Award of Merit |
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The Award of Merit is awarded to a present or past member of CORS in recognition of significant contributions to the profession of operational research. |
2009 Award of Merit Recipient | (Top) |
David Martell, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto |
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Professor David L. Martell is the recipient of the 2009 CORS Merit Award. Prof Martell has made an outstanding contribution to the area of forestry management, most of it related to forest fires. He is one of the rare operational research specialists in the world working on this topic. He has developed this area from scratch and has gained worldwide recognition for his work. His contribution includes the development of models and algorithms, the publication of scholarly articles and the training of students. Dave is not satisfied with conducting academic research in his office. He also does field work with his students and takes part in forest fire fighting expeditions. In other words he is a true OR scientist in the sense that his research is firmly rooted in operations. |
David Martell has served our OR community in many significant ways. He is a past CORS president, he has served as a member of the Ontario Forest Policy Committee, he is a member of the NSERC College of reviewers for Canada Research Chairs, and he has been a member of NSERC GSC #20 in 1993-1994. |
Eldon Gunn (l) presenting the 2009 Award of Merit to David Martell
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Previous Recipients | (Top) |
2008 |
Alain Martel |
Faculté des sciences de l'administration, Université Laval |
"Pour ses nombreuses contributions à l’application et à la diffusion de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada ainsi que pour les multiples services rendus à la communauté de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada et à l’étranger." |
2007 |
Peter C. Bell |
Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario |
"For his significant contributions to education and the practice of Operations Research in Canada, as well as his many years of dedicated service to the Canadian Operational Research Society and beyond." |
2006 |
Teodor Gabriel Crainic |
CRT, Université de Montréal |
"For his many contributions to the application and dissemination of Operational Research in Canada, as well as for numerous services rendered to the Operational Research community in Canada and abroad." |
2005 |
Martin L. Puterman |
University of British Columbia |
"For his significant contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research and for his numerous contributions to the Canadian Operational Research Society." |
2004 |
Erhan Erkut |
University of Alberta |
“For his contributions to the teaching, practice, and promotion of Operational Research in Canada, and service to the Canadian Operational Research Society.” |
2003 |
Mohan Chaudhry |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Royal Military College of Canada |
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2002 |
Dr. Jean-Marc Rousseau |
First Vice-President
Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO)
Montreal, Quebec. |
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2001 |
Michel Gendreau |
"For his numerous contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research in Canada, and for his significant contributions to the Canadian Operational Resesarch Society." |
2000 |
Michael Carter |
"For his many contributions to the application and dissemination of Operational Research in Canada, and for his significant contributions to CORS activities." |
1999 |
Winfried Grassmann |
"For his many contributions to Queueing and Markov Chain Theory, Application, Analysis and Optimization in Academia and Industry, as well as for numerous services rendered to the O.R. community in Canada and abroad." |
1998 |
Maurice Queyranne |
"For his many contributions to the theory and application of Combinatorial Optimization in Academia and Industry, as well as for numerous services rendered to the O.R. community in Canada and abroad." |
1997 |
Pierre Hansen |
1996 |
Suresh Sethi |
1995 |
Jim Templeton |
1994 |
Gilbert Laporte |
1993 |
Wilson Price |
1992 |
Dave Deziel |
1991 |
Cecil Law |
1990 |
Ed Silver |
"Made significant contributions to CORS as a founder of the South Western Ontario Section, Council Member, Vice-President 1979-80 and President 1980-81. Co-author of the book "Decision Systems for Inventory Management and Production Planning" which had a major impact through its organization and clarification of the state-of-the-art in the field. An outstanding teacher of the theory and applications of Operational Research at the University of Waterloo 1969-81 and the University of Calgary since 1981. Made major research contributions in the area of inventory and production, in particular through the development of reasonable and implementable solutions to difficult practical problems (e.g. the Silver Meal heuristic), thus contributing to improved practice in many organizations." |
1989 |
John Buzacott |
1988 |
Michael Florian |
1987 |
K. J. Radford |
1986 |
John Roberts |
1985 |
John Gratwick |
1984 |
George Lindsey |
1983 |
Omond Solandt |
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