UMass INFORMS Student Chapter

Dear Members, Faculty, Students, and Staff,

As we approach the end of the academic year, please join us on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in ISOM room N135 as we celebrate all our achievements and activities of the Spring 2025 semester at our End-of-Semester Party. There will be food, including Ukrainian varenyky/pierogies, sausages, desserts, pizza, and more. All are welcome.

We would like to extend our thanks to all officers, faculty, and staff who have been essential to our activities and achievements, as well as to our faculty advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney.

Feel free to spread the word.

Thank you, and we hope to see you there.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming talk in our Spring 2025 Speaker Series, “Nature-based Solutions: Cost-effectiveness and Financial Innovation,” organized by the UMass Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS and its Faculty Advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney.

Dr. Marta Vicarelli is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on: (i) the risks and the socio-economic impacts of climate variability and climate change; (ii) the economics of Nature-based Solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; (iii) climate resilience and green-recovery strategies; and (iv) renewable energy policy. She is contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II, on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Past appointments include: research fellowships at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Harvard University’s Center for International Development and  theYale University Climate and Energy Institute. She is currently a research associate at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change and University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. Vicarelli holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.

The event will be held on Friday, April 25, from 11:00 a.m. to approximately 12:30 p.m. at the Isenberg School of Management Room 210. We invite you to attend this in-person event and have attached a flyer with additional details. Please don’t hesitate to share this announcement with others.

Thank you! We hope to see you there!

Please join us on Friday, March 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM in the Integrated Applied Life Sciences Conference Center, Room S330-S340, as we welcome Dr. Tymofiy Mylovanov, President of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine. Dr. Mylovanov will deliver a talk on The Future of Europe if Ukraine Loses, sharing his insights on the role of Ukraine in shaping Europe’s future.

Following the presentation, a reception will be held from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Integrated Applied Life Sciences Conference Center, Room S320.

Dr. Mylovanov is a frequent guest on CNN, BBC, and other major news platforms. His leadership at KSE during wartime has been widely recognized, and this event provides an excellent opportunity to gain firsthand insights into current global challenges.

We extend our gratitude to the Office of Global Affairs, the Isenberg School of Management, the Operations and Information Management Department, and other supporters at UMass Amherst for making this event possible.

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Please join us on Thursday, February 27, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., in Isenberg School of Management Room 210, for a panel discussion as we mark more than three years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Professors Anna Nagurney and Bogdan Prokopovych will share highlights of the UMass Amherst – Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) partnership, followed by a panel discussion featuring our exchange students from Ukraine: Asta Motrenko, Marharyta Nechytailo, Oleksandra Horusieva, and Karyna Lutsenko.

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Thank you, and we hope to see you there.

Dear Members, Faculty, Students, and Staff,

Please join us on Friday, December 13, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., in ISOM room N135, as we celebrate all our achievements and activities in 2024 in our End-of-Semester Party. There will be food, including desserts. All are welcome.

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Thank you, and we hope to see you there.

Dear Members, Faculty, Students, and Staff:

The UMass Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS and its Faculty Advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney, are hosting an INFORMS Annual Meeting Tune-Up Event on Friday, October 11, at 11:00 a.m., in ISOM Room 210. We thank the OIM Department for supporting this event. Please join us to learn about students’ research, which will also be presented at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting conference in Seattle, Washington. Refreshments will be served.

Please take a look at the attached media flyer for details of the student presenters and the titles.

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Sincerely,

UMass Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS

We are thrilled to announce the first talk of our Fall 2024 Speaker Series, “Improving Diagnostic Equity in Ambulatory Settings: Research to Practice,” organized by the UMass Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS and its Faculty Advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney.

Dr. Muge Capan is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at UMass Amherst. Dr. Capan graduated from North Carolina State University with a PhD degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a minor in Operations Research. Prior to joining UMass Amherst, she served as the Associate Director of Health Systems Optimization at Christiana Care Health System, leading cross-disciplinary teams as a PI and Co-PI on federally funded projects by NSF and NIH focused on developing and implementing data-driven solutions to facilitate timely diagnosis, personalized treatment, and communication of clinical risk. Her research utilizes decision analysis, operations research, and machine learning to analyze and inform clinical decision making under uncertainty. Her passion lies in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and developing new methods and applications of health decision analysis by leveraging data and human insights, with an emphasis on better understanding health disparities.

The event will be held on Friday, September 27, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Isenberg School of Management Room 210. We invite you to attend this in-person event and have attached a flyer with additional details. Please don’t hesitate to share this announcement with others.

We hope to see you there!

As we approach the end of the academic year, please join us on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. in ISOM room N135 as we celebrate all our achievements and activities of the Spring 2024 semester at our End-of-Semester Party. There will be food, including Ukrainian pierogies, sausages, desserts, pizza, and more. All are welcome.

We would like to extend our thanks to all officers, faculty, and staff who have been essential to our activities and achievements, as well as our faculty advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney.

Feel free to spread the word.

Thank you, and we hope to see you there.

In collaboration with the UMass Transportation Center and its Director, Professor Mike Knodler, we are delighted to announce that Professor Chandra Bhat will be speaking on April 5 at 2:30 PM in the Campus Center as part of the Boyer Lecture Series.

Professor Bhat was a faculty member at UMass in transportation before joining UT Austin. He currently serves as the Editor of Transportation Research Part B and has an h-index of over 100, with over 40,000 citations.

The topic of Professor Bhat’s Boyer Lecture will be of great interest to many of us. We look forward to seeing many of our members there.

We are glad to announce the third talk of our Spring 2024 Speaker Series titled: “Optimization-Based Solutions for the Design and Operations of Sustainable Electric Power Systems,” organized by the UMass Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS and its Faculty Advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney, and the Energy Transition Institute at UMass Amherst.

Dr. Ayse Selin Kocaman, an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Bilkent University and a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Energy Initiative, will give the talk. Dr. Kocaman will focus on recent research advancements in the development of optimization-based solutions for the design and operations of sustainable electric power systems.

The event will be held on Friday, March 15, from 11 AM to 12:15 PM at the Isenberg School Of Management Room N145. We welcome you to attend this in-person event and have attached a flyer with more details.

Please spread the word, and we hope to see you there. Thank you!