Call for Best Student Research Paper Award Entries:

To apply:

• Email a brief abstract of your proposed paper to all FSS officers by May 15, 2012. Please also provide keywords.
• Email the complete paper to all FSS officers by July 1, 2012.
• The finalists will be notified by September 1, 2012 and will be invited to present their papers at the INFORMS annual meeting in the fall.
• The winner will be announced at the Financial Services Section business meeting at the INFORMS annual meeting in the fall.
• Electronic submissions are required.

The criteria for selecting recipients of the FSS Best Student Research Paper Award are broad: to recognize research in financial services related areas presented in the form of a completed academic paper. The paper will be evaluated in two aspects:

• academic significance (originality of the work, depth of the presented results and their potential impact on the future research, and identified new areas of research,)
• business relevance (importance of the addressed problem and its impact on practice).

The paper must be written by a student or students enrolled in an academic institution during the academic year preceding the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

• The paper must relate to application of operations research in Financial Services.
• The paper must represent original research conducted primarily by the student and not have been published elsewhere.
• Some assistance by other individuals (such as the student's faculty advisor) is permitted, and the paper may be co-authored with them, as long as the student is the FIRST author.
• The paper should be at most 25 pages long, using Management Science style requirements.
• The paper must be presented in the INFORMS National Conference in the FSS Student Paper session.

Topics for the best student research paper competition include:

• Asset-Liability Modeling
• Behavioral Finance (including News Analytics)
• Credit Risk Modeling
• Credit Risk Management
• Derivatives Pricing and Hedging
• Extreme Risks and Insurance
• Financial Engineering
• Financial Operations Management
• Financial Services
• Liquidity Modeling and Planning
• Operations Management in Banking, Insurance, or Real Estate
• Operational Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Portfolio Optimization
• Risk Management

Officers:

Aparna Gupta
Chair, INFORMS Financial Services Section
http://www.informs.org/Community/FSS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
guptaa@rpi.edu

Chanaka Edirisinghe
Vice-Chair (Optimization)
University of Tennessee
chanaka@utk.edu

Steven Kou
Vice-Chair (Applied Probability)
Columbia University
sk75@columbia.edu

Jim Bander
Vice-Chair (Practice)
Toyota Financial Services
jim.bander@gmail.com

Bruce Moore
Treasurer
ALM Consultant
moorebw@umich.edu

Jim Primbs
Secretary
Stanford University
japrimbs@stanford.edu