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The George B. Dantzig Prize is awarded to Hedy Attouch for his fundamental contributions to modern variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization, including new notions of variational convergence, the introduction of novel topologies for the study of quantitative stability of variational systems, and their application in algorithm design and analysis, dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
Selection Committee
Jorge Nocedal (Chair)
Michael Hintermueller
Monique Laurent
Jong-Shi Pang
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The George B. Dantzig Prize is awarded to Michel Goemans for his outstanding contributions to the field of combinatorial optimization; most notably, the initiation of new research directions, introduction of novel and deep techniques, and ingenious use of sampling, rounding, and geometric ideas to significantly advance several fields, including the pioneering use of semi-definite programming for the design of approximation algorithms.
Selection Committee
Jorge Nocedal (Chair)
Michael Hintermueller
Monique Laurent
Jong-Shi Pang
Selection Committee
Gerard Cornuejols (Chair)
Monique Laurent
Jorge Nocedal
Michael Overton
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Dimitri Bertsekas has been a leading force in optimization over many years. He has made highly original and fundamental contributions to dynamic programming, analysis and development of augmented Lagrangian methods, auction and relaxation methods for linear network optimization, deterministic and stochastic techniques in systems and control, first-order methods, parallel and distributed optimization, and several other areas. He has also been involved in applications of optimization to energy production systems and data network communications. Through scholarly papers, research monographs, and textbooks, his work has influenced several generations of optimization researchers, and continues to have a major impact on the field.
Selection Committee
Margaret H. Wright (Chair)
John Birge
Laurence Wolsey
Stephen J. Wright
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Jorge Nocedal has made fundamental contributions to the theory of nonlinear optimization methods, has developed new algorithms that expand the range of efficiently solvable optimization models, and has created widely distributed software that enables new developments in numerous application areas.
Selection Committee
John R. Birge (Chair)
Gerard P. Cornuejols
Yurii E. Nesterov
Eva Tardos
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Laurence Wolsey has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of mathematical optimization, contributing significantly to foundational understanding of the geometry of mixed integer programs, to duality theory in discrete optimization, and to the development of effective new methods for a variety of applications, particularly in production planning and scheduling.
Selection Committee
John R. Birge (Chair)
Gerard P. Cornuejols
Yurii E. Nesterov
Eva Tardos
Selection Committee
Jong-Shi Pang (Chair)
Yurii E. Nesterov
Alexander Schrijver
Eva Tardos
Selection Committee
Robert E. Bixby (Chair)
Arkadi S. Nemirovski
Jong-Shi Pang
Alexander Schrijver
Selection Committee
William H. Cunningham (Chair)
Emeritus Olvi Mangasaria
Laurence A. Wolsey
2000 Yurii Nesterov
1997 Stephen Robinson
1997 Roger Fletcher
1994 Claude Lemarechal
1994 Roger Wets
1991 Martin Groetschel
1991 Arkadi Nemirovski
1988 Michael J. Todd
1985 Ellis L. Johnson
1982 Michael J. D. Powell
1982 R. T. Rockafellar