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The
Tucker Prize
call
for nominations citations 2006 past
winners
The
A.W. Tucker Prize was established by the Society in 1985, and was
first awarded at the Thirteenth Symposium in 1988. It is awarded at
each Symposium for an outstanding paper or thesis solely authored by
a student, graduate or undergraduate. The nominations are screened by
an Awards Committee and at most three finalists are chosen. The
finalists and winner are announced at the opening session of the
Symposium, at which time the Prize is awarded. The finalists are
expected to give oral presentations of their work at a special
session of the Symposium. The Society will pay partial travel
expenses for each finalist to attend the Symposium. Members of the
Society are encouraged to contact the chair of the prize committee
for further information or to submit nominations. Nominations of
students who have not yet received the first university degree are
especially welcome.
The
paper or thesis may concern any aspect of mathematical
programming; it may be original research, an exposition or survey, a
report on computer routines and computing experiments, or a
presentation of a new and ingenious application. The paper or thesis
must be solely authored, and completed since the beginning of the
calendar year in which the preceding Symposium was held. The paper or
thesis, and the work on which it is based, should have been
undertaken and completed in conjunction with a degree program.
Nominations must be made in writing to the Chairman of the Awards
Committee by a faculty member at the institution where the nominee
was studying for a degree when the paper was completed. Letters of
nomination must be accompanied by four copies each of: the student's
paper or thesis; a separate summary of the paper's or thesis'
contributions, written by the nominee, and no more than two pages in
length; and a brief biographical sketch of the nominee. The Awards
Committee may request additional information. Nominations and the
accompanying documentation are due six months prior to the beginning
of the symposium, and must be written in a language acceptable to the
Awards Committee.
Read the call for
nominations. The
Awards Committee will select the finalists and winner at least
three months prior to the beginning of the Symposium. It will notify
the Chair of the Society and the Chair of the Executive Committee at
that time. Selection will be based on the significance of the
contribution, the skillfulness of the development, and the quality of
the exposition.
The
Society will solicit contributions to an endowment for the prize.
The
winner will receive an award of $750 (U.S.) and a certificate. The
other finalist(s) will also receive certificates. The Society will
also pay partial travel expenses for each finalist to attend the
symposium. These reimbursements will be limited in accordance with
the amount of endowment income available. A limit in the range from
$500 to $750 (U.S.) is likely. The institutions from which the nominations
originate will be encouraged to assist any nominee selected as a
finalist with additional travel expense reimbursement.
The
Awards Committee will have five members, including a chair, all
appointed by the Chair of the Society. The members will serve staggered
terms covering two successive symposia, with two or three members
retiring after each symposium.
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| Past Winners of the Tucker Prize | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Winners | Other Finalists | Jury |
| 1988 | Andrew Goldberg | Bland, Kuhn, Tucker II, Wolsey | |
| 1991 | Michel Goemans | Leslie Hall, Mark Hartmann | Cottle, Liebling, Tapia, Tucker II |
| 1994 | David Williamson | Dick Den Hertog, Jiming Liu | Conn, Cunningham, Gonzaga, Liebling, Vial |
| 1997 | David Karger | Jim Geelen, Luis Nunes Vicente | Anstreicher, Burkard, Nocedal, Vial, Williamson |
| 2000 | Bertrand Guenin | Kamal Jain, Fabian Chudak | Anstreicher, Burkard, den Hertog, Karger, Lee |
| 2003 | Tim Roughgarden | Pablo Parrilo, Jiming Peng | Rainer Burkard (Chair), Thomas McCormick, Jos Sturm and Leslie Trotter |
| 2006 | Uday V. Shanbhag | Jos Rafael Correa, Dion Gijswijt | Thomas McCormick (Chair), Monique Laurent, Jong-Shi Pang, Rüdiger Schultz |
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