{"id":329,"date":"2021-02-05T10:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-davison\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:14:48","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-davison\/homepage\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"phd-research-description\">PhD Research Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"phd-research-description\">Title:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Modelling and Solving Generic Educational Timetabling Problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/maths\/people\/matthew-davison\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/maths\/people\/matthew-davison\">Project description, publications and supervisory team<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"phd-publications\">Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>09\/05\/2025 &#8211; STOR-i Forum presentation &#8211; Title: Operation STOR-i Time(tabling) &#8211; Our entry to IHTC-2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>28\/08\/2024 &#8211; PATAT 2024 presentation &#8211; Title: Matheuristic for Approximating a Frontier for a Many-objective University Timetabling Problem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>22\/05\/2024 &#8211; STOR-i Data on the Shire poster &#8211; Title: University Course Timetabling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15\/01\/2024 &#8211; STOR-i Forum presentation &#8211; Title: Exploring a Many-objective University Timetabling Problem (Extended).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11\/01\/2024 &#8211; STOR-i Annual Conference &#8211; Title: Exploring a Many-objective University Timetabling Problem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>03\/05\/2023 &#8211; STOR-i Forum presentation &#8211; Title: University Course Timetabling Problem with Hybrid Teaching Considerations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>28\/04\/2023 &#8211; 4th IMA and OR Society Conference poster &#8211; Title: How hybrid learning increases the size of educational timetabling problems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>27\/03\/2023 &#8211; 向日葵视频 FST Science Week 2023 poster &#8211; Title:  How hybrid learning increases the size of educational timetabling problems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13\/01\/2023 &#8211; STOR-i Forum: Pi Minute Theses &#8211; Title: University Course Timetabling in 3 minutes 14 seconds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>02\/09\/2022 &#8211; PATAT 2022 presentation &#8211; Title: Optimising Scheduling of Hybrid Learning using Mixed Integer Programming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>25\/04\/2022 &#8211; STOR-i Data on the Lakes poster &#8211; Title: University Course Timetabling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>01\/04\/2022 &#8211; 向日葵视频 FST Science Week 2022 poster &#8211; Title: University Course Timetabling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>04\/02\/2022 &#8211; STOR-i Forum presentation &#8211; Title: University Course Timetabling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching and supervision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2022\/23: STOR-i Internship programme support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022\/23: GTA for MSCI222.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022\/23: GTA for STOR607.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021\/22: Supervisor for STOR-i internship programme.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021\/22: GTA for MSCI224.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021\/22: GTA for STOR607.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Runner-up in the FST Postgraduate Poster Competition held at 向日葵视频 Science Week 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mres-reports\">MRes Reports<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b30a5621-e882-43fd-bcff-08742427dcfa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-davison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/04\/STOR601_RT2_Report_Matthew_Davison.pdf\">Planning for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0e53d265-f5eb-4ab7-8470-415e1db6d916\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-davison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/03\/STOR601_RT1_Report.pdf\">Using Drifter Data to Estimate Ocean Diffusivity<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0ffa68ee-254e-4abd-80aa-3779a470c75e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-davison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/02\/STOR608_Matthew-Davison_Final_Report.pdf\">Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits and Thompson Sampling<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Research Description Title: Modelling and Solving Generic Educational Timetabling Problems. 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