{"id":561,"date":"2009-02-20T14:37:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-02-20T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T18:37:59","slug":"have-you-registered-for-informs-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20\/have-you-registered-for-informs-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you Registered for INFORMS Practice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/Practice09\/index.html\">INFORMS Practice Conference<\/a> is one of my favorite conferences.  It is here that I get most of my stories for my classes and get inspired about the areas I work in.  I also get inspired about Operations Research in general:  it is a great field, and this conference shows the wonderful things we do.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t been to a Practice Conference, it is nothing like the big fall conferences.\u00a0 The Practice Conference is seen as a &#8220;Listener&#8217;s Conference&#8221;:\u00a0 unlike the main conference where anyone can present, only invited speakers present at the Practice Conference.\u00a0 The quality of talks given by invited speakers ranges from good to unbelievably amazing (in contrast with the fall conference where the lower bound is much, much, much lower).\u00a0 There are very few parallel sessions (no more than 5 or 6) and there are lots of opportunities for interaction, greatly enhancing the social capital of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it is not a cheap conference.\u00a0 Running a conference of the quality of the Practice conference takes money.\u00a0 So if you are planning to go, be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/Practice09\/registration.html\">register by February 27<\/a> to save yourself $150 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one highlight of the conference is the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/Practice09\/edelman.html\">Edelman Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I already have my registration in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The INFORMS Practice Conference is one of my favorite conferences. It is here that I get most of my stories for my classes and get inspired about the areas I work in. I also get inspired about Operations Research in general: it is a great field, and this conference shows the wonderful things we do. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20\/have-you-registered-for-informs-practice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have you Registered for INFORMS Practice?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-conferences","category-informs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}