Executive Council Meeting

Date: March 12, 2003

Location: Nuts & Mud

Convened: Noon.

---

PRISMS

PRISMS was hosted by Berkeley INFORMS on March 1st. keynote speaker, Professor Bruce Schmeiser from Purdue University gave tips on how to be a successful graduate student. Rhonda Righter from Santa Clara University gave an invited talk on "Dynamic Load Balancing with Flexible Workers", and Carrie Beam from Carrie Beam Consulting shared her experience on how it was like to start your own consulting company. There was also panel discussion on "Looking Beyond the Job Search". Student presentation competition and case study competition were held afterwards. PRISMS 2004 may be at Stanford again. Gary will coordinate this with the other interested schools.

ORMS tomorrow

Our chapter activities will be showcased again in the next edition of ORMS tomorrow.

Brown Bag Research Talks

Ting is trying to acquire more abstracts and titles for future brown bag research talks. Gary will send out a call for abstracts for next quarter's Brown Bag lunches.

Treasurer report

Mark reports on the financial situation of Stanford INFORMS

Announcement

Gary will be leaving to Switzerland for the coming spring quarter, which means that the INFORMS president will not be present on campus from April to June in 2003. Ting will fill in his position during this period. As far as possible with email and fax, Gary will still be point of contact for national INFORMS.

Spring Quarter Events

Gary will send out call-for-papers emails for brown bag research talk -- remotely. We plan to have an ice cream party event in the spring quarter. Logistics on the location need to be taken care of.