<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Apologies for cross-posting. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">-------------------------------------</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear Colleagues: </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The INFORMS Optimization Society awards <span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">four prizes annually</strong></span> at the fall INFORMS meeting. We seek nominations (including self-nominations) for each of them, due by <span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">June 15, 2017</strong></span>. 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 Houston, TX in October 2017. The four awards are listed below. Additional information on the awards can be found on the society website (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.informs.org_Community_Optimization-2DSociety_Optimization-2DSociety-2DPrizes&d=CwMFaQ&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ueu5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=WKGjvtFBQ0M1nz5Q-QnsILYyFYQFR3NenD-vNjYbVX4&m=695VJ4Z_7CvBHhdKvqEuqqUQ7J0ZecZ_0ZZw02DHr6k&s=x8mCc7xm-UV846fgwFeCeFQIcRE1ZKKTb-gKJlOFDGk&e=" title="https://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,82,155)">https://www.informs.org/Commu<wbr style="box-sizing:border-box">nity/Optimization-Society/Opti<wbr style="box-sizing:border-box">mization-Society-Prizes</a>). </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via email to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Khachiyan Prize</strong></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Awarded for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of optimization by an individual or team.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</strong>: Gerald Brown (<a href="mailto:GBrown@nps.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,82,155)">GBrown@nps.edu</a>)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee members</strong>: Bill Cook, Andrzej Ruszczyński, and Yinyu Ye</li></ul><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Farkas Prize</strong></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Awarded to a mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization, over the course of their career. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The contribution may be a published paper, a submitted and accepted paper, a series of papers, a book, a monograph, or software.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Such contributions could include papers (published or submitted and accepted), books, monographs, and software.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">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. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</strong>: Margaret Wright (<a href="mailto:mhw@cims.nyu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,82,155)">mhw@cims.nyu.edu</a>)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee members</strong>: Patrick Jaillet, Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, Pascal Van Hentenryck</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Young Researchers Prize</strong></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">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. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">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. </li></ul></ul><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</strong>:  Michael Ferris (<a href="mailto:ferris@cs.wisc.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,82,155)">ferris@cs.wisc.edu</a>) </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee members</strong>: Jonathan Eckstein, Simge Küçükyavuz, Suvrajeet Sen</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Student Paper Prize</strong></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">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.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Every nominee/applicant must be a student on the first of January of the year of the award.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">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).</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</strong>: Vineet Goyal (<a href="mailto:vgoyal@ieor.columbia.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,82,155)">vgoyal@ieor.columbia.edu</a>)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Members</strong>: Kiavash Kianfar, Javier Peña, Ermin Wei</li></ul><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box">Please note that this year's deadline is earlier than in the past due to the earlier dates of the annual conference. Please <em style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">self-nominate or nominate qualified candidates</strong></em> soon. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Best regards, <br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Burcu B. Keskin </div><div><br>Associate Professor<br>Reese Phifer Fellow in Operations/Manufacturing <br>Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science <br>The University of Alabama<br>355 Alston Hall<br>Phone 205-348-8442</div><div><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:bkeskin@cba.ua.edu">bkeskin@cba.ua.edu</a></font> | <font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://culverhouse.ua.edu/faculty/profile/195">http://culverhouse.ua.edu/faculty/profile/195</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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