Susan Sanchez, president, presiding.

Susan Sanchez called the meeting to order by asking all new members to stand to a round of applause and brief introductions. The attendees along with affiliations are listed below.

President's report: Susan Sanchez reported that INFORMS is still encouraging the college to become a society. Members were encouraged to renew applications early in the year and to inform a friend about the college. The application requires a membership of at least 500, and the current registered list is just under 500. She noted the clarification raised during the previous College meeting, that the non INFORMS-member membership rate of $20 apply to all nonmembers, regardless of whether they are students or otherwise. No objections were raised. Susan Sanchez asked that the membership consider the possibility of becoming more active in the Spring/Summer through a conference.

Vice President's report: Russell Barton, vice president, announced that the College on Simulation would be sponsoring sessions at the upcoming Euro-INFORMS Conference in Istanbul Turkey in July 2003. He reiterated his request to sponsor sessions at either Euro-INFORMS or at the upcoming annual meeting of INFORMS in Atlanta GA. Russell introduced Jack Kleijnen, who is also organizing sessions at the Istanbul Conference for European members of the College. He announced that a number of sessions had already tentatively been organized including panel sessions, modeling and analysis methodology, optimization, distributed simulation, agent-based simulation, logistics, and more.

Secretary's report: Stephen Chick, secretary/treasurer, presented the budget figures of late, and indicated that the lower balance at the end of this year relative to last year corresponds roughly to the lower amount of money returned after the WSC 2001 conference, which was less than in years past. He announced that the membership list for November 2002 counted 465 members. The officers have started to look more closely at the budget shortfall with respect to future activities.

Newsletter Editor's report: Shane Henderson, newsletter editor, again reported that the Fall 2002 newsletter announcement was emailed to the membership in the week before the INFORMS annual meeting. He solicited contributions for inclusion in future newsletters, and thanked Mike Kuhl for his role as assistant newsletter editor.

Journal Editor's reports: Susan Sanchez referred attendees to the reports from the Editors of the Simulation related areas in Management Science, Operations Research, and INFORMS Journal on Computing in the most recent issue of the INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter. She thanked the editorial staffs for their service.

WSC '03: Dave Ferrin invited everybody to return for an enjoyable WSC to be held December 7-10, 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Those who received beads during the Keynote Address of WSC '02 were reminded to wear them to the WSC '03 conference.

New Business: Susan Sanchez asked the membership to consider creative methods for reducing the deficit.

David Goldsman reported that Walpole Software had graciously lowered their fees for the maintenance of the College's WWW site, and expressed his gratitude.

Barry Nelson announced the importance of volunteerism in making WSC work. He asked those in the audience that have volunteered for a past or present WSC in some capacity to stand, with many standing. He then encouraged those who haven't yet had the opportunity to volunteer to consider doing so in the future.

Jim Wilson announced that WSC 2002 would not necessarily make a profit, but that the worst case scenario would not play out.

Jim Wilson also announced that copies of the special issue of the IIE Transactions in honor of Alan Pritsker were still available. Please contact him if you would like to obtain a copy.

The college had the pleasure to recognize a number of individuals that have made contributions to WSC and the simulation community.

CUMW and PhD Colloquium: Susan Sanchez acknowledged and introduced the women and minorities whose attendance at WSC '02 were supported by the College. Paul Hyden, coordinator of the PhD colloquium and poster session, also thanked the participants in those sessions. He introduced the participants in the PhD colloquium, who received an award from the college.

Outstanding Publication Award: Pierre L'Écuyer read off testimonials for the Outstanding Publication Award, which was awarded to Sĝren Asmussen, Klemens Binswanger, and Bjarne Hĝjgaard for their work on rare events simulation for heavy-tailed distributions. Please see the related article in the Newsletter.

Distinguished Service Award: Jerry Banks introduced this year's recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, David Goldsman, with a number of observations about Dave during their relationship as friends and colleagues through many years. Please see the related article in the Newsletter.

Lifetime Professional Achievement Award: Jim Wilson announced that the Lifetime Professional Achievement Award recipient is Robert Sargent, who made a compelling and emotional acceptance speech. Please see the related article in the Newsletter.

The meeting was adjourned after the LPAA acceptance speech. A reception was held in recognition of Bob Sargent.

