Minutes of the Applied Probability Society's Business Meeting
Austin, November 8, 2010
Submitted by: Hayriye Ayhan
1. Sunil Kumar opened the meeting at 6:30pm.
2. Sunil Kumar announced that Soren Asmussen and Peter Glynn won the
INFORMS 2010 John von Neumann Theory Prize and Larry Wein won the
INFORMS 2010 George E. Kimball medal. Sunil Kumar also
acknowledged that Bo Zhang (a Ph.D. student in the School of Industrial
and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech) won the INFORMS George
Nicholson student paper competition.
3. Prize committee composed of Onno Boxma (chair), Paul Glasserman, and
Sasha Stolyar awarded the Erlang prize to Jose Blanchet (of Columbia
University) and Devavrat Shah (of MIT).
4. Mark Lewis (of Cornell University) was elected as the vice chair.
5. Sunil Kumar thanked departing council members Victor Araman and Alan
Scheller-Wolf. Sunil Kumar also thanked Rene Caldentey and Huseyin
Topaloglu for organizing the APS cluster at the Austin meeting.
6. Achal Bassamboo and Hanqin Zhang were elected as new members of
the APS council.
7. Sunil Kumar announced that Assaf Zeevi will be replacing Paul
Glasserman in the awards committee.
8. Hayriye Ayhan (secretary/treasurer of APS) has reported that as of June
30, 2010 APS has $127,291.89.
9. Sunil Kumar thanked Mariana Olvera-Cravioto (webmaster) for converting
the APS website to the format required by INFORMS.
10. Sunil Kumar encouraged the APS members attending the meeting to
submit papers to the Stochastic Systems journal published by INFORMS
Applied Probability Society in co-operation with IMS.
11. Marty Reiman is the co-chair of 2011 INFORMS APS meeting which will
be held from July 6--8, at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) campus in
Stockholm, Sweden. Abstract submission deadline is March 1st, 2011.
The conference website is
http://www.informs.org/Community/Conferences/APS2011
12. Sunil Kumar has mentioned that APS was approached by Springer to
participate in two encyclopedias. The first concerns StatProb, a free online
encyclopedia of statistics and probability. APS was invited to join the
Editorial Board. Springer will host the site and ten societies so far have
agreed to form the editorial board. While there is no financial burden
expected on APS, APS will need INFORMS permission to sign the
contract. Tom Kurtz and Tom Liggett have encouraged APS to join the
Editorial Board of this encyclopedia.
The second concerns a hardcopy encyclopedia/handbook. The model
here would be that APS would nominate an Editor-in-Chief, and the
Applied Probability Trust would appoint another. Soren Asmussen has
agreed to be one of the main editors of the encyclopedia. APS would bear
no financial liability in the project. In turn, Springer would give APS some
of the royalty income from this endeavor. APS will again need INFORMS
permission to sign the contract. Members present in the meeting
discussed the possibility of joining these two options and voted to
participate in option 2.
13. Cathy Xia announced that there will be a INFORMS regional conference
at Ohio State University, August 1-2, 2011. The conference website is
http://meetings.informs.org/RegionalMidwestern2011
14. Sunil Kumar announced that Shane Henderson is the new chair of APS.
The society thanked Sunil Kumar for his years of service as APS chair.
15. The meeting was adjourned at 7:15.