Operational Research Society News

MyCamper earned the nickname ‘the Airbnb of camper vans’ by helping private owners rent out their vehicles to holidaymakers. However, the small team initially lacked the skills to manually build the necessary data-crunching tools.

Applications are now open for practitioners and academics interested in becoming a volunteer judge for the Journal of Simulation (JOS) KD Tocher Medal.

A new initiative has been launched by EPSRC to provide mathematical scientists and researchers with small amounts of funding to support the discovery of ground-breaking and transformative new ideas.

In this instance, professionalisation isn’t a smart suit or a slick presentation. It covers the knowledge, skills and behaviours that might be expected of a data scientist. The OR Society is a key player in a group of bodies interested in what such professionalisation might look like.

AIMMS has released a supply chain response hub, allowing businesses to create models that account for the disruption COVID-19 is having on supply chains.