Attendees
John Ager, Choreograph Inc., john@choreographinc.com; Christos Alexopoulos, Georgia Tech, christos@isye.gatech.edu; Demos Angelides, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, dangelid@civil.auth.gr; M. Ebru Angün, Tilburg University, m.e.angun@uvt.nl; Jay April, OpTek Systems Inc., april@optek.com; Sean Arthur, VirginiaTech, arthur@vt.edu; Jerry Banks, Independent Consultant, atljerry@earthlink.net; Russel Barton, Penn State University, rbarton@psu.edu; Neal Bengtson, Barton College, bengston@barton.edu; Todd Bertulis, AFIT, tbpurdue@comcast.net; Greg Beskow, Phillips Plastics Corp., greg.beskow@phillipsplastics.com; Bahar Biller, Carnegie Mellon, billerb@andrew.cmu.edu; Felix Breitenecker, Vienna University of Technology, felix.breitenecker@tuwien.ac.at; Arnie Buss, Naval Postgraduate School, abuss@nps.navy.mil; Martha A. Centeno, Florida International University, centeno@fiu.edu; John Charnes, University of Kansas, jmc@ku.edu; Chun-Hung Chen, George Mason University, cchen9@gmu.edu; Russel Cheng, Southampton University, R.C.H.Cheng@maths.soton.ac.uk; Stephen Chick, INSEAD, steve.chick@insead.edu; Thorsten Daum, HIMASS, tdaum@himass.com; Wayne Davis, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, w-davis@uiuc.edu; John DiLeo, G.W.U / MITRE, dileo@mitre.org; J.D. Filippi, CNRS, him@batti.org; Mike Freimer, Penn State University, mbf10@psu.edu; Michael Fu, University Maryland, mfu@rhsmith.umd.edu; Miki Fukunari, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, fukunari@rpi.edu; Tatiana L. Garcia, Florida International University, tgarc005@fiu.edu; Peter Glynn, Stanford University, glynn@stanford.edu; Dave Goldsman, Georgia Tech, sman@isye.gatech.edu; Leonardo Gomez, Florida International University, lgome016@fiu.edu; Don Gross, George Mason University, dgross1@gmu.edu; Aparna Gupta, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, guptaa@rpi.edu; Güll Gürkan, Tilburg University, ggurkan@uvt.nl; Dan Halpin, Purdue University, halpin@purdue.edu; Dean Hartley, Hartley Consulting, DSHartley3@comcast.net; Ray Hill, AFIT, ray.hill@afit.edu; Bjarne Hĝjgaard, Aalborg University, bjh@math.auc.dk; L. Jeff Hong, Northwestern University, hongl@nwu.edu; Ming-hua Hsieh, National Chengchi University, mhsieh@mis.nccu.edu.tw; Paul Hyden, Clemson University, hyden@clemson.edu; Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois, shj@uiuc.edu; Jeff Joines, NC State University, jeffjoines@ncs.edu; Vineet Kamat, VirginiaTech, vineet@vt.edu; Keebom Kang, Naval Postgraduate School, Kkang@nps.navy.mil; Jim Kelly, OpTek Systems Inc., kelly@optek.com; Seong-Hee Kim, Georgia Tech, skim@isye.gatech.edu; Jack Kleijnen, Tilburg University, kleijnen@uvt.nl; Matt Kosenshine, Penn State University-Emeritus, no e-mail; Steve Kou, Columbia University, sk75@columbia.edu; Mike Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology, mekeie@rit.edu; Emily Lada, North Carolina State University, eklada@eos.ncsu.edu; Pierre L'Ecuyer, University of Montreal, lecuyer@iro.montreal.edu; Loo Hay Lee, National University of Singapore, iseleelh@nus.edu.sg; Julio Martinez, VirginiaTech, julio@vt.edu; O.J. Miller, AFIT, john.miller@afit.edu; Marvin Nakayama, NJIT, marvin@njit.edu; Dick Nance, VirginiaTech, nance@vt.edu; Mahdi Nasereddin, Penn State University, mxn16@psu.edu; Barry L. Nelson, Northwestern University, nelsonb@northwestern.edu; Szu Hui Ng, National University of Singapore, isensh@nus.edu.sg; Raghu Pasupathy, Purdue University, pasupath@ecn.purdue.edu; Debbie Pederson, Berkeley, debbie@ieor.berkeley.edu; Juta Pichitlamken, University of Montreal, pichitla@iro.umontreal.ca; Mike Pidd, Lancaster University, m.pidd@lancaster.ac.uk; Chuck Reilly, University Central Florida, creilly@mail.ucf.edu; Stewart Robinson, Warwick University, stewart.robinson@warwick.ac.uk; Ralph Rogers, Old Dominion University, rrogers@odn.edu; Deborah Sadowski, Rockwell Sofware, dasadowski@software.rockwell.com; Paul Sanchez, NPS, pjs@alum.mit.edu; Susan Sanchez, Naval Postgraduate School, smsanchez@nps.navy.mil; Bob Sargent, Syracuse University, vsargent@syr.edu; Tiffany Sargent, Intel Corp., no e-mail; Lisa Schaefer, The MITRE Corp., LisaAnn@mitre.org; Bruce Schmeiser, Purdue University, bruce@purdue.edu; Thomas J. Schriber, University of Michigan, schriber@umich.edu; Lee Schruben, Berkeley, schruben@ieor.berkeley.edu; Perwez Shahabuddin, Columbia University, ps147@columbia.edu; Bruce Shultes, University of Cincinatti, bruce.shultes@uc.edu; Jeff Smith, Auburn University, jsmith@eng.auburn.edu; Ingolf Stahl, Stockholm School of Economics, ingolf.stahl@hhs.se; Natalie Steiger, University of Maine, nsteiger@maine.edu; Jim Swain, UAH, jswain@ise.uah.edu; Mike Taaffe, VirginiaTech, taaffe@vt.edu; Kristin Toney, North Carolina State University, kristin_thoney@ncsu.edu; Edwin Valentin, Delft University of Technology, edwinv@tbm.tudelft.nl; Mary Ann Wagner, SAIC, maflanig@gmu.edu; Hong Wan, Northwestern University, h-wan@northwestern.edu; Pres White, University of Virginia, kpwhite@virginia.edu; Jim Wilson, NC State University, jwilson@eos.ncsu.edu; Enver Yücesan, INSEAD, enver.yucesan@insead.edu