ISMOR 40 Proceedings


Invited Speakers  Title  Author

Keynote Speaker

Avoiding Strategic Shock in Operational Research – Holistic Approaches and Lessons Learned for Decision Advantage Mr Y. H. (Eric) Kim, Executive Director, Office of Strategic Intelligence and Analysis, United States Department of Defence

Ronnie Sheppard Memorial Address

Life Before Uber / “Gauss was wrong” Professor Nira Chamberlain OBE PhD HonDSc, President of The Mathematical Association, Visiting Professor of Loughborough University Mathematical Sciences Department and Technical Fellow for Mathematical Modelling for Atkins a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group.
Wednesday 20 July 2023    
Session 4 4.1 Eating the Elephant: Analysis and Planning NATO’s Acquisition Portfolio Nicholas Rose, NATO
  4.2 Finding Space to Play in Wargames Elizabeth Burn, Dstl
  4.3 Future Materiel Distribution Land (FMDL) Strategy Dr Darrell Jaya-Ratnam, DIEManalytics Ltd
  4.4 OR for the Royal Canadian Air Force future strategy
Dr Andrew Billyard, DRDC
Thursday 21 July 2023    
  2022 Eugene Visco MORS Prize Winner Resilient Position Data Fusion with a Generic Kalman Filter Method Dr Paul Fanto, IDA
Session 5 5.1 Electric UAVs: Lessons from collaborative multi-supplier utility studies Clarice Chung, BAE Systems
  5.2 Collaboration across Boundaries Richard Brown, BAE Systems
  5.3 Collaboration across boundaries – An ASTRID perspective Edward Aubrey, CORDA
  5.4 Operations Research Group in the Israeli ministry of health (MOH) Covid Task Force Ami Mizrahi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Session 6 6.1 Juxtaposing Narrative and Numbers: Utilising Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies in the Historical Analysis of Defensive Operations Bex Brown & Paul Syms, Dstl
  6.2 World War 2 Operational Research revisited: Air Power against the U-boats
John Magill, University of Cambridge Alumni
  6.3 Historical analysis of urban combat casualties and loss rates
Paul Syms, Dstl
Prize Winners    
The Eugene Visco prize for best paper by an early career analyst 2.3 Rapid analysis in a congested environment Adam Beckett, Roke
 The David Faddy prize for best overall paper 4.2 Finding Space to Play in Wargames Elizabeth Burn, Dstl