Wednesday, April 9, 2025

[DMANET] Call for Session Chairs and Invited Talks: Global, Integer, and Network Optimization at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting

Dear all,

If you are interested in being a presenter or session organizer at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting<https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/annual/> in Atlanta, GA (October 26-29, 2025) in the "Global Optimization", "Integer and Combinatorial Optimization", or "Network Optimization" tracks, please fill out your information by April 15 (if you want to chair) and by May 7 (to give a talk) in the following spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tqjdmR-2_IYsI_9psH65X3xxO0p8VwAupORJxJ87h2Y/

Key Points:


* INFORMS has limited the number of sessions per community this year, so we may not be able to accommodate all proposed sessions/talks. We will inform selected chairs by April 17.
* New Job Market Showcase Track: INFORMS has introduced this new track for the 2025 meeting. Details can be found here.
* One-Talk-Per-Speaker Rule: INFORMS has a one-talk-per-speaker rule. Speakers in the Job Market Showcase track cannot give a talk in a regular session.
* Session Chair Deadline: April 15, 2025. Please indicate your interest by this date. Early proposals are encouraged. If you have arranged for speakers in your session, please ensure they enter their talk details in the "Talks" tab at the link above. Once they have done so, kindly indicate in both tabs that their talk is part of your session.
* Session Size Requirement: Each session must include 5 speakers.
* Talk Proposal Deadline: May 7, 2025. Please indicate your interest in giving an invited talk by this date.
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 23, 2025. Selected speakers must submit their title and abstract in the system by this deadline.


Feel free to reach out with any questions:

- Global Optimization: Rohit Kannan (rohitkannan@vt.edu)
- Integer and Combinatorial Optimization: Aleksandr Kazachkov (akazachkov@ufl.edu)
- Network Optimization: Jim Ostrowski (jostrows@utk.edu)

Best regards,
Aleks, Jim, and Rohit
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Aleksandr Kazachkov<https://akazachk.github.io>
Assistant Director, Center for Applied Optimization
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida


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