ÿþ<html><head><title>Anna Valicek Medal</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="award_home.jsp_files/css.css" type="text/css"> <style> body {SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR: #E3E5E8; SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #AFB8C7; SCROLLBAR-SHADOW-COLOR: #E3E5E8; SCROLLBAR-3DLIGHT-COLOR: #E3E5E8; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR:#000000; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #AFB8C7; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #AFB8C7; } </style></head><body leftmargin="15" bgcolor="#e3e5e8" marginheight="15" marginwidth="15" text="#000000"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <table class="black" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_back.gif" width="1%"> <font size="2"> <img src="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_left.gif" height="22" width="8"></font></td> <td background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_back.gif" nowrap="nowrap" width="11%"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="1">Anna Valicek Medal 2011 </font></b> </div> </td> <td background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_right_back.gif" width="79%"> <font size="2"> <img src="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_right.gif" height="22" width="14"></font></td> <td align="right" background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_right_back.gif" width="9%"> <font size="2"> <img src="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_title_right2.gif" height="22" width="6"></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td bgcolor="#b1b6be" width="0%"> <font size="2"> <img src="award_home.jsp_files/shim.gif" height="1" width="1"> </font> </td> <td class="black" bgcolor="#cbd0d7" width="100%"> <table align="left" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="black"> <table> <tbody><tr> <td class="black"> <p> <font color="#990000"> <b><font size="1">Innovative Research in the area of Airline Operations Research </font></b> </font> <font size="1"> <br> The Anna Valicek Medal is for original and innovative research in the application of Operations Research to civil airline and/or civil airline related business problems. This annual award is sponsored by the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (AGIFORS). This award honors the late Anna Valicek who served for many years as a member of the AGIFORS council. </font> </p> <p> <font size="1">Applicants for this award must be a registered graduate student pursuing either a masters of science, masters of business administration, or doctoral degree with a research thesis in the area of operations research, engineering systems, air transportation or management science. Derivatives of existing published works are acceptable, provided that at least some of the material comprises new, original contributions on the part of the graduate student. Submitter grants AGIFORS the right to publish the work on the AGIFORS website. </font> </p> <p> <font size="1">After the paper submission is closed, the review committee will select two papers as finalists for the Anna Valicek Medal. Both finalists are invited to present their work at the AGIFORS symposium (air transportation, accommodations and symposium fees are sponsored). The AGIFORS community, represented by the symposium attendants, will get opportunities to ask questions. On this symposium the AGIFORS council selected the winner. The winner will receive the Silver Anna Valicek Medal and a <b>US $2,500</b> award. The other finalist will receive the Bronze Anna Valicek Medal and a US $500 award.</font></p></td> <td> <font size="1"> <img src="medals.jpg" border="0"></font></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="black"> <b><font size="1">The submission deadline for the 2009 Anna Valicek Award is May, 15, 2010, 18:00 EDT.</font></b><p><font size="1"><b>Submission Criteria:</b></font></p> <ul> <li><font size="1">The work must be original innovative research in the application of operations research to civil airline and/or civil airline related business problems. We do accept work in progress.</font></li> <li><font size="1">The applicant must be a registered graduate student pursuing either a masters of science, masters of business administration, or doctoral degree with a research thesis in the area of operations research, engineering systems, air transportation or management science. </font></li> <li><font size="1">The applicant must have been a registered student since the end of the last annual symposium (September 26, 2008).</font></li> <li><font size="1">In case of a co-authored paper, the applicant must be the major contributor.</font></li> <li><font size="1">The submission must be written in English with a maximum of 10,000 words. The document format must be Microsoft Word or Acrobat PDF.</font></li> <li><font size="1">The submission must include an abstract with 150 words maximum and a resume of the applicant.</font></li> <li><font size="1">The applicant must (likely) be able to attend the coming annual symposium to present her/his work.</font></li> <li><font size="1">AGIFORS will be allowed to present the work on the AGIFORS website.</font></li> </ul> <p><b><font size="1">Submissions must be sent by May 15, 2010, 18:00 EDT to stefan.karisch@jeppesen.com with the subject line including  Anna Valicek Award 2010 .</font></b></p> </td> </tr> <!--tr> <td class="black" width="70%"> <br/> <font color="#990000"> <b>Application information</b> </font> <ul> <b>Application Requirements</b> <li>Work must be original innovative research in the application of Operations Research to civil airline and/or civil airline related business problems. We do accept work in progress.</li> <li>Applicants must be a registered graduate student pursuing either a masters of science, masters of business administration, or doctoral degree with a research thesis in the area of operations research, engineering systems, air transportation or management science. Applicant must be, or have been, a registered student since the last annual symposium (September 2007).</li> <li>Applicant must be able to attend the 2008 symposium in Montreal Canada to present her/his work (eventually this is expected from the two finalists).</li> <li>AGIFORS receives the right to present the work on the AGIFORS website.</li> <li>In case of a co-authored paper, the applicant must be the major contributor.</li> <br/><br/> <b>Paper Requirements</b> <li>Written in English </li> <li>Abstract (150 word maximum) </li> <li>Paper detailing research (maximum of 10,000 words) </li> <li>Resume (including educational background, expected completion date and thesis or dissertation topic) of the author </li> <li>Paper format: Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) or Microsoft Word (doc) </li> <br/><br/> <b>Deadlines</b> <li>Paper submission: Closed (June 9th, 2008)</li> <li>Paper presentation at the 48th annual AGIFORS symposium in Montreal (Canada), 21-26 September 2008 </li> </ul> </td> <td class="black" valign="bottom" align="center"> <table class="black" border="0" align="left"> <tr> <td align="left"> <a href="submissions2008/agiforsposter2008a3.pdf" target="_blank"> <img src="submissions2008/poster2008small.jpg" ALT="Poster AGIFORS 2008 Anna Valicek Medal" border="0"/> <br/>Download this poster for your noticeboard</a> <br/> <br/> Webmasters: The permanent url to this award is <a href="http://www.agifors.org/award" target="_blank">http://www.agifors.org/award</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr--> </tbody></table> <p><font style="font-size: 9pt">The submission deadline for the 2009 Anna Valicek Award is May, 15, 2010, 18:00 </font> </p> </td> <td bgcolor="#b1b6be" width="0%"><font size="2"><img src="award_home.jsp_files/shim.gif" height="1" width="1"></font></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_bottom_back.gif"> <font size="2"> <img src="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_bottom_left.gif" height="4" width="4"></font></td> <td background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_bottom_back.gif"> </td><td background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_bottom_back.gif"> </td><td align="right" background="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_bottom_back.gif"> <font size="2"> <img src="AVMedal_inner_data/frame_bottom_right.gif" height="4" width="4"></font></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </body></html>