The measurement of the contribution is judged relative to the impact OR/MS has had on the overall success of the organization. Thus, a multibillion dollar firm that has a large OR/MS staff but integrates OR/MS techniques only occasionally might be ranked relatively lower than a small firm that uses OR/MS throughout its business.

All organizations are eligible, and applications will be accepted from all sources. The award is presented to the key executive in charge of OR/MS activities within the firm; outside contractors to a candidate firm are not eligible.

Include the following with your application:

• a summary description (one to three pages) of the scope, scale and impact of OR/MS activities in the organization;
  
  
• more detailed descriptions (one page each) of two or three major OR/MS projects and their impact. If available, quantifiable results on costs, profits, market share are useful; and
  
  
• letters of support and appreciation for OR/MS methodology, studies and projects from senior executives in the organization.

All applications are due by June 15 to the committee chair listed below.

The awards committee will conduct site visits to those firms selected as finalists.

A statue will be given to the organization and presented to a senior level executive at the INFORMS national meeting.

Send nominations to: Kyle Cattani, The Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490; phone: 919-962-3273; fax: 919-962-6949; e-mail: kyle_cattani@unc.edu.

2005 John von Neumann Theory Prize


The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annually to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences. The award is given each year at the national meeting if there is a suitable recipient. Although the prize is normally given to a single individual, in the case of accumulated joint work, the recipients can be multiple individuals.

The prize is awarded for a body of work, typically published over a period of several years. Although recent work should not be excluded, the prize typically reflects contributions that have stood the test of time. The criteria for the prize are broad and include significance, innovation, depth and scientific excellence.

The award is $5,000, a medallion and a citation.

The committee is currently seeking nominations, which should be in the form of a letter (preferably e-mail) addressed to the prize committee chair (below), highlighting the nominee's accomplishments. Although the letter need not contain a detailed account of the nominee's research, it should document the overall nature of his or her contributions and their impact on the profession, with particular emphasis on the prize's criteria. The nominee's curriculum vitae, while not mandatory, would be helpful.

Nominations should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than June 1.

Committee chair: Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA 94305-5015; phone: 650-724-1676; fax: 650-725-0468; e-mail: lwein@stanford.edu.

Lanchester Prize


Nominations are invited for the 2005 Lanchester Prize. This prize is awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English. The award is to be given at the 2005 annual meeting in November in New Orleans if there is a suitable recipient.

To be eligible, a paper, a book, or a group of books or papers must meet the following requirements. It must:

• be on an operations research/management science subject;
  
  
• have been published in 2002-2004; in the case of a group, at least one member of the group must have been published in that time period;
  
  
• be written in the English language; and
  
  
• have appeared in the open literature.

Books or papers may be case histories, reports of research representing new results or primarily synthesis. For any nominated set (group of either articles or books) published over more than one year, it is expected that each element in the set is part of one continuous effort, such as a multiyear project or a continuously written, multivolume book.

The prize is $5,000 and a commemorative medallion. If there are multiple winners, a medallion is struck for each and the monetary award is shared equally. Each author of an honorable mention receives a certificate, but no monetary award.

This year's committee includes Paul Glasserman (chair), John Birge, Edward Kaplan, Chung-Yee Lee, Eva Tardos and Jan Van Miegham. Nominations, due July 1, should be sent to: Paul Glasserman, Columbia University, 101 Uris Hall, Columbia Business School, New York, NY 10027; e-mail: pg20@columbia.edu; phone: 212-854-8881.

2005 INFORMS Expository Writing Award


The INFORMS Expository Writing Award honors an operations researcher/management scientist whose publications demonstrate a consistently high standard of expository writing.

This award recognizes an author whose publications in operations research and management science have set an exemplary standard of exposition. The awardee's written work, published over a period of at least 10 years, should indicate (in terms of breadth of readership) an influence and accessibility enhanced by expository excellence. Criteria include the lucidity, conciseness, logic and interest of the writing at all levels, from the general organization to the details. The author must have affected, through these publications, how something is done, studied, taught or thought about by some group within the OR/MS community.

The written work can contain any combination of practical, theoretical and pedagogical subject matter, and may be original, synthetic or historical. The corpus as a whole must be substantial in content, not necessarily prize-worthy in itself, but not trivial.

The publications in question can be books or papers in any combination, although enough of them must have been singly authored to demonstrate the awardee's expository skill. A team of authors writing together consistently over many years may also be considered for the award.

