PATAT Conferences

The International Series of Conferences on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) is held biennially that serve as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation.

PATAT is the main conference for the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (EWG-PATAT).

PATAT has been supporting a range of competitions and challenges, investing back in the timetabling community for the benefit of the field.

Steering Committee

Edmund K. Burke (Honorary Chair)	University of Leicester, UK
Barry McCollum (Treasurer)	Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jeffrey H. Kingston	University of Sydney, Australia
Nysret Musliu	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ender Özcan (Chair)	University of Nottingham, UK
Hana Rudova	Masaryk University, The Czech Republic
Andrea Schaerf	University of Udine, Italy
Thomas Jacob Riis Stidsen	Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Greet Vanden Berghe (EWG-PATAT liaison)	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Fourthcoming PATAT Conference

PATAT 2026: The 15th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
Nottingham, UK | Tuesday 25 - Friday 28 August 2026
Organisers:
Daniel Karapetyan, University of Nottingham
John Drake, University of Leicester

The PATAT conference series is supported by