The following subdivision (sections, societies, special interest groups, etc.) awards were presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle last November.

APPLIED PROBABILITY

2007 Best Publication Award

Recipient: H. Christian Gromoll, University of Virginia; Amber L. Puha, California State University; Ruth J. Williams, University of California at San Diego

Recognized work: "The Fluid Limit of a Heavily Loaded Processor Sharing Queue" by Gromoll, Puha and Williams, The Annals of Applied Probability, 2002, Vol. 12, 797-859; "Invariant States & Rates of Convergence for a Critical Fluid Model of a Processor Sharing Queue" by Puha and Williams, The Annals of Applied Probability, 2004, Vol. 14, 517-554; "Diffusion Approximation for a Processor Sharing Queue in Heavy Traffic" by Gromoll, The Annals of Applied Probability, 2004, Vol. 14, 555-611

AVIATION APPLICATIONS

2007 Best Dissertation Prize

Recipient: Anne Mercier, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Recognized work: "Decomposition Methods for the Integrated Planning of Aircraft Routes and Crew Schedules"

COMPUTING SOCIETY

2007 ICS Prize

Recipient: Janos Csirik, University of Szeged; David S. Johnson, AT&T Labs; Claire Kenyon, Universite Paris-Sud; James B. Orlin, MIT; Peter W. Shor, AT&T Labs; Richard R. Weber, University of Cambridge

Recognized work: "On the Sum-of-Squares Algorithm for Bin Packing"

2007 ICS Student Paper

Recipient: Amit Partani, University of Texas at Austin

Recognized work: "Adaptive Jackknife Estimators for Stochastic Programming"

Runners-up: Richa Agarwal, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Ship Scheduling and Network Design for Cargo Routing in Liner Shipping"; Andrea Bettinelli, Universita degli Studi di Milano, "A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Two-Dimensional Level Strip Packing Algorithm"

DECISION ANALYSIS

Frank P. Ramsey Medal

Recipient: Craig Kirkwood, Arizona State University

Recognition: For distinguished contributions in decision analysis

Decision Analysis Publication

Recipient: Craig R. Fox, University of California at Los Angeles; Robert T. Clemen, Duke University

Recognized work: "Subjective Probability Assessment in Decision Analysis: Partition Dependence and Bias Toward the Ignorance Prior," Management Science, Vol. 51, No. 9, 2005, pp. 1417-1432.

Finalists: Bob Winkler, Duke University, and Ilia Tsetlin, INSEAD, "Risky Choices and Correlated Background Risk"; Joseph Johnson, Miami University, and Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University, "A Dynamic, Stochastic, Computational Model of Preference Reversal Phenomena"; Ronald A. Howard, Stanford University, and James E. Matheson, SmartOrg Incorporated, "Influence Diagrams"; John C. Butler, Tulane University, Alexander N. Chebreskov, Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, James S. Dyer, University of Texas-Austin, Thomas A. Edmunds, University of California, Jiamin Jia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Vladimir I. Oussanov, Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, "The United States and Russia Evaluate Plutonium Disposition Options with Multi-Attribute Utility Theory"

Practice Award

Recipient: Katherine J. Gentil and Shane Knighton, Air Force Institute of Technology

Recognized work: "Developing Advanced Academic Degree Educational Profiles for Career Fields"

Finalists: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve, London Business School, "An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management"; Pekka Mild and Ahti Salo, Helsinki University of Technology, "Integrated Multi-Criteria Budgeting for Maintenance and Rehabilitation Policies at the Finnish Road Administration"; Sam Pittman and Craig Whittaker, Weyerhaeuser Company, "Implementing Decision Analysis at Weyerhaeuser, R&D"

Student Paper Award

Recipient: Canan Ulu, University of Texas at Austin

Recognized work: "Uncertainty, Information Acquisition, and Technology Adoption"

Finalists: Soo-Haeng Cho, UCLA, "The Optimal Composition of Influenza Vaccines Subject to Random Production Yields"; Xianchi Dai, University of Chicago, "The Value Heuristic in Judgements of Relative Frequency"; Peter Frazier, Princeton University, "A Knowledge-Gradient Policy for Sequential Information Collection"; Kenneth C. Lichtendahl, Jr., University of Virginia, "Probability Elicitation, Scoring Rules, and Competition Among Forecasters"; Burhaneddin Sandikci, University of Pittsburgh, "Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation"

