YINYU YE, professor of management science and engineering, is the first recipient of the Farkas Prize, which recognizes the most significant contribution by a researcher to the field of optimization. Ye's contribution was developing computational modeling for solving problems, such as scheduling optimal holding time for landing aircraft. He received the award Nov. 5 in Pittsburgh at the annual national meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The award is named after Gyula Farkas, the field's forerunner and author of one of the field's most frequently cited theorems.

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