Management Science track

This track is based in the Management Science Group| within the Department.

 

Track structure

Year one

Training: Compulsory examined courses

• Research Paper (1 unit)
• MA408 Discrete Mathematics and Complexity (0.5 units)
• OR406 Mathematical Programming: Theory and Algorithms (0.5 units)
• OR408 Combinatorial Optimisation (0.5 units)

1.5 units from the following:

• OR409 Auctions and Game Theory (0.5 units)
• OR434 Principles of Decision Sciences (0.5 units)
• MA402 Game Theory (0.5 units)
• MA407 Algorithms and Computation (0.5 units)
• MA409 Continuous-Time Optimisation (0.5 units)
• MA411 Probability and Measure (0.5 units)
• MA412 Functional Analysis and its Applications (0.5 units)
• MA418 Preferences, Optimal Portfolio Choice, and Equilibrium (
• ST409 Stochastic Processes (0.5 units)
• ST418 Non-Linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Time Series (0.5 units)
• ST422 Time Series (0.5 units)
• ST411 Generalized Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis (0.5 units)
• ST405 Multivariate Methods (0.5 units)

Any Department of Management, LSE, University of London, London Taught Course Centre (LTCC), or National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research (NATCOR) courses that are relevant, and at an appropriate level, with the approval of the Programme Director.

Transferable skills: Optional non-examined courses

• Attendance and participation at Research Seminars held across the Department, details to be made available to student by email and on website.

 

Year two

Transferable skills: Optional non-examined courses

• Attendance and participation at Research Seminars held across the Department

 

Year three

Transferable skills: Optional non-examined courses

• Attendance and participation at Research Seminars held across the Department

 

Year four

Transferable skills: Optional non-examined courses

• Attendance and participation at Research Seminars held across the Department
  

Current thesis working titles

The following is a list of provisional thesis working titles by current PhD students on this track:

• Rethinking Risk: the impact of action on uncertainty
• Priority setting in the British NHS
• On constructing, structuring and use of objectives in managerial decision making
• Topological Design of Artificial Neural Network for Financial Assets Forecasting
• Shortest path Cost games
• Convex Cones and Multicriteria Sorting, Optimization and Inequality Measurement
• Portfolio Optimization
• Eleven Methods for Proving Infeasibility of 01 Integer Programmes
• Effectiveness Measurement of Decision Analysis and Nudges
• Extending the combined use of Scenarios and MCDA for evaluating and improving the robustness of strategic options
• The Best of CBA and MCDA for Public Investment Appraisal - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for the Prioritisation of Public Policy Investments
• Modelling Dynamic Preferences of Malicious Agents to help manage risks of Violence Outbreaks