<div dir="ltr">The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the INFORMS annual meeting. We seek nominations for each of them, due by June 30, 2013. Each of the four awards includes a cash amount of US$1,000 and a citation certificate. 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 Minneapolis, MN in October 2013 (the winners will be responsible for their own travel expenses to the meeting).  Award winners are also asked to contribute an article about their award-winning work to the annual Optimization Society newsletter.  The four awards are listed below with links to more information about them.  For each award, nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via email to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.<br>
<br>Khachiyan Prize<br>* Awarded for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of optimization by an individual or team.<br>* 2013 Committee Chair:  Jorge Nocedal ( <a href="mailto:nocedal@eecs.northwestern.edu">nocedal@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>)<br>
* Other committee members: Michael Todd, Jean-Philippe Vial, Laurence Wolsey<br>* <a href="https://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Khachiyan-Prize">https://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Khachiyan-Prize</a><br>
<br>Farkas Prize<br>* Awarded for outstanding contributions by a mid-career researcher to the field of optimization, over the course of their career.<br>* 2013 Committee Chair:  Dimitris Bertsimas ( <a href="mailto:dbertsim@mit.edu">dbertsim@mit.edu</a> )<br>
* Other committee members:  George Nemhauser, Yurii Nesterov, Yinyu Ye<br>* <a href="http://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Farkas-Prize">http://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Farkas-Prize</a><br>
<br>Prize for Young Researchers<br>* Awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and accepted, or published in a refereed professional journal.<br>* 2013 Committee Chair:  Alper Atamt urk ( <a href="mailto:atamturk@berkeley.edu">atamturk@berkeley.edu</a> )<br>
* Other committee members:  Samuel Burer, Andrzej Ruszczynski, Nikolaos Sahinidis<br>* <a href="http://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Young-Researchers">http://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Young-Researchers</a><br>
<br>Student Paper Prize<br>* 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.<br>
* 2013 Committee Chair:  Simge Kucukyavuz ( <a href="mailto:kucukyavuz.2@osu.edu">kucukyavuz.2@osu.edu</a> )<br>* Other committee members:  Santanu S. Dey, Guanghui Lan<br>* <a href="http://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Student-Paper-Prize">http://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Student-Paper-Prize</a><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Jim Luedtke, Assistant Professor<br>Secretary/Treasurer, INFORMS Optimization Society<br>Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering<br>University of Wisconsin-Madison<br>3236 Mechanical Engineering Building<br>
1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706
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