Professor Adam Letchford

About

Adam N. Letchford is a Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has served on the editorial boards of six international journals: Computational Optimization and Applications, Discrete Optimization, EURO Journal of Computational Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation and Operations Research. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society, a member of the EPSRC and UKRI Future Leaders Peer Review Colleges, and a member of the REF2021 Sub-panel on Mathematical Sciences.  He has also been an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, and the recipient of an IBM Faculty Award.  From 2011-2018, he was director of the NATCOR centre for doctoral training in OR.

Research interests

His research interest is in optimisation, including theory, algorithms, and applications. He concentrates mainly on integer programming and combinatorial optimisation, but also has some interest in global optimisation. He tends to work on exact methods rather than heuristics. He is interested in applications of optimisation not only in OR, but also in statistics, computer science, engineering, and the physical sciences. He is known especially for his work on cutting planes and their application to vehicle routing problems, facility location problems, and problems involving cutting or packing.