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Operations Research
The discipline of Operations Research (OR) provides a scientific approach to decision making. Also known by titles such as Management Science, or Logistics, Operations Research involves formulating mathematical models of decision making problems, and developing or applying mathematical tools to obtain solutions.

Many businesses and all large complex organizations face difficult decisions ...more

Academics:
  • Continuing Staff:
    Dr Heng-Soon GAN (Lecturer)
    Dr Owen JONES (Senior Lecturer)
    Professor Peter TAYLOR (Head of Department)
    Associate Professor Sanming ZHOU (Senior Lecturer)
  • Research Fellows:
    Ms Olivia MADILL (Research Assistant)
    Dr David WOOD (ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow)


  • Visitors:
    Dr Ben HAMBLY (University of Oxford United Kingdom)
    Mr Michael PAYNE ( Australia)


    Students:
  • Postgraduates:
    Jonathan BUDD
    Alexander CAVE Optimisation of mission critical sparing in a stochastic operating environment
    Sophie DICKSON A robust and integrated approach to transport scheduling
    Emily DUANE Improving crane scheduling and container handling operations at seaport container terminals
    Paul KEELER Stochastic power-management schemes for sensor networks
    Olivia MADILL Robust and integrated transport scheduling optimisation
    Ricky ROTHERAM Cores in vertex-transitive graphs
    Yacov SALOMON Re-examining fundamental concepts and assumptions in conservation and management using mathematical theories of probability
    Nikki SONENBERG Building Stochastic Models for Mobile ad hoc Networks
    Sen TAN On modelling of the timing of defaults in CDO rating
    Alison THOMSON Graph theory problems arising from optical networks
    Roger TING
    Guangjun XU Cayley graphs, network design and domination
    James ZHAO Hidden Markov models with multiple observation processes

  • Honours:
    Matthew BAXTER
    Jennifer BLACKMAN
    Mark BOWDEN
    Charles HU
    Mani Teksen SULEIMAN
    Duc Huu Minh TRUONG
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