Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Nomination and application for the 2024 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 10, 2024, 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 committee:
IOS 2024 Khachiyan Prize Committee: Gerard Cornuejols, Ignacio Grossmann, Renato Monterio, Suvrajeet Sen (chair, suvrajes@usc.edu)
IOS 2024 Farkas Prize Committee: Garud Iyengar, Jon Lee (chair, jonxlee@umich.edu), Katya Scheinberg, Volker Kaibel
IOS 2024 Egon Balas Prize Committee: Amitabh Basu, Hande Benson, Jim Luedtke (chair, jim.luedtke@wisc.edu), John Mitchell, Ted Ralphs
IOS 2024 Young Researchers Prize Committee: Merve Bodur, Sanjeeb Dash, Shiqian Ma, Andy Sun (chair, sunx@mit.edu)
IOS 2024 Student Paper Prize Committee: Necdet Serhat Aybat, Hande Benson, Georgina Hall, Robert Hildebrand (Chair, rhil@vt.edu), Aida Khajavirad, Weijun Xie
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to send your questions to the committee chairs. Look forward to seeing your nomination/application.
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Shiqian Ma
Associate Professor
Rice University
Houston TX
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