The following subdivision (sections, societies, special interest groups, etc.) awards were presented at the INFORMS annual meeting in San Francisco last November.

Applied Probability
Award: 2005 Best Publication Award
Recipients: Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research), Neil O'Connell (University of College Cork, Ireland) and Damon Wischik (Royal Society Research Fellow at University College London)
Recognized work: "Big Queues," a monograph in Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1838, 2004.
Citation excerpt: An elegant and remarkably accessible introduction to a highly technical area. It will undoubtedly have significant impact in queueing theory and practice.

Aviation Applications
Award: Best Dissertation Prize
Recipient: Gregory Coldren (Northwestern University)
Recognized work: "Modeling the Competitive Dynamic among Air-travel Itineraries with Generalized Extreme Value Models."

Computing Society
Award: ICS Prize
Recipient: Zhiwei Fu, Bruce L. Golden, Shreevardhan Lele, S. Raghavan and Edward A.Wasil (University of Maryland)
Recognized work: "A Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach for Building Accurate Decision Trees," "Genetically Engineered Decision Trees: Population Diversity Produces Smarter Trees" and "Diversification for Better Classification Tree"
Citation excerpt: Three papers describing innovative methods for construction classification trees in very large data sets. Ideas from statistics and heuristic search are combined to produce methods that are fast, accurate and of high quality as measured by several newly proposed performance measures.

Decision Analysis
Award: Frank P. Ramsey Medal
Recipient: Lawrence D. Phillips (Facilitations LTD)
Recognition: Distinguished contributions to decision analysis.

Award: Decision Analysis Publication Award
Recipient: Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University)
Recognized work: "Maps of bounded rationality: Psychology for behavioral economics," published in American Economic Review, 2003.

Award: Practice Award
Recipient: Mario Castillo, Alvaro Mendoza and Sergio Cabrales (Universidad de los Andes)
Recognized work: "Improving Quality of Decision Making — A Collaborative Approach between Universidad de los Andes and BP Exploration Company — Columbia"
Finalists: Ajoy Chakrabarti (Bristol Myers Squibb), "How to Win Friends and Influence Deal Terms at Bristol Myers Squibb Co."; J.C. Felli, W.H. Anderson, J.P. Kremidas and S.J. Ruberg (Lilly Research Laboratories), "Patient progression through clinical trials at Eli Lilly"; Phillip Beccue (Baxter BioScience) and Hillard Huntington (Stanford University), "An Assessment of Oil Market Disruption Risks"

Award: Best Student Paper
Recipient: Janne Gustafsson (Helsinki University of Technology)
Recognized work: "Contingent Portfolio Programming for the Management of Risky Projects" (with Ahti Salo)

Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment
Award: Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions
Recipient: Jeremy Fried and P.J. Daugherty (Northern Arizona University)
Recognized work: "Optimization of Fuel Treatment Selection and Processing Facility Siting for Fuel Hazard Reduction"

Award: Student Paper Contest
Recipient: Jesse Rush O'Hanley (Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Center for the Environment)
Recognized work: "Strategic Conservation Planning In An Uncertain World: Locating and Protecting Critical Reserve Sites"
Honorable mention: Sandor F. Toth (Pennsylvania State University), "Finding the Efficient Frontier of a Tri-Criteria, Spatially-explicit Harvest Scheduling Problem"

Financial Services
Award: Best Student Research Paper
Recipient: Peter J. Meindl and James A. Primbs (Stanford University)
Recognized work: "Dynamic Hedging of Vanilla and Exotic Options with Transaction Costs Using Stochastic Programming and Receding Horizon Control"
Second place (tied): I-Hsuan Chiang (Boston College), "Modern Portfolio Management with Conditioning Information" and Zhoujuan Zhang (Princeton University), "Linking Stochastic Program and Policy Simulator for the U.S. Defined-Benefit Pension System"

Award: Best Presentation
Recipient: Malik Magdon-Ismail (RPI)
Recognized work: "An Analysis of the Maximum Drawdown Risk Measure"
Honorable mention: Frank Bria (Khimetrics, Inc), "Loan Rate Optimization as a Convex Programming Problem"; Bruce Moore (Credit Union of Texas), "Estimating Deposit Volume Price Sensitivity"; Catalina Stefanescu et al. (London Business School), "Multi Period Expected Loss Prediction"; Lyn Thomas (University of Southampton), "Impact of Basel New Accord on Credit Risk Models of Consumer Loan Portfolios and Practice"

