George Nicholson Student Paper Competition - Application Process

The George Nicholson Committee competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student.

The following conditions must be satisfied for eligibility:

• The entrant must have been a student on or after December 1, 2010;
• The paper must present original research results(a summary of multiple papers is not eligible);
• The research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
• The paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance;
• An entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
• The paper must not have won a prize (1st-2nd) in a previous Nicholson Competition.
• One or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the "first author."

Prizes will be awarded and finalists will be invited to present their papers at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in November 2011.

Paper Format: The paper must use double spacing, 11 pt (or larger) font, and 1 inch (or larger) margins (left, right, top, and bottom). The entire paper (including bibliography, appendices, figures, etc.) must not exceed 25 pages and, except for those containing references, each page should contain no more than *26 lines of text.
*This has been changed from the original 35 to avoid confusion.

Submission Procedures for 2011:

• All student entrants must register for an "easychair" account through: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi?iid=37847
• Once registered, entrants should use the submission page:
  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicholson2011

A complete entry consists of:

(1) an electronic pdf file of one self-contained paper in the specified format (papers not satisfying the format will not be accepted);

(2) an electronic pdf file of a letter (the required attachment) signed by both a faculty advisor and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions have been satisfied by the entrant and the paper.

Note that the faculty advisor must explicitly comment upon and specify the percentage of contribution of the student in a. defining the problem and initiating the research that resulted in the paper; b. in conducting the research itself that resulted in the paper; c. in writing the paper.

All entries must be submitted using "easychair" no later than May 31, 2011.
Applicants are strongly advised to check the INFORMS website for submission information.

2011 Committee Chair:

Mor Armony
New York University
44 West 4th Street #8-62
New York, NY 10012 U.S.A.
voice: +1 212-998-0291
fax: +1 212-995-4227
email: marmony@stern.nyu.edu