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