Abstract submission for presentation is closed. We encourage you to submit your abstract for the Interactive Sessions, which are now open and accepting submissions. Click here for information on Interactive Sessions and to submit an abstract.

DC Highlights
Just a few of the special events, programs and presentations taking place at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2009.

• Doing Good with Good OR – top speakers and panelists on using OR to inform and shape public policy issues like energy & the environment, public health, aviation congestion.
  
  
• Outstanding plenary speakers, including Nobel Laureate Roger Myerson, IFORS Lecturer Michel Balinski, Omega Rho recipient Karla Hoffman, Daniel Cook, McCord Morse Lecturer Lawrence Wein, David Halverson, and the 2008 Edelman winner Netherlands Railways.
  
  
• Interactive Sessions – still accepting abstracts!
  
  
• TutORials 2008 -- Every registrant will receive a complimentary CD of TutORials 2008, the fourth volume in the INFORMS series TutORials in Operations Research. The 2008 volume includes 15 of the 18 tutorials being presented at the meeting, the most extensive and comprehensive in the series to date. You are also encouraged to purchase the paperback version as a valuable reference tool for your department or library. Click here to make your purchase before the meeting.  Extra copies of the CD and copies of the paperback volume will also be available for purchase at the meeting in DC.
  
  
• Business Week Author Signing – Publishers Weekly calls The Numerati a “captivating exploration” about “a new breed of entrepreneurial mathematicians.” Meet Business Week writer Stephen Baker when he visits the INFORMS booth during the welcome reception on Sunday night to autograph copies of his exciting new book.
  
  
• ORPA, Operational Research Practice in Africa– special conference held before the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Oct. 10 –11.
  
  
• CIST-Information Systems & Technology Conference, Oct. 11-12
  
  
• NEW extended Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, combining the best of the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium and the Teaching Management Science Workshop. Held Oct. 10-11.
  
  
• Combined Colloquia – the new Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, Future Academician Colloquium, and Future Practitioner Colloquium.
  
  
• Pre-meeting workshops on Saturday, Oct. 11 – Data Mining and Health Informatics; software solutions workshops (information coming soon).
  
  
• Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum – site of the General Reception, Tuesday evening, Oct. 14. Details coming soon.
  
  
• INFORMS Awards Ceremony, presenting the prestigious Lanchester Award, von Neumann Theory Prize, Kimball Medal and others. Sunday evening, Oct. 12.
  
  
• Wednesday, Oct. 15 – full day of sessions, with Email Center and Job Placement open all day.
  
  
• Four packed days of technical sessions, with over 3,900 papers! Searchable program coming soon.