The winner will receive $2,000 and a framed certificate that includes a brief citation at the 2005 INFORMS annual meeting in New Orleans.

Nominations should include references to examples of the nominee's expository writing, as well as evidence of the influence these works have had on the OR/MS profession. Nominations must be sent by Aug. 15 to the committee chair: Andrzej Ruszczynski, Rutgers University, Department of Management Science, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854; phone: 732-445-3422; fax: 732-445 6329; e-mail: rusz@business.rutgers.edu.

INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice


The INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice will be given annually, if there is a suitable recipient, to a university or college teacher for excellence in teaching the practice of OR/MS. The purpose of this award is to recognize a teacher who has succeeded in helping his or her students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective practitioners of operations research or the management sciences. An "effective practitioner" has respect for, understanding of and the skills to surmount both the practical difficulties and the technical challenges of doing good OR/MS work.

The award will be presented at the INFORMS national meeting in New Orleans, Nov. 14-16. Nominations may be provided either by a nominator or the nominee. Nominations should include:

• nominee's name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax, e-mail;
  
  
• a short (250-500 words) description, abstract or philosophical statement about the course or pedagogical approach;
  
  
• description(s) of specific projects, cases or scenarios used;
  
  
• statements of support from past students who are now in practice;
  
  
• statements of support from industrial sponsors and/or qualified observers and/or supervisors of students now in practice;
  
  
• 20 pages of material (maximum) in 12-point type; and
  
  
• other items as appropriate.

Nominators should alert the committee chair by e-mail of forthcoming nominations at least one month before the submission deadline.

Seven copies of the nomination should be mailed by July 1 to: INFORMS Office, Attention: Mark G. Doherty, Executive Director, 7240 Parkway Drive, Suite 3310, Hanover, MD 21076; phone: 443-757-3521; e-mail: mark.doherty@informs.org.

Any questions should also be directed to the committee chair: Professor Bruce L. Golden, RH Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; phone: 301-405-2232; fax: 301-405-3364; e-mail: bgolden@rhsmith.umd.edu.

2005 JFIG Paper Competition


The Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum invites submissions to the JFIG paper competition. JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.

The entries will be judged and up to six finalists will be selected by the award committee. The papers submitted for the competition will be evaluated based on the importance of the topic, appropriateness of the research approach and the significance of research contribution. Up to four awards (first- and second-place awards and up to two awards for honorable mention) may be given upon recommendation of the award committee. For the 2005 competition, first place carries a cash award of $500, second place $300 and each honorable mention $100. Winners will be announced at the INFORMS fall meeting, where all finalists will present their research at a JFIG-sponsored session.

The conditions for eligibility are:

1. Each qualifying entrant must have been an assistant professor in a tenure-track position at a university on or after Jan. 1 of the year of the award.
   
   
2. The paper may be co-authored with students, other qualifying entrants or people from industry, but not with senior faculty. If the industry co-author(s) has a Ph.D. degree, he/she must have graduated within six years of the year of the award. In case of multiple qualifying entrants as co-authors, the paper may be submitted jointly. Only the qualifying entrant(s) will be eligible to win a prize.
   
   
3. Each JFIG member may submit no more than one paper, even if multiple papers have different co-authors.
   
   
4. The submitted paper must present original research results obtained and written by the entrant(s). It may be a working paper or in the publication process (e.g., submitted, accepted, etc.).
   
   
5. The research must have been completed while the entrant(s) was an assistant professor.
   
   
6. The paper must not have won another prize (first or second) in a previous competition or been a finalist in a previous JFIG paper competition.
   
   
7. The entrant must not have been awarded first or second place in the previous year's competition.

A complete entry includes:

1. a cover document with:

• the entrant's name, current affiliation, e-mail address and phone number.

 

This information must not appear anywhere else

• the title of the paper submission; and

• a statement that all eligibility requirements have been met, signed by all JFIG entrants.

 

2. a main document containing:

• separate title page with an abstract; and

• the paper (30 pages or less including tables and figures).

All submissions should be made electronically (PDF files). The submission deadline for the 2005 JFIG Paper Competition is June 1. For questions and submissions, contact: Dr. Joseph Geunes, Committee Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2083; phone: 352-392-1464, ext. 2012; fax: 352-392-3537; e-mail: geunes@ise.ufl.edu.

George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award


The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award has been established to encourage academic research that combines theory and practice and stimulates greater interaction between doctoral students (and their advisors) and the world of practice. The award is given at the fall national meeting of INFORMS.

