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5th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research

We are delighted to invite you to the 5th biennial joint conference of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) and the UK Operational Research Society, which will take place in Birmingham from the 30th of April to the 2nd of May 2025.

Building on the success of the four previous conferences (held in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023) this biennial event will aim to draw together the considerable community of researchers and practitioners who use and / or develop innovative mathematics and data driven approaches, relevant to the applications and theory of Operational Research (OR).

The conference will be held at the beautiful and easily accessible Conference Centre Aston in Birmingham and will showcase activities from across all areas of OR. We welcome contributions that are empirically motivated and with a focus on application, as well as those that are theoretically driven. The conference will host plenaries from leading international experts, sessions of themed talks, as well as poster sessions, and will provide plenty of opportunities for networking. We look forward to seeing you in Birmingham in April 2025 for a terrific event and to celebrate together the successes of OR!

Further Information: https://ima.org.uk/24367/5th-ima-and-or-society-conference-on-mathematics-of-operational-research/

RailDresden 2025 – 11th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis

Dresden, Germany, April 1–4, 2025
raildresden2025@tu-dresden.de

Information about RailDresden2025

RailDresden 2025 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of railway operations modelling and analysis. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest covering both passenger and freight transport are:

• Railway alignment and network design
• Line planning
• Timetabling (scheduling and routing)
• Rolling stock and crew scheduling
• Railway maintenance planning and scheduling
• Railway traffic management and rescheduling
• Disruption management and contingency planning
• Train delay prediction and conflict detection
• Railway capacity assessment of nodes, lines and networks
• Railway performance: punctuality, stability, robustness, resilience
• Railway safety analysis and risk assessment
• Railway signalling and control systems
• Train trajectory optimization and train control
• Driver Advisory Systems and Automatic Train Operation
• Passenger flows in stations, on platforms, and dwell times
• Passenger assignment
• Rail freight transport
• Rail yard operation and design
• Multimodal transport systems, interaction with air, urban, and micro-mobility
• Energy saving in railways
• Emerging railway technologies
• Rail governance and economics
• Railway simulation and digital twins

Paper Submission and Important Dates

RailDresden 2025 submission options include:

• Type A: Research paper
• Type B: Industrial paper

The authors of research papers (Type A) should submit a full paper of a maximum length of 20 pages in ICROMA format including figures and references, while the authors of industrial papers (Type B) can submit a paper of at most 10 pages. The full research papers will be reviewed according to the standard scientific criteria: technical merit, originality, clarity and relevance. The review of the industrial papers will retain the former criteria except scientific originality. The purpose of an industrial paper is to showcase innovations and applications of research and development in the railway industry. The main author of an industrial paper is not affiliated with an academic institute. All the manuscripts should be original work. The paper template is available on the website: www.raildresden2025.de. Authors shall submit the full manuscript electronically using the aforementioned conference website.

• Submission system open: August 1, 2024
• Deadline paper submission: October 10, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2024
• Registration system open: November 1, 2024
• Submission final paper: February 1, 2025
• Early-bird registration end: February 1, 2025
• Closure online registration: March 21, 2025
• Conference days: April 1-4, 2025

SIGOPT 2025

SIGOPT 2025 – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION AT UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN
March 04-06, 2025

AIMS AND SCOPES

• Bring together experts from the different topics of mathematical optimization.
• Promote collaboration between the different branches of the optimization
  community.
• Expound and strengthen the status of women in mathematical optimization.
• Encourage young researchers on their way through the scientific world of
  optimization.

TOPICS

• Discrete, Combinatorial, and Mixed-Integer Optimization
• Nonlinear and Disjunctive Optimization
• Nonsmooth Optimization and Variational Analysis
• Multiobjective and Set-Valued Optimization
• Optimal Control and Infinite-Dimensional Optimization
• Machine Learning
• Real-World Applications of Optimization

PLENARY SPEAKERS

• Prof. Dr. Marc Pfetsch, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Prof. Dr. Mirjam Dür, Universität Augsburg
• Prof. Dr. Nicole Bäuerle, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
• Prof. Dr. Danny Segev, Tel Aviv University, Israel

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 24, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: February 07, 2025
Registration Deadline: February 24, 2025

REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION
www.sigopt2025.uni-siegen.de

CONTACT
sigopt2025@uni-siegen.de

50th LNMB Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research

Dear LNMB members, students, and affiliates,

LNMB cordially invites you to the 50th LNMB Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research, held at the Conference Hotel Kontakt der Kontinenten in Soesterberg on 13–15 January 2025.

Come and enjoy the presentations from leading researchers, who discuss significant advancements in Operations Research. LNMB is honoured to present an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers, an extensive programme of presentations by LNMB PhD students, and the joint LNMB/NGB Seminar.

Conference website and registration

Explore the conference website for the programme, abstracts, speaker bios, and practical information: https://www.lnmb.nl/conferences/2025/

Registration is now open! Use the link below to register. Please note that a limited number of hotel rooms are reserved until mid-December. Room-sharing is available and reservations follow the traditional FCFS policy. https://www.aanmelder.nl/160508/registration

Cancellations are refundable under conditions. Please review the cancellation policy available online. For questions and more information contact me at lnmb@utwente.nl.

Keynote and invited speakers

This year’s keynote addresses will be delivered by:

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Kuhn, EPFL
• Prof. Dr. Marco Scarsini, Luiss University
• Prof. Dr. Huseyin Topaloglu, Cornell University
• Prof. Dr. Angelika Wiegele, Universität Klagenfurt

A special celebratory session will feature:

• Willem Klein Haneveld
• Johann Hurink

The joint LNMB / NGB Seminar will host: Johan van Rooij (Utrecht University), Peter Hulsen (CQM), Bart Post (CQM), John Poppelaars (Doing the Math), Hein Fleuren (Tilburg University), Koen Peters (WFP Rome), Dennis Huisman (Erasmus University and NS), Erwin Abbink (NS), Tugce Martagan (TU/e), Coen Dirckx (TU/e and Merck), Bram van Ravenstein (Merck), Dick den Hertog (UvA), and Jaap Kwadijk (Deltares).

Programme features

The keynote lectures will highlight recent breakthroughs in fair learning and distributionally robust optimization (Daniel Kuhn), optimal queuing regimes and learning dynamics in games (Marco Scarsini), innovative inventory stocking and revenue management models (Huseyin Topaloglu), and advanced methods for solving challenging combinatorial problems in graph theory (Angelika Wiegele).

With 24 presentations by LNMB PhD students, the programme is rich in a variety of topics. Enjoy sessions on graphs and networks, stochastic programming, pricing, scheduling, control theory, decision models, energy systems, and more! Have a look at the PhD presentations schedule here. Qualifying PhD students will receive their LNMB Diploma on the second day.

The joint LNMB / NGB Seminar on the third day continues our tradition of connecting research in Operations Research with real-world applications. This year’s seminar highlights the success stories of the Dutch Operations Research community with past winners of the prestigious INFORMS Franz Edelman Award.

Do not miss the special session this year celebrating the conference’s golden jubilee! Two of the past LNMB directors, Prof. Dr. Willem Klein Haneveld and Prof. Dr. Johann Hurink, will take us on a memorable journey through the history of LNMB conferences.

The programme gives ample opportunity for informal discussions. Find the programme here and more information about the speakers here.

Sponsors

The conference is generously sponsored by ORTEC and NWO. The LNMB board is grateful to our sponsors for their continued support of Operations Research.

I look forward to welcoming you to our 50th LNMB conference!

Sincerely,
Maria Vlasiou