[IISE Faculty List] Announcing the 2023-2024 Undergraduate OR Redistricting Prize

[Buchanan, Austin]

Announcing…the 2023-2024 Undergraduate Operations Research Redistricting Prize!

The competition is open to undergraduate students at U.S. universities who are taking a course in Operations Research (OR). One motivation for the competition is to excite students about the field of OR. To encourage students to participate in the competition, a member of the top-performing team will receive $1,000 in travel support to attend the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting<https://www.informs.org/Meetings-Conferences/INFORMS-Conference-Calendar/2024-INFORMS-Annual-Meeting> in Seattle, WA and compete for the INFORMS Undergraduate OR Prize<https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Undergraduate-Operations-Research-Prize>.

Timeline:

  *   August 2023-May 2024. Instructors of undergrad OR courses in fall 2023 or spring 2024 are invited to use redistricting as a course project. Pre-register your class by sending an email to buchanan at okstate.edu. Registrants will receive districting-related course materials (e.g., project descriptions, grading rubrics, homework questions, class activities, data files).
  *   May 31, 2024. Deadline for instructors to nominate one team by submitting the team’s project documents to buchanan at okstate.edu.
  *   June 1-15, 2024. Judges will have two weeks to score the submissions and select a winner.
  *   June 16, 2024. The winner will be notified, giving them two weeks to finalize their submission for the INFORMS Undergraduate OR Prize<https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Undergraduate-Operations-Research-Prize> (whose deadline is usually June 30th).
  *   October 20-23, 2024. INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.

Helpful Resources:

  *   A collection of OR Redistricting Resources<https://austinlbuchanan.github.io/OR-redistricting-resources/>
  *   A GitHub repo with example districting codes<https://github.com/AustinLBuchanan/Districting-Examples-2020>
  *   A survey on optimization methods for political districting<https://austinlbuchanan.github.io/files/political_districting_June20.pdf>
  *   Instructors can email buchanan at okstate.edu to request course materials (e.g., project descriptions, grading rubrics, homework questions, class activities, data files)

Organizer:

  *   Austin Buchanan, Oklahoma State University

Judges:

  *   Jeanne N. Clelland<https://math.colorado.edu/~jnc/>, University of Colorado
  *   Adolfo Escobedo<https://scai.engineering.asu.edu/faculty/adolfo-escobedo/>, Arizona State University
  *   Soraya Ezazipour<https://sorayaezazipour.github.io/>, Oklahoma State University
  *   Cyrus Hettle<https://sites.gatech.edu/cyrushettle/>, Georgia Tech
  *   Robert Hildebrand<https://sites.google.com/site/robertdhildebrand/>, Virginia Tech
  *   Ian Ludden<https://ian-ludden.github.io/>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  *   Brendan Ruskey<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brendan-Ruskey>, Lehigh University
  *   Maral Shahmizad<https://maralshahmizad.github.io/MaralShahmizad/>, Oklahoma State University
  *   Hamidreza Validi<https://sites.google.com/site/hamidrezavalidi2/home>, Texas Tech University
  *   Jose L. Walteros<https://www.researchgamma.com/group_current.html>, University at Buffalo


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