[Opt-Net] Stochastic Programming Student Paper Prize

[David Morton]

The Committee on Stochastic Programming is pleased to announce the triennial Stochastic Programming Student Paper Prize, which will be given in recognition of the most outstanding student-authored paper in stochastic programming. The prize will be awarded at the 14th International Conference on Stochastic Programming to be held in Buzios, Brazil, June 25-July 1, 2016. 

The award committee consists of David Morton (Northwestern University, chair), Andy Philpott (University of Auckland), and Suvrajeet Sen (University of Southern California).

Each submission must satisfy the following eligibility criteria:
  i.    The paper must present original research results.
  ii.   The entrant must have been a student on, or after, January 1, 2013.
  iii.  The research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student.
  iv.   The paper must have been published in, or submitted to, an English language journal.   
  v.    The paper must be written by the entrant with only minor assistance.  One or more advisors may appear as co-authors, but the student must be the 'first author.' If multiple students appear as co-authors of the winning paper, the prize will be shared among them.
  vi.   The entrant can be a (co-)author on at most one paper submitted to the competition.

Entrants must submit the following material by March 1, 2016:
  i.    An electronic copy (PDF file) of the paper.
  ii.   Publication information. If the paper is still under review, state the name of the journal and the point in the review process.
  iii.  An email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted.
  iv.   A letter signed by both the faculty advisor and the entrant attesting that the eligibility conditions are met.
  v.    In case the paper is co-authored by the advisor, the latter should include a statement about the contribution of the entrant.

The submitted papers will be judged on the following criteria:
  i.    Magnitude of the contribution to the advancement of the field of stochastic programming.
  ii.   Originality of ideas and methods.
  iii.  Clarity and excellence of exposition.

Submissions must be sent to the committee via icsp2016.prize at iems.northwestern.edu by March 1, 2016. 

For more information on the 14th International Conference on Stochastic Programming, please see: http://icsp2016.sciencesconf.org/