The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is awarded annually to an individual (or sometimes a group) who has made fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...

and the management sciences. The Prize named after mathematician

John von Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest c ...

is awarded for a body of work, rather than a single piece. The Prize was intended to reflect contributions that have stood the test of time. The criteria include significance, innovation, depth, and scientific excellence. The award is $5,000, a medallion and a citation. The Prize has been awarded since 1975. The first recipient was George B. Dantzig for his work on

linear programming Linear programming (LP), also called linear optimization, is a method to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a mathematical model whose requirements are represented by linear relationships. Linear programming is ...

List of recipients

* 2022 Vijay Vazirani * 2021 Alexander Shapiro * 2020

Adrian Lewis Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas ...

* 2019 Dimitris Bertsimas and Jong-Shi Pang * 2018 Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis ** ''for contributions to Parallel and Distributed Computation as well as Neurodynamic Programming.'' * 2017 Donald Goldfarb and

Jorge Nocedal Jorge Nocedal (born 1952) is a applied mathematician, computer scientist and the Walter P. Murphy professor at Northwestern University who in 2017 received the John Von Neumann Theory Prize. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engine ...

** ''for seminal contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear optimization over the past several decades.'' * 2016 Martin I. Reiman and Ruth J. Williams ** ''for seminal research contributions over the past several decades, to the theory and applications of “stochastic networks/systems” and their “heavy traffic approximations.”'' * 2015

Vašek Chvátal Vašek is both a Czech surname and masculine given name (diminutive of Václav Václav () is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas. These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech f ...

and Jean Bernard Lasserre ** ''for seminal and profound contributions to the theoretical foundations of optimization.'' * 2014

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** ''for fundamental contributions across a broad range of areas of operations research and management science, most notably in linear programming, combinatorial optimization, and algorithmic game theory.'' * 2013

Michel Balinski Michel Louis Balinski (born Michał Ludwik Baliński; October 6, 1933 – February 4, 2019) was an applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. As a Polish-American, educated in the United States, he li ...

* 2012

George Nemhauser George Lann Nemhauser (born 1937). is an American operations researcher, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former president of the Oper ...

and

Laurence Wolsey Laurence Alexander Wolsey is an English mathematician working in the field of integer programming. He is a former president and research director of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at Université catholique de Louvain i ...

* 2011

Gérard Cornuéjols Gérard Pierre Cornuéjols (born November 16, 1950) is the IBM University Professor of Operations Research in the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. His research interests include facility location, integer programming, balan ...

, IBM University Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University's

Tepper School of Business The Tepper School of Business is the business school of Carnegie Mellon University. It is located in the university's campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. The school offers degrees from the undergraduate through doctoral levels, in addition ...

** ''for his fundamental and broad contributions to discrete optimization including his deep research on balanced and ideal matrices, perfect graphs and cutting planes for mixed-integer optimization.'' * 2010

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and Peter W. Glynn * 2009

Yurii Nesterov Yurii Nesterov is a Russian mathematician, an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization, especially in the development of efficient algorithms and numerical optimization analysis. He is currently a professor at the University of Lo ...

and

Yinyu Ye Yinyu Ye (; born 1948) is a Chinese American theoretical computer scientist working on mathematical optimization. He is a specialist in interior point methods, especially in convex minimization and linear programming. He is a professor of Manag ...

* 2008 Frank Kelly * 2007 Arthur F. Veinott, Jr. ** ''for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.'' * 2006

Martin Grötschel Martin Grötschel (born 10 September 1948) is a German mathematician known for his research on combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, and operations research. From 1991 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin ...

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He wa ...

and Alexander Schrijver ** ''for their fundamental path-breaking work in combinatorial optimization.'' * 2005 Robert J. Aumann ** ''in recognition of his fundamental contributions to

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and related areas'' * 2004 J. Michael Harrison ** ''for his profound contributions to two major areas of

and management science: stochastic networks and

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.'' * 2003

Arkadi Nemirovski Arkadi Nemirovski (born March 14, 1947) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his work ...

and Michael J. Todd ** ''for their seminal and profound contributions in

continuous optimization Continuous optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics. As opposed to discrete optimization, the variables used in the objective function are required to be continuous variables—that is, to be chosen from a set of re ...

''. * 2002 Donald L. Iglehart and

Cyrus Derman Cyrus Derman (July 16, 1925 – April 27, 2011) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Early life De ...

** ''for their fundamental contributions to performance analysis and optimization of stochastic systems'' * 2001 Ward Whitt ** ''for his contributions to queueing theory,

applied probability Applied probability is the application of probability theory to statistical problems and other scientific and engineering domains. Scope Much research involving probability is done under the auspices of applied probability. However, while such res ...

and stochastic modelling'' * 2000 Ellis L. Johnson and Manfred W. Padberg * 1999

R. Tyrrell Rockafellar Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is the author of four major books including the landmark ...

* 1998 Fred W. Glover * 1997 Peter Whittle * 1996

Peter C. Fishburn Peter Clingerman Fishburn (September 2, 1936 – June 10, 2021) was an American mathematician, known as a pioneer in the field of decision theory. In collaboration with Steven Brams, Fishburn published a paper about approval voting in 1978. Biog ...

* 1995 Egon Balas * 1994 Lajos Takacs * 1993 Robert Herman * 1992

Alan J. Hoffman Alan Jerome Hoffman (May 30, 1924 – January 18, 2021) was an American mathematician and IBM Fellow emeritus, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was the founding editor of the journal ''Linear Algebra and its A ...

and Philip Wolfe * 1991

Richard E. Barlow Richard Eugene Barlow (born January 12, 1931) is an American mathematician and mathematical statistician, who is considered with Frank Proschan as the founder of modern reliability theory. He was a professor at the University of California, Berk ...

and Frank Proschan * 1990 Richard Karp * 1989 Harry M. Markowitz * 1988 Herbert A. Simon * 1987 Samuel Karlin * 1986 Kenneth J. Arrow * 1985

Jack Edmonds Jack R. Edmonds (born April 5, 1934) is an American-born and educated computer scientist and mathematician who lived and worked in Canada for much of his life. He has made fundamental contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization, po ...

* 1984 Ralph Gomory * 1983

Herbert Scarf Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (July 25, 1930 – November 15, 2015) was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Education and career Scarf was born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish emigrants from ...

* 1982

Abraham Charnes Abraham Charnes (September 4, 1917 – December 19, 1992) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of operations research. Charnes published more than 200 research articles and seven books, including ''An Introduction to Linear Progr ...

William W. Cooper William Wager Cooper (July 23, 1914 – June 20, 2012) was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr. Linear Programming".. He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, found ...

, and Richard J. Duffin * 1981

Lloyd Shapley Lloyd Stowell Shapley (; June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of ...

* 1980

David Gale David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, Harold W. Kuhn, and Albert W. Tucker * 1979 David Blackwell * 1978

John F. Nash John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game ...

and Carlton E. Lemke * 1977 Felix Pollaczek * 1976

Richard Bellman Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics. He founde ...

* 1975 George B. Dantzig ''for his work on

'' There is also an IEEE John von Neumann Medal awarded by the

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology".

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* {{John von Neumann Theory Prize recipients Awards established in 1975 * Systems sciences awards Operations research awards

List of recipients

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