The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the INFORMS annual meeting. We seek nominations (including self-nominations) for each of them, due by July 15, 2016. Each of the four awards includes a cash amount 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 Nashville, TN in November 2016 (the winners will be responsible for their own travel expenses to the meeting). Award winners are also asked to contribute an article about their award-winning work to the annual Optimization Society newsletter. The four awards are listed below. Additional information on the awards can be found on the society website (https://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes).
Nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via email to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.
Khachiyan Prize
- Awarded for outstanding life-time contributions to the field of optimization by an individual or team.
- Committee Chair: Tamas Terlaky (E-mail: terlaky@lehigh.edu)
- Committee members: Philip Gill, Dorit Hochbaum and Werner Roemisch
Farkas-Prize
- Awarded to a mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization, over the course of their career.
- The contribution may be a published paper, a submitted and accepted paper, a series of papers, a book, a monograph, or software.
- Such contributions could include papers (published or submitted and accepted), books, monographs, and software.
- The awardee will be within 25 years of their terminal degree as of January 1 of the year of the award. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of colleagues in the middle of their career.
- Committee Chair: Ariela Sofer (E-mail: asofer@gmu.edu)
- Committee Members: Ignacio Gorssman, Ted Ralphs, Alex Shapiro
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 paper must be published in, or submitted to and accepted by, a refereed professional journal within the four calendar years preceding the year of the award.
- All authors must have been awarded their terminal degree within eight calendar years preceding the year of award.
- Committee Chair: Sam Burer (E-mail: samuel-burer@uiowa.edu)
- Committee Members: Jon Lee, Andrew Schaeffer, Cole Smith
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.
- Every nominee/applicant must be a student on the first of January of the year of the award.
- Any coauthor(s) not nominated for the award should send a letter indicating that the majority of the nominated work was performed by the nominee(s).
- Committee Chair: Jim Luedtke (E-mail: jrluedt1@wisc.edu)
- Committee Members: Guzin Bayraksan, Shiqian Ma, and Mohit Tawarmalani
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Burcu Keskin
Secretary/Treasurer INFORMS Optimization Society
Associate Professor
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL
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