{"id":158,"date":"2025-07-16T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/?p=158"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:09:02","slug":"first-conferences-as-a-phd-student-reflections-from-ima-and-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/2025\/07\/16\/first-conferences-as-a-phd-student-reflections-from-ima-and-euro\/","title":{"rendered":"First Conferences as a PhD Student \u2013 Reflections from IMA and EURO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This early summer marked an exciting milestone in my PhD journey: attending and presenting at my first two academic conferences! I had the pleasure of sharing some of my early work on improving the SLR approach for the SPLP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first stop was the 5th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research, a small and intimate event with a strong applied focus. I was especially grateful for the supportive atmosphere &#8211; it made sharing my work with the wider community for the first time feel a lot less daunting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after, I travelled to Leeds for the 50th anniversary of the EURO conference, which was a completely different experience. This event, being much larger in scale, allowed me to attend a range of technical talks, allowing me to dive deeper into the theory behind my work and attend talks closely aligned with my research niche. It was also a real highlight to reconnect with some of the friendly faces I met at the IMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, it\u2019s been wonderful to start sharing my research and meeting fellow academics from my field and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early summer marked an exciting milestone in my PhD journey: attending and presenting at my first two academic conferences!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/lauren-durrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}