The meeting was called to order at 6:15pm by Russell Barton, president of the college. The new bylaws of the college were approved by the membership in the August 2004 vote. The college has a new structure, with a council, separate treasurer/secretary positions and a new committee structure.
The new officers, council and committees are
Officers: Russell Barton (president), Steve Chick (vice president/president-elect), Shane Henderson (secretary), Chun-Hung Chen (treasurer), Susan Sanchez (past president).
Council: John Carson, Martha Centeno, Preston White, Enver Yücesan (plus the officers and the immediate past president)
Awards: Bruce Schmeiser (chair), Steve Chick*, Joan Donohue
Communications: Michael Kuhl (chair), Jack Kleijnen, Jim Wilson, Loo Hay Lee#, Peter Welch#
Newsletter: Loo Hay Lee (editor), Seonghee Kim (associate editor)
Membership: Barry Nelson (chair), Michael Kuhl, Steve Chick*, Shane Henderson*, Perwez Shahabuddin
Distinguished Service Award: Dave Goldsman (chair), Steve Roberts, Barry Nelson
Lifetime Professional Achievement Award: Bob Sargent (chair), Tom Schriber, Lee Schruben
Outstanding Publication Award: Leyuan Shi (chair), David Kelton, Peter Haas
Under-represented Minorities and Women: Theresa Roeder (chair), Juta Pichitlamken
Ph.D. Colloquium: John Fowler (chair), Theresa Roeder
* ex officio
# corresponding member
Susan Sanchez updated the college on its bid for society status. We are now up over 500 members - special thanks to all who have recently joined! The sequence of events is that the Sections/Societies Committee must vote to recommend society status, after which the Subdivisions Council (SC) takes an official vote. Unfortunately, the Sections/Societies Committee meets after the SC. Susan presented and discussed our petition at the Subdivision Council meeting, and it was very favorably received. The members unanimously agreed to have a special e-mail vote after the conference so we would officially be the INFORMS Simulation Society in time for WSC '04. Susan will attend the Sections/Societies meeting on Monday afternoon to present our proposal there.
[note: Following discussion at the Sections/Societies Committee meeting, the Committee unanimously recommended that the SC approve our petition to become the INFORMS Simulation Society.]
The college thanked all involved in this process, with special note for Susan Sanchez and Bob Sargent for their tireless efforts to move the college to society status.
Russell gave Steve Chick's report, and deferred to Jeff Joines to talk about WSC 2004 and WSC 2005 and to John Fowler for IFORS 2005 and INFORMS Fall 2005. The Denver INFORMS meeting had 9 sessions sponsored by the college plus David Kelton's tutorial, along with 100 talks with "simulation" in the title. Contact Steve Chick to volunteer to organize a session - abstract deadline is January 15 for the IFORS conference, and abstract submissions begin in December for the Fall 2005 INFORMS meeting. Each subdivision is requested to organize several sponsored sessions, one or more sessions on the conference theme: Ecologies, Economies, and OR, one or more practitioner oriented sessions, perhaps a research clinic, and one or more posters for the lunchtime poster sessions - contact George Polak for posters.
Russell Barton gave the secretary's report for Shane Henderson who could not attend. Russell thanked Steve Chick, past secretary/treasurer. Current membership stands at around 500. Please keep your membership up to date: renew.informs.org
Chun-Hung Chen gave the treasurer's report. The college's assets total $13460.55. The liabilities consist of deferred dues for 2005: $240.00, deferred dues for 2006: $20.00 and the reception for the current meeting! Newsletter editor Loo Hay Lee was introduced, along with the new associate editor Seonghee Kim. Susan Sanchez and Michael Fu gave brief reports on the state of simulation departments at the INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Operations Research respectively. Details will appear in the Fall Newsletter.
Lee Schruben announced that Bruce Schmeiser has been inducted as a new INFORMS Fellow, and he was recognized by the attendees.
Russell Barton reported for Bob Sargent that the lifetime professional achievement award committee has several nominations and is "doing its work".
David Goldsman requested further nominations for the distinguished service award.
Leyuan Shi requested further nominations for the outstanding publication award.
John Fowler reported that the Ph.D. colloquium will take all of Sunday afternoon at WSC, and that approximately 20 students will present their work.
The meeting adjourned at 6:40pm (motion by Bruce Schmeiser, second by Dean Hartley).
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