The 2015 INFORMS Computing Society Conference NSF Student Poster Session; Richmond, Virginia; January 11-13, 2015

信息计算学会NSF学生海报会议拟在2015年信息计算学会(ICS)会议上举行，这将是定期举行的ICS会议的第一次学生海报会议。这个海报会议旨在鼓励研究生与教师、行业和同学互动，就一个对运筹学、研究、计算和相关领域有用的研究项目进行技术海报演示。学生海报环节鼓励学生从事高质量、健全和原创的研究，加强他们对研究和研究方法的理解，为学生提供机会发展他们有效的写作和沟通技能来传播研究信息，成为富有创造力和自力更生的终身知识消费者。这样，学生将获得必要的专业发展技能，成为运筹学和计算机专业不可或缺的一部分。通过专业发展、研究陈述以及与该领域高级专业人员的互动获得的经验将对学生获得博士学位的坚持性和相关领域的实践产生积极影响。接受海报的摘要以及其他发言的摘要将在会议网站上公布。学生还可以选择提交一篇论文，以供审查是否包含在会议记录中。如果成功，这笔赠款支持的努力将增加运筹学和计算机专业人员的数量和多样性。学生与该领域的知名专业人士以及其他学生的互动将有助于建立一个同事网络，为他们的职业发展提供指导。

The INFORMS Computing Society NSF Student Poster Session is proposed to be held at the 2015 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference, which would be the first student poster session for the regularly-held ICS conference. This poster session is set up to encourage graduate students to interact with faculty, industry and fellow students by giving a technical poster presentation on a research project useful to operations research computing and related areas. The student poster session encourages students to engage in high quality, sound, and original research, strengthen their comprehension of research and research methods, and provide an opportunity for students to develop their effective writing and communication skills for the dissemination of research information, and become creative and self-reliant lifelong consumers of the knowledge. As such, the students will acquire necessary professional development skills to become an integral part of the operations research and computing profession. The experience gained through the professional development, the presentation of research, and the interaction with senior professionals in the field will positively affect the students' persistence to obtain a doctoral degree and practice in related fields. The abstracts of accepted posters together with the abstracts for other presentations will be published on the conference website. Students will also have the option to submit a paper to be reviewed for inclusions in the conference proceedings. If successful, the efforts supported by this grant will increase the number and diversity of operations research and computing professionals. The interaction of the students with known professionals in the field along with other students will assist in developing a network of colleagues to provide guidance to advance their careers.