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2027 INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference
The APS Conference
Durham hosts the twenty-third meeting in a series running since 1981.
The Applied Probability Society
The Applied Probability Society is a subdivision of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Its purpose is to advance the use of probability theory, understood broadly, in analysing and improving the operation of complex systems that are shaped by uncertainty and randomness.
That mission spans an unusually wide range of settings and an equally wide methodological toolkit, and the community reflects it: members come from business schools, engineering departments, statistics, mathematics, economics and computer science.
Where it is applied
- Manufacturing, logistics and transportation
- Communication and computer networks
- Service platforms and market design
- Revenue management
- Healthcare systems
- Finance, insurance and energy
- Social networks and data science applications
How it is done
- Stochastic optimisation and control, including Markov decision processes, stochastic approximation and reinforcement learning
- Stochastic modelling, including queueing theory, random graphs and diffusion processes
- Rare-event analysis, large deviations and Monte Carlo methods
- Online learning, statistical learning theory, model risk, distributional robustness and causal inference
The society also publishes Stochastic Systems, an open-access journal for work that advances the modelling, analysis and control of stochastic systems, whether through new models, new mathematical methods, or novel application of existing ones. Alongside its publications the society awards a number of prizes and sponsors the Markov Lecture.
Full details of membership, awards, officers and community activities are on the Applied Probability Society pages of INFORMS Connect.
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The conference series
The INFORMS Applied Probability Conference is the society’s flagship meeting. It is held every two years, hosted in turn by institutions around the world, and brings the community together for plenary and keynote lectures, prize lectures, and invited and contributed sessions across the full breadth of the field.
Durham will host the twenty-third meeting in July 2027, the first time the conference has been held in the United Kingdom.
Next meeting
Twenty-Third INFORMS Applied Probability Conference
Durham University Business School, Durham, United Kingdom
12 to 15 July 2027
Previous conferences
| No. | Conference | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Twenty-Third INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Durham, United Kingdom | 12 to 15 July 2027 |
| 22 | Twenty-Second INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Atlanta, Georgia | 30 June to 3 July 2025 |
| 21 | Twenty-First INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Nancy, France | 28 to 30 June 2023 Postponed from July 2021 |
| 20 | Twentieth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Brisbane, Australia | 3 to 5 July 2019 |
| 19 | Nineteenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Evanston, Illinois | 10 to 12 July 2017 |
| 18 | Eighteenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Istanbul, Turkey | 5 to 8 July 2015 |
| 17 | Seventeenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | San José, Costa Rica | 15 to 17 July 2013 |
| 16 | Sixteenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Stockholm, Sweden | 6 to 8 July 2011 |
| 15 | Fifteenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Ithaca, New York | 12 to 15 July 2009 |
| 14 | Fourteenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Eindhoven, the Netherlands | 9 to 11 July 2007 |
| 13 | Thirteenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Ottawa, Canada | 6 to 8 July 2005 |
| 12 | Twelfth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Beijing, China | May to June 2004 |
| 11 | Eleventh INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | New York City, New York | 25 to 27 July 2001 |
| 10 | Applied Probability in Computer and Communication Sciences, Economics and Engineering | Ulm, Germany | 26 to 28 July 1999 |
| 9 | Ninth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference | Boston, Massachusetts | 30 June to 1 July 1997 |
| 8 | Applied Probability Conference | Atlanta, Georgia | 14 to 16 June 1995 |
| 7 | Applied Probability in Engineering, Computer and Communication Sciences | Paris, France | 16 to 18 June 1993 |
| 6 | Probability in the Engineering, Informational and Natural Sciences | Monterey, California | 9 to 11 January 1991 |
| * | SIAM Conference on Applied Probability in Science and Engineering | New Orleans, Louisiana | 5 to 7 March 1990 |
| 5 | Analysis and Control of Large Scale Stochastic Systems | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | 23 to 25 May 1988 |
| 4 | Queueing Networks and Their Applications | New Brunswick, New Jersey | 7 to 9 January 1987 |
| 3 | Statistical and Computational Problems in Probability Modeling | Williamsburg, Virginia | 7 to 9 January 1985 |
| 2 | Applied Probability in Biology and Engineering | Lexington, Kentucky | 18 to 20 July 1983 |
| 1 | Applied Probability: Computer Science, the Interface | Boca Raton, Florida | 5 to 7 January 1981 |
* Organised by SIAM rather than by the society, though with strong participation from ORSA/TIMS Applied Probability Group members.