Catchup merge from main into SED

[dmitrisvetlov]

My changes on the SequentialExperimentDesign branch are intended to build upon the existing code without modifying the latter in any way, so conflicts should never arise. As this is just a "catchup" merge, and it can be automatically made, I will go ahead and approve the PR myself.

[dmitrisvetlov]

@Munsky,

There are several (trivial) conflicts that occur in trying to merge main into my branch; all of them can be resolved by simply taking the version on main, since any changes I have made to existing code (e.g. to Examples/Cook_etal_2024_Sequential_Design/) were only for testing and debugging purposes.

However, even when I resolve the conflicts, GitHub does not allow the pull request to be merged, because it tries to reverse the merge, making it from SequentialExperimentDesign into main. Do you know why this is occurring? It seems like a pretty severe GitHub bug, if that is where the fault lies.

If we can't resolve this, I can try to merge this via the command line, or make a fresh branch from main and simply copy-and-paste my changes over there.

- Dmitri