SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - Have you ever followed a recipe to bake some bread? If you have, congratulations; you have executed an algorithm. The algorithms that follow us around the ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

Mathematics often seems like an abstract concept, but its applications can have profound impacts on the world around us. From predicting the next word in a sentence to understanding how Google’s ...

The Optimisation and Algorithms (OA) Group conducts research and teaching in the theory and applications of Operations Research (OR). The group's foremost interest is in fundamental research in OR and ...

The Optimisation and Algorithms Group conducts research in discrete optimisation, algorithm design, and related areas of mathematics and theoretical computer science. Our work is primarily theoretical ...