SOLA - Air Products Bi-Annual Dissertation Award
2012 First Place:
Gisela Bardossy ,
University of Maryland
Winning material:
Dual-Based Local Search for Deterministic, Stochastic, and Robust Variants of the Connected Facility Location Problem
Purpose of the Award
A competition for the annual dissertation prize on location related research. The winners will be invited to present their work in a special session during the INFORMS national meeting where the prizes will be awarded.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Gisela Bardossy , University of Maryland |
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| Honorable Mention Federico Liberatore, University of Kent | |
| 2009 | First Place Sebastian Velten, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Finalist Michael Lim, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Ho-Yin Mak, University of California-Berkeley | |
| 2007 | First Place Boglarka Toth, University of Almeria |
| Finalist Elrem Alper Murat, McGill University | |
| Roger Lezhou Zhan, University of Florida | |
| 2005 | First Place Beryl Castello, Johns Hopkins University |
| Finalist Qi Liu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | |
| Leyla Ozsen, Northwestern University | |
| 2003 | First Place Monica Gentili, Universita Di Roma, Italy |
| Finalist Patricia Dominguez-Marin, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | |
| Lawrence Snyder , Northwestern University | |
| 2001 | First Place Bahar Yetis Kara, Bilkent University |
| 1999 | First Place David R. Mazu, Johns Hopkins University |
| Second Place Susan Hesse Owen, Northwestern University | |
| Third Place James W. George, Johns Hopkins University | |
| 1995 | First Place Ana Isabel Martins Botto de Barros, Erasmus Universiteit |
| 1993 | First Place Russell D. Meller, University of Michigan |
| Second Place Shiv Kumar, Stanford University | |
| Third Place Terri Anne Johnson, Clemson University | |
| Honorable Mention John Cooper Fortney, University of Iowa | |
| 1992 | First Place Ingrid Bongartz, University of Waterloo |
| Second Place Karen Aardal, University Catholique de Louvain | |
| Third Place Dilip Chhajed, Purdue University | |
| 1991 | First Place Fernando Mata, The Ohio State University |
| Runner-Up Eric Kosiba, Purdue University | |
| Shuzhong Zhang, Erasmus University |
