The public defence of Anders Skjäls’s PhD thesis, ” On the Use of Convex Underestimatiors in Global Optimization” will take place on Thursday April 10, 2014, 12 PM in Auditorium Salin, Axelia II, Biskopsgatan 8, Åbo. Continue reading
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PhD thesis defense: Axel Nyberg
The public defence of Axel Nyberg’s PhD thesis, “Some Reformulations for the Quadratic Assignment Problem” will take place on Friday March 28, 2014, 12 PM in Auditorium Salin, Axelia II, Biskopsgatan 8, Åbo. Continue reading
Guest lecture by Prof. Hans D. Mittelmann
Prof. Hans D. Mittelmann from Arizona State University, USA gave a guest lecture on March 27, 2014 at Åbo Akademi University. Continue reading
Annual seminar 2013
Techniques based on graph theory was the central topic of the plenary lectures given at the annual seminar in Optimization and Systems Engineering 2013 by professor Leo Liberty from École polytechnique in Paris, France, currently active at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, USA. Professor Liberti is also a member of the OSE group’s International Scientific Panel. The 2013 seminar took place at Forum Marinum, Turku on November 15th.
Prof. Corander speaks at Academy of Finland meeting
Professor Jukka Corander speaks about breakthroughs in the analysis of resistant bacteria through the means of statistical data analysis at the Academy of Finland breakfast meeting January 16, 2013. Some of the results were recently published in a paper in the journal Genome Biology. More information (in Finnish) can be found here.
Annual seminar 2012
Modeling, optimization and control were the topics of the plenary lectures at the annual seminar in Optimization and Systems Engineering 2012 taking place at Åbo Akademi University in Turku on November 29. Keynote speaker was professor Stratos Pistikopoulos from Imperial College London, UK, one of the members of the International Scientific Panel of the OSE group.
PhD thesis defense: Peter Lindberg
The public defence of Peter Lindberg’s PhD thesis, “The knapsack problem approach in solving partial hedging problems of options” will take place on August 31, 2012, in Stora Auditoriet, ASA building, Åbo. Continue reading
Seminar course in Applied Mathematics: Semidefinite Optimization and Applications
The course “Seminar in Applied Mathematics: Semidefinite Optimization and Applications, 5 ECTS” starts on Thursday, March 1, 2012, at 3 PM in Vektorrumet ASA B 311. More information here.
Annual seminar 2011
The annual seminar in Optimization and Systems Engineering at Åbo Akademi University, hosted by the OSE group, took place on December 8, 2011, in Axelia II, Turku. This year the OSE group was fortunate to be able to welcome professor Ignacio Grossmann from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, as the plenary speaker.
Guest lecturer from GAMS Development Corp.
Dr Michael Bussieck from GAMS Development Corporation talked about new developments in the GAMS modeling framework on a seminar arranged by the OSE group on December 1, 2011. The research collaboration with Dr Bussieck has among other things led to the AlphaECP solver implementation in GAMS.
The presentation can be downloaded here.
More information about the guest lecture can be viewed here.