The Mathematical Optimization Society invites nominations for the 2021
A.W. Tucker Prize, to be awarded at the International Symposium on
Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in Beijing, China (August 15 — 20,
2021). The prize is awarded to an outstanding doctoral dissertation
defended (and degree awarded) between January 1, 2018 and January 1,
2021.
The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2021. The nominator must
be a faculty member at the institution that awarded the nominee's
doctoral degree, or a member of the nominee's dissertation
committee. Applications should consist of the following four files,
each of which should be submitted as a single PDF file:
- a letter of nomination,
- the nominee's dissertation,
- a separate summary of the dissertation's contributions, written by
the nominee, that is no more than five (5) pages in length, and
- a brief biographical sketch of the nominee.
Nominations and the accompanying documentation must be written in
English. The nomination should be emailed to Amitabh Basu at
basu.amitabh@jhu.edu
The call for nominations is also announced on the MOS website:
http://www.mathopt.org/?nav=tucker_call
Nominations will be evaluated by the 2021 A.W. Tucker Prize Committee,
with at most three finalists chosen for the prize. The finalists will
be invited to give oral presentations of their work at a special
session of ISMP 2021. The winner will be announced during the
symposium.
More details about the prize can be found on the MOS website:
http://www.mathopt.org/?nav=tucker
Best,
Laura Sanita
on behalf of the 2021 A.W. Tucker Prize Committee (Amitabh Basu, Frank
E. Curtis, Simge Kucukyavuz, Francesca Maggioni, Laura Sanita)
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