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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">The Harvey J Greenberg Research Award is a recently established annual award that honors research excellence in the field of computation and operations research applications, especially those in
emerging application fields. Honored research would focus on contributions that exhibit the promise of making a significant impact in the scope of OR/MS/Analytics practice. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium. The award will be
presented at the Informs Computing Society (ICS) Business Meeting that will take place during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, October 20-23, 2024. The winner is expected to make their own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting. For more details
on this award and its generous sponsors, check out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">The deadline for nominations is 11:59 pm EDT, July 1st, 2024.<br>
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Conditions for eligibility:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">* At least one author on a submitted paper must be an INFORMS member. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">* Individuals who won the ICS Prize within two years of the submission date, or who are chosen to win the ICS Prize in the current award year, are ineligible for the award.<br>
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Nomination process:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">A submission for this award consists of (1) a single research paper and (2) a summary statement prepared for the award committee. The paper must have been accepted for publication at the time of
submission in a refereed journal, book, or conference proceeding. If published, the paper must have appeared in the literature in the year of the award or in the two calendar years preceding the award year. The summary statement must be a brief (no more than
200 words) statement summarizing the innovation and impact of the submitted paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">All nominations should be submitted electronically to <a href="mailto:ics.greenberg.award@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003087">ics.greenberg.award@gmail.com</span></a> by 11:59
pm EDT, July 1, 2024. All submissions will be acknowledged by the committee chair. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#202225">The 2024 Harvey J Greenberg Research Award Committee members, who are former ICS prize winners, are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora">Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy, Chair (Virginia Tech)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#202225;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora">Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin-Madison)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#202225;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora">Zeyu Liu (West Virginia University)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#202225;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora">Hamidreza Validi (Texas Tech University)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#202225;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora">Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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