Past Events

The UK OR conference, 12-14 September ( is usually a friendly and buzzing affair with a variety of academic and practical streams. This year Jane Parkin and Ian Seath are organising a consultancy stream described in the attached, and they are particularly keen to have contributors from outside the UK.

This conference series serves as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary scheduling. The aim is to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from all the disciplines that engage with scheduling research.

19th - 21st March 2018 sees the return of the OR Society’s biennial simulation workshop (SW18). The conference always boasts an excellent mix of delegates from the fields of simulation practice and research. The conference covers application and theoretical developments across all simulation methods, for example agent based simulation, system dynamics, discrete-event simulation and monte-carlo simulation. It takes place in Warwickshire, UK. Further information in the link on the right panel.

Invited speakers and 'how-to' workshops showcasing the importance of decision analytics for better decision-making in virtually any area of business. Jointly organised by the UK's OR Society and Royal Statistical Society. 2 June 2018, London. Watch this space for further info.

The biggest OR conference in Europe takes place in July in Valencia. There will be a series of activities under the 'Making an Impact' banner, aimed at practitioners. Further information to follow.

The UK OR conference, 11-13 September 2018 celebrates its 60th anniversary. It will take place in Lancaster University, the first university in the UK with an OR department, with a long history of applied OR and liaision with industry and practice. The scientific programme will include practice-oriented talks from both academics and practitioners, as well as activities designed specifically to help practitioners outside academia become more effective.