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Winners announced in the Undergraduate Edinburgh Operational Research Challenge
This year's challenge was run in partnership with Public Health Scotland and involved undergraduate students from across the UK acting as consultants to derive a data-driven optimization strategy for a strategic resource allocation problem.
HiGHS and NVIDIA cuOpt: Driving open-source innovation in optimization
Through collaboration with NVIDIA, HiGHS is excited to push the boundaries of what's possible in GPU-accelerated optimization.
Feasibility study funded by Ove Arup and Partners
Lars Schewe, Miguel Anjos and Chris Dent have received funding from Arup as part of the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero Flexibility Innovation Programme which seeks to enable large-scale widespread electricity flexibility ...
PhD studentship funded by Kraken Technologies Ltd
Julian Hall has received funding from Kraken Technologies Ltd (part of the Octopus Energy Group) to fund a 4-year PhD studentship. The project will research the high-performance solution of mixed-integer programming problems with ...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded
Dr Ioana Coman has been awarded a MSCA fellowship to work with Tudor Dimofte on "Vertex operator algebras from supersymmetric quantum field theories - dualities, new structures and relations". The project will tackle ...
Víctor Elvira secures £1m ARIA funding to forecast climate tipping points
The PROTECT project, backed by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency, will develop new methods in computational statistics, signal processing, and AI to forecast when Earth's climate systems may cross thresholds leading to a catastrophic change.
RSS Meeting: Some statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response
Discussion contributions are invited for a Royal Statistical Society meeting on 10th April on 'Some statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response'.
Bruce Worton's research listed among most influential papers in first 100 years of journal Ecology
A paper showcasing the most influential statistical ecology papers from Ecology's first 100 years includes Bruce Worton's research contribution to the field.
Luke Davis awarded Wellcome Accelerator Award
Luke Davis, one of the recently hired Flora Philip Fellows, has been awarded a Wellcome Accelerator Award for his project "UNTauANGLE: Untangling the biophysics of tau aggregation through computational modelling". The ...
Emeritus Professor Douglas Heggie awarded 2025 RAS Eddington Medal
The Royal Astronomical Society's 2025 Eddington Medal has been awarded to Douglas Heggie, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Astronomy within the Applied and Computational Mathematics Theme.
