{"id":904,"date":"2009-10-12T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-10-12T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T21:58:30","slug":"informs-fellows-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/informs-fellows-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"INFORMS Fellows Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the INFORMS Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I just got back from the Fellows Luncheon.\u00a0 The INFORMS Fellows<\/a> are recognized for having made significant contributions to the field of operations research and the management sciences (be it in research, practice, service, administration, or education).\u00a0 It is an extremely impressive group, and I very much enjoy the lunch, since conversation around the table is generally both insightful and entertaining.<\/p>\n

I was President of INFORMS the year the Fellows program began, so I got to welcome the inaugural group.\u00a0 To get the Fellows program started off, some classifications of people were automatically made Fellows.\u00a0 So, for instance, all the past winners of the John von Neumann Theory Prize<\/a> were automatically made Fellows.\u00a0 When it came to past Presidents of the organization, the rule was pretty explicit:<\/p>\n

[Fellows would be] all past Presidents of TIMS, ORSA, and INFORMS up to but not including Michael Trick (*)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ummmm… OK.\u00a0 I think I was the only person explicitly declared not to be a Fellow!\u00a0 It made sense at the time “Don’t want to vote for yourself, you know!”, and they did make me a Fellow a few years later.<\/p>\n

Now, no one gets in automatically:\u00a0 every new Fellow is selected by the Selection Committee.\u00a0 This year’s class is a very impressive group:\u00a0 Aharon Ben-Tal, Srinivas Bollapragada, Margaret Brandeau, Awi Federgruen, Nimrod Megiddo, David B. Montgomery, Michael Pinedo, Kathryn E. Stecke, John Tomlin, Garrett van Ryzin, and C.F. Jeff Wu.\u00a0 The fact that eleven were made Fellows is not arbitrary:\u00a0 the number is limited by a certain fraction of the size of the membership.\u00a0 When I checked the list of Fellows,<\/a> I was struck by some of the amazing people who are not yet Fellows:\u00a0 we still have years and years of amazing classes to induct.<\/p>\n

You get to be a Fellow by getting nominated, and then getting elected by the selection committee (which is voted on by the current Fellows).\u00a0 If you know someone who should be a Fellow (or think you should be!), the next round of nominations will be due next summer.<\/p>\n

A few points that struck me during the lunch<\/p>\n

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  1. The more members we have, the more Fellows we can elect;\u00a0 this process would be easier if we had more members<\/li>\n
  2. It would be nice for Fellows to do something more than have a nice lunch and beget more Fellows:\u00a0 the group is a great, underutilized resource<\/li>\n
  3. It was fantastic to see a number of the older Fellows who came in specially for the lunch.\u00a0\u00a0 Our field has a great history (and future!) and it was good to be reminded of that history with the extremely impressive people in the room.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (*) Not the exact wording, but it was pretty close to that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From the INFORMS Blog: I just got back from the Fellows Luncheon.\u00a0 The INFORMS Fellows are recognized for having made significant contributions to the field of operations research and the management sciences (be it in research, practice, service, administration, or education).\u00a0 It is an extremely impressive group, and I very much enjoy the lunch, since … Continue reading “INFORMS Fellows Luncheon”<\/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":[28,41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informs","category-personal","category-prizes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}