Dear SOLA and EWGLA Members,
It is my pleasure to (re-)announce the winners of the awards presented at the SOLA business meeting at INFORMS San Francisco last week:
*Gemma Berenguer* won first place in the the SOLA-Air Products Dissertation Award for her dissertation "A New Approach in Supply Chain Design: Studies in Reverse Logistics and Nonprofit Settings," completed under the supervision of Max Shen at UC-Berkeley. Honorable Mentions went to the authors of two additional outstanding dissertations: *Gina Galindo*, for her dissertation "Prepositioning Supplies in Preparation for a Foreseen Hurricane," supervised by Rajan Batta at SUNY-Buffalo, and *Hans-Peter Ziegler*, for his dissertation "Algorithms for Linear Stochastic Programs and their Application in Supply Chain Network Design Problems" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, supervised by Stefan Nickel (Karlsruhe) and Francisco Saldanha da Gama (U Lisbon).
We presented the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award to two professors who have made enormous contributions to location analysis over their careers, *Mark Daskin* and *Gilbert Laporte*. Mark is chair of the IOE department at Michigan and is author of a number of seminal location theory papers as well as the 1995 textbook /Network and Discrete Location/ (revised in 2013) and has served on a number of editorial boards and as INFORMS President. Gilbert is Professor at HEC Montréal and is author/co-author/editor of over 450 journal articles and 17 books, focusing on location, transportation, and their intersection. As is our tradition, the LALA awards were announced at ISOLDE XIII in Naples/Capri and were officially awarded at the SOLA business meeting.
Please join me in congratulating all of the winners!
Best, Larry