2023 Winner(s)
- Alper Atamturk, University of California - Berkeley
Purpose of the Award
The Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2006 and is awarded annually at the fall INFORMS Annual Meeting to a mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization, over the course of their career. Such contributions could include papers (published or submitted and accepted), books, monographs, and software. The awardee will be within 25 years of their terminal degree as of January 1 of the year of the award. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of colleagues in the middle of their career.
The award includes a cash amount of $3,000 and a citation certificate. The award winner(s) will be invited to give a twenty-five minute presentation at the fall INFORMS Annual Meeting in the year of the award. The winner will be responsible for all travel expenses associated with attending the INFORMS meeting.
Application Process
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About the Award/Namesake
Gyula (Julius) Farkas was a famous Hungarian mathematician and theoretical physicist, whose name is best known to optimizers and O.R. specialists because of his theory of linear inequalities. He also obtained fundamental results in analytical mechanics in that he gave necessary condition for the equilibrium of a mechanical system, where the states are constrained by inequalities...