OR55 minus 2

The 55th OR Society conference starts in two days time.  A couple of hundred members of the ORSociety and a few non-members will arrive on Monday or Tuesday.  We have been working on the event for the last year; we, means the conference organiser, Hilary, my co-chair Phil Jones, and others on the committee.  The material is prepared, and today we have had a flurry of emails about last-minute matters.  Two sessions lacked session chairs - could we have volunteers?  Is there a map to show how to move from session to accommodation and vice versa?  We have just learnt of a visitor to the university who is interested in OR. - can we invite him to the reception?

Operational research is about problem solving, so we have done it!

More about the conference later.