October 1996 € Volume 23 € Number 5
Ready for Atlanta
Plant tours, speakers, software tutorials highlight
fall INFORMS meeting
The INFORMS Fall 1996 Meeting, scheduled for Nov. 3-6 in Atlanta,
will offer once-in-a-lifetime programs and experiences. Meeting and
hotel registration forms appeared in the special supplement mailed
with the August issue of OR/MS Today. For further information,
call 1-800-343-0062 or (401) 274-2525.
The meeting will feature plant tours, plenary sessions and software
tutorials and workshops along with the presentation of hundreds of
scientific papers in 30 different tracks. Highlights include:
Plant Tours
Have you ever wanted a first-hand look at the state-of-the-art
production of a Ford Taurus or the manufacture of fiber optic cable?
Attendees are invited to tour Ford Motor Company's assembly plant or
the Lucent Technologies' cable manufacturing plant. If logistics is
your thing, check out United Parcel Service's central sorting
facility. Attendees can also tour the Worldspan Data Center as well
as the Delta Air Lines Technical Operations Center. Individuals
interested in the tours are encouraged to sign up in advance since
space is limited. Call the numbers listed above for details.
Speakers
Jim Kelly, chief operations officers for UPS, and George Gourlay,
senior vice president for Coca-Cola, will address the meeting's
logistics theme in a pair of plenary sessions.
Keynote speaker William Pierskalla, dean of UCLA's Anderson Graduate
School of Management, will discuss health care delivery systems,
while Jonathan Rosenhead of the London School of Economics will
address OR/MS involvement in political issues.
In a special encore presentation, the 1996 Edelman winners will tell
the amazing story of how OR/MS methods were used to completely design
the South African National Defense Force.
Software Tutorials and Workshops
Meeting registrants are invited to attend more than a dozen tutorials
in the latest analytical software. See the
schedule
or call the numbers listed above for details. While the tutorials are
free to meeting participants, the workshops require an application
fee to cover materials and instructors.
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