{"id":142,"date":"2025-01-17T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/mark-holcroft\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-01-18T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T13:15:34","slug":"stor-i-annual-conference-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/mark-holcroft\/2025\/01\/17\/stor-i-annual-conference-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"STOR-i Annual Conference 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 9th-10th January 2025 I attended the Lancaster University STOR-i Annual Conference. The conference hosts a range of UK-and-internationally based academics, and I attended talks focused on a range of contemporary topics in Statistics and Operational Research and met with students and researchers with similar academic interests as I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One talk of particular interest was given by Dries Goosens of Ghent University. His research is in Sports Scheduling, and he has been part of a team developing a categorisation of such problems with the aim of better choosing metaheuristics based on problem-specific features. I think that this will be an invaluable contribution to the field, providing structure in what can be a mess of problems and solutions, and would be useful in a range of other areas of OR such as vehicle routing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to attending the next conference and hopefully seeing some familiar faces!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/mark-holcroft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/01\/STOR-i_First_Conference.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/mark-holcroft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/01\/STOR-i_First_Conference.png 874w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/mark-holcroft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/01\/STOR-i_First_Conference-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/mark-holcroft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/01\/STOR-i_First_Conference-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9th-10th January 2025 I attended the Lancaster University STOR-i Annual Conference. 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