| Doctoral Dissertation Award for
Operations Research in Telecommunications
2008 Award
Sponsored by The Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
Nominations are requested for the Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications awarded by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications at its biennial conference. The award aims to recognize outstanding scholarly achievements of young people in the field. The Award will be judged based upon three aspects: recommendation by the nominee's dissertation advisor, presentation of the dissertation at the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (March 27-29, 2008, College Park, MD, U.S.A.), and the written dissertation itself.
Instructions to Nominees:
Each nominee must send by November 30, 2007
(1) a 10 page extended abstract of the dissertation, and
(2) a letter of recommendation by the dissertation advisor to
Professor Anant Balakrishnan
IROM Department, CBA 5.202
1 University Station B6500
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-0212, U.S.A
e-mail: anantb AT mail.utexas.edu
Please include a cover letter that provides contact information for both the nominee and the dissertation advisor, the name of the academic institution and department granting the doctoral degree, and the department’s acceptance date of the dissertation. Electronic submissions to “anantb AT mail.texas.edu” are preferred. In case of hardcopy submissions please make sure to send five copies of the extended abstract and the letter of recommendation.
The letter of recommendation by the dissertation advisor should clearly indicate the specific contribution(s) the dissertation has made in the use of quantitative methods and analytical or operations research techniques to address important existing and future problems in the field of telecommunications. The letter should discuss why the dissertation is considered innovative, and why the research is relevant and valuable for telecommunications researchers and practitioners. The nominated dissertation must have been accepted by the academic PhD committee of the nominee no earlier than April 1, 2005 and no later than November 30, 2007. All items must reach the chair of the award selection committee by November 30, 2007.
Those who are selected as finalists will receive notification in late January. Each finalist will then be asked to submit five copies of the dissertation to the Award Committee Chair.
Each finalist must also present a synopsis of his/her dissertation to the Award Selection Committee at the Ninth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference to be held March 27-29 on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park (see http://telecom.section.informs.org/conference08). The exact schedule of presentations will be provided in the conference program, to appear in late January 2008 on the conference web site. The winner will be awarded $1000, to be presented at the conference. |
The 9th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
