STOR-i were delighted to host their Annual Conference on Thursday 8^th and Friday 9^th January 2026, bringing together a programme of talks from experts in Statistics and Operational Research as well as STOR-i Alumni.

The conference was held in the LICA building on Lancaster University’s campus and hosted over 100 attendees, including internal STOR-i students and staff, industrial partners, visiting PhD students, and our external advisors. This gave plenty of chance for questions, discussions, and networking opportunities.

The conference's external speakers were: Jeremy Bradley; Jess Spearing, Shell; Jefferson Huang, Naval Postgraduate School; Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia; James Gleeson, University of Limerick; Jordan Richards, University of Edinburgh, Theodore Kypraios, University of Nottingham; Amy Wilson, University of Edinburgh; and Marc Goerigk, University of Passau.

The following members of STOR-i also gave talks: Kajal Dodhia, Luke Fairley, Graham Burgess, Wanchen Yue, and Rui-Yang Zhang.

Thursday evening saw the STOR-i PhD students display a poster they had created, explaining their research. The poster session was given a competitive element for first and second prize, with the judges, speakers Grazia Speranza and Theodore Kypraios, naming the winner as James Neill, and second place going to Nikki Peddinenikalva.

The two-day conference ended on Friday lunchtime, giving attendees a final chance to network.

The STOR-i team are delighted to continue our tradition of annual conferences, and look forward to continuing with this in January 2027. Keep an eye on our website for the details of the next one.