ENERGY, NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

2006 Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions Award

Recipient: Mikael Rönnqvist and Kurt Jörnsten, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Maud Göthe, Linkoping University, and Mikael Frisk, Forest Research Institute of Sweden

Recognized work: "Collaborative Planning in Forest Transportation"

2006 Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Sessions Award

Recipient: Shanshan Hu, William Lovejoy and Roman Kapuscinski, Ross School of Business at University of Michigan

Recognized work: "Price Volatility in Electricity Auctions: A Strategic Analysis"

2007 Best Publication in Forestry

Recipient: Marcos Goycoolea, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Alan T. Murray, Ohio State University, Francisco Barahona, IBM Watson Research Center, Rafael Epstein, Universidad de Chile, and Andres Weintraub, Universidad de Chile

Recognized work: "Harvest Scheduling Subject to Maximum Area Restrictions: Exploring Exact Approaches," Operations Research, Vol. 53, No. 3, 490-500, 2005.

2007 Best Publication in Energy

Recipient: J.E. Harrington, B.F. Hobbs, A. Liu, G. Roch, Johns Hopkins University, and J.S. Pang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Recognized work: "Collusive Games Solutions via Optimization," Mathematical Programming, Series A and B, Vol. 104, No. 2, 407-435, 2005.

Student Travel Scholarship

Recipient: Mulan X. Wang, Carnegie Mellon University

Recognized work: "Valuation of Downstream Liquefied-Natural-Gas Storage"

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Best Student Research Paper

Recipient: Premal Shah, MIT

Recognized work: "Employee Stock Options: A Risk Management Based Exercise Model for Employees"

Second place (tie): Ning Cai, Columbia University, "Option Pricing Under a Hyper-Exponential Jump Diffusion Model"; Xin Zhang, University of Tennessee, "The Generalized DEA Model Under Expert Information and Its Application to Financial Markets"

Honorable mention: Mehmet Saglam, Columbia Business School. "Pricing Evolution of Real Assets with Optimal Strategies"; Haleh Valian, Rutgers University, "Optimizing Dynamic Portfolio Selection by Reinforcement Learning"

Best Presentation Award

Recipient: Woo Chang Kim, Princeton University

Recognized work: "Active Equity Managers in the U.S.: Do the 'Best' Follow Momentum Strategies?"

Honorable mention: Chanaka Edirisinghe, University of Tennessee, "Arbitrage Pricing of Contingent Claims in Incomplete Markets"; Michael Pinedo, New York University, "Operational Risk and TQM in the Services Industries"; Catalina Stefanescu, London Business School, "Modelling Expected Loss"; Bruce Weber, London Business School, "Valuation Impacts of IT Weaknesses in SOX Reports"; Yildiray Yildirim, Syracuse University, "Leverage, Options Liabilities, and Corporate Bond Pricing"

HEALTH APPLICATIONS

Pierskalla Best Paper Award

Recipient: Chris P. Lee, University of Pennsylvania, and Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University

Recognized work: "A Shadow Price Framework for Quantifying Health Care Demand, Spending, and Disparity"

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services

Recipient: Burhan Sandikci, University of Pittsburgh

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Best Doctoral Student Paper

Recipient: Sanjeev Kumar, University of Michigan

Recognized work: "SOA and Information Sharing in Supply Chain: 'How' Information is Shared Matters!"

Best Conference Paper Award

Recipient: Galit Shmueli and Otto Koppius

Recognized work: "Contrasting Explanatory and Predictive Modeling in IS Research"

INFORMS

Moving Spirit Award

Recipient: Leon Schwartz, New York Metro Chapter; Nastaran Coleman, Washington, D.C., Chapter; Halit Uster, Texas A&M Student Chapter

Judith Liebman Award

Recipient: Wei-Chih Chiang, Louisiana Tech University Student Chapter; Bilal Gokpinar, Northwestern University Student Chapter

Student Chapter Annual Award

Recipient: Texas A&M University and University of Massachusetts (Summa Cum Laude); University of Virginia, Florida International University and North Carolina State University (Magna Cum Laude); Oklahoma State University, University of Houston, Stanford University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Princeton University, Purdue University, and University of Michigan (Cum Laude)

Recognition: Outstanding participation and performance during the year of 2006.

