Thursday, February 27, 2020

[DMANET] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: INFORMS OPTIMIZATION SOCIETY PRIZES

*CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: INFORMS OPTIMIZATION SOCIETY PRIZES*
The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the INFORMS
annual meeting: the Khachiyan Prize, the Farkas Prize, the Prize for Young
Researchers and the Student Paper Prize.

We seek nominations for each of the prizes, due by May 1st, 2020. Each of
the four awards includes a cash amount of US$3,000 and a citation
certificate. See https://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes for
more information, including detailed eligibility requirements.

For each award, nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via email
to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.

Khachiyan Prize committee: Oktay Gunluk, Tamara Kolda, Jorge Nocedal
(chair: j-nocedal@northwestern.edu) and Alex Shapiro.

Farkas Prize committee: Kurt Anstreicher (chair: kurt-anstreicher@uiowa.edu),
Dick den Hertog, Rekha Thomas and Robert Weismantel.

Prize for Young Researchers committee: Hande Benson, Sam Burer (chair:
samuel-burer@uiowa.edu), Santanu Dey and Siqian Ma.

Student Paper Prize committee: Maryam Fazel, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (char:
fkilinc@andrew.cmu.edu), Daniel Kuhn and Andrea Lodi.

Daniel Bienstock
www.columbia.edu/~dano

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