Student Travel Support for the 2008 INFORMS Southwest Regional Conference; College Station, Texas; April 18-19, 2008

该奖项为学生参加在德克萨斯州大学站举行的INFINS(运筹学和管理科学研究所)西南地区会议提供旅费支持。会议定于2008年4月18日至19日举行。会议的形式与通知大会的形式非常相似。它包括全体演讲者(S)、讨论小组、教程和技术会议。参加此次专业会议的旅行支持将使学生从多个维度受益。首先，他们将有机会传播他们的研究，并与该地区的其他研究人员建立关系。其次，他们将在建立促进OR/MS专业的学生和区域组织方面获得宝贵的基于经验的知识。第三，它将有助于培养学生成为未来的院士和实践者的专业准备。他们将有机会与这两个领域的几位有经验的同事以及其他学生进行互动。最后，作为一个规模相对较小的地区性会议，学生们将有更多的机会有效和高效地实现上述目标。此外，对这次会议的旅行支持将向几名没有参加年会的学生提供会议经验，并促进代表不足的群体更多地参与此类活动。

This award provides funding for travel support for students to attend the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) Southwest Regional Conference at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The conference is scheduled to take place on April 18-19, 2008. The format of the conference is very similar to that of an INFORMS General Meeting. It comprises plenary speaker(s), discussion panels, tutorials, and technical sessions. Travel support to this professional conference will benefit students in various dimensions. First, they will have the opportunity to disseminate their research and establish relationships with other researchers in the region. Second, they will gain invaluable experience-based knowledge in establishing student and regional organizations that promote the OR/MS profession. Third, it will help foster the professional preparation of students as future academicians and practitioners. They will have the opportunity to interact with several experienced colleagues in both domains as well as with other students. Lastly, being a regional conference of relatively a much smaller size than an annual INFORMS meeting, the students will have much more significant opportunity to achieve their above outlined objectives effectively and efficiently. In addition, travel support to this conference will provide an INFORMS conference experience to several students who do not attend the annual meetings as well as facilitate a more significant involvement of underrepresented groups in such events.