All certificates read as follows (first- and second-place prizes): for the best dissertation that is innovative and relevant to the practice of operations research and the management sciences.

The George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Committee is now accepting entries for the 2005 award. The award for the best OR/MS dissertation serves to promote greater interaction between academia and industry by encouraging researchers to conduct innovative research that is relevant to practice in any area of operations research and management science. The first- and second-place winners will receive awards of $800 and $400, respectively. Additional finalists will receive honorable mentions with $100 awards.

Each entry must:

• consist of a doctoral dissertation written primarily by the entrant no more than 15 months prior to the submission deadline completed no earlier than April 15 and not previously submitted;
  
  
• present original ideas obtained predominantly by the entrant; and
  
  
• clearly illustrate and demonstrate the relevance of the work in practice and the potential impact in industry.

Entrants should submit six copies of the following items before July 15:

• a summary of the dissertation (less than five double-spaced pages) highlighting the significance of the problem, the novelty of the methodological approach, the contribution of the research to industry and the scope of the dissertation;
  
  
• a self-contained paper (less than 25 double-spaced pages) based on the thesis so that the award committee can evaluate the contribution of the work;
  
  
• a letter of recommendation from the entrant's thesis advisor that describes the significance of the research and comments on the originality of the work; and
  
  
• a letter of recommendation from an industry associate that describes the relevance and the potential benefits of the research in their organization. This letter must be written by a manager familiar with the research who has served as an advisor to the research or as a coordinator to the on-site research project. The manager should be informed that they may be contacted by the committee members asking questions regarding the entrant's search.

The entries in the first round will be judged and five finalists will be selected by the award committee. All submissions should be postmarked on or before July 15, and sent to the chair of the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Committee (see below).

Each finalist will be notified by Sept. 1 and requested to submit the entire dissertation to the chair of the committee. All finalists will give a presentation of their work in a special session at the national meeting.

Committee chair: Linda V. Green, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, 423 Uris Hall, New York, NY 10027; phone: 212-854-4108; fax: 212-316-9180; e-mail: lvg1@columbia.edu.

Aviation Applications Section Dissertation Prize


The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation O.R. (air traffic management O.R. and airline O.R.). The winner will receive a plaque and an honorarium of $500. Finalists will receive an honorable mention and a certificate. Doctoral dissertations meeting the following criteria are eligible for consideration:

• The dissertation must be completed and submitted after June 1 of the previous year and before May 31 of the current year.
  
  
• The dissertation must be in an area relevant to aviation research or practice.

Submit the following documents in portable document format (PDF) via e-mail to the committee chair by July 15:

• the completed dissertation;
  
  
• an extended abstract (four to five pages) describing the work and its relevance
  
  
• a letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor supporting the submission and highlighting the importance of the research;
  
  
• a short paper (20 to 25 pages, double-spaced) that is based on the dissertation (if such a paper is available).

Committee chair: Professor Michael O. Ball, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; e-mail: mball@rhsmith.umd.edu; phone: 301-405-2227.

For more details, please visit the AAS Web site at: www.informs.org/Prizes/AAPrizes.html#Dissertation.

2005 Nicholson Competition


The George Nicholson Committee is now accepting entries for the 2005 Competition. This competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student.

The following conditions must be satisfied for eligibility:

1. The entrant must have been a student on or after Jan. 1, 2005.
   
   
2. The paper must present original research results.
   
   
3. The research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student.

   4. The paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance.
   
   

4. An entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition.
   
   
5. The paper must not have won a prize (first- or second-place) in a previous Nicholson Competition. One or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the "first author."

Prizes will be awarded and finalists will be invited to present their papers at the INFORMS annual meeting in New Orleans, Nov. 13-16.

The paper must use double spacing, 11-point (or larger) font, and 1 inch (or larger) margins (left, right, top and bottom). The entire paper (i.e., including bibliography, appendices, figures, etc.) must not exceed 25 pages and, except for those containing references, each page should contain no more than 35 lines of text.

Each entrant must submit:

• an electronic PDF file and a hard copy of one self-contained paper in the specified format (papers not satisfying the format will not be accepted);
  
  
• a letter signed by both a faculty advisor and the entrant attesting that the five eligibility conditions have been satisfied by the entrant and the paper; and
  
  
• an e-mail address and telephone number at which the entrant can be contacted.

All entries must be delivered to and accepted by the committee chair no later than June 30.

Committee chair: Pinar Keskinocak, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332; e-mail: pinar@isye.gatech.edu.





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