News

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Chapter was honored by its parent society with a Summa Cum Laude Award at the San Diego Annual Meeting on October 13.
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Celebration photos
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Photos from Dr. Mary Helander's talk
The presentation in pdf format

Photos from Isenberg School of Management Club Fair

Photos from 2009-2010 UMass INFORMS Annual Officer Election Meeting

Press Release on UMass Amherst INFORMS Fall 2009 Speaker Series

We congratulate our Chapter members: Dr. Qiang "Patrick" Qiang, Dr. Dayo Shittu, and Dr. Christian Wernz, who took part in the 2009 graduate UMass Amherst
graduation on May 22, 2009. We wish them all much success now and always. Dr. Qiang will be an Assistant Professor at Penn State Malvern, beginning in the Fall. Dr. Shittu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business at Tulane University and Dr. Wernz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.

Photos from the 2009 Graduate UMass Amherst Graduation

Photos from the End of Semester Party

Photos from Dr. Robert Pollin's Talk

Photos from Dr. Bar-Gera's Talk

Photos from INFORMS Student Chapter Bowling Night

INFORMS Student Chapter Bowling Night

Photos from Dr. Pentland's Talk

Press Release on the Talk of Dr. Alex Pentland

Photos from Dr. Dong's Talk

Photos from Dr. Balasubramanian's Talk

Photos from Dr. Johnson's Talk

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OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Operations research is a scientific approach of using mathematical models, statistics and algorithms to aid in decision-making. It is usually used to analyze complex real-world systems and improve or optimize the performance.

INFORMS

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) serves the scientific and professional needs of OR/MS investigators, scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as the institutions they serve, by such services as publishing a variety of journals that describe the latest OR/MS methods and applications and by organizing professional conferences. The Institute also serves as a focal point for OR/MS professionals, permitting them to communicate with each other and to reach out to other professional societies and to the varied clientele of the profession's research and practice.

UMASS Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS

The goal of the UMASS Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) is to encourage interest in the field of operations research and the management sciences and to provide a means of communication between people having interest in the management sciences and operations research. Members of the chapter are undergraduate and graduate students from various schools and departments including: the Isenberg School of Management, the School of Engineering, the Department of Resource Economics, and the Department of Mathematics. The first major activity of the student chapter is a speaker series. Among the other activities that are planned for the coming year are field trips, student presentations of research, as well as social activities.

The UMass INFORMS Chapter is recognized as a Graduate Student Organization (GSO). We are very thankful for the financial support of our student events through the Graduate Student Senate (GSS). More information on the GSS can be found on GSS Website.

Undergrads and graduate students from all departments who are interested in OR/MS are welcome to attend and join in future meetings and activities. This chapter is truly interdisciplinary!