INFORMS Prizes & Awards

This prize emphasizes the quality and coherence of the analysis used in practice. Dr. Wagner strove for strong mathematics applied to practical problems, supported by clear and intelligible writing. This prize recognizes those principles by emphasizing good writing, strong analytical content, and verifiable practice successes.

2022提交Deadline: May 1, 2022 (11:59 pm)

INFORMS is again sponsoring a competition to encourage student research and practice that has societal impact. The "Doing Good with Good OR Student Competition" will feature the most exciting work performed by students in partnership with public and private organizations that yields tangible and beneficial outcomes for individuals, communities, and organizations. Such work will be infused with OR/MS methods and could appeal to multiple disciplinary and application-area interests.

2022提交Deadline: May 15, 2022 (11:59pmpacific)

The purpose of the award is to support creative and diverse work in operations research in the early career of the recipient. The candidate must be within ten years of receiving a PhD and be in a tenure track academic appointment.

2021 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 5, 2021

The purpose of the Franz Edelman competition is to bring forward, recognize and reward outstanding examples of operations research, management science, and advanced analytics practice in the world, with $15,000 in awards. First prize is accompanied by a $10,000 honorarium. This award is administered by thePractice Section of INFORMS.

2023 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2022

提名一个re invited for the 2022 Lanchester Prize. This prize is awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English in the past five years (i.e. 2017 or more recent). For a group of publications, at least one publication of the group must have been published during that same five-year period.

The award will be given at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

2022提交Deadline: June 15, 2022

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 is given at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

2022提交Deadline: June 30, 2022

The George E. Kimball Medal is awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences. The award is a medallion and a certificate.

2022提交Deadline: May 15, 2022

The George Nicholson competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student.

2022提交Deadline: June 2, 2022

The Impact Prize, awarded once every two years, is intended to recognize widespread impact in the practice of operations research. It may be awarded to an individual or a single set of collaborators. The award may be given for the original research (if these ideas have been widely adopted), and/or for special efforts required to bring the research to a practical form (e.g., implementation as a software package or the communication of a body of research through writings, teaching, and consulting). The important criterion is breadth of use in practice and relevance to operations research. The technical assessment of the quality of the work is considered secondary to the degree to which it has been widely adopted.

Awarded only in even years
2022 Deadline - May 15, 2022 (extended from April 30th)

The annual case competition is intended to encourage the creation, dissemination, and classroom use of novel teaching cases in operations research, management science and analytics. While the Case Competition Award Committee desires to promote creation of new and innovative cases, it recognizes that the dissemination of such cases cannot always wait for the timing of this award, and thus recognizes novel submissions for this award as those that have been first published within 12 months of the competition award deadline.

2022提交Deadline: July 8, 2022

This INFORMS competition that provides real-world workplace experience for undergraduate and master’s level students.

Student teams are given the same business problem, data sets, and access to software to solve a challenging problem using an OR/analytics approach. A panel of industry and academic experts judge written submissions based on teams’ use of the full analytics process, from framing the problem to methodology selection, data use, model building and innovation.

The OR & Analytics Student Team Competition is being reviewed.
The competition will not be held for the 2021-22 competition year.
Stay tuned for more information.

这个奖项的目的是认识到,reby encourage, important contributions to the welfare of society by members of our profession at the local, national, or global level.

The INFORMS Prize is awarded for effective integration of advanced analytics and operations research/management sciences (OR/MS) in an organization. The award is to be given to an organization that has repeatedly applied the principles of advanced analytics and OR/MS in pioneering, varied, novel, and lasting ways.

2023 Nomination Deadline: December 1, 2022

The John von Neumann Theory prize is awarded annually to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.

2022 Nomination Deadline: July 15, 2022 (extended from June 1)

The Judith Liebman Award has been established to recognize outstanding student volunteers who have been "moving spirits" in their universities, their student chapters, and the Institute.

2022 NOMINATION DEADLINE: August 1, 2022

The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding geographic chapter volunteers or student chapter faculty advisors who have been "moving spirits" in their chapters.

2022 Nominations Deadline: August 1, 2022

The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding forum volunteers who have been "moving spirits" in their forum.

2022 Nomination Deadline: August 1, 2022

The Lectureship is awarded in honor of Philip McCord Morse in recognition of his pioneer contribution to the field of operations research and the management sciences. The award is given in odd-numbered years at the Annual Meeting if there is a suitable recipient. The term of the lectureship is two years. The award is $2,000, a certificate, a travel fund of $5,000, a copy of Morse's autobiography,In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life, and a copy of Morse and Kimball'sMethods of Operations Research.

2021 Nomination Deadline: June 1, 2021

The Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice will be given annually, if there is a suitable recipient, to a university or college teacher for excellence in teaching the practice of OR/MS. The purpose of this award is to recognize 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.

2022提交Deadline: June 30, 2022

The Saul Gass Expository Writing Award honors an operations researcher/management scientist whose publications demonstrate a consistently high standard of expository writing.

2022提交Deadline: June 30, 2022