The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) held its Annual Meeting on October 15-19, 2022 at Indianapolis, Indiana. Over 6,000 were in attendance. Faculty and current students from the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, & Statistics (COSMOS) joined COSMOS alumni and friends at a reunion lunch in the JW Marriott. COSMOS faculty and students chaired 12 sessions, and COSMOS research was presented in 20 technical talks. One session brought together four generations of female researchers: Dr. Christine Shoemaker, who was COSMOS Director Victoria Chen’s mentor at Cornell University, Dr. Chen, COSMOS alumna Dr. Hadis Anahideh, and Ph.D. student Nazanin Nezami, who is currently working with Dr. Anahideh at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Chen also participated on a panel discussing best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion at universities.
