Call for Nominations: 2010 Erlang Prize
The Applied Probability Society of INFORMS (APS) is currently soliciting nominations for the
2010 award of the bi-annual Erlang Prize. The Erlang Prize is awarded to a young
researcher who has made outstanding contributions to applied probability. It is a prestigious
award, providing recognition for exceptional achievement in the early stage of one's career.
The previous winners are: Dimitris Bertsimas, Xiuli Chao, Jim Dai, David Gamarnik, Paul
Glasserman, Steven Kou, Balaji Prabhakar, Kavita Ramanan, David Tse, Larry Wein, and
Bert Zwart.
The prize consists of a plaque and a $1000 check. The Prize will be awarded at the
INFORMS annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The winner will be notified approximately one
month prior to the meeting. Presentation of the Prize will be made by a member of the APS
Awards Committee.
This year's Awards Committee consists of Onno Boxma (chair), Paul Glasserman, and
Alexander Stolyar. The rules that govern the prize can be found at
http://appliedprob.society.informs.org/awards/erlang.html
Briefly, the rules are as follows:
1. eligible are researchers not more than 9 years beyond receiving a PhD degree
(a candidate who received his or her first PhD or an equivalent degree anytime in
year X is eligible for the award through year X + 9)
2. nominations can be made by anyone,
3. nominations consist of a description of the significance of the nominee's work and
supporting documents,
4. nominations should be sent to each member of the Awards Committee at the
addresses listed below by August 15th, 2010 (nominations will be held in confidence),
and
5. decisions of the Awards Committee are final.
Prof. Onno Boxma
Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Den Dolech 2
5612 AZ EINDHOVEN
The Netherlands
Email: boxma@win.tue.nl
Prof. Paul Glasserman
Columbia Business School
Columbia University
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
USA
Email: pg20@columbia.edu
Dr. Alexander Stolyar
Mathematics of Networks and Complex Systems Group
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Room MH 2C-376, 600 Mountain Ave
Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
E-mail: stolyar@research.bell-labs.com