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Award Nominations
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 will be given at the Fall National Meeting, to be held in Miami Beach, Nov. 4-7.
All certificates read as follows (1st & 2nd Prizes): for the best dissertation that is innovative and relevant to the practice of operations research and the management sciences.
Application Process:
The George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Committee is now accepting entries for the 2001 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. Prizes will be awarded at the INFORMS Fall National Meeting in Miami Beach, November 4-7, 2001.
Each entry must:
- Consist of a doctoral dissertation written primarily by the entrant and completed between July 1, 2000, and July 1, 2001.
- Present original ideas obtained predominantly by the entrant.
- Clearly illustrate and demonstrate the relevance of the work in practice and the potential impact in industry.
Entrants should submit six (6) copies of the following items before July 15, 2001:
- A summary of the dissertation (less than 5 double-spaced pages) highlighting the significance of the problem, the novelty of the methodology 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.
- 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 up to five finalists will be selected by the award committee. All submissions should be postmarked on or before July 15, 2001, and sent to the Chair of the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Committee.
Each finalist will be notified by September 15, 2001, 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 San Antonio meeting.
Whom to contact:
Prof. Tava Olsen
John M. Olin School of Business
Campus Box 1133, 1 Brookings Dr.
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Email: olsen@olin.wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4732
Fax: 314-935-6359
Pierskalla Best Paper Award
in Health Applications
The Health Applications Section of INFORMS is pleased to announce the Second Annual Competition for the Pierskalla Award recognizing research excellence in the field of healthcare management science. The award will include a $500 honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Section sponsored session at the Fall INFORMS Conference in Miami (Nov. 4-7). The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services research and delivery through operations research. Details of the award include:
Eligibility: Any paper presented in a session sponsored by the Health Applications Section during the INFORMS fall annual meeting is eligible for the award. In addition, a full paper must be submitted by July 31 to the vice president of the Health Applications Section. The paper must be presented at the Miami INFORMS conference to receive the award, although the judging will be based on the written paper. The paper can be a working paper, submitted paper or published. If desired by the authors, the winning paper will be published in Health Care Management Science if it has not been published or is not under review elsewhere.
Judging: Papers will be judged by a panel of four representatives of the Health Applications Section on contribution to operations research/management science in healthcare, readability, clarity and organization of the paper, technical content and scope relative to the length of the paper, and originality. The panel judging the papers reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.
Application Process: Contact David Sherman to submit your abstract for presentation in a Health Applications Section sponsored session. Four copies of the written paper must be submitted to David Sherman by July 31 to be considered for the Miami award. If there are multiple authors, they must state in writing how they wish the honorarium to be distributed at the time the written paper is submitted.
For more information: Contact H. David Sherman, 404 Hayden Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115; E-mail:h.sherman@nunet.neu.edu; Phone: 617-373-4640; Fax: 617-373-8814.
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