INFORMS chapter at MSU volunteer activity

Dear ISE students (Undergraduate and Graduate),

Subject: INFORMS chapter at MSU volunteer activity  

MSU INFORMS Student Chapter is participating in the upcoming St. Joseph's Food Pantry Packing and Sorting event. If you are not familiar, Maroon Volunteer Center coordinates the organization of these events. Following are the details:

Date: Friday, December 06

Time: 2 - 3.15 PM

Venue: St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 607 University Drive, Starkville

Anyone is welcome to join. If you are interested, please contact Adindu Emelogu (aae39@msstate.edu) for more information. Thank you.

Thanks,

MSU INFORMS Chapter

Latex Technical Session

Dear ISE students (Undergraduate and Graduate),

MSU INFORMS Student Chapter is organizing a technical session on Monday (November 25th) from 3.30 to 5.00 pm in Room 180 (just outside the ISE office). Mohammad Marufuzzaman (PhD student, ISE) is the speaker of the session. He will take a journal paper template with every varieties of information (text, table, figures, bibliography, etc.) that are usually included in a paper and demonstrate step by step how to prepare that document. This software is specialized for technical writing and creates much better quality documents than MS Word or equivalent. Also, you can use user interfaces like Lyx on top of latex for convenience.

You will need to come with your own laptop with any of the Latex packages installed in it if you want to acquire the full benefit from the session. You can still come and watch the presentation without a laptop. Following are some links to download and install Latex packages. Attached is the paper template and other files that the speaker will be using. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVq16Tl_W20

http://www.lyx.org/Download

http://miktex.org/download

We will provide some light refreshments. We hope to see you there.

Thanks,

 

MSU INFORMS Chapter

Seminar by Dr. Peter Kelle (LSU college of business) on Business Analytics and his current research

Dear ISE students (Undergraduate and Graduate),

MSU INFORMS Student Chapter organized a seminar on Thursday October 31st 2013 at 1:00 pm.

 Dr. Peter Kelle of the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at Louisiana State University was the speaker in the seminar. The outline of the seminar is as follows:

1. The field of analytics and the MS program in Analytics in Lousiana State University department of Information systems and decision sciences

2. Overview on research project: A Multi-Criteria Decision Case for Traffic Improvement Project Selection

Dr. Kelle is also an editor of the International Journal of Production Economics and a professor in the college of business of LSU, therefore he answered students' questions about the journal and the review process.

Thanks,

 

INFORMS Student Chapter @MSU

INFORMS Student Chapter Interest Meeting

Dear ISE Students,

INFORMS Student Chapter at MSU will be holding its annual interest meeting tomorrow, Wednesday August 28th, in McCain 190 at 4.00 pm. Come and join us to learn more about our chapter and how you can be involved. We will talk about the chapter activities for this year. Suggestions are always welcome. Cookies and drinks will be provided.

We hope to see you there.

Sharing job searching experiences with graduate students

INFORMS Student Chapter is going to arrange a workshop on "Sharing job searching experiences with graduate students" on March 7 (11.45am) at McCain 190. In this workshop Dr. Hugh Medal (Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering department) will share his academic job searching experiences and Mr. Abdullah Al Khaled (PhD Candidate, Industrial & Systems Engineering department) will share his industrial job searching experiences.

All faculties and graduate students are cordially invited to present in the workshop. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Workshop on Database Systems and SQL

Dear Undergraduate and Graduate ISE students,

MSU INFORMS Student Chapter is organizing a Workshop in Database Systems and SQL on Thursday February 14^th at 4:00 pm in the third floor computer lab in McCain (room 360).

A tentative outline of his presentation is as follows:

[1] What is database management system?

[2] How to design and build a database?

[3] What is SQL?a

[4] How does SQL work in coordination with other programming languages?

[5] How do you imagine using data stored in a database?

Presenter: Mr. Apurba Kumar Nandi, PhD Student, Industrial & Systems Engineering department, Mississippi State University.

Pizza and drinks will be provided. We hope to see you there.

Thanks,

 

INFORMS Student Chapter @MSU

MSU INFORMS Student Chapter organized a seminar on Thursday October 31st 2013 at 1:00 pm.

 Dr. Peter Kelle of the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at Louisiana State University was the speaker in the seminar. The outline of the seminar is as follows:

1. The field of analytics and the MS program in Analytics in Lousiana State University department of Information systems and decision sciences

2. Overview on research project: A Multi-Criteria Decision Case for Traffic Improvement Project Selection 

Dr. Kelle is also an editor of the International Journal of Production Economics and a professor in the college of business of LSU, therefore he answered students' questions about the journal and the review process.

Thanks,

Apudirba Nan

President

INFORMS Student Chapter @MSU

d. We hope to see you there.