INFORM-ED

Case Competition

Recipient: Murat Koksalan, Selin Bilgin and Haldun Sural, Middle East Technical University

Recognized work: "Forecasting Beer Demand at Anadolu Efes"

Finalists: Nicos Savva and Stefan Scholtes, University of Cambridge, "Project & Portfolio Management at Advance Nanotech" Bert De Reyck and Yael Grushka-Cockayne, London Business School, "Towards a Single European Sky"; Harish Krishnan, University of British Columbia, "Oil Tanker Traffic Flow through the Turkish Straits: Capacity Analysis"

JUNIOR FACULTY INTEREST GROUP

JFIG Paper Competition

Recipient: David Brown, Duke University, and Melvyn Sim, National University of Singapore

Recognized work: "Satisficing Measures for Analysis of Risky Positions"

Second place: L. Jeff Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "Estimating Quantile Sensitivities"

Finalists: Ozlem Ergun and Richa Agarwal, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Network Design and Allocation Mechanisms for Carrier Alliances in Liner Shipping"; Nicolas E. Stier-Moses and Patrick Maille, "Eliciting Coordination with Rebates"; Eva Regnier, Naval Postgraduate School, "Public Evacuation Decisions and Hurricane Track Uncertainty"; Senthil Veeraraghavan, University of Pennsylvania, and Laurens Debo, Carnegie Mellon University, "Customer Herding in Queues: Inferring Service Quality from Queue Lengths"

LOCATION ANALYSIS

Dissertation Award

Recipient: Boglarka Toth, University of Almeria

Recognized work: "Interval Methods for Competitive Location Problems" (Jose Fernandez Hernandez, advisor)

Finalists: Elrem Alper Murat, McGill University, "All Allocation based Modeling and Solution Framework for Location Problems with Dense Demand" (Vedat Verter, advisor); Roger Lezhou Zhan, University of Florida, "Models and Algorithms for Reliable Facility Location Problems and System Reliability Optimization" (Z. Max Shen, advisor)

MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Student Paper Competition

Recipient: Tong Wang, INSEAD

Recognized work: "Inventory Management with Advance Demand Information and Flexible Delivery"

Second place: Soo-Haeng Cho, UCLA, "The Optimal Composition of Influenza Vaccines Subject to Random Production Yields"

Honorable mention: Gongtao (Lucy) Chen, National University of Singapore, "The Impact of Financial Turbulence on Inventory Control"; Richard Lai, Harvard Business School, "Inventory's Fiscal Year End Effect"; Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, MIT, "Towards a Unified Theory of Procurement Contract Design: Production Flexibility, Spot Market Trading and the Structure of Options Contracts"; Shanshan Hu, University of Michigan, "Price Dispersion in Electricity Auctions: Strategic Analysis and Economic Implications"

Distinguished Service Award

Recipient: Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas at Dallas

Recognition:

Meritorious service toward advancing the goals and objectives of the MSOM Society of INFORMS

Distinguished Fellows Award

Recipient: Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia University

Best Paper Award

Recipient: Martin A. Lariviere, Northwestern University, and Jan A. Van Mieghem, Northwestern University

Recognized work: "Strategically Seeking Service: How Competition Can Generate Poisson Arrivals"

MILITARY APPLICATIONS

2006 Koopman Prize

Recipient: Paul L. Ewing, Jr., Naval Postgraduate School, William Tarantino, Naval Postgraduate School, and Gregory Parnell, United States Military Academy

Recognized work: "Use of Decision Analysis in the Army Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 Military Value Analysis"

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications

Recipient: Kuo-Hao Chang, Purdue University

J. Steinhardt Prize

Recipient: Dave Maddox, United States Army, Dave Schrady, Naval Postgraduate School, Larry Stone, Metron Incorporated

Service Award

Recipient: Keith Womer

Recognition: Serving as MAS Awards Committee Chair, 2000-2006

OPTIMIZATION

Optimization Student Paper Prize

Recipient: Juan Pablo Vielma, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recognized work: "A Lifted Programming Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Mixed Integer Conic Quadratic Programs"

ORGANIZATION SCIENCE

Best Dissertation Proposal Competition

Recipient: Heidi Gardner, London Business School

Recognized work: "London Business School, Expertise Utilization in Project Teams: A Status-Based Account of Process and Performance"

Runner up: J.P. Eggers, University of Pennsylvania, "Organizational Experience and the Creation of New Products for New Markets"

