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Please see below a message from Grazia Speranza about the call for nominations for IFORS Fellows 2024. 

Dear IFORS Member Societies,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the call for submissions for the 2024 IFORS Fellow Award. The IFORS Fellow Award serves to recognise a distinguished individual's contribution to international operational research and its communities. Please share this information with the members of your society or with anyone interested.

Call for IFORS Fellow Nominations

Nominations are due by 28 February 2024.

Only individual members of IFORS member societies can act as nominators. The nominator is responsible for compiling and uploading the nomination materials to the IFORS award submission platform.

You can find more information at the IFORS Fellows webpage. A list of previous Fellows can be seen here.

Nominations need to be via email to Gavin Blackett, secretary@ifors.org.

You will need to include the following:

1. Your contact information (as the nominator)
2. Your nomination letter
3. Three reference letters
4. The nominee's resume (at most 4 pages) highlighting accomplishments as called for by the criteria (make certain includes the nominee's email address)

Please note these key points about making a nomination:

• The nominator along with at most one reference may come from the same institution as the nominee.
• Membership in at least two societies should be represented among the nominator and references.
• Reference letters must come from established experts qualified to independently evaluate the nominee's contributions and clearly establish the scope and significance of the nominee's accomplishments.

Qualifications

An IFORS Fellow is a living person who has been productively engaged with an OR community as a member of his/her OR society for a significant number of years, and in so doing, has helped attain the objectives of IFORS. Such an individual may have played a role in the formation of new OR societies, edited OR journals, participated actively in OR conferences and other IFORS initiatives.

The Fellow is chosen on the basis of at least one outstanding and one very good evaluation in any two of the five areas given below:

Research – Includes theoretical, empirical or computational innovations in OR which strengthened international links.

Practice – Includes application of OR to significant practical problems that contributed to the promotion of the use of OR methods, especially in parts of the world where OR is under-developed.

Service – Includes significant responsibility within the IFORS organization for an extended period of time.

Education – Includes administrative and other activities that have had a significant impact on the growth and development of OR education.

Management – Includes significant responsibility for the development and application of OR methods within organizations that have had a major internal and international impact.

The evaluation of impact in these areas will be strongly driven by the international aspects of the contributions.

Additional information is listed on the website:  https://www.ifors.org/ifors-fellows/

If you have any questions or concerns, please email the IFORS Secretary at secretary@ifors.org

I take this opportunity to send you my warmest regards and wishes,

Grazia Speranza

IFORS Fellows Selection Committee Chair

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Miguel F. Anjos, Ph.D., P.Eng., FHEA, SMIEEE, FEUROPT, FCAE
Chair of Operational Research and Head of Theme (Data & Decisions)
Deputy Head, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Chair, Mathematical Optimization Society
Vice-President for International Activities, INFORMS
http://www.miguelanjos.com/
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