2023 Winner(s)
- Hannah Li , Columbia Business School
Purpose of the Award
2023 Committee Co-Chairs
The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award has been established to encourage academic research that combines theory and practice and stimulates greater interaction between doctoral students (and their advisors) and the world of practice. The award is given at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Application Process
The deadline to submit 2024 applications is June 30, 2024. Click below to view more information about eligibility, procedures and deadlines
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About the Award/Namesake
The son of a mathematician, George Bernard Dantzig was born in Portland, Oregon on November 8, 1914. His father, Tobias Dantzig, had been born in Latvia but, after being caught distributing anti-Tsarist propaganda, fled to Paris, where he studied under Henri Poincaré and met Anja Ourisson, then at the Sorbonne....