Congratulations to the European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) on its 50th anniversary, which we recently celebrated at the great EURO Conference in Leeds, UK, June 22-25, 2025 https://euro2025leeds.uk/outline-programme/. I am writing this post, which is the 5th one in a series on this conference, while in Edinburgh.
It was a very busy, engaging conference for me, with 2,000 delegates from across the globe. I was honored to give 3 presentations. The first two (on tariffs and trade in the Making an Impact session, and on war risk insurance in the Insurance and finance session) I have already blogged about. My third presentation was: "Reflections on Wonderful OR Experiences at EURO Conferences Over 20 Years."
This talk I gave on the last day of the conference. I am very grateful to Professor Gerhard-Wilhelm "Willi" Weber for inviting me to speak in the session: "Celebrating 50 Years of EURO."
The session presenters and their titles:
Reflections on Wonderful OR Experiences at EURO Conferences Over 20 Years
Anna Nagurney
Why the 1970’s Was an Important Era in Operational Research, with Personal Reflections
Jyrki Wallenius
Lessons I learned from EURO
Emilio Carrizosa
Fifty years of Data Envelopment Analysis
Ali Emrouznejad, Anna Mergoni, Kristof De Witte.
The session was chaired by the Immediate Past President of EURO - Professor Anita Schöbel.
I have posted the slide deck of my presentation on the Supernetwork Center website:
https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/EURO20YearsNagurney.pdf
In my slide deck I have many photos of conferees at EURO Conferences in Reykjavik, Poznan, Glasgow, Dublin, and Copenhagen. I was touched that several colleagues, whose photos I had included in my presentation, came to my talk in Leeds!
Afterwards, we took a group photo, which included the session chair, Professor Anita Schöbel, the session organizer, Professor Gerhard-Wilhelm "Willi" Weber, and Graham Rand, who was mentioned in several of the presentations, including mine.
The EURO conference have been expertly organized, with excellent scientific sessions, and, above all, I now can consider many of the wonderful researchers and practitioners that I have met at these conferences to be friends. Science is about research, education, and, most of all, it is about people!
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