<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px">This is the second call for the <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">four annual IOS prizes</strong></span>. We seek nominations (including self-nominations) for each prize, due by <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">June 15, 2017</strong></span>. Additional information on the awards, including eligibility and nominations details can be found on the society website: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__connect.informs.org_optimizationsociety_prizes&d=DwMFaQ&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ueu5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=WKGjvtFBQ0M1nz5Q-QnsILYyFYQFR3NenD-vNjYbVX4&m=sE5VszM0tNVloOm1mGBTmK40NYsUls65Mp9NU-thGVw&s=8tf4QXpn1AJXSc5HPahnqeZFxIkxVY5GJejxLLRhkbQ&e=" target="_blank">http://connect.<wbr>informs.org/<wbr>optimizationsociety/prizes</a> .</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><b><font color="#333333">Please see the website for nomination instructions. </font></b><b><font color="#333333">Inquiries should be sent directly via email to the chair o</font><font color="#333333">f the corresponding prize committee. </font></b></p><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Khachiyan Prize</strong><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> (</span></span>for outstanding lifetime contributions )</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</span>: Gerald Brown (<a href="mailto:GBrown@nps.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(8,92,150);box-sizing:border-box">GBrown@nps.edu</a>)</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee members</span>: Bill Cook, Andrzej Ruszczyński, and Yinyu Ye</li></ul><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Farkas Prize</strong><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> (for a mid-career researcher)</span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</span>: Margaret Wright (<a href="mailto:mhw@cims.nyu.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(8,92,150);box-sizing:border-box">mhw@cims.nyu.edu</a>)<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee members</span>: Patrick Jaillet, Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, Pascal Van Hentenryck</li></ul></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Young Researchers Prize </strong><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> (one or more young researchers -<span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">within 8 years</span></span> of their most recent degree- for an outstanding paper)</span></span> </p><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:12.8px"><div id="gmail-:79y" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"><span class="gmail-im"><ul style="font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</span>:  Michael Ferris (<a href="mailto:ferris@cs.wisc.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(8,92,150);box-sizing:border-box">ferris@cs.wisc.edu</a>) </li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee members</span>: Jonathan Eckstein, Simge Küçükyavuz, Suvrajeet Sen</li></ul><p style="font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Student Paper Prize </strong><span style="box-sizing:border-box">(</span></span>Every nominee/applicant must be a student on the first of January of the year of the award.)</p><ul style="font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Chair</span>: Vineet Goyal (<a href="mailto:vgoyal@ieor.columbia.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(8,92,150);box-sizing:border-box">vgoyal@ieor.columbia.edu</a>)</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Committee Members</span>: Kiavash Kianfar, Javier Peña, Ermin Wei</li></ul><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box">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.  </div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:lora,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4">Best regards, </font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">Burcu</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4"><br></font></div></span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px">Burcu B. Keskin</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px">IOS Treasurer/Secretary</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px">Associate Professor, </span><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal">Reese Phifer Fellow in Operations/Manufacturing</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal">Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science </span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px">The University of Alabama</span><br style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px">355 Alston Hall</span><br style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px">Phone 205-348-8442</span><br style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px"><span style="color:rgb(92,95,104);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22px"><a href="mailto:bkeskin@cba.ua.edu" target="_blank">bkeskin@cba.ua.edu</a> | <a href="http://culverhouse.ua.edu/faculty/profile/195" target="_blank">http://culverhouse.ua.edu/faculty/profile/195</a></span><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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