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<b>Call for Participation: QSR Best Student Poster Competition at INFORMS 2024</b></div>
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INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024</div>
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Seattle, Washington, October 20-23</div>
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The Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) section 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 2024.</div>
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A winner will be selected by a panel of judges, announced at the QSR business meeting, and awarded a certificate. An electronical 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.</div>
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<b>Registration. </b>Participation in this session is free of charge, but it is required the poster presenter must be a QSR student member. Students who participated before are also welcome to participate again. If interested, please use this registration link,</div>
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to register before <b>September 1st, 2024</b>. Prior to the conference, qualified students will be notified and asked to submit the poster electronically, and the students are expected to bring their printed poster to the competition.</div>
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Minhee Kim</div>
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Assistant professor</div>
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering</div>
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University of Florida</div>
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Email: mkim3@ufl.edu</div>
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Chao Wang</div>
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering</div>
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University of Iowa</div>
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Email: chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu</div>
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