Several awards have been established by ORSIS over the years, intended to promote, encourage and recognize excellence in Operations Research.
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Graduate students may obtain support from ORSIS to participate in overseas professional activities. Occasionally ORSIS is involved in organizing international conferences, either including all topics of Operations Research or focusing on special topics of the field. ORSIS is a member of the IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) and EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies) organizations. Most of its members attend this conference, at which original research papers are presented, and knowledge in Operations Research is exchanged and disseminated. ORSIS holds an annual conference at various locations in Israel. In addition to such pursuits as research on OR theory and the development. Some members reside abroad but hold close ties with ORSIS. The Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ) was established on June 15, 1957.
About a third of its members are graduate students. Other members come from the high-tech industry, as well as from the public sector in Israel. ORSIS has about 175 members, most of them from academia. It operates to strengthen the contacts among people engaged in Operations Research by initiating activities such as conferences, workshops on special topics and workshops for graduate students. Serving our Operations Research communities around the World is a lifetime experience, and I sincerely appreciate the many opportunities the IFORS community provided to me”.The Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS) is a non-profit organization, established in 1966 with the goal of promoting and enhancing the research and practice of Operations Research in Israel. Terlaky says: “I am humbled and incredibly honored to be inducted in this distinguished group of IFORS Fellows. He is a Fellow of The Fields Institute, INFORMS, SIAM, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and currently serves as Vice President of INFORMS and as editor in Chief of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.
He received the MITACS Mentorship Award, the Award of Merit of CORS, the Egerváry Award of HORS, the Wagner Prize of INFORMS, and the Outstanding Innovation in Service Science Engineering Award of IISE. He previously served as Canada Research Chair in Optimization at McMaster University, Founding Director of Canada's first School of Computational Engineering and Science. Currently, Tamás is a faculty member of Lehigh’s ISE Department that he chaired during 2008-2017. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization and Engineering, and founder of EUROPT. Professor Terlaky is a leading optimization expert with four authored books and over 180 scientific papers. The program is very selective, and Professor Tamás Terlaky was among the only six 2021 inductees, the only one from the Americas.
The IFORS Fellows Award serves to recognize a distinguished individual’s contribution to international operations research and its communities. Founded in 1955, IFORS has a long history and is the only global organization in the Operations Research field. and Soteria Kledaras ’87 Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Lehigh University, has been inducted a fellow of IFORS, the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.