Best Student Paper Prize

The Applied Probability Society seeks to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of applied probability that are written primarily by a student.  We define applied probability broadly, as any paper related to the modeling, analysis, and control of stochastic systems. The paper’s contribution may lie in the formulation of new mathematical models, in the development of new mathematical or computational methods, in the innovative application of existing methods, or in the opening of new application domains.  The abstracts of the winning papers will be published in the Stochastic Systems journal, which does not preclude the work from being published in any journal of your choice.

Policy

A prize will be awarded once every year to the student(s) making the best contribution to applied probability.

Eligibility Criteria

Submissions must satisfy the following conditions.

  1. The entrant must have been a student (PhD, masters, or undergraduate) on or after January 1 of the relevant year.
  2. The research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student.
  3. One or more advisors may appear as co-authors on the paper, but the student’s contributions must make up the majority of the paper.  Note that the submission to the competition may be different from a journal submission, in order to potentially highlight the results to which the student made the most significant contributions.
  4. An entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition.  More than one entrant per paper is allowed as long as they are eligible (in which case the award would be split).
  5. The paper must present original research results (a summary of multiple papers is not eligible).
  6. The paper must not have placed (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) or been selected as a finalist in a previous INFORMS competition.
  7. All student entrants must either be INFORMS APS Community members, or have initiated the process to become a member. Detailed instructions for joining the society appear at the end of this announcement. This information can also be found at: https://connect.informs.org/aps/about-us/apsmembership
  8. The student entrant must be available to present the work on Sunday afternoon at the correspoding INFORMS Annual Meeting.