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2021
Katya Scheinberg Appointed Editor-in-Chief
The INFORMS Board of Directors has appointed Katya Scheinberg as the next Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics of Operations Research. Prof. Scheinberg is the Harvey E. Wagner Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University and is a well-respected scholar with formative contributions in continuous optimization and, more recently, in optimization methods in machine learning. She has been awarded the Lagrange Prize, one of the highest distinctions for work in optimization (awarded once every three years to the most influential research in continuous optimization by the Mathematical Optimization Society). She is the current co-editor of Mathematical Programming Series A (having previously served for many years as an associate editor), is on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal of Optimization, and is editor-in-chief of a book series on optimization jointly published by SIAM and the Mathematical Optimization Society. Prof. Scheinberg’s term will commence on January 1, 2019, and continue through December 31, 2021.
2017
In Memoriam
Kenneth Arrow, MOR Advisory Editor and Nobel Prize Winner, Passes Away at 95
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize–winning economist and Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR) advisory editor, passed away on February 21, 2017. He was 95 years old. Arrow was a founding member of MOR in the mid-1970s, with fellow Committee members Robert Aumann, Egon Balas, Richard Barlow, D.R. Fulkerson, Donald Iglehart, R.T. Rockafellar, and Arthur Veinott. They envisioned a journal that would attract the best in theoretical mathematics as relevant to the field of operations research. The committee explained to the Board of Directors:
Some feel operations research is an applied discipline and that the attention of its journals should be restricted to problems of immediate practical interest. While we recognize the importance of practical applications, we also think it is essential to the long run vitality of operations research that support be given to high level innovative mathematical work in the field on difficult and important problems. A deeper understanding of the complexity of decision making in large organizations requires new and sophisticated mathematical ideas. Indeed it is from the insights gained in such work that the applications of tomorrow are likely to draw.
The Board approved the creation of MOR in 1974 and the first issue published in 1976. Arrow’s commitment to the journal was such that he remained an advisory editor for the rest of his life.
Kenneth Arrow’s “Brief Biography”, as well as additional information about him, can be found here.
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Author Spotlight: New Content!
Mathematics of Operations Research is pleased to publish a new interview in our ongoing series In Conversation with..., which focuses on changemakers in operations research who have published in the journal.
In this second article, INFORMS interviews Nobel Prize–winning author and MOR Advisory Board member Alvin E. Roth. Roth and Lloyd Shapley were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics, "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." The following is a short excerpt from Roth's interview:
INFORMS:What is the best advice you can give to students entering the field of operations research?
ROTH:Try to find important problems that you also enjoy working on. It’s not enough merely to work on important problems that are worth solving, you also have to enjoy the work you’re planning to do, because if you don’t enjoy it you are unlikely to be able to work as hard as you will need to.
You can read the Al Roth's full interview, here.
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ORCID
Effective January 1, 2017, INFORMS will require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors submitting articles to INFORMS journals.
ORCID iDs provide unique and persistent digital identifiers that allow authors to easily and reliably link their unique identity with their research, scholarship, and innovations. The ability to connect research and researchers enhances the scientific discovery process and improves the efficiency of research funding and collaboration.
Authors who do not already have an ORCID iD will be prompted to register during their next submission. Registration takes only a few seconds and is seamlessly integrated into each journal’s ScholarOne manuscript submission site.
Learn more about ORCID for individual researchers.
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2015
In Memoriam
Remembering Herbert E. Scarf
Herbert Eli Scarf, a longtime advisor and editor for Mathematics of Operations Research and a distinguished economist known for his seminal work in inventory theory and the computation of fixed points, died on November 15, 2015. Scarf received the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 1973 and the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1983. He published five papers in Mathematics of Operations Research:
- Scarf HE (1985) Integral Polyhedra in Three Space. Math. Oper. Res. 10(3):403-438.
- Kannan R, Lovász L, Scarf HE (1990) The Shapes of Polyhedra. Math. Oper. Res. 15(2):364-380.
- Lovász L, Scarf HE (1992) The Generalized Basis Reduction Algorithm. Math. Oper. Res. 17(3):751-764.
- Scarf HE, Shallcross DF (1993) The Frobenius Problem and Maximal Lattice Free Bodies. Math. Oper. Res. 18(3):511-515.
- Scarf HE, Shallcross DF (1993) Shortest Integer Vectors. Math. Oper. Res. 18(3):516-522.
The following INFORMS webpage provides a brief biography of Scarf, including a link to a New York Times obituary: https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/History-and-Traditions/Biographical-Profiles/Scarf-Herbert-E.
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2014
Yinyu Ye Wins SIAM Optimization Prize for Mathematics of Operations Research Paper
Yinyu Ye has received the 2014 SIAM Optimization Prize for his paper "The Simplex and Policy-Iteration Methods Are Strongly Polynomial for the Markov Decision Problem with a Fixed Discount Rate," published in Mathematics of Operations Research in November 2011.
The SIAM (The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT) Prize, established in 1992, is awarded every three years to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper, as determined by the prize committee, on a topic in optimization published in English in a peer-reviewed journal.
Congratulations to Yinyu.