{"id":7524,"date":"2019-05-16T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T09:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2020-04-30T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:00:22","slug":"operational-research-annual-conference-to-be-hosted-by-kbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2019\/05\/operational-research-annual-conference-to-be-hosted-by-kbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Operational Research Annual Conference to Be Hosted by KBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Kent Business School (KBS) with the help of Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation (CLHO) will host the Operational Research (OR61) Annual Conference, now in its 61st year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorsociety.com\/what-we-do\/events-conferences\/annual-conference\/\">OR61<\/a> is co-chaired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/people\/profiles\/salhi-said.html\">Professor Said Salhi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/people\/profiles\/kotiadis-kathy.html\">Dr Kathy Kotiadis<\/a> from Kent Business School. This year\u2019s plenary speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bus.mef.edu.tr\/en\/akademik-kadro\">Professor Erhan Erkut<\/a>, Vice Rector, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mef.edu.tr\/en\">MEF University<\/a>, Istanbul, Turkey<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unibs.it\/ugov\/person\/859\">Professor Grazia Speranza<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ifors.org\/\">IFORS<\/a> President and former EURO president. Professor of OR, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unibs.it\/\">University of Brescia<\/a>, Italy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/pardalos\/\">Professor Panos Pardalos<\/a>, Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufl.edu\/\">University of Florida<\/a>, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018The conference promotes debate and future thinking to focus the OR profession on how it needs to evolve to deliver benefits to business, the economy and wider society.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Abstract submission deadline is 31 May 2019. Submit your abstracts <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorsociety.com\/what-we-do\/events-conferences\/annual-conference\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The OR61 Event will be taking place 3 &#8211; 5 September 2019 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\">University of Kent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/facilities\/\">Sibson Building<\/a>, Park Wood Rd, Canterbury CT2 7FS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Find out about more of our <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/news\/index.html\">upcoming events<\/a><\/strong><strong> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/clho\/\">Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation (CLHO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School (KBS) with the help of Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation (CLHO) will host the Operational Research (OR61) Annual Conference, now in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2019\/05\/operational-research-annual-conference-to-be-hosted-by-kbs\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":5849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19188,19165],"tags":[5349,164157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/9366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}