Dear Optimization Colleagues and Friends,
Nomination and application for the 2025 INFORMS Optimization Society Prizes is open.
Please send your nomination/application to the selection committee chairs (listed below). The due date for nomination for all IOS prizes is July 15, 2025, 11:59 PM ET.
For eligibility and further information for the Optimization Society Prizes, please visit:
https://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes
The Khachiyan Prize, for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of optimization by an individual or team;
The Farkas Prize, for outstanding contributions by a mid-career researcher to the field of optimization, over the course of their career;
The Egon Balas Prize, awarded annually to an individual for a body of contributions in the area of optimization;
The Prize for Young Researchers, awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and accepted, or published in a refereed professional journal;
The Student Paper Prize, awarded to one or more student(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received or published in a refereed professional journal within three calendar years preceding the year of the award.
Prize committees:
IOS 2025 Khachiyan Prize Committee: Dorit Hochbaum, Daniel Kuhn, Monique Laurent, Renato Monteiro (chair, renato.monteiro@isye.gatech.edu)
IOS 2025 Farkas Prize Committee: Volker Kaibel (chair, kaibel@ovgu.de), Sven Leyffer, Andrea Lodi, Katya Scheinberg
IOS 2025 Egon Balas Prize Committee: Sam Burer (chair, samuel-burer@uiowa.edu), Alberto Del Pia, Wolfram Wiesemann, Stefan Wild
IOS 2025 Young Researchers Prize Committee: Merve Bodur (chair, merve.bodur@ed.ac.uk), Frank Curtis, Paul Grigas, George Lan, Joe Paat
IOS 2025 Student Paper Prize Committee: Albert Berahas (chair, aberahas@umich.edu), Ben Grimmer, Aida Khajavirad, Carla Michini, Gonzalo Munoz, Soroosh Shafiee, Daphne Skipper
Our community has so many extremely talented individuals, and we hope to see them all in the nomination pool. Please consider nominating individuals.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to send your questions to the committee chairs.
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Shiqian Ma
Professor
Rice University
Houston TX
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