''Super Bowl'' of Operations Research Coming to Miami: May 1 - May 2; International Executives Converge at Miami's Hotel InterContinental to Learn How to Make Better Business Decisions.HANOVER, Md. -- This weekend top executives from across the country will descend upon Miami, but they won't be going to the beach. Top leaders from companies like Boeing, Amazon.com, Travelocity, UPS, Proctor & Gamble and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) will be attending the Institute for Operations Research operations research Application of scientific methods to management and administration of military, government, commercial, and industrial systems. It began during World War II in Britain when teams of scientists worked with the Royal Air Force to improve radar detection of and the Management Sciences' (INFORMS(R)) 2006 Franz Edelman Award competition. The winner of the competition will be announced at a special awards banquet on Monday, May 1, 2006, which will kick off with a speech by General Motors' head of R & D (See: http://www2.informs.org/Conf/Practice06/index.htm). Each year, the Franz Edelman competition recognizes outstanding examples of Operations Research (O.R.)-based projects that have transformed companies, entire industries and people's lives. O.R., commonly referred to as "The Science of Better," is a discipline that uses advanced analytical methods to make better decisions and is a disciplined way to improve almost any business situation in nearly any type of organization in the public or private sector.
Who: Global practitioners of Operations Research at some of the
world's largest companies, academic institutions and organizations.
Broadcast and Print Media are invited and encouraged to attend.
What: The 2006 "Applying Science to the Art of Business"
Conference, hosted by INFORMS.
Where: Hotel InterContinental
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, Florida 33131
305-577-1000
When: Monday, May 1 - Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Highlights of the conference will include presentations from the 2006 Franz Edelman Award finalists on Monday, May 1, 2006: 8:00am-9:00am Streamlining Aircraft Repair and Overhaul at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center 9:10am-10:00am Supporting Travelocity's Transition to Travel Retailer and Economic Turn-Around 10:30am-11:20am Analytical Models Enable TSA TSA See tax-sheltered annuity (TSA). Policy Makers to Better Balance Impacts on Aviation Security, Passengers and the Airlines 11:30am-12:20pm Omya Hustadmarmor: Optimizing the Supply Chain of Calcium Carbonate calcium carbonate, CaCO3, white chemical compound that is the most common nonsiliceous mineral. It occurs in two crystal forms: calcite, which is hexagonal, and aragonite, which is rhombohedral. Slurry to the European Paper Making Industry 2:00pm-2:50pm Quantitative Risk Assessment of Animal Antibiotics at the Animal Health Institute Other Conference Presentations of Note: 9:10am-10:00am - Monday, May 1 - "Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. Vaccine Pricing & Stockpiling Issues," Sheldon Jacobson, Ph.D., University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
4:30pm-5:20pm - Monday, May 1 - "Interplanetary in·ter·plan·e·tar·y adj. Existing or occurring between planets. interplanetary Adjective of or linking planets Adj. 1. SC Management & Logistics," Diego Klabjan, University of Illinois, David Simchi-Levi, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9:10am-10:00am - Tuesday, May 2 - "Benefits of Optimization in E-Retailing," Russell Allgor, Ph.D., Amazon.com A complete conference schedule is available at: http://www2.informs.org/Conf/Practice06/FINALPracticeMatrix06.pdf For press passes or more information, contact Chuck Tanowitz or Jennifer Roedel at Schwartz Communications at (781) 684-0770 or by email at INFORMS@schwartz-pr.com. About INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research and management science. (INFORMS(R)) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org. |
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