wOW/GemFAKx/4ZcCeGVkCtw+GT/UeBpNF6OMYpD0lgl0YoHxZsMp45yCMkDwTbVFIMhwjK+ugP+uYugZqnkd5ooJ9ffCAfEVRiQNwqOGw8YMCgtR5uaMJHPxYaxR/nnrFQG+cW503oYsBS+85stXML5FV8ICh8NSCraw2zA=" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">INFORMS Annual Meeting</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">! The meeting will be held on October 20-23, 2024 at Seattle, WA, USA.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 50%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> focused on the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">applications and methodologies of data analytics and decision making<span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 50%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">. As</span> chairs of regular-talk sessions<span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 50%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">, you will be responsible for inviting 4-5 speakers to give a 15-minute presentation each, in a 75-minute </span>session<span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 50%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">. Note that </span>INFORMS<span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 50%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span><span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 50%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">restricts each speaker to only ONE presentation.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)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ght:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">       </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Aug 1: Deadline for Presenters to register for INFORMS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If you have any questions regarding the session organization, please feel free to contact us at </span><a href="mailto:informs.dms@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">informs.dms@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Thank you for your participation and contribution to the Data Mining Society of INFORMS!  We look forward to hearing from you.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ying Lin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Associate Professor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Department of Industrial Engineering</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of Houston</span></p></div>