Awards

EURO Excellence in Practice Award Winner 2016 as member of a team of scientists headed by Thorsten Koch (Berlin) for work on the topic Evaluating Gas Network Capcities awarded on July 6, 2016 at the 28th EURO Conference.

2018 Khachiyan Prize Winner for lifetime achievements in the field of optimization awarded by the INFORMS Optimization Society on November 4, 2018 at the Annual INFORMS meeting, Phoenix (USA).

Conference Organization

GAMM/IFIP-Workshop Stochastic Programming : Stability, Numerical Methods and Applications, Gosen (near Berlin), March 23--27, 1992.

Minisymposium on Stochastic Programming, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, January 22--23, 1994.

Member of the Organizing Committee of International Congress of Mathematicians Berlin (ICM'98), August 18--27, 1998.

9th International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Berlin (Germany), August 25--31, 2001.

Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the First SIAM-EMS Conference "Applied Mathematics in our Changing World", Berlin (Germany), September 2--6, 2001.

Co-Organizer 17th International Conference MMEI, Berlin-Schmöckwitz, June 24--28, 2012.

Editorial Services

Co-Editor of Stochastic Programming E-Print Series (1999--2018)

Associate Editor Optimization Letters (OPTL) (2006--2013)

Associate Editor Energy Systems (2009-2020)

Associate Editor Computational Management Science (2012--2020)

Associate Editor SIAM Journal on Optimization (2013- )

S.T. Rachev and W. Römisch (Guest-Editors): Stochastic Programming: Stability, Numerical Methods and Applications, special issue of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 56 (1-2) (1994).

B. Bank, J. Bustamante, J. Guddat, M.A. Jimenez, H.Th. Jongen and W. Römisch (Editors): Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on approximation and optimization in the Caribbean (Puebla, Mexico, October 8-13, 1995), Aportaciones Matematicas, Comunicaciones 24, Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, 1998.

W. Römisch and R. Schultz (Guest-Editors): Stochastic Programming, Annals of Operations Research 142 (2006).

Graduate Schools

Member of the Graduate School Geometrie und Nichtlineare Analysis (HU-Berlin) during 1992-2002

Member of the Graduate School Stochastische Modellierung und quantitative Analyse grosser Systeme in den Ingenieurwissenschaften (TU Berlin and HU Berlin) during 2000-2006

Memberships

Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Fachgruppen Optimierung, Stochastik und Industriemathematik)

Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR)