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NU INFORMS Student Chapter wasgiven a Sum Cum Laude (highest)award for the excellence in 2015 -2016. Student officers received theaward from Prof. Brian Denton, thepresident of INFORMS.

Lunch and Learnpresentations allow studentsto practice their presentationskills as well as informingother students about theirresearch. All this happenswhile munching on goodfood. This quarter, weorganized three Lunch andLearn seminars. On October21st, exchange studentsEmma Stubbington and LucyMorgan from LancasterUniversity gave wonderfulpresentations about theirresearch and their university.PhD students KartikeySharma, Nastaran Shojaeiand Allen Wu practiced theirpresentations for INFORMSannual meeting in thesecond Lunch and Learn onNovember 4th.

LUNCH AND LEARN

SEMINARLUNCHEONS

Mark Semelhago and firstyear student Linda Pei, led afun and useful LaTexworkshop as the season finaleon November 18th.

Seminar luncheons are a weeklyevents organized by the IEMSdepartment and the Informs studentchapter where the students have alunch with the seminar speaker of theweek. This allows students toassociate with researchers fromoutside the university. Check out thefull list of seminar luncheons:

Sept. 28th --- Prof. MohsenBayati from Stanford UniversityOct. 05th --- Prof. Turgay Ayerfrom Georgia Institute ofTechnologyOct. 11th --- Prof. Siqian Shenfrom the University of MichiganOct. 18th --- Prof. KevinGlazebrook from LancasterUniversityOct. 25th --- Prof. Jingchen Liufrom Columbia UniversityDec. 1st --- Dr. SangheumHwang from Lunit Inc.

INFORMSANNUALMEETING

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CONTACT:Email:informs@u.northwestern.eduWebsite: http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~informs/

With the aim of allowing the students to relax before theINFORMS Annual Meeting, we organized a Game Night onNovember 10th. IEMS PhD students and their families tookover the Game Room in the Student Center and enjoyedsome good Indian food while playing games.

GAME NIGHT

We organized three Brownbags in thisquarter. These are events whereprofessor present their research tonew students with the aim ofattracting new students as well asgive the first year students a broadidea of the research taking place inthe department.

BARRY NELSON, OMID

NOHADANI, SEYED IRAVANI

In the beginning of Academic year,the Engineering School organized anevent for new TAs. With the aim ofcomplementing this event weorganized another departmentspecific event where students havealready been TAs answer questionsabout specific challenges faced bythem and issues faced by students inthe department.

BROWNBAGS

TA TRAININGSESSION

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