CMS Best Student Paper Prize
Awarded by the European Working Group on Stochastic Optimization


XIV Conference on Computational Management Science “Pricing, Risk and Optimization in Management Science” Bergamo, Italy, May 30-June 1, 2017.

Jury for the CMS 2017 Student Best Paper Prize: Miloš Kopa, Daniel Kuhn, Francesca Maggioni and Rüdiger Schultz
First Place Winner: Jianzhe Zhen, “Adjustable Robust Optimization via Fourier-Motzkin Elimination”
Runners up:
-    Julien Keutchayan, “Quality Evaluation of Scenario-Tree Generation Methods for Solving Stochastic Programming Problems”
-    Rui Gao, “Data-driven Distributionally Robust Stochastic Optimization with Fixed Marginals”

XV Conference on Computational Management Science, Trondheim, Norway, 29-31 May 2018

Jury for the CMS 2018 Student Best Paper Prize: Miloš Kopa, Daniel Kuhn, Francesca Maggioni and Afzal Siddiqui
First Place Winner: Jonas Ekblom, “Stochastic optimization with importance sampling: using an analytical approximation of the zero-variance distribution”
Runners up:
-    Grzegorz Marcjasz, “Electricity price forecasting with NARX networks: Is it better to combine point or probabilistic forecasts?”
-    Simon Risanger, “A strategic investment model for multinational transmission expansion planning: Comparing competitive and cooperative solutions for a North Sea Offshore Grid”

XVI Conference on Computational Management Science, Chemnitz, 27-29 March 2019

Jury for the CMS 2019 Student Best Paper Prize: Francesca Maggioni and Werner Römisch
First Place Winner: Regan Baucke, “A deterministic algorithm for stochastic minimax dynamic programmes”

European Conference on Stochastic Optimization – XVII Computational Management Science, Venice, Italy, 29-30 June - 1 July 2022

Jury for the CMS 2022 Student Best Paper Prize: Stein-Erik Fleten, Miloš Kopa, Francesca Maggioni and Rüdiger Schultz
First Place Winner: Maël Forcier “Exact quantization of multistage stochastic problems”
Runners up:
-    Bahar Taşkesen, “Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport: Hardness, Regularization and Numerical Solution”
-    Adrián Esteban-Pérez, “Distributionally robust stochastic programs with side information based on trimmings”