The 17th MORS
Education and Professional Development Colloquium
2-3 April 2003
Naval Postgraduate School,
Mechanical Engineering Auditorium, Monterey, California
Dear Colleague:
On 2-3 April 2003, the
Military Operations Research Society (MORS) will hold its annual Educational and
Professional Development Colloquium at the Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943-5000.
The goal of the Colloquium is to bring great minds together and to
provide a variety of presentations on all aspects of Operations Research
education and the professional development of analysts.
The Colloquium provides speakers who represent OR analytical agencies,
professional societies, operational field analysts, civilian and military
educators, students, OR practitioners, and sponsors of OR professional
development programs. Special emphasis this year will be on the “developing
analyst” and will be highlighted by a first-ever Quick-Turn
Operations Research Analysis Competition. The Analysis Competition consists of diverse groups of
military and civilian students pitted against sponsor-provided, small, but
realistic military OR problems.
Consistent with
this year’s Symposium theme of “Military Operations Research for
Tomorrow’s Warrior” the Colloquium theme is “Preparing Analysts to Support
the Warrior.” The focus this year
is on the interchange of
ideas between creators and benefactors of analytical talent.
This includes the independent practitioners, agency analysts, field
analysts, educators, students, professional developers and warrior supporting
agencies. The program
will start with several short tutorials on key topics for developing analysts
and highlight the results from our MORS mini-workshop on the Combat Analyst.
Early on, our student analysts will join OR problem solving teams,
venturing to return with briefings on their study results.
Our speaker program starts with agency analysts who will describe what
they do and what they are expecting from their newly assigned analysts.
This will be followed by programs and insights from our sister-society,
INFORMS. We next move to
presentations by our field analysts. These
are the Service support analysts providing specifics on their analytical work
performed much closer to the “pointy spear.”
Presentations by our undergraduate and graduate educators will follow
this session. Our educators will
discuss new educational programs, techniques, and research that will be of
interest to all analysts, study agencies, and operational field units.
Because analyst professional training takes place
throughout an entire career, a special session is devoted to Service discussions
on their individual Professional Development programs.
In reaching out to our OR students, we have programmed an opportunity to
listen to the thoughts and comments from our current and prospective MORS
Student Chapters Advisors and Cadet/Midshipman officers.
Our panel of
distinguished senior analysts will judge the results of our Student Competition,
and based on the merits of their team efforts, distribute awards for excellent
analytical work.
In all, the more than twenty presentations will
be fast and hard-hitting—a warrior style of delivery with emphasis on
operational flavor, solid content, and impact.
You will be listening and talking to experts in the field of operations
research, professional educators, and practitioners who serve the Services.
You are invited to participate in this special education and professional
development gathering and to witness and enjoy the first-ever student
competition. Best always, the
attendance at this colloquium is at one of our finest institutions, the Naval
Postgraduate School in sunny California.
The event is free,
unclassified, and open to all operations research analysts, analytical agencies,
educational institutions, and military operational decision makers.
Attendance will be limited by space available.
An application form to attend the
workshop is enclosed. Daily
refreshments will be available on both days of the Colloquium at a cost of
$20.00.
MORS
has reserved a block of rooms at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel at a cost of $75/night plus 10% tax and a $10/night resort
fee that includes: in-room bottled
water, local phone calls, and $5.00 food and beverage credit per night to be
used in one of the Hyatt’s restaurants or lounges.
Reservations must be received
by the Cut-Off Date of 5:00 PM,
Monday, March 3, 2003. Reservations
after the cut-off date will be taken on a space and rate availability basis.
All room reservations must be guaranteed for arrival.
Cancellation of reservations must be made 48 hours prior to arrival. If reservations are cancelled within 48 hours of arrival, or
the reservation “no shows,: the guest will be charged one night’s room and
tax. Please note that check-in time
is 3:00PM and check-out time is 12:00PM. To
make reservations directly with the hotel please call 831/372-1234 or Hyatt
Worldwide Reservations at 800/233-1234 or toll-free in California at
800/824-2196. Please state that
you are in the MORS Education Colloquium group room block.
If you are presenting at the Colloquium, please
fill out a MORS Disclosure Form (Form 712 AU or BU) and submit it to the MORS
office. All presentations must be
UNCLASSIFIED and APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE.
PHALANX
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The
First-ever Quick-Turn Operations Research Analysis Competition
