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Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award - Application Process

Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award - Application Process

There is no formal application process for this award.

2018-2019 Committee Chair

Margaret Brandeau
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
email: brandeau@stanford.edu

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Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award

The Lectureship is awarded in honor of Philip McCord Morse in recognition of his pioneer contribution to the field of operations research and the management sciences. The award is given in odd-numbered years at the Annual Meeting if there is a suitable recipient. The term of the lectureship is two years. The award is $2,000, a certificate, a travel fund of $5,000, a copy of Morse's autobiography, In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life, and a copy of Morse and Kimball's Methods of Operations Research.

Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award - Application Process

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