Egon Balas awarded an honorary DMath degree and addressed convocation

Since 1968 Professor Balas has been a professor of applied mathematics and industrial administration at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is currently University Professor and Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research. He spearheaded the founding of CMU's Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program, in which two current University of Waterloo faculty members received their doctoral training. Balas has personally supervised more than 25 doctoral students. Among many previous honours, he is the 1995 winner of the John von Neumann Prize, the leading award in operations research.

E. Balas, honorary DMath citation (PDF)