INFORMS President Tom Cook (far left) looks on as Dantzig Dissertation Award Chair Robert L. Smith (far right) presents awards to (l-r, starting from second from left): Matthew Thompson, Martin Durbin, Justin Ren, Milind Sohoni and Paat Rusmevichientong.

Paat Rusmevichiengtong of Stanford University won the 2003 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "A Non-Parametric Approach to Multi-Product Pricing: Theory and Application." The award, named for the "Father of Linear Programming," honors the best dissertation that is innovative and relevant to the practice of operations research and the management sciences.

Robert L. Smith chaired the Prize Committee and made the presentations at the 2003 INFORMS Meeting in Atlanta.

Martin Durbin ("The Dance of the 30-Ton Trucks: Demand Dispatching in a Dynamic Environment") of George Mason University; Z. Justin Ren ("Sharing Forecast Information in a Supply Chain") of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Milind Sohoni ("A Robust Optimization Approach to Reserve Crew Manpower Planning in Airlines") of Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering; and Matthew S. Thompson ("Energy Asset Optimization and Valuation: A Real Options Approach") of the University of Western Ontario all received honorable mention.





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