IFORS Distinguished Lecturers


In 1999 IFORS established a special program, called IFORS Distinguished Lectures (IDL), to recognize distinguished OR scholars and analysts and support member societies and regional groupings. Through this program IFORS is sponsoring lectures by distinguished OR scholars and analysts at conferences of members societies and regional groupings.

Year Distinguished Lecturer Conference
2023,October Daniel Kuhn INFORMS 2023
2022, December Anna Nagurney XXI CLAIO Conference
2022, November Ahti Salo 13th Triennial APORS Conference
2022, October Luciana Buriol INFORMS 2022
2022, July Andrea Lodi EURO 2022
2021, October Karen Aardal INFORMS 2021
2021, July Janny Leung 31st EURO Conference
2020, November Matteo Fischetti INFORMS 2020
2019, October Andy Philpott INFORMS 2019
2019, June William J. Cook EURO 2019
2018, November Mario Veiga Pereira INFORMS 2018
2018, September Edoardo Amaldi CLAIO 2018
2018, August Leo Liberti APORS 2018
2018, July Cynthia Barnhart EURO 2018
2017, October Celso Ribeiro INFORMS  Conference 2017
2016, November Rolf H. Mohring INFORMS Conference 2016
2016, July Dimitris Bertsimas  EURO 2016
2016, October Monique Guignard-Spielberg CLAIO 2016
2015, July R. Tyrrell Rockafellar 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, Scotland
2015, June Rüdiger Schultz CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Montreal, Canada
2014, November Lyn C. Thomas INFORMS Conference, San Francisco
2014, October Sheldon Ross ALIO-SMIO Joint Conference, Monterrey, MX
2013, October Pascal Van Hentenryck 2013 INFORMS Conference Minneapolis, MN, USA
2013, July John D.C. Little 26th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, Italy
2012, October Paolo Toth INFORMS Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2012, September Silvano Martello CLAIO/SBPO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012, July Ralph Gomory EURO Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012, June Brenda Dietrich INFORMS Conference, Beijing, China
2011, November Yves Crama INFORMS, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2010, December Jonathan Rosenhead APORS, Penang, Malaysia
2010, July John F. Nash Jr. EURO, Lisbon, Portugal
2010, June Garrett Van Ryzin ALIO/INFORMS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009, July Jonathan P. Caulkins APORS 2009, Jaipur, India
2009, July Christos Papadimitriou EURO XXIII, Bonn, Germany
2009, June Richard Karp CORS-INFORMS 2009, Toronto, Canada
2008, October Michel Balinski INFORMS, Washington, DC, USA
2008, September Stavros Zenios ALIO, Cartagena de Indias, Columbia
2007, November Ralph Keeney INFORMS, Seattle, Washington State, USA
2007, July Robert Bixby EURO, Prague, Czech Republic
2006, November Martin Grötschel ALIO, Montevideo, Uruguay
2006, July Saul Gass EURO, Rejkjavik, Iceland
2006, May Egon Balas CORS, Montreal, Canada
2006, January Dominique de Werra APORS, Manila, Philippines
2005, November Luk Van Wassenhove INFORMS, San Francisco, USA
2004, October Andres Weintraub ALIO, Havana City, Cuba
2004, July Michael Pinedo EURO, Rhodes, Greece
2004, May Ralph Gomory CORS/INFORMS, Banff, Canada
2003, December Toshihide Ibaraki APORS, New Delhi, India
2003, October Jan Karel Lenstra INFORMS, Atlanta, Georgia
2003, July Richard Rosenthal EURO, Istanbul, Turkey
2002, November David Ryan INFORMS, San Jose, California, USA
2002, October Michael Florian ALIO, Concepcion, Chile
2001, July Donald Ratliff EURO, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2001, May Bernard Roy CORS, Quebec City, Canada
2000, September Nelson Maculan ALIO, Mexico City, Mexico
2000, July Jong-Shi Pang APORS, Singapore
2000, July George Nemhauser EURO, Budapest, Hungary
2000, May Thomas Magnanti INFORMS,Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1999, May William Pierskalla INFORMS, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA