Optimisation - People

Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:38

Lancaster University:

• Professor Adam N. Letchford: cutting-plane methods for combinatorial and global optimisation; travelling salesman and vehicle routing.

Nottingham University:

• Dr Andrew Parkes: meta-heuristics, hyper-heuristics, proof systems.

• Jakub Marecek: integer programming, graph colouring.

Cardiff University:

• Dr Iskander Aliev: algebraic/geometric methods for discrete optimisation problems.

Southampton University:

• Dr Tolga Bektas: integer programming (especially decomposition, relaxation, branch-and-cut); logistics and network design.
• Professor Joerg Fliege: nonlinear optimisation, fast local search algorithms, multiobjective optimisation, distributed computing.
• Dr Konstantinos (Dinos) Kaparis: exact and heuristic methods for combinatorial optimisation.
• Banafsheh Khosravi: metaheuristics; lot sizing, railway scheduling, disruption management.
• Mohammad Mesgarpour: simulated annealing; machine scheduling, aircraft runway optimization.
• Professor Chris Potts: combinatorial optimisation (especially branch-and-bound, local search, approximation algorithms); machine scheduling.
• Dr Houduo Qi: semidefinite programming: theory and algorithms.
• Dr Huifu Xu: non-linear programming and applications.
• Dr Yue Wu: non-linear programming (especially non-convex conic problems); logistics and supply chain management.