NCSU Informs Student Chapter

If you're attending the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix this year, here's a cool opportunity to earn some cash while doing it.

INFORMS is seeking three OR/MS students or graduates to cover on-site sessions, events, and breaking news during the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting to be held in Phoenix, AZ. Each writer is expected to produce content for a daily electronic newsletter throughout the duration of the 4-day meeting. The writer may have experience regularly publishing news articles in professional or collegiate news outlets or equivalent experience.

Qualifications:

Current or recent enrollment in a college-level OR/MS program and/or equivalent experience is required
Must be proficient with Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
Laptop with wireless capabilities is required
Experience with digital photography and ownership of a digital camera is required
Must be able to attend the conference all four days
Must fill out and submit to INFORMS either a W-8 or W-9

INFORMS will provide a daily stipend of $100 and reimbursement for local transportation/parking cost if necessary. Please forward a resume and two writing samples (approximately 500 words each) to Ms. Ashley Kilgore, Managing Editor, at [email protected]. For more information on the meeting, please visit

meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2018. Click here to view one of last year's issues.

2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting – November 4-7, 2018

The AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition is open to all interested teams of at most three current full-time students. The team leader must be a graduate student.

The problem is titled: A Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic and Correlated Travel Times

Please see the webpage coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition for all further details. Solutions are due by June 30, 2018 23:59 EST.

Competition All files should be submitted as by the deadline a single email with a single attached zip file to [email protected], The body of the email should forward the registration confirmation email received at registration time, as the way to authenticate the submitting team. Good luck!

On Valentine's Day, we share a blog written by a professor at U Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Laura Albert. In the post, she summarizes a paper in which 'researchers apply the linear assignment problem to identify how to optimally match potential (heterosexual) couples to find a new social optimum.'

Posts about marriage problem on Punk Rock Operations Research Posts about marriage problem written by Laura Albert

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Mayorga and other researchers across the country for being awarded an NSF grant to study the effects of the recent hurricanes.

NSF awards $5.3 million in 59 grants to study effects of recent hurricanes | NSF - National Science Foundation NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.