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Operations Analytics Event at the University of Exeter Business School
The Research Methods Centre at the University of Exeter Business School has recently held its first Operations Analysis Event hosted by Professor Justin Tumlinson (Exeter), April 17th-19th, 2023. The workshop was attended by Professors Stephen Disney, Robert Boute (KULeuven), and Jan Van Meighem (Kellogg, Northwestern) and PhD students Bram De Moor, Hannah Yee, Audrey Bazerghi, Yogendra Singh and Fatamiah Alidoost. The workshop also featured discussants Dr Lina Zhang, Dr Wendy Jiao, and Professor Navonil Mustafee.
Methods tutorials were given by Stephen Disney (discrete control theory), Jan Van Meighem (Markov decision processes, dynamic programming, and robust optimization), Robert Boute (Markov chains and machine learning) and Audrey Bazerghi (dynamic programming and reinforcement learning in Python).
Research presentations were given on dual sourcing (Yee), last time buys (Bazerghi), value stream mapping and control theory (Singh), the joint replenishment problem (De Moor), smart logistics (Boute), modelling pharmaceutical supply chains (Alidoost), and lost sales inventory systems (Disney).
International Society for Inventory Research PhD Summer School
In July 2023 Stephen Disney was invited to the International Society for Inventory Research PhD Summer School at Cardiff Business School and gave a tutorial entitled "Discrete control theory for inventory management: A tutorial". The slidedeck from this tutorial can be found here.
This was an excellent week, hosted by Aris Syntetos, Moh Naim, Qinyun Li, and Irina Harris from Cardiff Business School. In addition to the PhD students we had keynotes delivered by Robert Boute (KULeuven), Ruud Teunter (Groningen), and Li Zhou (Greenwich). Tutorials and workshops where given by Stephen Disney and Rogelio Oliva (Texas A&M University). Thanos Goltsos, Mirjam Meijer, Dennis Prak, and Patricia Rogetzer lead an Early Career Researchers session. Several other senior faculty that joined us in Cardiff for the week: Sandra Transchel (Kühne), Gerard Gaalman (Groningen), Zied Babai (Kedge Business School), Rob Hyndman (Monash) and Bahman Rostami-Tabar (Cardiff).
Chinese Scholarship Council sponsered PhD Researcher Qing Zhu visits CSAM for 2024
CSAM is very happy to host PhD Researcher Qing Zhu from School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China as part of the Chinese Scholarship Council Scholarship Programme. Qing Zhu will be working with Professor Disney on applying game theory to operations and supply chain management problems.
Dr Livio Fenga gives an IDSAI Research Seminar on Predicting terrorist attacks
On the 24th Janurary Dr Fenga will giev a talk entitled "Can terrorist attacks be predicted? A Quantitative Analysis and Proposal of a Hybrid Machine Learning – Statistical Model for Short-Term Forecasting of Future Attacks. Evidence from the UK, USA, and Italy". You can find out more details in here.