April 01, 2011 Andreas Lundell News

Amir Shirdel joined the OSE group in April 2011 as a PhD student in Systems Engineering. The topic of his research is “Robust system identification” and it is performed under the supervision of professor Hannu Toivonen.

February 01, 2011 Andreas Lundell News

Post doc researcher Mikael Kurula is since February 2011 active at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. There he is mainly working together with professor Hans Zwart on existence proofs for solutions of partial differential equations. The University of Twente was founded in 1961 and it is situated in the city of Enschede by the German border. The university has about 9 000 students and 3 300 scientific staff, and it is the only Dutch university with a campus.

January 12, 2011 Andreas Lundell News

Docent Iiro Harjunkoski, is co-author of the article “State-of-the-art review of optimization methods for short-term scheduling of batch processes” listed as the most cited article published in Computers and Chemical Engineering in the last five years.

December 15, 2010 Andreas Lundell News

Using novel reformulation techniques developed within the OSE group, PhD student Axel Nyberg and professor Tapio Westerlund managed to solve four previously unsolved quadratic assignment problems in the problem library QAPLIB.

May 15, 2010 Andreas Lundell News

The steering group of the Center of Excellence in Optimization and Systems Engineering has accepted new PhD students during the spring 2010.

October 04, 2009 Andreas Lundell News

The OSE group has been appointed an internal Center of Excellence at Åbo Akademi University for the time-period 2010-14.

September 21, 2009 Andreas Lundell News

Prof. Jukka Corander received research funding from the European Research Council (ERC), Starting Independent Researcher Grant, intended for young researchers.

June 25, 2009 Andreas Lundell News

The Optimization and Systems Engineering research group submitted an application for a Center of Excellence within research at ÅAU. The time-period for the CoE program is 2010-14.

June 12, 2009 Andreas Lundell News

Professor Jukka Corander is a co-author of the paper “Hyper-Recombination, Diversity, and Antibiotic Resistance in Pneumococcus” published in the journal Science.