Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize

The Committee on Stochastic Programming is pleased to announce a Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming, which will be given in recognition of the most outstanding paper(s) in stochastic programming authored by a junior researcher. The prize will be awarded at the 17th International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP) to be held in Paris, July 28-August 1, 2025.

The prize committee consists of Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers University), Siqian Shen (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), and Wim van Ackooij (EDF-Lab Paris-Saclay, chair).


Each entry must satisfy the following eligibility criteria:

  • The paper must present original research results and must have been published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed English language journal after January 1, 2022.
  • All co-authors must have obtained their PhD in one of the seven calendar years preceding the year of the prize submission, that is after Jan 1, 2018. This period of seven years may be extended for personal reasons, such as parental leave or health issues. Requests for extensions need to be sent to the Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize Committee Chair accompanied by appropriate documentation. The Committee will decide if an extension is granted.
  • The paper may not have won a SPS Best Student Paper Prize in previous years and may not be simultaneously considered for the Dupačová-Prékopa Best Student Paper Prize.
  • The paper must not have won a previous SPS Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize.
  • The entrants can be (co-)author(s) in at most one paper submitted to the competition.


Entrants must submit the following material by March 31, 2025:

  • An electronic copy (PDF file) of the paper.
  • The publication information for the work.
  • Email addresses and phone numbers where the entrants can be contacted in the event the entrants are selected as finalists.
  • A letter signed by all co-authors attesting that the eligibility conditions are met. In case an extension is requested, the letter should be accompanied by appropriate documentation, as discussed above.


The submitted papers will be judged on the following criteria:

  • Magnitude of the contribution to the advancement of the field of stochastic programming.
  • Originality of ideas and methods.
  • Clarity and excellence of exposition.


Submissions must be sent to the committee chair at wim.van-ackooij@edf.fr by March 31, 2025. If you do not receive a confirmation by April 7, please contact a committee member directly.

The prize committee will select the finalists at least two months before ICSP 2025. Once the decision is made, the committee will inform the finalists; those students are expected to attend ICSP 2025 and present their papers at a special “award” session. During the SPS Business Meeting, the prize committee will announce the winners.


For more information on the 17th International Conference on Stochastic Programming, please see: https://icsp2025.org/


Sincerely,

Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers University)
Siqian Shen (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor),
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Nordic Winter School on Advanced Stochastic Optimization 2026

By SPS Wolfram • August 26, 2026
We invite PhD students to participate in the Nordic Winter School on Advanced Stochastic Optimization at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway from 7-11 December 2026 . The course consists of (guest) lectures by experts in the field, teaching about their expertise. The list of speakers is: Daniel Kuhn (EPFL) Alois Pichler (TU Chemnitz) Ward Romeijnders (University of Groningen) Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU) Ruben van Beesten (NTNU, Erasmus University Rotterdam) Participation is free of charge. Students can receive 5 EC upon completion of a short essay after the course. For more registration information, see the brochure .

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August 25, 2026
The next joint European Conference on Stochastic Optimization (ECSO) and Computational Management Science (CMS) 2027 will be held at Lancaster University, UK, from 20–23 June 2027. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimisation, and decision-making under uncertainty. We welcome contributions covering a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to): Stochastic programming Robust and distributionally robust optimisation Stochastic modelling and simulation–optimisation Combinatorial optimisation Exact and heuristic methods Machine learning for optimisation and decision-making Applications in transportation, finance, energy, healthcare, hospitality, marketing, and supply chain management The conference programme will include invited plenary lectures, invited and contributed sessions, tutorials, and a Best Student Paper Competition. A limited number of financial grants will be offered to support attendance of PhD Students, Early Career Researchers, and Delegates with Caring Responsibilities. Important dates Tutorial proposal deadline: 15 Dec 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 4 Feb 2027 Notification of acceptance: From date of submission to 11 Mar 2027 Travel grant application: 18 Mar 2027 Conference: 20–23 June 2027 Full details, including submission guidelines and registration information, are available on the conference website .