INFORMS has named Ruth J. Williams, a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Emerita at the University of California, San Diego, as the recipient of the 2026 INFORMS President’s Award.  

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Join us for a three-day online seminar on Demand Prediction in Supply Chains, taught by Isik Bicer (Schulich School of Business, York University), designed specifically for PhD students, faculty, and professional researchers. This hands-on workshop bridges statistics, machine learning, and operations research, combining rigorous theory with practical Python implementation to help participants build reproducible, research-ready forecasting workflows. Across live lectures and labs, attendees will explore regression and tailored regularization, SARIMA time-series forecasting, classification models for product selection, Monte Carlo simulation and evolutionary modeling, model validation, backtesting, calibration, and cost-sensitive evaluation aligned with supply-chain objectives. Participants will work with annotated Jupyter notebooks, realistic datasets, and tools such as scikit-learn and statsmodels, leaving with concrete skills to support dissertation research, scholarly publications, and real-world supply-chain decision-making. The seminar is offered via Zoom, with recordings, materials, and a monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days after the seminar, plus an official Instats certificate of completion. #MachineLearning #Statistics #SupplyChainManagement #Management #ComputerScience #DataScience #OperationsResearch #Economics #Python #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

Research projects are rarely linear, and managing them effectively requires more than task lists and occasional meetings. Join our interactive two-day online workshop, Agile Research Project Management, led by Dr Estefania Mancini from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, designed for PhD students, postdoctoral and staff scientists, and professional researchers who want to bring more structure, transparency, and momentum to their work. Through short lectures, group exercises, and real research case studies, you’ll learn how to adapt Agile, Scrum, Kanban, OKRs, KPIs, mentoring routines, and feedback practices to academic research environments. Participants will leave with practical tools they can use immediately, including research backlog templates, Kanban-style boards, simple Scrum routines, dashboards for tracking goals and metrics, and a personal action plan for improving collaboration and communication. The seminar is delivered live via Zoom, with recordings, materials, and a monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days after the workshop, making it easy to attend live or revisit the content asynchronously. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided. #Management #OrganizationStudies #OperationsResearch #Education #InformationScience #Communication #Notion #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats