[Opt-Net] INFORMS Optimization Society: Call for Prizes

[Burcu Keskin]

 Dear Colleagues:


The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the fall
INFORMS meeting. We seek nominations (including self-nominations) for each
of them, due by *June 15, 2018*. Each of the four awards includes a cash
prize of US $1,000 and a citation plaque. The award winners will be invited
to give a presentation in a special session sponsored by the Optimization
Society during the INFORMS annual meeting in *Phoenix, AZ in November 2018.*
The four awards are listed below. Additional information on the awards can
be found on the society website (
http://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes).

Nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via email to the chair of
the corresponding prize committee.


*Khachiyan Prize*

   - Awarded for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of
   optimization by an individual or team.
   - *Committee Chair*:  Suvrajeet Sen (s.sen at usc.edu)
   - *Committee members: * Ignacio Grossman, Arkadi Nemirovski, and David
   Shmoys.

*Farkas Prize*

   - Awarded to a mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to
   the field of optimization, over the course of their career.
   - The contribution may be a published paper, a submitted and accepted
   paper, a series of papers, a book, a monograph, or software.
   - Such contributions could include papers (published or submitted and
   accepted), books, monographs, and software.
   - The awardee will be within 25 years of their terminal degree as of
   January 1 of the year of the award. The prize serves as an esteemed
   recognition of colleagues in the middle of their career.
   - *Committee Chair:*  Patrick Jaillet (jaillet at mit.edu)
   - *Committee members: *Donald Goldfarb, Andy Philpott, and Nick Sahinidis

*Young Researchers Prize*

   - Awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper in
   optimization that is published in, or submitted to and accepted by, a
   refereed professional journal.
   - All authors must have earned their most recent degree within the eight
   calendar years preceding the year of the award or be enrolled in a
   degree-granting program.
   - *Committee Chair: *Katya Scheinberg (katyas at lehigh.edu)
   - *Committee members:* Fatma Kilinc-Karzan, Andrea Lodi, and Yongpei
   Guan.


*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.
   - Every nominee/applicant must be a student on the first of January of
   the year of the award.
   - Any coauthor(s) not nominated for the award should send a letter
   indicating that the majority of the nominated work was performed by the
   nominee(s).
   - *Committee Chair:*  Dan Iancu (daniancu at stanford.edu)
   - *Committee members*: Amir Ali Ahmadi, Frank Curtis, and Illya Hicks.


Please self-nominate or nominate qualified candidates soon.

Best regards,
Burcu B. Keskin
IOS Secretary/Treasurer

Burcu B. Keskin
Associate Professor

Reese Phifer Fellow in Operations/Manufacturing
Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science
The University of Alabama
355 Alston Hall
Phone 205-348-8442
bkeskin at cba.ua.edu | http://culverhouse.ua.edu/faculty/profile/195
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