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Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2022 Impact Prize

Published: Thursday, 11 May 2023 Tags: Operational Research Optimization prizes

Congratulations to Chris Dent, Amy Wilson and Stan Zachary (Heriot-Watt) who were awarded the Edinburgh Mathematical Society's 2022 Impact Prize. The Impact Prize recognises "the contribution of individuals, teams or partnerships ...

EPSRC IAA funding for Ember project

Published: Tuesday, 21 February 2023 Tags: Operational Research funding award

Goncalo dos Reis, Joerg Kalcsics and Sergio Garcia have received EPSRC IAA funding for a collaborative project with Ember, the UK's first all-electric intercity bus company. The project will work to (a) integrate vehicle ...

Sergio Garcia Quiles elected as ORGS Chair

Published: Wednesday, 18 January 2023 Tags: Operational Research

Sergio Garcia Quiles has been elected as Chair of the Operational Research Group of Scotland (ORGS, Scotland - The OR Society) for the next three years. This is the regional division of the Operational Research Society (The Operational ...

MSc dissertation model from Edinburgh showcased at The American Statistician

Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 Tags: Operational Research Probability Statistics MSc international outreach Maths Education

American Statistical Association journal publishes an article on the dissertation model from the MSc in Statistics with Data Science, from the School of Mathematics.

Chris Dent and Amy Wilson awarded £25,000 for Alan Turing Institute project

Published: Monday, 17 October 2022 Tags: Operational Research funding award

Chris Dent and Amy Wilson, jointly with Lucie Luecke and Gabi Hegerl in Geosciences, have been awarded £25,000 from the University's contribution to the Alan Turing Institute for a project on "Climate analysis for ...

Chris Dent is PI of the overall DDI Beacon Data Platform programme being run through the Bayes Centre

Published: Wednesday, 10 March 2021 Tags: Operational Research Optimization

Chris Dent is PI of the overall DDI Beacon Data Platform programme being run through the Bayes Centre. The School is involved with two of the individual projects: Chris Dent is the PI for a collaboration between the University, ...

Lars Schewe and Miguel Anjos have been awarded a grant by National Grid to collaborate on a research project entitled "Optimal Outage Planning System"

Published: Wednesday, 10 March 2021 Tags: Operational Research Optimization

Lars Schewe and Miguel Anjos have been awarded a grant worth almost £350,000 by National Grid to collaborate on a research project entitled "Optimal Outage Planning System". The project will provide added value ...

PhD students from the Optimization and Operational Research group have reached the finals for the INFORMS competition "fORgedbyMachines"

Published: Wednesday, 4 November 2020 Tags: Operational Research Optimization

Based on the recommendation of a committee, consisting of Drs. John Carlsson (USC), Anton Kleywegt (GaTech) and Mauricio Resende (Amazon), two teams of PhD students from the Optimization and Operational Research group have reached ...

Andreas Grothey and Ken McKinnon have set up a Covid-19 related optimization model

Published: Friday, 24 July 2020 Tags: Operational Research Optimization MSc

Andreas Grothey and Ken McKinnon have set up an optimization model that finds the optimal Covid-19 intervention strategy for Scotland. This is achieved by considering the options of lockdown and contact tracing for different assumed ...

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