EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization

📢 The joint European Conference on Stochastic Optimization (ECSO) and Computational Management Science (CMS) 2027, which will be held at Lancaster University, UK, from 20–23 June 2027 Full details here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/ecso-cms-2027/

📢Call for Papers: Interdiction and Stochastic Programming on Networks in Memory of Professor R. Kevin Wood, 1955–2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

The deadline for submission 15 March 2026. Further details about the conference are available at ifors2026.at

Submissions for the stream “Exact and Heuristic Solution Methods for Optimization under Uncertainty” at IFORS 2026 are open. This takes place at University of Vienna, July 12-17, 2026.

The deadline for registration is 15 September. Contact Ruben van Beesten (ruben.van.beesten@ntnu.no) for more details.

The course consists of lectures by experts: Vincent Leclère (Ecole des Ponts, Paris) Francesca Maggioni (University of Bergamo) Ward Romeijnders (University of Groningen) Peter Schütz (NTNU) Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU) Ruben van Beesten (NTNU, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

We invite PhD students to participate in our Nordic Winter School on Advanced Stochastic Optimization at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway from 1-5 December.

Don’t miss the Special Issue associated with this stream, now open for submissions: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

The EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization have hosted the stream "Stochastic and Robust Optimization", which featured: 🔹 17 sessions 🔹 61 high-quality talks 🔹 A keynote by Francesca Maggioni titled "Bounding large-scale optimization problems under uncertainty".

Last week took place the 2025 EURO Conference in Leeds, celebrating the 50th anniversary of EURO — an inspiring gathering of the operations research community! #EURO2025 #OperationsResearch #EWGSO #StochasticOptimization #RobustOptimization #Leeds2025 #SpecialIssue

2) Register here: eventbrite.com/e/bea512-model….. For questions, contact Stein W. Wallace – stein.wallace@nhh.no

1) Register here as a visiting student: nhh.no/en/study-progr… Under “Choose a course”, find the pointer to “Søknadsweb”. Pick “Norwegian School of Economics”. The course is BEA512.

NHH Norwegian School of Economics invites you to a Nordic PhD course in stochastic programming. Dates: September 22-26, 2025. Location: NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen More info in thread:

EURO Journal on Computational Optimization Special issue on Optimization under Uncertainty: theory and algorithms sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… [Deadline 1 November]

This prestigious award, granted for outstanding contributions to the field of Operational Research, was conferred yesterday during the opening the 34th EURO Conference in Leeds. Congratulations to Professor Escudero on this well-deserved recognition of his contributions to OR!

We are pleased to share the news that Professor Laureano Escudero (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), a distinguished member of the EWGSO, has been awarded the EURO Gold Medal 2025, the highest distinction in Operational Research in Europe.

If you are interested in submitting a contribution to this stream, please contact Francesca Maggioni and Patrizia Beraldi (francesca.maggioni@unibg.it and patrizia.beraldi@unical.it). The deadline is April 29th, 2025.

Authors can contribute with two types of works: 1) Abstract (max 2000 characters, space included) 2) Short paper (8-10 pages, including front matter and references)

The AIRO thematic section on Stochastic Programming is organizing invited sessions on "Optimization under Uncertainty" for the upcoming ODS 2025 conference: airoconference.it/ods2025/