{"163601":{"#nid":"163601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dieker Receives the 2012 Erlang Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETon Dieker, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), won the prestigious Erlang Prize at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ on October 15.\u0026nbsp; The Prize, which is awarded every two years by the Applied Probability Society, recognizes Dieker\u2019s outstanding contributions to several areas, including the theory of stochastic processes, stochastic networks, and stochastic analysis of algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETon has achieved major breakthroughs in several extremely challenging and longstanding open problems in probability. Most notable among these are his contributions to resolving a longstanding conjecture regarding the rates of convergence to stationarity in Markov chains. Ton\u0027s work has also tackled notable open problems in the areas of Gaussian processes, stochastic network theory, and queueing. Ton\u0027s work stands out in his ability to combine and bring to bear key ideas and technical machinery from quite disparate areas, including combinatorics, random matrix theory and control theory. The breadth and depth of Ton\u0027s contributions and the fearless manner by which he has tackled notoriously difficult problems with such great success, have already established him as a leader in the applied probability community.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDieker earned his master\u0027s degree in Operations Research from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2002. He carried out his Ph.D. research at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, and defended his Ph.D. thesis \u003Cem\u003EExtremes and fluid queues\u003C\/em\u003E at the University of Amsterdam in 2006. He came to Georgia Tech from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Prior to that, he worked at the University College Cork, Ireland, as a postdoctoral researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDieker is the third ISyE faculty member to receive this honor.\u0026nbsp; Past recipients of the Erlang Prize include Jim Dai, Edenfield Professor in ISyE, in 1998, and Bert Zwart, adjunct associate professor in ISyE, in 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETon Dieker, assistant professor in ISyE, won the prestigious Erlang Prize at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ on October 15.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-10-19 10:44:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:02","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"163611":{"id":"163611","type":"image","title":"Ton Dieker (L), Assaf Zeevi, chair of the Applied Probability Awards Committee (center), Johan van Leeuwaarden, co-recipient (R)","body":null,"created":"1449178920","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:00","changed":"1475894799","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:39","alt":"Ton Dieker (L), Assaf Zeevi, chair of the Applied Probability Awards Committee (center), Johan van Leeuwaarden, co-recipient (R)","file":{"fid":"195481","name":"2012_erlang_prize_winner.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2012_erlang_prize_winner_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2012_erlang_prize_winner_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2222301,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2012_erlang_prize_winner_0.jpg?itok=yG-vvKt3"}}},"media_ids":["163611"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}