Optimisation Research Centre
Current PhD students
Pedro Crespo del Granado (p.crespodelgranado at lancaster.ac.uk)
Inventory network management in a multi-period optimization setting
Saeideh Dehgan Nasiri (s.d.nasiri at lancaster.ac.uk)
Vehicle routing with correlated congestion
Franklin Djeumou Fomeni (f.djeumoufomeni at lancaster.ac.uk)
The quadratic knapsack problem
Andrew Macpherson (a.macpherson1 at lancaster.ac.uk)
Stochastic models for dynamic resource allocation
Seb Miller (s.miller2 at lancaster.ac.uk)
The simple plant location problem revisited
Past PhD students
Jiani Qian
Fuel Emission Optimization in Vehicle Routing Problems with Time-Varying Speeds
Colin Paterson
Hybrid Lateral Transshipments: Reactive Rebalancing in Supply Networks
Devin Li
Year awarded: 2011
Thesis Title: An approximate Dynamic Programming approach to the scheduling of impatient jobs in a clearing system
Qianxin Mu
Year awarded: 2010
Thesis Title: Disruption Management in Vehicle Routing and Schedule
Konstantinos Kaparis - Kingsman Prize Award Winner
Year awarded: 2008
Thesis Title: Knapsack problems: inequalities, separation and heuristics
Dan Grainger
Year awarded: 2008
Thesis Title: Contributions to Quadratic 0-1 Programming
Amar Oukil
Year awarded: 2008
Exploiting sparsity in vehicle routing algorithms
William Maden
Year awarded: 2006
Thesis title: Models and heuristic algorithms for complex routing and scheduling problems
Nicholas A. Pearson - Kingsman Prize Award Winner
Year awarded: 2005
Thesis title: Minimum cuts, circuits and tours in planar graphs
Wing Cheong Tham
Year awarded: 2005
Thesis title: Depot location-routing models based on a real supply chain network
U. Farouk Aminu
Year awarded: 2003
Thesis title: Investigating constraint programming approaches to arc routing
Babak Sohrabi
Year awarded: 2000
Thesis title: Solving large-scale distribution problems using heuristic algorithms
Andre R.S. Amaral
Year awarded: 1999
Thesis title: Solution methods for cutting and packing problems
Adam N. Letchford
Year awarded: 1997
Thesis title: Polyhedral results for some constrained arc routing problems
