Awards and Honors
The Operations Research Center is renowned for the research accomplishments of its students, faculty, and alumni. As an indication of the many contributions to the field of operations research, the following list outlines some past and current accomplishments of ORC affiliates.
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Prizes and Awards
The
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize: awarded for the best
contribution to operations research and the management sciences
published in English.
2005 |
Kalyan T. Talluri
and Garrett J. van Ryzin -
The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management |
1994 |
Edward H. Kaplan - Modelling and Reducing the Spread of Aids |
1993 |
Ravindra
K. Ahuja, Thomas L. Magnanti and James
B. Orlin - Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications |
1976 |
Ralph
L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa and Leonard Kleinrock -
Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preference and Value
Trade Offs |
1972 |
Richard C. Larson - Urban Police Patrol Analysis |
1968 |
Philip M. Morse - Library Effectiveness: A Systems Approach |
1965 |
Michel Balinski - Integer Programming: Methods, Uses, Computation |
1962 |
Robert M. Oliver and Arych
H. Samuel - Reducing Letter Delays in Post Offices |
INFORMS
President's Award: recognizes, and thereby encourages,
important contributions to the welfare of society by members
of our profession at the local, national, or global level.
2003 |
Richard C. Larson - For "his contributions to solving a wide-range of important urban problems" |
2002 |
Edward Kaplan - For "his work on using the methods of OR/MS to address some of the most pressing issues in public health and medicine of our time" |
1999 |
Leonard Kleinrock - For "his wide-ranging and fundamental contributions to the birth and development of the Internet, and thereby to the global welfare of society" |
1998 |
Jan M. Chaiken - For "his effective and important contributions to the public interest" |
1996 |
Arnold I. Barnett - For "deep commitment to addressing societal problems and matters involving "threats to life and limb" |
The
Franz Edelman Award: recognizes and rewards outstanding
examples of management science and operations research practice
in the world.
2003 |
(Second Place) Keith A. Ware, Alysia M. Wilson, Andrew P. Armacost and Cynthia Barnhart |
1997 |
(Honorable Mention): Hewlett Packard: Mitchell Burman |
1992 |
(1st Prize) - New Haven Health Department, AIDS Division: Edward H. Kaplan and Elaine O'Keefe |
1992 |
(Honorable Mention) - City of New York: Michael F. Cahn, Michael P. Jacobson, Robert N. Kaye, Katherine N. Lapp, Richard C. Larson, Judge Milton H. Mollen, and Martin C. Shell |
1991 |
(1st Prize) - American Airlines Decision Technologies: Ross M. Darrow, John F. Leimkuhler, John R. Samuel,and Barry C. Smith |
1985 |
(1st Prize) - Weyerhaeuser Company: Uli H. Chi,and Mark R. Lembersky |
1983 |
(1st Prize) - Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Walter J. Bell, Louis M. Dalberto, Marshall L. Fisher, Arnold J. Greenfield, R. Jaikumar, Pradeep Kedia, Robert G. Mack, and Paul J. Putzman |
1980 |
(Honorable Mention) - Xerox Corporation: Shmuel S. Oren, Michael H. Rothkopf, Richard D. Smallwood |
1977 |
(Honorable Mention) - United Airlines: William K. Fudge, Leonard M. Lodish |
1972 |
(Honorable Mention) - Mexico City: Ralph L. Keeney |
The
INFORMS Fellow: recognizes members who have made
significant contributions to the advancement of operations
research and the management sciences, such contributions including
service to the professional field and to INFORMS.
2007 |
Dimitris Bertsimas and John N. Tsitsiklis |
2006 |
John R. Hauser,
James B. Orlin and David Simchi-Levi |
2005 |
Stephen C. Graves
and Edward H. Kaplan |
2004 |
Bruce L. Golden |
2004 |
Amedeo
R. Odoni |
2003 |
Arnold I. Barnett and Edward A. Silver |
2002 |
Thomas M. Cook, Martin Ernst, Marshall Fisher, H. Newton Garber, Ralph Keeney, Leonard Kleinrock, Richard Larson, John D. C. Little, Thomas L. Magnanti, Robert M. Oliver, Stephen M. Pollock, Michael Rothkopf and James Tien |
The
INFORMS Erlang Award: given for outstanding contribution
to the field of applied probability by an applied probabilist
2004 |
David
Garmarnik |
1996 |
Dimitris Bertsimas |
The
George E. Kimball Medal: awarded for recognition
of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession
of operations research and the management sciences.
2002 |
Craig W. Kirkwood and Richard C. Larson |
2001 |
H. Newton Garber and Stephen M. Pollock |
1997 |
Michael H. Rothkopf |
1994 |
Thomas L. Magnanti |
1987 |
John D. C. Little |
1985 |
Alfred Blumstein |
1977 |
Martin Ernst |
1974 |
Philip M. Morse |
The
Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award: awarded
in honor of Philip McCord Morse in recognition of his pioneer
contribution to the field of operations research and the
management sciences.
