Two groups of researchers at Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division have won honorable mention in the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize competition for their papers on computational mathematical programming.

The awards ceremony took place at the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming on August 7-11, 2000.

William Gropp and Jorge J. More', both senior scientists in MCS, won honorable mention for their paper "Optimization environments and the NEOS Server." The paper was published in the book Approximation Theory and Optimization, edited by M. D. Buhmann and A. Iserles, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 167-182.

Joseph Czyzyk, a former postdoctoral researcher at MCS, Michael P. Mesnier, a 1998 graduate student at MCS, and More' won honorable mention for their paper "The NEOS Server," which appeared in the journal IEEE Computational Science & Engineering 5 (1998) 68-75.

The Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize recognizes excellence in papers or books in the area of computational mathematical programming. The prize is awarded every three years by the Mathematical Programming Society at the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. This is the first time that an honorable mention has been awarded.

Argonne's award-winning papers focused on the NEOS Server, a facility for solving optimization problems over the Internet. NEOS (for Network-Enabled Optimization System) is now the premier source of information on the World Wide Web for users of optimization software.

For information on the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize and past winners, see the Web site.