Stream “Moments in the History of OR and IFORS” at the 24th Conference of the Internationa l Federation of Operational Research Societies

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We invite you to the Stream “Moments in the History of OR and IFORS” at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies 12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria (https://ifors2026.at/).

We welcome contributions related to all aspects of OR history.

In the past, this stream hosted talks such as:

  *   "The life and contribution of William Sealy Gosset: Student’s t-test brewed at Guinness" (G. Rand);
  *   "Computational Science in the 18th Century Test Cases for the methods of Newton, Raphson and Halley: 1685 to 1745" (T. Steihaug).
  *   “The origin of the Branch-and-Bound Method” (J. Leung)
  *   “The life and work of Harry M Markowitz” (J. Fogg)

We also regularly host talks related to history of national and international OR Societies, e.g. “75 years of the world’s first OR journal” (G. Rand).

If you intend to participate, please upload an abstract of maximum 1500 characters, including spaces, to the EURO Conference submission platform (https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2026) using Session Codes:

428e924e -  “Moments in the History (and Future) of OR”

If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Stream Co-Organisers: Roberto ([email protected] ) and Willi ([email protected] ).

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