From hunsaker at engr.pitt.edu Fri Oct 19 12:30:27 2007 From: hunsaker at engr.pitt.edu (Brady Hunsaker) Date: Fri Oct 19 12:30:36 2007 Subject: [Coin-voting-members] COIN-OR Leadership Elections Message-ID: <4718DBA3.3030000@engr.pitt.edu> Dear COIN-OR Foundation Member, As a full member, you have a vote in the election for the Foundation's leadership. Members of the Strategic Leadership Board (the business board of the COIN-OR Foundation) and Technical Leadership Council (the technical advisory group to the board) are up for election. Please fill out the ballot below and send it to secretary@coin-or.org. Ballots from email addresses on record will be counted. All others will be contacted. Ballots must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Time, Sunday, November 4, 2007. For questions about the election process, contact secretary@coin-or.org. ---------------------------------- COIN-OR Ballot In each category below, you may vote for as many candidates as you like. Those receiving the most votes will be elected (with the possible exception that at least one candidate elected to the SLB must *not* be a member of the COIN-OR Foundation). Candidate bios appear at the end of this email. Strategic Leadership Board Three (3) to be elected. Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like. [ ] Randy Kiefer [ ] Matthew Saltzman [ ] Michael Trick [ ] Other: __________________________ Technical Leadership Council One (1) to be elected. Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like. [ ] Andreas Waechter [ ] Other: ___________________________ ------------------ Candidate bios ------------------ Randy Kiefer: Randy Kiefer is the Director of Membership Subscriptions and Technical Services for INFORMS. Randy has been a Director with INFORMS for nearly nine years and is actively involved with INFORMS OnLine, PubsOnLine, and publications' suppliers as he works to expand access to INFORMS journals and related materials globally. In the past three years, he has traveled with other Directors in Germany, Holland, the U.S., China, and India to meet with librarians, professors, agents,and INFORMS members to develop business strategies for the journals. Prior to working at INFORMS, Randy ran his own consulting firm and sold custom software applications. Matthew Saltzman: Matthew Saltzman is Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University and a Research Scientist in Clemson's Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration group. His research interests are in computational optimization--particularly discrete optimization--and high-performance computing. He has been involved in COIN-OR since 2000 and is the founding president of the Foundation. He is the project manager of the OSI (Open Solver Interface) project, on the design team for CHiPPS (formerly COPS), and has contributed to several other components as well. He is an active INFORMS member, on the board of the INFORMS Computing Society, former editor-in-chief and current deputy editor of INFORMS Online, and former VP for Information Technology. Michael Trick: Michael Trick is a Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2007, he is visiting the University of Auckland as a Hood Fellow and as the OR Society of New Zealand's Visiting Lecturer. In 2002, he was President of INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and he is currently a Vice-President of IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) and is on the Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming. His research interests are in computational integer and constraint programming. His consulting activity includes work with many sports leagues on scheduling issues, with the United States Postal Service on supply chain design, and with the Internal Revenue Service (US) on capital budgeting. He is a Fellow of INFORMS. -- Andreas Waechter Andreas Waechter is a Research Staff Member in the Mathematical Programming group in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research concentrates on the design, analysis, implementation and application of algorithms for large-scale constrained nonlinear optimization, both continuous nonlinear optimization (NLP) as well as mixed-integer nonlinear optimization (MINLP). Andreas is the primary author and project leader for the IPOPT project and co-developer of the BONMIN project on COIN-OR. He has served as a member on the Technical Leadership Council since its foundation, and he has been the primary author of the BuildTools COIN-OR project that facilitates the build process for many COIN-OR projects. Andreas received his PhD. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, is the recipient of the 2002 SIAM student paper prize, and is the author of 15 publications in international journals.