Posted: 6/12/05
Call for Nominations
Bonder Scholarships: Health and Military Applications
The Health Applications Section and the Military Applications Society of INFORMS invite applications from qualified doctoral candidates for the Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services and the Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications, respectively. Doctoral candidates, particularly those at the beginning of their programs with an interest in the application of process modeling and O.R. analyses to issues in health care design, delivery or operations, are encouraged to apply for the health services scholarship. Doctoral candidates with an interest in the application of process modeling and O.R. analyses to military issues are encouraged to apply for the military applications scholarship.
Both scholarships provide funding of $5,000. Each scholarship consists of a grant of $4,000 as well as up to $1,000 of travel funding to support their participation in relevant activities at the annual INFORMS conference. INFORMS will waive registration fees for awardees. The tenure of the award is one year.
The scholarships will be granted on the basis of excellence, innovation, preparation and probability of the candidate's success. Candidates should submit three copies of the following materials: a curriculum vita, two letters of support, a brief statement describing why they are interested in applying operations research to health care or military issues, respectively, and a two-page summary of their proposed program of research. Candidates will be evaluated on the quality of their preparation to undertake a program of applied operations research in their respective field. The proposed program of research will be judged according to its potential for making a significant contribution to the respective field of applied O.R., as well as the likelihood of successful completion.
Students pursuing doctoral studies in health services operations research, military operations research and related disciplines are eligible. Applications from U.S. and international students are welcome.
Health services applications candidates should send their applications by July 1 to: Dr. George Miller, The Altarum Institute, P.O. Box 134001, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001; phone: 734-302-4640; fax: 734-302-4991; e-mail: george.miller@altarum.org.
Military applications candidates should send their applications by July 1 to: Mark G. Doherty, Executive Director, INFORMS, 7240 Parkway Drive, Suite 310, Hanover, MD 21076; phone: 800-446-3676; fax: 443-757-3515; e-mail: mark.doherty@informs.org.
All applicants will be notified by Sept. 15 of the results of the competition.
Seth Bonder was the founder and CEO of Vector Research, Inc. VRI is recognized for its quality and innovations in applying O.R. to public and private sector enterprises. Bonder has made major contributions to the operations research profession. He has served as president of the Operations Research Society of America and the Military Operations Research Society, and as vice president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Patriotic Service Award from the U.S. Secretary of the Army, the George E. Kimball Medal and the INFORMS President's Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS
The WORMS Award celebrates and recognizes a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of operations research and the management sciences. Each nominee will be considered based on his or her history of successfully promoting the professional development, success and recognition of women in OR/MS. Nominees can have made contributions in multiple ways, such as primarily at their own institutions or through involvement in professional organizations.
Examples of activities to be considered include, but are not limited to, the following: personal commitment and/or leadership with respect to increased hiring, retention, advancement and recognition of women (students and faculty) in academia, industry or government; leadership in encouraging, sponsoring and/or developing professional training/development programs for women in OR/MS; creating an environment that supports women's full participation and advancement in the field of OR/MS, possibly through mentoring, leadership, financial support and/or personal investment of time. Nominations should include:
- nominee's name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax, e-mail;
- a short (250-500 words) description of the nominee's overall contribution to the advancement of the careers of women in OR/MS;
- description(s) of specific activities, programs, leadership;
- statements of support from women in OR/MS and/or from organizations that observed or benefited from the nominee's activities; and
- the nominee's résumé and other items as appropriate.
All nominations must be submitted via e-mail to the Award Committee Chair Sigrún Andradottir, by July 15. One award (in the form of a plaque) will be given, if there is a suitable candidate. The award will be presented to the winner during the 2005 INFORMS national meeting in New Orleans.
For questions, please contact the award committee chair: Sigrún Andradottir, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205; phone: 404-894-3933; e-mail: sa@isye.gatech.edu.
INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Dissertation Prize Competition
Nominations are invited for the 2005 Dissertation Prize Competition sponsored by the INFORMS Section on Transportation Science & Logistics. This award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area.
The following criteria will be used in judging candidate dissertations:
- fundamental contribution and originality of the ideas or methods;
- practical importance or applicability in solving important real problems; and
- clarity and excellence of the exposition.
Eligible doctoral dissertations are those completed and submitted between June 1, 2004, and May 31, 2005, in the general area of transportation science and logistics.
To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who must submit the following items:
- an electronic copy of the dissertation (in PDF);
- an electronic copy of the extended abstract (3-5 pages) separate from the thesis (in PDF or MS Word);
- an electronic copy of the letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor supporting the submission and stating his/her assessment of why the thesis is worthy of the award (in PDF or MS Word); and
- an electronic abstract of 300 words without formula or mathematical notation (in PDF or MS Word).
Submissions should be sent to: Professor Randolph W. Hall (rwhall@usc.edu).
The deadline for receipt of submissions is June 30. The recommendations of the judges will be announced in the meeting of the Section on Transportation Science & Logistics at the fall 2005 INFORMS meeting. If you have any questions, contact Randolph W. Hall by e-mail at rwhall@usc.edu.
Computing Society Prize
Nominations are invited for the INFORMS Computing Society Prize for the best English-language paper or book on the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. The objectives of the prize are to:
- promote the development of high-quality work advancing the state of the art in the operations research/computer science interface;
- publicize and reward the contributions of those authors and researchers who have advanced the state of the art; and
- increase the visibility of excellent work in the field.
To be eligible, a nominated work must be:
- published in the open literature;
- pertinent to the operations research/computer science interface; and
- written in English.
The deadline for nominations is June 15.
The prize committee members for 2005 are Robert Fourer (chair), Gerald G. Brown and Hanif D. Sherali. The prize will be awarded Nov. 14 at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium.
Nominations should include the title, author or authors, bibliographic information appropriate to the form of publication and a copy of the nominated work. Electronic nominations, with the nominated work included as an attached file, are encouraged.
Contact: Professor Robert Fourer, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Room C234, Evanston, IL 60208-3119; phone: 847-491-3151; fax: 847-467-1828; e-mail: 4er@iems.northwestern.edu.
For further information regarding the INFORMS Computing Society Prize, including a list of previous winners, see the Society home page, http://mason.gmu.edu/~asofer/ics/.
EURO Excellence in Practice Award
The EURO Excellence in Practice Award is designed to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the practice of operational research, attract more application-oriented papers to EURO conferences and promote the practice of operational research in general.
All interested authors are invited to submit published papers describing an application of operational research that has original features, whether in methodology, application or implementation. The papers must not have been submitted concurrently to another competition. Papers not yet published also do not qualify.
The application is open to operational research specialists from any part of the world.
The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are: scientific quality of the paper, relevance to operational research, originality in methodology, implementations and/ or field of application, a real impact to practice and appreciation by the organization involved with the application.
The jury will select a short list of finalist papers that will be presented in a special session of the EURO Conference. There is no registration fee for one author of each of the finalist papers. The winner will be determined by the jury at the end of the special session and will be announced by the chairman of the jury during the closing session of the EURO Conference.
The prize consists of a certificate of excellence in O.R. practice plus 3,000 euros.
The prize jury is chaired by Gautam Mitra, CARISMA, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom (gautam.mitra@brunel.ac.uk).
The deadline for submission is Sept. 30.
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