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IMA & OR Society Conference

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:10:38 GMT

A number of faculty members of the ORMS Group have been invited to contribute to the scientific programme of the conference. Professor Bo Chen has put together four invited sessions, with two sessions on “Innovating Mathematics for New Industrial Challenges” and the other two on “Theoretical Challenges in OR Research”. There are a total of 15 invited speakers from University of Warwick, Cranfield University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Central Lancashire, ETH Zurich, and CWI Amsterdam.

Dr Arne Strauss organises an invited session titled “Last Mile Deliveries” with speakers from RWTH Aachen (Germany), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany) and the University of Essex (UK).

Dr Vinh Doan will give an invited talk, “Low-rank Matrix Recovery with Ky Fan 2-k-Norm” in a session titled “Conic Optimization and Applications in OR”. Dr Vladimir Deineko is considering an invitation to give a talk in an invited session.

Workshop on Search Games and Rendezvous

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:51:46 GMT

The Shard, Warwick Business School London Campus
06 -07 July, 2015

Confirmed Speakers:
Shmuel Gal (Haifa, Israel)
Robbert Fokkink (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Thomas Lidbetter (LSE, UK)
Noemi Zoroa (Murcia, Spain)

Talks on all topics related to search and patrolling, including predator-prey games, are welcome.
Rendezvous problems will also be covered.
This is an ‘informal’ workshop with no fees, but prior registration through the organiser is required.

Directions: From London Bridge tube station, take the Shard exit. Please report to reception on the ground floor.

For further information contact the organisers:
Steve Alpern, ORMS Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. steve.alpern@wbs.ac.uk
Thomas Lidbetter, Department of Management, LSE

Preliminary Schedule

6th July: 10.30 - 13.00
Coffee, follwed by Shmuel Gal (Haifa), Repeated hide-seek and pursuit-evasion games;
Mª José Fernández Sáez (Murcia), The weighted concealment game

6th July: 15.00 - 17.00
Noemi Zoroa (Murcia), Multistage search on predator-prey interactions;
Leszek Gasieniec (Liverpool), Blind rendezvous in graphs

7th July: 11.00 - 13.00
Giuseppe De Nittis (Milan), Adversarial patrolling with spatially uncertain alarm signals;
Tom Lidbetter (LSE) TBA

7th July: 15.00 - 17.00 (if required)

Potential Participants

If you wish to attend and are not listed below, please contact the organisers Alpern and Lidbetter.
The receptionist at WBS Shard is Lortoria McDonald, Lortoria.McDonald@wbs.ac.uk telephone 024 7852 8624 .

Steve Alpern steve.alpern@wbs.ac.uk (+44 07971854148)
Thomas Lidbetter t.r.lidbetter@lse.ac.uk
Shmuel Gal
Leszek Gasieniec
Vic Baston
Spyros Angelopoulos
Katerina Papadaki Marc Renault
Alec Morton Tomasz Radzik
John Howard
Richard Weber
Noemi Zoroa
Mª José Fernández Sáez
Nicola Gatti
Nicola Basilico
Giuseppe De Nittis
Peter Sozou
Judy Wang
Nikos Argyris

2015 TSL Workshop

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:44:21 GMT

The INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics (TSL) workshop 2015 is devoted to the topic:
Recent Advances in Urban Transportation through Optimization and Analytics
and is hosted at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, July 6th – July 8th, 2015.

The call for abstracts can be found here.

Dr Arne Strauss from the ORMS Group is one of the keynote speakers.

APMOD Conference at WBS

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:21:06 GMT

International Conference on Applied Mathematical Optimization and Modelling, 9-11 April 2014, WBS

APMOD 2014 is the eleventh conference in the series of successful events covering mathematical optimization and modeling, theory as well as applications. This year, it is organised by a team of ORMS group members including Nalan Gulpinar (chair), Vinh Doan and Arne Strauss.

For more information, visit the conference website

http://www.apmod2014.org

3rd Student Conference on Operational Research

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:02:43 GMT

The 3rd edition of the previous Student Conferences on Operational Research, SCOR 2012, which will be held at the University of Nottingham, UK from:

Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd April 2012

PhD students from all European Universities studying Operational Research, Management Science or a related field are kindly invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the conference. The purpose of SCOR 2012 is to provide a friendly environment for doctoral candidates to develop their presentation skills, to receive constructive feedback on their work and to meet other students with similar interests.

For further information, visit http://www.scor2012.com/