Poster presentation next year at INFORMS charpter@Lehigh?

Today Lehigh's INFORMS chapter had its first meeting this semester. Basically we discuss who will be invited as INFORMS chapter seminar speaker next semester. After that, we need to figure out a way to spend increased budget. There is one idea comes out during the discussion. That is we will provide T-shirt having ISE logo. I like this idea a lot. At least we need something to connecting people togather.

Right after meeting, I get an idea about create poster presentation next year. Now in our department, those optimization people have very strong connection. They have their own CORAL and IP seminar. But the connection outside optimization is quite loose. So hope this poster presentation will let people know what the other people do. And every poster presenter should wear the ISE T-shirt.

I also get idea to create subdivision leader in our chapter, say, optimization, stochastic, finance, scm&rm. Each leader should arrange 3 weeks long seminar. This is just coming from IP seminar yesterday.

Maybe we can also create the connection between IE and other department student, so that we can see what cool stuff we can do for other fields.

And just now, I send an email to our president about giving a talk to the first year phd student of the career path of phd. It is very often to mention in the company but seldom done by university. I guess after that we can also create Q&A page for all IE student.

I believe by doing more stuff like that. We can create the best INFORMS charpter ever and sell OR to more people.

If we can get enough people joining us, we can also make the newsletter once a semester. Maybe some short introduction about what happens to every member in our chapter. What had done last semester and what we will do next sememster.