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Chris Dent is PI of the overall DDI Beacon Data Platform programme being run through the Bayes Centre
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"
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 ...
Tiffany Vlaar wins Best Student Paper Award at OPT 2020
School of Mathematics and MIGSAA PhD Student Tiffany Vlaar attended the OPT2020 (Optimization in Machine Learning) workshop in December 2020 which was held as part of the Neurips 2020 conference. Her presentation "Constraint-Based ...
Des Higham has been awarded an EPSRC New Horizons grant entitled Mathematics of Adversarial Attacks
Des Higham has been awarded an EPSRC New Horizons grant entitled Mathematics of Adversarial Attacks. The grant is built on two observations: Empirical experiments have shown that even the most sophisticated and highly-regarded ...
Miguel de Carvalho has been elected President of the Portuguese Statistical Society
Miguel de Carvalho, President of the Portuguese Statistical Society
Prof. Miguel Anjos and Dr. Lars Schewe have taken part in "Not Another Science Podcast"
Prof. Miguel Anjos and Dr. Lars Schewe have recently taken part in "Not Another Science Podcast". The episode, titled "Everything is Better with Maths: Optimisation", sees them talking about how optimisation can ...
Student Research Article - Ilaria Salerno
PhD Student Ilaria Salerno has written the following article as part of our series of Student Research Articles! Do you know how much energy you use for heating/cooling your home? It's surprising to notice that only a few ...
PhD students from the Optimization and Operational Research group have reached the finals for the INFORMS competition "fORgedbyMachines"
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 ...
Student Research Article - Jonna Roden
PhD Student Jonna Roden has written the following article as part of our series of Student Research Articles! What do bird flocking, printing, beer brewing and nano-filtration have in common? At first glance not much. However, ...
Andreas Grothey and Ken McKinnon have set up a Covid-19 related optimization model
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 ...