Now that INFORMS 2005 New Orleans/San Francisco is over, it is the Pittsburgh crowd’s turn to put together INFORMS 2006. We are well on the way planning, with a list of tutorials and invited sessions that I think will be very good.
The theme of the conference in OR Renaissance, and we hope to highlight some of the exciting new directions and applications for OR/MS. We’ll have some new things in store for 2006 including
1) A new Tuesday reception, planned for PNC Park, the site of the 2006 MLB All-Star game.
2) “Renaissance Sessions”, highlighting the best of where OR will be in 5 years.
3) Plans for a revamped awards ceremony.
The Monday General Reception will be at the wonderful Carnegie Museums: the Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History (they are connected).
The conference will be November 5-8, 2006. If you have some thoughts on how INFORMS conferences could be made better, I’d love to hear them. Comment here or mail to me.