Events

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:12

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Future Events:

2nd LANCS Workshop on Transportation & Green Logistics

This workshop will take place in September 2010.  Details to follow soon...

LANCS Industrial Outreach Workshop

This workshop will take place in October 2010.  It will be concerned with on-line provision of demand in the health, transport and energy sectors.  Details to follow soon.

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Past Events:

Workshop on Systems to Build Systems in Barcelona

Edmund Burke, Ender Ozcan and Jonathan Thompson organised this workshop, which took place on the 18th of July, 2010 in Barcelona as a part of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence conference.  See the WCCI 2010 web site for more information.

LANCS Seminars by David Ryan and William Pierskalla

Professor David Ryan (Auckland) and William P. Pierskalla (UCLA) gave seminars at Cardiff University on 20th May 2010.  For details click here.

LANCS Seminar by Bill Cook

Professor William J. Cook (Georgia Tech)  gave a seminar on "Exact solutions in linear and integer programming" at Lancaster University Management School on 17th May 2010. For details click here.

2nd LANCS Workshop on Discrete and Nonlinear Optimisation

This meeting took place from Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th March 2010, at the University of Southampton.  See the events page of the Optimisation cluster for more details.

3rd LANCS Workshop on Healthcare

This meeting took place on Tuesday 19th January 2010 at the University of Nottingham. See the events page of the Healthcare cluster for more details.

2nd LANCS Workshop on Heuristic Understanding

This meeting took place on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th January 2010 at Cardiff University.  See the events page of the Heuristic Understanding cluster for more details.

LANCS Seminars by Rainer Kolisch and Hans-Jorg Schutz 

Professor Rainer Kolisch and Hans-Jorg Schutz, from the TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich, gave two talks on 'Capacity allocation for demand of different customer-product-combinations with cancellation, no-shows and overbooking when there is a sequential delivery of service' at Lancaster University Management School on 4 December 2009.

2nd LANCS Workshop on Systems to Build Systems

This meeting was held on Monday, 23rd November 2009, at the Crown Plaza, Nottingham. See the events page of the Systems to Build Systems research cluster for more details.

LANCS Seminar by George Nemhauser

Professor George Nemhauser (Georgia Tech) gave a LANCS seminar, on "Scheduling on-demand air transportation", at Lancaster University Management School on 18th September 2009.

LANCS Streams at OR51

Five streams were organised by LANCS people at the 51st Conference of the Operational Research Society (OR51), which took place in Warwick, 8th-10th September 2009.  These included Logistics (organised by Richard Eglese), Metaheuristics (organised by Ender Ozcan and Andrew Parkes), Optimisation (organised by Adam Letchford), Queue Modelling (organised by Dave Worthington), and Scheduling (organised by Sanja Petrovic).  See the OR51 web pagefor more information.

Workshop on Automated Heuristic Design

Gabriela Ochoa and Ender Ozcan helped organise this workshop, which took place 8th-12th July 2009 in Montreal.  Refer to this page for more information.

Optimisation Session at EURO XXIII

Adam Letchford organised a session on "non-linear combinatorial optimisation problems" at the 23rd European Conference on Operational Research, which took place 5th-8th July 2009 in Bonn.  See http://www.euro-2009.de/ for more information.

2nd LANCS Workshop on Healthcare

This workshop was held on 26th June 2009 at the University of Southampton. See the events pageof the Healthcare cluster for more details.

1st LANCS Workshop on Heuristics and Systems

This workshop was held on 4th-5th June 2009 at the University of Nottingham.  See the web pages of the Heuristic Understanding and Systems to Build Systems clusters for more details.

LANCS Seminar by Sanjeeb Dash

Dr Sanjeeb Dash (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) gave a LANCS seminar, on "Two applications of OR at IBM", at Lancaster University Management School on 22nd May 2009.

LANCS Launch Event

The official launch event for the LANCS initiative took place on 20th May 2009 in London. Here is a news report from Lancaster University.

1st LANCS Workshop on Transportation & Green Logistics

This workshop was held on 1st-2nd April 2009, at the University of Southampton.  See the web pages of the Transportation and Green Logistics clusters for more details.

1st LANCS Workshop on Discrete and Nonlinear Optimisation

This workshop was held on 19th-20th February 2009, at the University of Southampton.  See the events pageof the Optimisation cluster for more details.

LANCS Seminars by Warren Powell

Professor Warren B. Powell (Princeton) gave LANCS seminars, on "Approximate Dynamic Programming for High-Dimensional Applications", at Lancaster University Management School on 3rd February 2009 and at Nottingham University (Jubilee Campus) on 4th February 2009.

1st LANCS Workshop on Healthcare

This workshop was held on 19th-20th January 2009, at Cardiff University.  See the events pageof the Healthcare cluster for more details.