INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 (www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt<http://www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt/>) - 1st announcement The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 2 - 4, 2014 in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the 12th Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies. The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications. Conference chair: Luís Gouveia Conference co-chairs: Maurício Resende and Youngho Lee Plenary speakers: Thomas Bonald (Telecom Paris Tech), Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institut Berlin) and Guy Leduc (Université de Liège) 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will also be held from the 5th to the 7th of March, just after the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) on a reduced conference fee for attending both conferences.