A. W. TUCKER PRIZE
The A.W. Tucker Prize will be presented at each International Symposium of the Society for an outstanding paper authored by a student. All students, graduate or undergraduate, are eligible. Nominations of students who have not yet received the first university degree are espeically welcome. In advance of the symposium an Awards Committee will screen the nominations and select at most three finalists. The finalists will be invited, but not required, to give oral presentations at a special sessionof the symposium. The Awards Committee will select the winner and present the award prior to the conclusion of the symposium.
Eligibility
The paper may concern any aspect of mathematical programming; it may be original research, an exposition or survey, a report on computer routines and computing experiments, or a presentation of a new and ingenious application. The paper must be solely authored, and completed since the beginning of the calendar year in which the preceding symposium was held. The paper and the work on which it is based should have been undertaken and completed in conjunction with a degree program.
Nominations
Nominations must be made in writing to the Chairman of the Awards Committee by a faculty member at the institution where the nominee was studying for a degree when the paper was completed. Letters of nomination must be accompanied by four copies each of: the student's paper; a separate summary of the paper's contributions, written by the nominee, and no more than two pages in length; and a brief biographical sketch of the nominee. The Awards Committee may request additional information. Nominations and the accompanying documentation are due seven months prior to the beginning of the symposium, and must be written in a language acceptable to the Awards Committee.
The 2000 committee requests that nominators send one copy of the nominated work, description of the work's contribution, and biographical sketch directly to each member of the committee. The nominating letter should be sent directly to the committee chair.
The deadline for the 2000 prize is February 1, 2000.
Tucker Prize Committee
Chair Prof. Kurt M. Anstreicher (Chair)
Dept. of Management Sciences
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52252, USA
kurt-anstreicher@uiowa.edu
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