What is Operations Research? Operations research is a sub-field of applied mathematical sciences aiming at analyzing and solving complex problems through mathematical models and advanced quantitative ...

Primary areas of interest are applied statistics, optimization, business analytics, operations management, inventory theory, scheduling, manufacturing under uncertainty, queuing theory, and risk ...

Our operations research team is developing algorithms to predict a patient’s length of stay.

Gene Woolsey is a man of a million stories, most of them mostly true. Students here at the Colorado School of Mines refer to his operations-research classes as “Uncle Gene’s story time,” but ...

Perhaps cross-fertilizing machine learning and operations research with techniques and lessons learned could help lift both of them up.

Through teaching and research, we educate people who will contribute to society and develop knowledge that will make a difference in the world.

Type of Research: Operations Research Motivation for Research: Large combinatorial optimization problems involve an exponentially growing decision space, where finding a good solution often becomes ...