Prize History

Citation

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

Citation

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

Citation

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

Citation

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

Citation

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