2015 David Cushing Prize

Bynum Prize 2015

The 2015 Medical History William Bynum Prize attracted a strong field of 12 entries, of which at least half are clearly of publishable quality. The four-person committee deliberated carefully on the essays. A small cluster stood out, necessitating a second round of deliberations. First prize was awarded to the essay by Lori Jones of the University of Ottawa, entitled ‘When Medical Texts Double ...

George C Williams Prize 2015

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Department of Anthropology and Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, Durham, UK and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA *Corresponding author. Center for Infecti...

COAP 2015 Best Paper Prize

Each year, the editorial board of computational optimization and applications (COAP) selects a paper from the preceding year’s publications for the Best Paper Award. In 2015, 92 papers were published by COAP. The recipients of the 2015 Best Paper Award are Qi Huangfu of the FICO Xpress Team and Julian Hall of the University of Edinburgh for their paper “Novel update techniques for the revised s...

Statement - David Solomon , July 2015

There are three parts of this broad agenda. The first relates to understanding how investors obtain and process information about firms. For a long time, the question of how investors receive information was either abstracted away from entirely (e.g. by assuming signals are received by all investors instantaneously), or modeled at a very high level (e.g. information diffuses slowly among invest...

David M. Raup, 1933-2015.