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The INFORMS Section on Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) is dedicated to "doing good with good OR"

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INFORMS 2024 PSOR Breakfast - The incoming leadership

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Photos from the INFORMS 2024 PSOR Breakfast meeting - The outgoing leadership

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PSOR Breakfast and Business Meeting is on Monday October 21 8:00-9:30AM in Regency- Quinault
The PSOR Breakfast is sold out!  If you are still hoping to attend please use https://t.co/rGXF0ci12B$

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Key Events at the annual meeting in Seattle include:
Meetings in Summit - 447 Sunday including the Best Paper Competition Finalists 10:45 AM Sunday and the Video Competition at 12:45 AM Sunday, and
PSOR Business Meeting and Breakfast Monday 8:30 AM Regency - Quinault.

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The winner and the honorable mention of the competition will be announced during the PSOR Business Meeting and Breakfast at the upcoming INFORMS Annual Meeting, scheduled for Monday, October 21st, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

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(Continued finalists) 4. Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care, Vincent Slaugh, Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, Utku Unver
5. The Dedicated Docket in US Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties, Daniel Freund, Wentao Weng

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(Continued finalists) 3. Redesigning VolunteerMatch's Ranking Algorithm: Toward More Equitable Access to Volunteers, Akshaya Suresh, Vahideh Manshadi, Scott Rodilitz, Daniela Saban

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(Continued) 2. Optimizing Health Supply Chains with Decision-Aware Machine Learning, Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Jato Abdulai, Patrick Bayoh, Lawrence Sandi, Francis Smart

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The correct list of 2024 Best Paper finalists (apologies) from Auyon Siddiq and Jingwei Zhang (un-ordered):
1. Improving the Equity and Efficiency of Cystic Fibrosis Screening. Hussein El Hajj, Douglas Bish, Ebru Bish.

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Second Place
Leapfrogging for Last-mile Delivery in Health Care: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda
Link: https://t.co/BGnLqnL4Vr

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More Details For the PSOR Webinar Call
A two-page abstract must be submitted by August 8, 2024, to: [email protected]
The submission can be a working paper not accepted.
For more details Mahyar Eftekhar ([email protected]) or Renata Konrad ([email protected]).

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Call for Webinars Sponsored by PSOR for Contributors in Developing Economies
A two-page abstract must be submitted by August 8, 2024, to: [email protected]
Email subject: Title of the paper/webinar
Abstracts must follow the framework.

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This is a reminder. The INFORMS PSOR Best Paper and Best Video Competition Due Dates are June 30 (Sunday).
For Best Paper, submit to:
https://t.co/5ZucTNtKNh.

For Best Video, complete the submission form at this link in the Openwater system: https://t.co/Ze9kYQQQPw.

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INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research 2024 Best Video Award
Call for Submissions
Any inquiries can be made to the co-chairs of the 2024 competition: Akshaya Suresh ([email protected]) and Scott Rodilitz ([email protected]).

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INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research 2024 Best Paper Award
Call for Submissions
Any inquiries can be made to the co-chairs of the 2024 competition: Auyon Siddiq ([email protected]) and Jingwei Zhang ([email protected]).

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The 2023 PSOR newsletter is available now!

You can check it out here: https://t.co/U1slSSREi6

Thank you to each of our members for a fantastic year.

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The 2023 PSOR newsletter is available now!

You can check it out here: https://t.co/U1slSSREi6

Thank you to each of our members for a fantastic year.

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We had a great time at the Business Meeting this morning!

Thanks to all who came - we’re looking forward to big things to come.

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We welcome the 2024 PSOR Officers!

President: Renata Konrad
President-Elect: Kayse Maass
VPs of Programs: Chris Zobel and Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman
Secretary/Treasurer: Iva Rashkova
VP of Communications: Ted Allen
Past-President: Gemma Berenguer

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The winner of the PSOR Best Paper competition is:

Planning Bike Lanes With Data: Ridership, Congestion, and Path Selection

By: Sheng Liu, Auyon Siddiq, Jingwei Zhang

Congratulations!

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