Operational Research Society News

George Mason University (Virginia, USA) has announced the opening of the 2024 International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition, which calls on analysts to predict when the cherry trees will bloom in 2024.

The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) has published a report looking at the employment outcomes of mathematical sciences graduates throughout 2016-2020 by entry requirement, social deprivation and gender.

In 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans for young people to continue studying mathematics until the age of 18. He argued that the economy will not be able to grow unless work is done to combat “poor numeracy” which would otherwise “cost our economy tens of billions a year or to leave people twice as likely to be unemployed as those with competent numeracy”.

Professor Edward Rochead CMath CSci FIMA has been appointed as the new chair for the Alliance for Data Science Professionals (AfDSP).

In the chancellor's Autumn Statement it was announced that “support to establish a National Academy focused on mathematical sciences”, including “up to £6m of seed funding over the next three years, subject to business case”.