Dear Colleagues: This is the second call for the four annual IOS prizes. We seek nominations (including self-nominations) for each prize, due by June 15, 2018. Additional information on the awards can be found on the society website (http://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes). Please see the website for nomination instructions. Inquiries should be sent directly via email to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.
Khachiyan Prize (outstanding lifetime contributions)
- Committee Chair: Suvrajeet Sen (s.sen@usc.edu)
- Committee members: Ignacio Grossman, Arkadi Nemirovski, and David Shmoys.
Farkas Prize (mid-career researcher)
- Committee Chair: Patrick Jaillet (jaillet@mit.edu)
- Committee members: Donald Goldfarb, Andy Philpott, and Nick Sahinidis
Young Researchers Prize (one or more young researchers -within 8 years of their degree- for an outstanding paper)
- Committee Chair: Katya Scheinberg (katyas@lehigh.edu)
- Committee members: Fatma Kilinc-<g class="gr_ gr_53 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="53" data-gr-id="53">Karzan</g>, Andrea Lodi, and Yongpei Guan.
Student Paper Prize (every nominee/applicant must be a student on the first of January of the award year)
- Committee Chair: Dan Iancu (daniancu@stanford.edu)
- Committee members: Amir Ali Ahmadi, Frank Curtis, and Illya Hicks.
Each of the four awards includes a cash prize of US $1,000 and a citation plaque. The award winners will be invited to give a presentation in a special session sponsored by the Optimization Society during the INFORMS annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ in November 2018.
Please self-nominate or nominate qualified candidates soon. Best regards,
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Burcu B. Keskin
IOS Secretary/Treasurer
Associate Professor
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL
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