Dear Colleagues,

I'm happy to announce the SOLA Dissertation Award recipients. We have 2 winners and 1 honorable mention this year.

Winners: Kien Trung Nguyen, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Advisors: Horst W. Hamacher and Rainer E. Burkard Marcus Sinnl, University of Vienna, Advisors: Ivana Ljubic and Immanuel Bomze

Honorable mention: Fan Jia, University of Minnesota, Advisor: John Gunnar Carlsson

The award committee consisted of myself as chair, Vladimir Marianov, and Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama.

I'd like to thank the award committee and congratulate the award recipients once again. Attached you may find a photo from the award ceremony held during the SOLA Annual Business Meeting

Best regards, Sibel

Sibel Alumur Alev, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Management Sciences University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 CANADA tel: +1-519-888-4567, ext. 33365 e-mail: sibel.alumur@uwaterloo.camailto:sibel.alumur@uwaterloo.ca url: http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/~salumura/