Erlang Prize
Purpose of the Award
The Applied Probability Society of INFORMS (APS) is currently soliciting nominations for the 2012 award of the bi-annual Erlang Prize. The Erlang Prize is awarded to a young researcher who has made outstanding contributions to applied probability. It is a prestigious award, providing recognition for exceptional achievement in the early stage of one's career.
The prize consists of a plaque and a $1000 check. The Prize will be awarded at the INFORMS annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The winner will be notified approximately one month prior to the meeting. Presentation of the Prize will be made by a member of the APS Awards Committee.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | Winner Ton Dieker, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Eindhoven University of Technology , Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Eindhoven | |
| 2010 | Winner Jose Blanchet, Columbia University |
| Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2008 | Winner Bert Zwart, Georgia Institute of Technology, Industrial & Systems Engineering |
| 2006 | Winner Kavita Ramanan, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences |
| 2004 | Winner David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management |
| 2002 | Winner Steven Kou, Columbia University |
| 2000 | Winner Balaji Prabharkar, Stanford University David Tse, University of California - Berkeley |
| 1998 | Winner Xiuli Chao, University of Michigan Jim Dai, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 1996 | Winner Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Applied Mathematics Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paul Glasserman, Columbia University |
| 1994 |
Winner
Lawrence M. Wein,
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |

