[Opt-Net] Call for Nominations: Dupačová-Prékopa Student Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming

[Jim Luedtke]

The Committee on Stochastic Programming is pleased to announce the triennial Dupačová-Prékopa Best Student Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming, which will be given in recognition of the most outstanding student-authored paper(s) in stochastic programming. The prize will be awarded at the 17th International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP) to be held in Paris, July 28-August 1, 2025.

The prize committee consists of Jim Luedtke (University of Wisconsin-Madison, chair), Miloš Kopa (Charles University in Prague), and Karmel S. Shehadeh (Lehigh University).
Each submission must satisfy the following eligibility criteria:

·         The paper must present original research results.

·         The entrant must have been a student on, or after, January 1, 2022.

·         The research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student.

·         The paper must have been published in, or submitted to, an English language journal.

·         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.

·         The entrant can be a (co-)author on at most one paper submitted to the competition.


Entrants must submit the following material by March 25, 2025:

·         An electronic copy (PDF file) of the paper.

·         Publication information. If the paper is still under review, state the name of the journal and the point in the review process.

·         An email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted.

·         A letter signed by both the faculty advisor and the entrant attesting that the eligibility conditions are met.

·         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:

·         Magnitude of the contribution to the advancement of the field of stochastic programming.

·         Originality of ideas and methods.

·         Clarity and excellence of exposition.
Submissions must be sent to the committee chair at jim.luedtke at wisc.edu<mailto:jim.luedtke at wisc.edu> by March 25, 2025. If you do not receive a confirmation by March 30, please contact a committee member directly.

The prize committee will select the finalists at least two months before ICSP 2025. Once the decision is made, the committee will inform the finalists; those students are expected to attend ICSP 2025 and present their papers at a special “award” session. During the SPS Business Meeting, the prize committee will announce the winners.
For more information on the 17th International Conference on Stochastic Programming, please see: https://icsp2025.org/

Sincerely,
Jim Luedtke (University of Wisconsin-Madison, chair)
Miloš Kopa (Charles University in Prague)
Karmel S. Shehadeh (Lehigh University)

--
Prof. Jim Luedtke (he/him)
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering
Discovery Fellow, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
https://jrluedtke.github.io/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.zib.de/pipermail/opt-net/attachments/20250114/495aed1d/attachment.html>