2006-2008 |
Marshall Fisher |
2003-2006 |
Alfred Blumstein |
1997-1999 |
Richard C. Larson (MIT) |
1993-1995 |
Ralph Keeney |
1988-1990 |
John D. C. Little (MIT) |
The
George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award: awarded 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.
2007 |
(1st Prize) Timothy Chan - The Management of Uncertainties in Radiation Treatments of Lung Tumors |
2001 |
(1st Prize) Andrew Armacost - Composite Variable Formulation For Express Shipment Service Network Design |
1999 |
(Honorable Mention) William Hall - Efficient Capacity Allocation in a Collaborative Air Transportation System |
1997 |
(Second Prize) Sarah Stock Patterson - Development and Application of Mathematical Programming Techniques for Scheduling Large Scale Air Transportation Systems |
1997 |
(Honorable Mention) Stefanos Zenios |
1996 |
(1st Prize) S. Raghavan - Formulations and Algorithms for Network Design Problems with Connectivity Requirements |
INFORMS
Expository Writing Award: honors an operations researcher/management
scientist whose publications demonstrate a consistently high
standard of expository writing.
2005 |
Lawrence
M. Wein |
2002 |
Ralph
Keeney and Howard Raiffa |
2001 |
Arnold
Barnett |
2000 |
John
D.C. Little |
INFORM-ED
Case and Teaching Materials Competition: to encourage
the creation, dissemination, and classroom use of new cases
in operations research and the management sciences.
2005 |
(1st
Prize) Stephen
C. Graves, MIT and John C.W. Parsons |
WORMS
Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS: recognizes
a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement
and recognition of women in the field of Operations Research
and the Management Sciences (OR/MS).
INFORMS
Koopman Prize: awarded for the outstanding publication
in military operations research.
2005 |
Edward H. Kaplan |
2002 |
Edward
H. Kaplan, David L. Craft and Lawrence
M. Wein |
INFORMS
Pierskalla Best Paper Award: recognizes research
excellence in the field of health care management science.
2006 |
Hamed
Mamani and David Simchi-Levi |
INFORMS
MSOM Distinguished Service Award: recognizes individuals
whose distinguished service to MSOM has helped to advance
significantly the goals and objectives of the Section.
2006 |
Garrett J. van
Ryzin |
2005 |
Gabriel
Bitran |
INFORMS
Prize for the Teaching of the OR/MS Practice: recognizes
a teacher who has succeeded in helping his or her students
to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective
practitioners of operations research or the management sciences.
An "effective practitioner" has respect for, understanding
of, and the skills to surmount both the practical difficulties
and the technical challenges of doing good OR/MS work.
2003 |
Bruce L. Golden |
1998 |
Ronald
A. Howard |
Robert
Herman Lifetime Achievement Award: awarded to an individual
who throughout his or her professional career has made fundamental
and sustained contributions to transportation science and logistics,
and has influenced the field through her or his writings, teaching,
service, and nurturing of younger professionals.
The
George Nicholson Student Paper Competition: awarded for
outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the
management sciences written by a student.
2007 |
(First Place) Nelson Uhan, - Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs |
2007 |
(Honorable Mention) Timothy Chan - The Management of Uncertainties in Radiation Treatments of Lung Tumors |
2006 |
(Second Place) Alexandre
Belloni - On the Computational Complexity of MCMC-based
Estimators in Large Samples |
2006 |
(Honorable Mention) Stephen
Shum - Coordinating Efforts of Multiple Retailers in
a Decentralized Supply Chain |
2004 |
(Second Place) Melvyn
Sim - Robust Conic Optimization |
2003 |
(Second Place) Sanne de Boer - Airline Revenue Management Under Imperfect Market Segmentation |
2003 |
(Honorable Mention) Victor Martinez de Albeniz - A Portfolio Approach to Procurement Contracts |
2002 |
(Second Place) Melvyn Sim - Robust Discrete Optimization |
2002 |
(Honorable Mention) Xin Chen - Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost |
2001 |
(1st Prize) Alp Muharremoglu - Echelon Base Stock Policies in Uncapacitated Serial Inventory Systems |
2000 |
(Second Place) Marina Epelman - Measures of Conditioning and Pre-Conditioners for Conic Linear Systems |
2000 |
(Honorable Mention) Jay Sethuraman - From Fluid Relaxations to Practical Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling |
1997 |
(First Place) Stefanos
Zenios - Dynamic Allocation of Kidneys to Patients
on the Transplant Waiting List |
1996 |
(Second Place) Georgia Mourtzinou - Transient Distributional Little's Law and Their Applications |
1991 |
(Second Place) Kalyan T. Talluri - Network Design on the Plane with Connectivity Requirements |
1990 |
(Second Place) Michel Goemans - Survivable Networks and the Parsimonious Property |
1989 |
(First Place) Dimitris J. Bertsimas - A Priori Optimization |
1985 |
(Second Place) Paul Tseng - The Relaxation Method for a Special Class of Linear Programming Problems |
The
INFORMS Transportation Science Best Paper Award:
given for an outstanding paper in the field of transportation
science and logistics.
