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Dissertation Award

To stimulate interest in telecommunications among young researchers, the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications funds a dissertation competition with a cash prize. Finalists present their dissertation research at the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference before a panel of judges selected by the Section. Dissertations are evaluated based on their specific contributions in the use of quantitative and analytical or OR techniques in addressing existing and future problems recognized to be valuable to the field of telecommunications. The competition is announced in conjunction with each Telecommunications Conference.

Past winners include:
2002 Andreas Eisenblätter, Zuse Institut Berlin (ZIB), Germany
  Fan Zhang, Columbia University, U.S.A.
2004 Alexander Hall, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Ramesh Johari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Call for Nominations for 2008 Award

  

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