INFORMS Open Forum

Dear IOS Members: 

The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the fall INFORMS meeting. We seek nominations (including self-nominations) for each of them, due by June 15, 2017. 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 Houston, TX in October 2017. 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 lifetime contributions to the field of optimization by an individual or team.
• Committee Chair: Gerald Brown (GBrown@nps.edu)
• Committee members: Bill Cook, Andrzej Ruszczyński, and Yinyu Ye

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: Margaret Wright (mhw@cims.nyu.edu)
• Committee members: Patrick Jaillet, Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, Pascal Van Hentenryck

Young Researchers Prize

• Awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is published in, or submitted to and accepted by, a refereed professional journal. 
• All authors must have earned their most recent degree within the eight calendar years preceding the year of the award or be enrolled in a degree-granting program. 

• Committee Chair:  Michael Ferris (ferris@cs.wisc.edu) 
• Committee members: Jonathan Eckstein, Simge Küçükyavuz, Suvrajeet Sen

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: Vineet Goyal (vgoyal@ieor.columbia.edu)
• Committee Members: Kiavash Kianfar, Javier Peña, Ermin Wei

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Burcu B. Keskin
Associate Professor
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL
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