In 2005, the Applied Probability Society initiated the annual Markov Lecture, to be delivered in the Autumn of each year at the INFORMS National Meeting. The intent is to both honor the associated speaker and to bring to the APS membership topical work of the highest calibre in our discipline. The Markov Lecturer is selected by a committee consisting of the APS Prize Committee for the year in question and the APS track organizers involved in organizing that year's INFORMS conference.

Year	Lecturer	Affiliation	Topic	Discussants
2011	Francois Baccelli	ENS and INRIA	Routing on Point Processes	David Gamarnik Devavrat Shah
2010	Ward Whitt	Columbia University	Multiserver Queues with Time-Varying Arrival Rates	Galit Tom-Yov Bill Massey
2009	John N. Tsitsiklis	MIT	Information Aggregation and Consensus in Networks Part I Part II Part III	Ben Van Roy Vivek Borkar
2008	Steve Shreve	CMU	Mixing Models to Capture Stock Price Volatility	Paul Glasserman Ronnie Sircar
2007	Ruth Williams	UCSD	Stochastic Networks with Resource Sharing	Kavita Ramanan Mark Squillante
2006	Bruce Hajek	UIUC	On Connections between Network Coding and Stochastic Network Theory: An Introduction	Michael Mitzenmacher R.W.R. Darling
2005	Avi Mandelbaum	Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology	QED Q’s: Quality & Efficiency Driven Telephone Call/Contact Centers	Ger Koole Marty Reiman