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submission is welcome at https:// acgi.informs. org/oasis_login. php? (before the deadline of Tuesday, December 12, 2017); if you are interested in chairing a session, please contact the chair of the organizing committee Alexandra Newman at newman@mines.edu and provide a tentative Denver, CO (image used with permission of the University of Colorado) session title and list of speakers. Important dates to keep in mind: • December 12, 2017: abstract submission deadline • February 9, 2018: pre-registration deadline for discounted rates • February 22, 2018: cutoff date for hotels Additional details are available on the conference website, http://orwe.mines.edu/conference/. The organizers are working hard to make this an exciting conference! 16 INFORMS Optimization Society Newsletter INFORMS Journal on Optimization INFORMS Journal on Optimization is now accepting submissions! Its home on the web is http: //pubsonline.informs. org/journal/ijoo, where you can find more information, submit your manuscript, and in the near future, view published and accepted articles. Dimitris Bertsimas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is serving as the inaugural Editor-inChief, and the associate editors are: • Shabbir Ahmed • John Birge • Dick den Hertzog • Brian Denton • Laurent El Ghaoui • Vivek Farias • Dan Iancu • Garud Iyengar • Patrick Jaillet • Andrea Lodi • David Morton • Georgia Perakis • Jim Renegar • Suvrajeet Sen • David Shmoys • Melvyn Sim • Ben van Roy The journal aims to publish papers in optimization with particular emphasis on data-driven optimization, optimization methods in machine learning, and exciting real-world applications of optimization. The journal also covers more traditional areas such as: convex and linear optimization; general purpose nonlinear optimization; discrete optimization (combinatorial, integer, mixed integer optimization); optimization under uncertainty (dynamic, stochastic, robust, simulation-based optimization); infinite dimensional optimization; and online optimization. Especially welcomed are contributions studying new and significant applications such as: healthcare; inventory and supply chain management; logistics; revenue management and pricing; energy; the Internet; interfaces with computer science; and finance. The journal welcomes three types of submissions: • Regular articles: These are original papers that build on an area and expand it in different ways. A paper in this category will be published electronically within 1 year of submission. Accepted regular articles are expected to score highly in at least one of the following questions: – How new and significant is the application studied? – How original/creative is the optimization modeling? – How original/creative is the optimization methodology? – How significant is the impact in practice? • Perspective articles: These are unusually original papers that initiate an area, typically the first of their kind. A paper in this category will be published electronically within 2 months of submission. • Review articles: These are papers that present a unifying and comprehensive review of an area of optimization. A paper in this category will be published electronically 6 months of submission.