This conference series serves as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary scheduling. The aim is to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from all the disciplines that engage with scheduling research.

The UK OR conference, 12-14 September ( is usually a friendly and buzzing affair with a variety of academic and practical streams. This year Jane Parkin and Ian Seath are organising a consultancy stream described in the attached, and they are particularly keen to have contributors from outside the UK.