After your internship you will work on a master’s assignment in the field of Operations Research. The choice of your specific graduation subject will be largely up to you. For example, you may want to contribute to the development of new theory around a certain mathematical model or algorithm, or design new algorithms or mathematical models that help you to solve a practical case, or improve current business practice.
Research groups
Research and education in Operations Research is organised in two research groups. You may choose which one you will join as a junior researcher, either right at the start of after the first year. For the duration of the whole programme a mentor will be assigned to you to guide you through important decisions such as compiling the perfect set of courses and choosing the best type of internship. The research groups that are offering this specialisation are:
- Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming, in which research is centered around Combinatorial Optimisation, Approximation & Online Algorithms, Mathematical Programming, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Mechanism Design.
- Stochastic Operations Research, in which research is centered around Queueing Theory, Markov Decision Theory, Information Theory, Probability Theory, Spatial Statistics, and Complex Networks.