Operational Research (PhD/MPhil)
Cardiff University
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Operational Research is a research area within which you can focus your studies as part of our suite of Mathematics research programmes (MPhil, PhD).OverviewThe group has an impressive track-record of contributing to both the theoretical underpinnings of the subject and to novel applications, including working on complex problems arising in healthcare, public health and epidemiology, finance, transportation, timetabling, environmental issues, manufacturing, information security, and green ...Read more

Operational Research is a research area within which you can focus your studies as part of our suite of Mathematics research programmes (MPhil, PhD).

Overview

The group has an impressive track-record of contributing to both the theoretical underpinnings of the subject and to novel applications, including working on complex problems arising in healthcare, public health and epidemiology, finance, transportation, timetabling, environmental issues, manufacturing, information security, and green logistics.

We have over 20 academic staff and research students and host an active research seminar series jointly with the Statistics research group and meetings of the South Wales Operational Research Discussion Society (SWORDS), which regularly attracts a large audience of OR researchers and practitioners.

Our group members are highly active in international collaborations and prominent in interdisciplinary collaboration, with particularly strong links to researchers in: computer science and informatics (research on data science, machine learning and their interface with OR methods); medicine (through our extensive programme of modelling work on health and care services); social sciences (modelling for societal benefit, social network analysis, public health and educational interventions); earth sciences and geography (food and water insecurity, rainfall modelling); and business and economics (financial and risk modelling).

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Nichole
16 Dec 24

people are friendly lectures are good it’s quite calm..Read more

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Samira
01 Feb 24

Best is the course, worst is the levels of loneliness at uni and the jump from previous education to university level education and the expectations that come along with being in..Read more

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Nichole
16 Dec 24
Mathematics Operational Research and Statistics with a Year Abroad BSc (Hons)
people are friendly lectures are good it’s quite calm...
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Samira
01 Feb 24
Mathematics Operational Research and Statistics with a Year Abroad BSc (Hons)
Best is the course, worst is the levels of loneliness at uni and the jump from previous education to university level education and the expectations that come along with being in...
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Cardiff University
PO Box 921 Cardiff CF10 3XQ United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Heath High Level  1.9 miles away

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