Health Applications Section
Award: William Pierskalla Best Paper
Recipient: Eva K. Lee, Siddhartha Maheshwary and Jacquelyn Mason
Recognized work: "Emerging Treatment Response and Real-Time Staff Allocation for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Outbreak"

Award: Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Applications
Recipient: Elisa Frances Long (Stanford University)
Purpose: $5,000 scholarship aims to promote the development and application of process modeling and operations research analyses to health care design, delivery and operations.

INFORMS
Award: Moving Spirit
Recipients: Martha A. Centeno (Florida International University Student Chapter), Gerald W. Evans (University of Louisville Student Chapter), Sanjay Mehrotra (Chicago Chapter), Anna Nagurney (University of Massachusetts Student Chapter), Russell R. Vane (Washington, D.C., Chapter) and Susan Werbin (New York Metro Chapter)
Recognition: Outstanding service to their respective student or geographic area chapter.

Award: Judith Liebman Award
Recipient: Anita Patel (George Washington University Student Chapter)
Recognition: Outstanding service to the George Washington Student Chapter.

Award: Forum Moving Spirit
Recipient: Pinar Keskinocak (Junior Faculty Interest Group Forum)
Recognition: Outstanding service to the Junior Faculty Interest Group Forum.

Junior Faculty Interest Group
Recipient: Savas Dayanik and Semih O. Sezer (Princeton University)
Recognized work: "Compound Poisson Disorder Problem"

Section on Location Analysis
Award: UPS-SOLA Dissertation
Recipient: Beryl Castello (Johns Hopkins University)
Recognized work: "Semi-Obnoxious Multifacility Location Problems: Models and Methods"
Finalists: Qi Liu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University), "A Sequence-Pair and Mixed Integer Programming Based Methodology for the Facility Layout Problem" and Leyla Ozsen (Northwestern University), "Location-Inventory Planning Models: Capacity Issues and Solution Algorithms"

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Award: Distinguished Service
Recipient: Gabriel Bitran (MIT)
Recognition: Meritorious service towards advancing the goals and objectives of the MSOM Society of INFORMS.

Award: Distinguished Fellows
Recipients: Warren Hausman (Stanford University), Wallace J. Hopp (Northwestern University) and Bill Maxwell (Cornell University)
Recognition: Outstanding research and leadership in the field of operations management.

Award: Student Paper Competition
Recipient: Owen Wu (University of British Columbia)
Recognized work: "Optimal Control and Competitive Equilibrium of Production-Inventory Systems with Application to the Petroleum Refining Industry"
Second place: Guillaume Roels (MIT), "The Price of Information: Inventory Management with Limited Information About Demand" and Ping Josephine Xu (MIT), "The Benefits of Re-Evaluating the Real-Time Fulfillment Decisions"

Military Applications
Award: Koopman Prize
Recipient: Stephen D. Biddle (Strategic Studies Institute)
Recognized work: "Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle"
Purpose: Honors outstanding publication in military operations research.

Award: Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications
Recipient: Subhashini Ganapathy (Wright State University)
Purpose: $5,000 scholarship aims to promote the development and application of process modeling and operations research analyses to military issues.

Optimization
Award: Optimization Prize for Young Researchers
Recipient: Illya V. Hicks (Texas A&M University)
Recognized work: "Graphs, Branchwidth, and Tangles! Oh My!"

