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 of the previous year under consideration;
• 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;
• One or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student's contributions must make up the majority of the paper. The advisor (or nominator) must explicitly comment upon and specify in a letter the percentage of contribution of the student;
  • in defining the problem and initiating the research that resulted in the paper;
  • in conducting the research itself that resulted in the paper;
  • in writing the paper.
• An entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition. More than one entrant per paper is allowed as long as they are eligible;
• The paper must not have won a prize (1st-2nd) in a previous Nicholson Competition;

Paper formatting requirements:

• The paper must use double spacing, 11 pt (or larger) font, and 1 inch (or larger) margins (left, right, top and bottom)
• The paper must be of standard letter size (A4 will not be accepted)
• The entire paper (including title, abstract, authors names and affiliations, bibliography, appendices, figures, etc.) must not exceed 25 pages, and except for those containing references, each page should contain no more than 30 lines of text

Prizes will be awarded and finalists will be invited to present their papers at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Submission Procedures for 2012:

• 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: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicholson2012

A complete entry consists of:

• an electronic PDF file of one self-contained paper in the specified format (papers not satisfying the format will not be accepted);
• 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, 2012.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 5, 2012
Applicants are strongly advised to check the INFORMS website for submission information.

2012 Committee Chair:

Ashish Goel
Stanford University
Huang Engineering Center
475 Via Ortega, Rm. 359
Stanford, CA 94305-4121 U.S.A.
voice: +1 650-814-1478
fax: +1 650-723-1614
email: ashishg@stanford.edu