We are pleased to announce the 13th Annual Student Best Paper Competition, with the winner(s) to be awarded at the CORS Annual Conference, which will be held in Edmonton, AB, from June 9–11, 2025.

The submission deadline for this year’s competition is March 24, 2025.

Please use this link link to make your submission, and select Open Category, followed by the Queuing and Applied Probability SIG sub-category, during the submission process.

Instructions:

Students should submit a copy of their paper, plus a letter from their supervisor attesting to their pivotal role and contributions to the results.

Requirements:

The competition is for the best student-led paper. Papers do not need to be published at the time of submission; however, a letter indicating acceptance or soliciting a revision may be submitted along with the paper, as supplementary evidence of its merit. Papers that have appeared in print prior to the application deadline will not be considered. A student may submit only one paper for consideration in any year.

Eligibility:

Eligibility is restricted to: (i) full-time students or postdocs either at a Canadian institution or a Canadian studying outside of Canada, who must not hold a tenure-track position by the application deadline and (ii) students who are not previous recipients of a CORS Queueing SIG student prize as a winner; (iii) the topic of the paper should be aligned with the interest of the Queueing and Applied Probability SIG. Note that papers whose leading author(s) are postdocs, and papers with a significant stochastic component but not related to queueing, are also eligible for this competition.

Participating in multiple competitions:

The same paper can be submitted to multiple CORS paper competitions in the same year. However, it cannot be selected as a finalist in multiple CORS paper competitions in the same academic year (either SIGs, Undergraduate Category, or Open Category). If a paper is selected as a finalist by multiple competition committees, then the student has to decide in which competition the paper remains as a finalist.

Application deadline:

March 24, 2025, 11:59PM EST.

Competition Co-chairs:

The two competition co-chairs are Dr. Yun Zhou (zhouy185@mcmaster.ca) and Dr. Yiwen Jin (yiwen.jin@ucalgary.ca).