Dr Jonathan Thompson
Overview
Position:
Admissions Tutor
Email:
ThompsonJM1@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 75524
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74199
Extension: 75524
Location: M/0.27
Research Interests
Graph theoretic modelling
Meta-heuristics - particularly ant systems, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing
Scheduling problems - examination scheduling, sports fixture scheduling, manpower planning
Research Group
Teaching
Undergraduate - Autumn Semester
MA0358 Mathematical Programming
Postgraduate - Autumn Semester
MAT001 OR Methods
Administrative Duties
Admissions Tutor
Year One Director of Studies
Marketing of Degree schemes
Prospectus (undergraduate)
University Open Day co-ordinator
Chair of Schools Admissions Committee
Member of School Management Board
Member of School Learning and Teaching Committee
Member of School IT committee
Member of School Staff/Student Panel
Member of Statistics / OR Subject Panel
Publications
Research
External Funding Since 2000
Two projects with The Office of National Statistics to investigate the Cell Suppression Problem (2005 and 2006).
Major Conference Talks Since 2004
2007 – The Operational Research Society Conference, Edinburgh, UK – The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem
2006 – The Operational Research Society Conference, Bath, UK – GRASP for the nurse scheduling problem
2004 - Combinatorial Optimisation, Lancaster, UK - Ants for graph colouring
Postgraduate Students
Graduated (Since 2000)
Nick Pugh – Ants for Examination Timetabling (2004)
David Parr – A comparison of solution methods for the nurse scheduling problem (2004)
Steven Casey – A comparison of methods for the examination timetabling problem (2005)
Max Wallace – The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (2007)
Melissa Goodman –Construction-Based Metaheuristics for Personnel Scheduling problems (2008)
Vicky Reynish – An Investigation into the University Timetabling Problem (2008)
Penny Holborn - Optimisation Method for Dynamic Operational Research Problems (2013)
Current
Biography
PhD – The examination scheduling problem, Swansea University (1995)
Previous Positions
Lecturer in Statistics and Operational Research, Edinburgh University, 1996-7
Research Assistant, Swansea University, 1994-6.
Other Projects
Dr Jonathan Thompson has also completed projects with several companies including WH Smiths, John Menzies and the International Rugby Board. He is an active researcher in the areas of heuristics, and particularly in timetabling, manpower planning and scheduling. He has recently extended his research to vehicle routing problems and in particular, real time routing. He is currently a member of the organising committee of the OR49 conference held in Edinburgh this September. He has organised several streams on scheduling at OR conferences. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Operational Research and on the Programme Committee for several conferences such as GECCO, PPSN and PATAT.