Orlin receives Khachiyan Prize
Jim Orlin has won the 2020 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize for lifetime achievements in the area of optimization, honoring innovativeness and impact in the field. The award citation notes Orlin’s “deep and extensive contributions to network flows and combinatorial optimization, including novel results for max flows, min cost flows, min cuts, and shortest cycles.”