Iowa INFORMS Student Chapter

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Great turnout at our first INFORMS Student Chapter Meeting yesterday!

Board Game Night to unwind and connect!

Please join us for a Knowledge Café on Thursday, April 20th, at 4pm in room C106 PBB, where Yankun Huang will present his research on single-loop switching subgradient methods for non-smooth weakly convex optimization with non-smooth convex constraints. See you there!

We are excited to announce the 2023 Thought Leaders: Tippie Seminar Series with the theme of Foundations of AI and ML organized by the Department of Business Analytics! Visit tinyurl.com/9yykvv6v to register for our first seminar by @sburer on Friday, Apr 7, 1-2 pm CST.

Please join us tomorrow for a Knowledge Café from 4-6pm in room S401 PBB, where Dr. Carl Follmer and Dr. Stephanie Batterson will talk about “Tips for Structuring & Writing Your Manuscript.” There will even be an opportunity to workshop your papers! We hope to see you all there!

Come join us for a casual night of games and hanging out with your peers! If you don’t want to play games, feel free to just come and hangout. There will be refreshments! All are welcome, and we hope to see you there!   WHEN: 2/27 from 5:00 to 7:00pm WHERE: W401 PBB

Happy Monday! Today (12/5/22), INFORMS is hosting a Knowledge Café led by Madi Wahrmund. Please join us in learning about modeling epilepsy in animals. The talk will take place at 2pm in C208 PBB. See you there!

Congratulations to Junho Yoon (@greenfrog112) for receiving the Best Short Paper Award in Artificial Intelligence this week at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting! 🥳 #INFORMS2022

Congrats Natalie and @BesteBasciftci!

Please join us tomorrow evening (Thursday, October 6th) for our first Knowledge Café of the semester! We will be hearing from @appleraghav about common sense in AI in S181 PBB at 6:30pm. Be there or be square!

Our INFORMS Student Chapter has been selected as a winner of the INFORMS 2022 Student Chapter Annual Award as a cum laude!! The award will be presented during the Student Award Ceremony at 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting!!! @InformsStuIowa @TippieAnalytics

We had an entertaining game night with a group of Ph.D. and M.S. students in our chapter! Thank you, @johanns_patrick , a lot for sharing all the awesome board games! @InformsStuIowa @TippieAnalytics

The last session of the workshops on presentation techniques and best practices is on tomorrow, April 12th, at 5:00 pm (S401 PBB) and focuses on "elevator pitches". This topic is helpful for networking and job interviews. Food will be provided! @InformsStuIowa @TippieAnalytics

Here are some lessons we learned from the workshop on “slide design” by Melissa Marshall! @InformsStuIowa @TippieAnalytics @TippieIowa

A reminder on the workshop on "slide design" presented by Melissa Marshall tomorrow, April 5th, at 6:00 pm. The INFORMS student chapter has reserved room S401 so that we can watch it together. Food will be provided. Please join us! @InformsStuIowa @TippieAnalytics @TippieIowa

We are now attending the first session of the virtual seminar on “Telling a Clear Technical Story” by Melissa Marshall. This talk sounds very helpful for business analytics people both in academia and practice. There will be follow-up sessions coming soon!

On top of the email announcement, I'm giving you a reminder of the workshop on telling a clear technical story that our chapter is watching together today, March 29th, at 5:00 pm in S401 PBB. We hope to see you there!

This Thursday, we invited Seung-Wook Kim from the Tippie marketing department to our Knowledge Cafe as a speaker. He presented one of his working papers, and we learned how interpretable machine learning methods can be used in academic research in the area of marketing!