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Chris Dent awarded Chartered Engineer status

Published: Monday, 20 March 2017 Tags: Operational Research Optimization

Congratulations to Chris Dent on being awarded Chartered Engineer status.

Standard Life Investments jointly funding project

Published: Monday, 20 March 2017 Tags: Operational Research Optimization Probability funding award

Congratulations to Sotirios Sabanis and colleagues Jacek Gondzio, Joerg Kalcsics and Sergio Garcia for receiving funding from Standard Life Investments.

Grant Success: Jacek Gondzio

Published: Monday, 20 March 2017 Tags: Operational Research Optimization funding award

Congratulations to Jacek Gondzio who has been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award.

SIGEST award for Peter Richtarik and Olivier Fercoq

Published: Monday, 25 April 2016 Tags: Operational Research

Peter Richtarik, a Lecturer at the School of Mathematics, and his colleague and former postdoc Olivier Fercoq, now Assistant Professor at Telecom ParisTech, will receive the SIGEST Award of the Society for Industrial and Applied ...

EPSRC Grant Success: Ken McKinnon and Andreas Grothey

Published: Friday, 18 March 2016 Tags: Operational Research funding award

Congratulations to Ken McKinnon and Andreas Grothey who are Co-Investigators in the recently awarded Centre for Energy Systems Integration.

Lectureship in Operational Research

Published: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Tags: Operational Research jobs

The School of Mathematics invites applications from highly qualified candidates for a fixed term (2.5 years) lectureship in operational research.

Ph.D. student paper in Nature Climate Change

Published: Monday, 25 January 2016 Tags: Operational Research Graduate School

Rafael Silva is the lead author on an article published on 18 January in Nature Climate Change.

MLconf Industry Impact Student Research Award

Published: Tuesday, 8 December 2015 Tags: Operational Research Optimization

The CoCoA [NIPS 2014] / CoCoA+ [ICML 2015] distributed optimization algorithm developed in a duo of papers with two co-authors from Edinburgh (Martin TakáÄ, Peter Richtarik) has won the MLconf Industry Impact Student Research Award. The award goes to our coauthor Virginia Smith (UC Berkeley).

Grant success: Peter Richtarik

Published: Tuesday, 25 August 2015 Tags: Operational Research Fellowship funding award

Congratulations to Peter Richtarik who has been awarded a five year EPSRC early career fellowship to work on "Randomized Algorithms for Extreme Convex Optimization".  A postdoc will join Peter next year to work on ...

Olivier Fercoq and John Pearson win the 17th IMA Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis

Published: Thursday, 25 June 2015 Tags: Operational Research Optimization

Two former members of the School, Olivier Fercoq and John Pearson each won a 2nd prize at the 17th IMA Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis:

http://www.numerical.rl.ac.uk/people/nimg/fox/