Stop by and say hi at INFORMS

I am psyched about the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Please stop by and say hi if you see me. I will blog when possible.

I received a nice email from Abie Flaxman about meeting other operations researchers interested in community OR. If you can make it, stop by and say hi! I hope to make it, but my plane arrives just before the meeting.

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Hi Statcom and Community OR people,

This is an email to officially invite you to the meetup at INFORMS that
I’ve been whispering about for a few weeks now.

WHAT: Statistics in Communities and Community Operations Research people
get together for lunch to network, share experiences and ideas.

WHERE: Elysian Brewing Co., 1221 E. Pike St. (Pike and 12th in Capitol Hill)

WHEN: Sunday Nov. 4, 12:00 PM

About STATCOM: Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) a volunteer
community outreach orgnization providing statistical consulting to
non-profit clients free of charge. Started in 2001 at Purdue University,
the STATCOM program has spread to a number of other universities,
including the University of Washington. STATCOM groups are generally
directed and staffed by graduate students studying a wide variety of
subjects including statistics, genetics, and sociology.
http://www.stat.washington.edu/statcom/

About Community OR: Community-based operations research is the
application of decision models to social issues of a local nature. The
goal of this field is to design policies and tactics that have the
potential to improve individual life outcomes and neighborhood-level
outcomes by addressing welfare, equity and administrative efficiency
simultaneously.
https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessiondtl.asp?csnno=7464&mmnno=167&ppnno=28377