Organization Science
Award: Best Dissertation Proposal Competition
Recipient: Susan Perkins (New York University)
Recognized work: "Does Prior Experience Really Pay?: Foreign Direct Investments, Institutional Environments and Firm Performance"
Second place: Donald A. Lange (University of Texas at Austin), "A Study of Controversial Organizational Action: Organizational Action and Audience Reaction in the Context of Earnings Restatement" and Sharon James Wade (University of Minnesota), "When Do Firms Voluntarily Disclose Qualitative Information About R&D Projects?"
Finalists: Jared D. Harris (University of Minnesota), "Financial Misrepresentation: Antecedents and Performance Effects"; Arik Lifschitz (Columbia University), "Nets at Sea: Horizontal and Vertical Networks in the Clyde River Maritime Economy"; Ilya Okhmatovskiy (University of Southern California), "Content, Structure, and Performance Implications of Intercorporate Ties: The Role of Institutional Contingencies"; Ming Piao (Northwestern University), "A Dynamic View of Exploitation and Exploration: An Empirical Study in the Hard Disk Drive Industry"; and Kim-Chi Wakefield Trinh (Duke University), "Factors Affecting the Performance Impact of Organizational Memory: Integrative Framework and Empirical Validation at Individual and Group Levels"

Quality, Statistics & Reliability
Award: Best Student Paper
Recipient: Zhiguang Qian (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Recognized work: "Bayesian Surrogate Models For Integrating Low Accuracy and High Accuracy Experiments"
Finalists: Jung Jin Cho (Texas A&M University),"Redundancy Analysis of Linear Sensor Systems and Its Applications"; Xuelei Ni (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Enhanced Leaps-And-Bounds Method In Subset Selections with Additional Optimality Tests"; and Sarintip Satitsatian (University of Washington), "An Algorithm for Reliability Bounds Computation to Evaluate Supply Chain Networks"

Railroad Applications
Award: Management Science in Railroad Applications Student Competition
Recipient: Pieter Vansteenwegen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven-CIB)
Recognized work: "Decreasing the Passenger Waiting Times for ICS Networks of Belgian Railways"
Second place: Johanna Törnquist (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden), "N-tracked Railway Traffic Rescheduling during disturbances"
Honorable mention: Soheil Sibdari (University of Massachusetts), "Revenue Management of Auto Train at Amtrak"

Revenue Management and Pricing
Award: Historical Prize
Recipients: Barry Smith, John Leimkuhler and Ross Darrow (Sabre Holdings)
Recognized work: "Yield Management at American Airlines," Interfaces, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 8-31, 1992.
Citation excerpt: During the past 13 years, this publication has made an outstanding contribution to the education of revenue management across industries. . . . The publication has been instrumental in conveying to others the potential value of statistical and mathematical methods for increasing profits through more systematic decision-making in revenue management and pricing.

Award: Section Prize
Recipient: Guillermo Gallego (Columbia University)

Technology Management
Award: Best Dissertation
Recipient: Dovev Lavie (University of Texas at Austin)
Recognized work: "The Interconnected Firm: Evolution, Strategy, And Performance"
Second place: Oana Branzei (York University), "Product Innovation in Heterogeneous R&D Networks: Pathways to Exploration and Exploitation" and Mark Junkunc (University of Miami), "Toward a Greater Economic Understanding of Entrepreneurial Activity: Examining the Nature and Importance of Specialized Knowledge"

Award: Distinguished Speaker
Recipient: Eric von Hippel (MIT)
Recognized presentation: "Democratizing Innovation"

Transportation Science & Logistics
Award: Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement
Recipient: Paolo Toth (University of Bologna)

Award: Best Paper
Recipients: Anton J. Kleywegt, Vijay S. Nori and Martin W.P. Savelsbergh (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Recognized work: "Dynamic Programming Approximations for a Stochastic Inventory Routing Problem"

Award: Dissertation Prize
Recipient: Luigi Moccia (Universita della Calabria, Italy)
Recognized work: "New Optimization Models and Algorithms for the Management of Maritime Container Terminals"
Finalist: Song Gao (MIT), "Optimal Adaptive Routing and Traffic Assignment in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks"

Women in OR/MS
Award: Advancement of Women in OR/MS
Recipients: Jane Ammons (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)
Recognition: Significant contributions to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of operations research and the management sciences.

Omega Rho Distinguished Lecturer Award: Distinguished Lecturer Recipient: Stuart L. Hart Recognition: An international O.R. honorary society, Omega Rho welcomes the Distinguished Lecturer as an honorary member of the Society. The recipient will deliver a lecture at a future meeting of INFORMS. The objective of Omega Rho is to encourage operations research and management sciences related disciplines.