George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
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2020 First Place
- Nikhil Garg, Stanford University
Purpose of the Award
2020 Committee Chair
Vineet Goyal
Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
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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 2020 applications is July 15, 2020 (extended from June 30) Click below to view more information about eligibility, procedures and deadlines
About the Award/Namesake
George Dantzig
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....
Past Awardees
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