Awards
INFORMS Honors Dr. Gallego, Dr. Yao and Dr. Erdogan
The IEOR Department congratulates Dr. Guillermo Gallego, the recipient of the 2005 Section prize in Revenue Management, Dr. David Yao, elected as an INFORMS Fellow and Dr. Emre Erdogan, the winner of the 2005 George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition. These honors and prizes were awarded during the INFORMS Annual Meeting that was held in San Francisco, California, from November 13th to 16th, 2005. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for the field of operations research (OR).
Dr. Gallego and Dr. C. Derman Honored by
Management Science and INFORMS
Management Science and INFORMS have selected the 50 most influential papers in the life of the journal. Two papers by Columbia University professors were selected. The first paper is by Emeritus Professor Cyrus Derman for his contributions to the foundations of sequential decision processes. The second paper is by IEOR Professor Guillermo Gallego and DRO Professor Garrett van Ryzin for their seminal work on dynamic pricing.
Dr. Whitt is Honored for his Book
Dr. Ward Whitt is honored for his book Stochastic Process Limits: An Introduction to Stochastic-Process Limits and Their Applications to Queues. As quoted by INFORMS: "Whitt's book is a lucid treatment not only of traditional heavy traffic limits, built from sums of independent random variables with light tails, but also limits with nonstandard scaling and nonstandard limit processes. These new limits are essential to understanding the long-range dependence structures and heavy tailed distributions that have been observed in evolving communication networks. By accounting for features that were viewed until quite recently as 'nonstandard' or 'esoteric' at best, Whitt's book lays the foundation for the 'queueing theory of the future.'"
Dr. Yao Wins 2003 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
Professor David Yao's "Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control via Semidefinite Programming" has been selected as a winner to receive this year's SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes. The SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes are awarded annually. Three winners are selected each year among all the papers published in the 13 SIAM journals in the four years prior to the year of the award.
Dr. Kou Wins 2002 Erlang Prize
The Applied Probability Society of INFORMS awarded Professor Steven Kou, Columbia University, the 2002 Erlang Prize for outstanding contribution to the field of applied probability.
Dr. C. Derman Wins 2002 John Von Neumann Prize
The 2002 John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences to Donald L. Iglehart and Cyrus Derman.