Welcome to the Philadelphia chapter of INFORMS

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Thanks to everyone who came out to our local social event on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009.





Congratulations to our new officers for 2010!
Congratulations to our new officers who will serve their roles throughout 2010.
Yanni Papadakis - President
Nat Teerapirak - Vice President
Neil Desnoyers - Treasurer
John Toczek - Secretary


July 21, 2009
ARAMARK's Decision Support team (Natawan Teerapirak, John Toczek, and Andrew Pelcin) in a joint effort with Bayes Corp.,(Nigel Cooper and James Sewell) presented a talk on predicting the ultimate cost of employee injuries.  This talk was given at the annual INFORMS meeting in Phoenix, AZ in April 2009.


April 6th, 2009 meeting
Our April meeting was held on:
April 6th 2009 (Monday) from 4:30 to 6:30pm at the ARAMARK Tower in downtown Philadelphia
Dr. Bruce Pollack-Johnson of Villanova University spoke on project management and the relationships between quality, time and cost.  Traditional project management utilizes a time/cost analysis and assumes equal quality for each task within the project.  Dr. Pollack-Johnson's research recognizes that the quality of a task is determined by the time and money spent on it.  Utilizing a nonlinear programming model, the overall quality of a project can be maximized and the tradeoffs between time, cost, and quality can be evaluated.


November 12th meeting
Our November meeting was held on:
November 12th (Wednesday) from 4:30 to 6:30pm at the Aramark Tower
Mr. James Sewell, Chairman of Bayes Corp., spoke on the work he did as the Project Manager for the Hamlet Evaluation System (HES) in 1968 under Ambassadors Robert Komer and William Colby.  The HES provided a mathematical model of the governmental, administrative and security aspects of South Vietnam based on micro-data reported at the level of 14,000 hamlets.  The HES pioneered the use of probabilistic modeling and factor analysis in broad based socio-demographic modeling.
Our meeting was also broadcast via webex, conference call, and webcam.
Mr. Sewell's slides can be found here.


August 27th meeting
Our August 27th, 2008 meeting was held at the Aramark tower in downtown Philadelphia.  Dr. Frank Kampas of WAM systems spoke on the risk analysis of the Cassini mission.  Next meeting will be in November.

 

July 2009 meeting
Our July meeting was held on:
July 21st 2009 (Tuesday) from 4:30 to 6:30 at the ARAMARK Tower in downtown Philadelphia.

 

March 2008 Meeting
The Philadelphia chapter of INFORMS kicked off its reactivation meeting on March 26, 2008 with a presentation on Energy Policy in the United States given by Dr. Fred Murphy from Temple University.