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! #INFORMS2023

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 #INFORMS2023

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. #INFORMS2023

The 2023 PSOR newsletter is available now! You can check it out here: connect.informs.org/public-sector-… Thank you to each of our members for a fantastic year.

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]).

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]).

This is a reminder. The INFORMS PSOR Best Paper and Best Video Competition Due Dates are June 30 (Sunday). For Best Paper, submit to: informs-awards.secure-platform.com/a/solicitation…. For Best Video, complete the submission form at this link in the Openwater system: informs-awards.secure-platform.com/a/solicitation….

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.

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]).

Second Place Leapfrogging for Last-mile Delivery in Health Care: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda Link: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4…

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.

(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

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

(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

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.

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.

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 urldefense.com/v3/__https://f…$

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

INFORMS 2024 PSOR Breakfast - The incoming leadership