Finalists: Marla Baskerville, Tulane University, "Sexuality as a Double-Edge Sword: The Relationship between Women's Expressions of Sexuality, Positive Mood, Interpersonal Relationships with Men, and their Objective Work Outcomes"; Y. Sekou Bermiss, Northwestern University, "The Emergence & Evolution of Professional Service Industries" Denisa Mindruta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, "Markets for Research: A Matching Approach to University-Firm Research Collaborations"; Christopher Rider, University of California at Berkeley, "The Economic Value of Social Capital: A Study in the U.S. Private Equity Fundraising Market"; Mario Schijven, Tilburg University, "Towards Unlocking the Full Potential of Acquisitions: Behavioral and Cognitive Learning Perspectives"; Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics, "Entrepreneurial Exit: A Longitudinal Study of Boundedly Rational Entrepreneurs"

QUALITY, STATISTICS & RELIABILITY

Best Student Paper

Recipient: Haifeng Heidi Xia, Texas A&M University

Recognized work: "Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Integrating Multi-Resolution Metrology Data"

Finalists: Alaa Elwany, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Sensor-Based Models for Maintenance Management"; Ying Hung, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments with Branching and Nested Factors"; Xuemei Shan, Northwestern University, "Blind Identification of Manufacturing Variation Patters by Combining Source Separation Criteria"

RAILROAD APPLICATIONS

Management Science in Railroad Applications Student Competition

Recipient: Andrea D'Ariano and Francesco Corman

Recognized work: "A Tabu Search Algorithm for Rerouting Trains During Rail Operations"

Second place: Ashish Kumar Nemani, University of Florida, "Load Planning Problem at an Intermodal Railroad Terminal"

REVENUE MANAGEMENT

Historical Prize

Recipient: Marvin Rothstein, University of Connecticut

Recognized work: Honored for his four publications from 1971-1985 on the airline overbooking problem: "O.R. and the Airline Overbooking Problem," Operations Research, 33: 237-248 (1985); "Airline Overbooking: Fresh Approaches are Needed," Transportation Science, 9: 160-173 (1975); "An Airline Overbooking Model," Transportation Science, 5: 180-192 (1971); "Airline Overbooking: The State of the Art," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 5: 96-99 (1971)

Section Prize

Recipient: William L. Cooper, University of Minnesota, Tito Homem-de-Mello, Northwestern University, and Anton J. Kleywegt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recognized work: "Models of the Spiral-Down Effect in Revenue Management," Operations Research, Vol. 54, No. 5, September-October 2006, pp. 968-987

TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

Best Dissertation Award

Recipient: Lourdes Sosa, London Business School

Recognized work: "Decoupling Market Incumbency from Organizational Experience: A Study of Biotechnology's Impact on the Market for Anti-Cancer Drugs"

Runner-up: Kenneth Huang, Singapore Management University, "Innovation in the Life Sciences: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Scientific Knowledge Diffusion, Accumulation and Utilization"

Distinguished Speaker Award

Recipient: Cheryl Gaimon, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recognized work: "The Impact of Technological Developments on Research in Technology Management"

TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & LOGISTICS

Dissertation Prize

Recipient: Juan Carlos Morales, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recognized work: "Planning Robust Freight Transportation Operations" (Alan Erera and Martin Savelsbergh, advisors)

Honorable mention: Zhou Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Andrew Lim, advisor), "Transportation Procurement Planning with Side Constraints"

Best Paper Award

Recipient: Jiamin Zhao, Oracle Corporation, Maged Dessouky, University of Southern California, and Satish Bukkapatnam, Oklahoma State University

Recognized work: "Optimal Slack Time for Schedule-Based Transit Operations"

Honorable mention: Caspar G. Chorus, Delft University of Technology, Theo A. Arentze, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eric J.E. Molin, Delft University of Technology, Harry J.P. Timmermans, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Bert Van Wee, Delft University of Technology, "The Value of Travel Information: Decision Strategy-Specific Conceptualizations and Numerical Examples"; Georgia Perkais, MIT, and Guillaume Roels, UCLA, "An Analytical Model for Traffic Delays and the Dynamic User Equilibrium Problem"

Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient: Michael Smith, University of York

WOMEN IN ORMS

Advancement of Women in OR/MS

Recipient: Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst






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