2007 |
(Honorable
Mention) Georgia Perkais, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Guillaume Roels, University of California at Los Angeles - "An Analytical Model for Traffic Delays and the Dynamic User Equilibrium Problem" |
2003 |
Andrew Armacost, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cynthia Barnhart, MIT and K.A. Ware, UPS - "Airlines Composite Variable Formulations for Express Shipment Service Network Design" |
2002 |
Jose Rafael Correa, MIT and Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile- "Common-Lines and Passenger Assignment in Congested Transit Networks" |
The
INFORMS Aviation Applications Dissertation Prize: is awarded
to the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air
traffic management OR and airline OR).
2003 |
(Honorable
Mention) Amy Mainville Cohn - "Composite-Variable
Modeling for Large-Scale Problems in Transportation and Logistics" |
2003 |
(Honorable
Mention) Sanne de Boer - "Advances in Airline
Revenue Management and Pricing" |
The
INFORMS Aviation Student Paper Prize: is awarded to the author
of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area
of aviation applications.
1998 |
Sarah
Stock Patterson - The Air Traffic Flow Management Problem
with Enroute Capacities |
INFORMS
Transportation Science & Logistics Society Dissertation
Prize:
awarded for best dissertations in the transportation science
and logistics area.
2001 |
(Honorable
Mention) Andrew Armacost - Composite Variable Formulations
for Express Shipment Service Network Design |
1999 |
(Honorable Mention) William
Hall |
1997 |
(1st Place) Sarah
Stock-Patterson - Dynamic Flow Management Problems
in Air Transportation |
1996 |
(Honorable
Mention) Kerry Malone |
1988 |
(1st Prize) Dimitris
Bertsimas - Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization
Problems |
1985 |
(1st Prize) Patrick
Jaillet - Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem |
1978 |
(1st Prize) Harilaos
Psaraftis - Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Sequencing
and Routing Problems in Transportation |
1976 |
(Honorable
Mention) Bruce Golden |
INFORMS
MSOM Student Paper Competition: awards are given annually
for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations
Management.
2007 |
(Honorable
Mention) Pamela Pen-Erh Pei- Towards a Unified Theory of Procurement Contract Design: Production Flexibility, Spot Market Trading and the Structure of Options Contracts |
2005 |
(Second Place) Guillaume
Roels - The Price of Information: Inventory Management
with Limited Information About Demand |
2005 |
(Second Place) Ping
Josephine Xu - The Benefits of Re-Evaluating the Real-Time
Fulfillment Decisions |
2003 |
(Honorable
Mention) Victor Martinez de Albeniz - A Portfolio
Approach to Procurement Contracts |
2002 |
(Second
Place) Xin Chen - Coordinating Inventory Control Pricing
Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost |
2000 |
(1st Prize) Jeremie
Gallien - Design and Analysis of a Smart Market for
Industrial Procurement |
1999 |
(1st Prize) L.
Beril Toktay - Analysis of a Production Inventory System
with Stationary Deman and Forecast Updates |
1998 |
(Second
Place) Jeremie Gallien |
1996 |
(1st Prize) Stefanos
A. Zenios |
Awards from Other Organizations
The National
Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Awards:
granted to five ORC faculty and four recent alumni.
National
Academy of Engineering: five
current ORC faculty are members.
Federal Aviation
Administration: Championship Award for Excellence in Aviation
Education: awarded to a MIT faculty member.
The Mathematical
Programming Society A.
W. Tucker Prize: awarded for an outstanding paper
authored by a student.
IBM
Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences:
given for research in mathematical and computer sciences.
2006 |
Alexandre
Belloni |
2005 |
Retsev
Levi |
Glover-Klingman
Award: awarded to an individual or a group for the
best paper published in Networks.
2005 |
Thomas
L. Magnanti and S. Raghavan |
SIAM
Activity Group on Optimization Prize (SIAG/OPT): awarded
to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper, as determined
by the selection committee, on a topic in optimization published
in English in a peer-reviewed journal.
1999 |
Michel X. Goemans
and David P. Williamson |
1996 |
Dimitris
J. Bertsimas and Michel X. Goemans |
The faculty have also published leading textbooks and monographs on many subjects: linear, nonlinear and dynamic programming, combinatorial optimization and network algorithms, applied probability theory, Markovian processes and systems, queueing theory, inventory control, decision analysis, public and urban systems, marketing science, transportation science, and production management.
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