Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 2008

FIRST PLACE

Team: Netherlands Railways
Paper: The New Dutch Timetable: The O.R. Revolution
Laureates: Erwing Abbink - Netherlands Railways
Pieter-Jan Fioole - Netherlands Railways
Matteo Fisschetti - Double-Click SAS
Dennis Huisman - Netherlands Railways
Leo Kroon - Erasmus University Rotterdam
Gabor Maróti - Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Lex Schrijver - Netherlands Railways
Adri Steenbeek - Netherlands Railways
Roelof Ybema - Netherlands Railways

FINALISTS

Team: City of Stockholm, Sweden
Paper: Operations Research (O.R.) Improve Quality and Efficiency in Home Health Care
Laureates: Maria Delbom - Linköping Municipality
Helga Einarsdottir - City of Stockholm, Sweden
Mats Eklund - Tieto Enator
Patrik Eveborn - Optimal Solutions
Mikael Rönnqvist - Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration
Team: Federal Aviation Administration
Paper: Airspace Flow Program
Laureates: Michael Brennan - Metron Aviation
Lorne Cass - Federal Aviation Administration
Michael Cirillo - Federal Aviation Administration
Ken Howard - Federal Aviation Administration
Miro Lehky - Federal Aviation Administration
James Oiesen - Volpe Center, U.S. Department of Transportation
Ved Sud - Federal Aviation Administration
Midori Tanino - Federal Aviation Administration
James Wetherly - Federal Aviation Administration
Team: StatoilHydro and Gassco
Paper: Optimizing the Offshore Pipeline System for Natural Gas in the North Sea
Laureates: Marte Fodstad - Gassco
Lars Hellemo - SINTEF
Frode Rømo - SINTEF
Asgeir Tomasgard - StatoilHydro
Team: StatoilHydro and Gassco
Paper: Optimizing the Offshore Pipeline System for Natural Gas in the North Sea
Laureates: Marte Fodstad - Gassco
Lars Hellemo - SINTEF
Frode Rømo - SINTEF
Asgeir Tomasgard - StatoilHydro
Team: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Paper: Reducing Security Risk in American Drinking Water Systems
Laureates: Terra Baranowski - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jonathan Berry - Sandia National Laboratory
Erik Boman - Sandia National Laboratory
Robert Carr - Sandia National Laboratory
Kim Fox - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
George Gray - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
William Hart - Sandia National Laboratory
Jonathan Herman - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Robert Janke - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Kevin Morley - American Water Works Associaton
Regan Murray - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Cynthia Phillips - Sandia National Laboratory
Lee Ann Riesen - Sandia National Laboratory
Thomas Taxon - Argonne National Laboratory
James Uber - University of Cincinnati
Jean-Paul Watson - Sandia National Laboratory
Team: Xerox
Paper: LDP Lean Document Production® - Dramatic Productivity Improvements for the Printing Industry
Laureates: Charles Duke - Xerox
Vaughn Lowe - Xerox
Cyndi Quan-Trotter - Xerox
Sudhendu Rai - Xerox
Thomas Scheermessen - Xerox

Interfaces Edelman Award Special Issue

Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Interfaces features the Edelman papers! Read these inspiring examples of major difference-making O.R. projects.

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