OR/MS Today — INFORMS News Posted: 10/8/03 INFORMS Atlanta Meeting 2003 Plenary & Keynote Presentations Sunday, Oct.19 PLENARY 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m. "Adventures in Policy Modeling: Operations Research in the Community and Beyond" Edward H. Kaplan — William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences, Yale School of Management Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine   OMEGA RHO DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m. "Teaching for Learning: Past, Present and Future" Judith S. Liebman — Professor Emerita of Operations Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign     Monday, Oct. 20 EDELMAN 2003 AWARD WINNER- Reprise Presentation 3:10 p.m.- 4 p.m. "Perfecting the Scheduled Railroad: Model-Driven Operating Plan Development" Presenters: Rob Ritchie, president & CEO, Canadian Pacific Railway Neal Foot, senior VP, Operations, Canadian Pacific Railway Phil Ireland, assistant VP, Product Design & Interline Management, Canadian Pacific Railway Carl Van Dyke, president & CEO, MultiModal Applied Systems Rod Case and John Fallis, Canadian Pacific Railway   KEYNOTE 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m. "Corporate—Academic Research Collaboration: Directions and Hot Topics" Daniel C. Pantaleo, VP, SAP University and Innovation Alliances, SAP Global Communications, SAP AG     Tuesday, Oct. 21 KEYNOTE 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m. "Synchronizing Global Commerce: Operations Research at UPS" James Holsen, VP of Engineering, United Parcel Service   KEYNOTE 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m. "Introducing New INFORMS Campaign to Market the Profession" Moderator: Thomas M. Cook, president, INFORMS; Chairman and CEO, Caleb Technologies Corp. Panelists: Philip Johnson, president, Philip Johnson Associates Ralph Oliva, executive director, Institute for the Study of Business Markets, Smeal College of Business, Penn State Univ. Irvin J. Lustig, manager of Technical Services, ILOG, Inc.   IFORS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m. "Minimum Test Sets" Jan Karel Lenstra, general manager, CWI, the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science   KEYNOTE 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m. "What is OR?" Moderator: Michael H. Rothkopf, INFORMS president-elect; professor, RUTCOR, Rutgers University Panelists: John D.C. Little, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology George Nemhauser, institute professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Randall S. Robinson, retired practitioner Robert Eugene Woolsey, professor, Colorado School of Mines OR/MS Today copyright © 2003 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Road, Suite 220, Marietta, GA USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com Web URL: www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2003 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.