Colleagues:

Please find inline below the Call for Submissions for the SOLA/Air Products Biennial Dissertation Award. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winner(s). Please excuse cross-listings and please distribute widely. Deadline for submissions is June 15.

Regards,

Paola

SOLA - Air Products Biennial Dissertation Award

Call for Submissions

The Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) announces the biennial “SOLA-Air Products Dissertation Award” given to the best dissertation in the area of Location Analysis. Dissertation eligibility is as follows:

a) written in English b) completed between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2013 Please note the two and half year span above. c) primary focus on substantive, theoretical or methodological issues in location analysis and modeling

Completed dissertations from all disciplines, including management science, industrial engineering, transportation science, geography and economics, will be considered. Applicants are required to submit a dissertation package that includes the following as a single PDF file:

1. a cover letter stating the name of their supervisor(s) 2. a letter from their supervisor supporting their submission 3. a two-page summary of their dissertation research 4. a copy of the dissertation

Complete packages should be submitted via e-mail no later than June 15, 2014 to the Chair, SOLA - Air Products Dissertation Award at the following address:

Dr. Trevor S. Hale Department of Management, Marketing, and Business Administration University of Houston - Downtown Email: halet@uhd.edu

Courtesy of Air Products & Chemicals, cash prizes will be awarded to the winner (and, if the committee so decides, runners-up). Competition results and awards will be announced at the INFORMS 2014 annual conference. It is our intent to also have the award winner(s) give talks based on their dissertations during the INFORMS 2014 annual conference.

Questions regarding this competition should be directed to Dr. Hale.

Trevor S. Hale, University of Houston – Downtown, Chair Paola Scaparra, University of Kent Ismail Capar, Texas A&M University

Maria Paola Scaparra Director MSc Management Science and Business Analytics Kent Business School - University of Kent

Phone: +44 (0)1227 824556 E-mail: M.P.Scaparra@kent.ac.uk Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff/scaparra_maria.html