Conference Announcement: 2010 Mini-Conference of the POMS College of Sustainable Operations

We hope you will join us for the 2nd Annual Mini-Conference of the POMS College of Sustainable Operations, to be held in Vancouver, BC, on May 6, the day before the POMS Annual Meeting.
This year’s mini-conference will feature speakers and discussions on a wide variety of sustainability topics. We will hear from thought leaders from outside of the Operations Management community such as Andrew Hoffman from strategy and Shmuel Oren from operations research/energy economics. The mini-conference will also include a session on the interface between product design and sustainability from Stelios Kavadias, as well as a field report on humanitarian logistics efforts currently underway in Africa and the Middle East by Alfonso Pedraza Martinez. We hope to have active industry participation this year, including a keynote from Burton Hamner, an experienced environmental consultant and entrepreneur.
A link to the mini-conference registration can be found on the main POMS conference site.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
Atalay Atasu & Mike Galbreth

Sustainable Operations College Mini-Conference Co-Chairs

atalay.atasu@mgt.gatech.edu

galbreth@moore.sc.edu

Mini-Conference Agenda : Click here to download agenda.

PhD Proposal Award


The POMS College of Sustainable Operations is pleased to announce its first (annual) Ph.D. Proposal Award Competition. The aim of this competition is to highlight the most promising Ph.D. research projects in the field of sustainable operations and provide visibility to the doctoral students carrying out these initiatives. The winner and runner up will be selected by a Award Committee chaired by the College’s VP Outreach & Awards - Vedat Verter (McGill). The Committee members are Charles Corbett (UCLA), Mike Ketzenberg (Texas A&M) and Luk Van Wassenhove (INSEAD). The Committee’s decision will be announced at the College’s business meeting during POMS 2010.

We encourage the Ph.D. Supervisors to nominate their doctoral students for this award. Two documents are necessary for nomination: 

• a letter of nomination (that states the current status of the student’s in the doctoral program)


• a 5-page summary of the student’s Ph.D. Proposal (1.15 line spacing, 12 font).

Please e-mail these documents to the Committee Chair at vedat.verter@mcgill.ca by February 1, 2010. The students who have not yet defended their Ph.D. proposal are eligible for nomination, and encouraged to seek nomination from their supervisor. To avoid a “Ph.D. Dissertation Competition”, preference will be given to the students who are not within one year of the completion of their doctoral thesis.