NORS – The Norwegian Operations Research Society

Welcome to NORS

The Norsk Operasjonsanalyseforening or Norwegian Operations Research Society (NORS) comprises a community of researchers based in Norway, whose discipline -Operations Research (OR)- deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.

NORS exists formally since 2014 and it is the official member representing Norway in The International Federation of Operational Research (IFORS) and The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) since 2015.

NORS has around 150 members from across the country, covering universities, applied research institutions, government and industry.

What is happening

Opening in Shipping Economics and Management – NHH Norwegian School of economics 20th June 2018
Vacant PhD Research Scholar positions – NHH Norwegian School of Economics 20th June 2018
Open Position at Tieto: Optimisation & Decision Support Consultant 14th May 2018
Call for applications to the NHH Summer course on Rural Logistics 14th May 2018
Postdoctoral position at SINTEF Optimization 8th March 2018

Forthcoming conferences

Annual NORS conference 2020

The NORS Annual Conference aims to be a meeting place for the Norwegian Operations Research community for exchanging ideas and presenting ongoing research.
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Save the date: 18-19 November 2020

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MOSEK @mosektw·

6 May

Placing non-attacking queens on the board: MOSEK plays chess and numpy.diag plays along https://themosekblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/n-queens-in-fusion.html Inspired by @ResilientEGY

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Dimitris Bertsimas @dbertsim·

7 May

The tool that predicts infections and deaths from COVID-19 as policies change for all US states is available in http://COVIDAnalytics.io/policies

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Stefano Coniglio @StefanoConiglio·

29 Apr

408 ebooks freely available from Springer to support higher education during the covid-19 outbreak.

I singled out these 5 (great!) #orms ones:

Discrete Mathematics, L. LovászJ. Pelikán, K. Vesztergombi: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2Fb97469
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Henrik A. Friberg @HAFriberg·

22 Apr

Breakthrough! The epigraph of any univariate semialgebraic function is second-order cone representable, e.g., y≥x²-x⁴ on a convex strip |x|≤a. Hot off the press from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04196.pdf.

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NORS @NORSonline_News·

30 Mar

NORS Annual Conference 2020, 18-19 November (lunch-to-lunch). The conference will be hosted at NTNU Trondheim on the occasion of Professor Gilbert Laporte receiving an honorary doctorate from NTNU on 20 November 2020. Professor Gilbert Laporte will give the closing plenary.

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