April 29, 2013 Andreas Lundell News

Post doctoral researcher Andreas Lundell was awarded a research grant for 25.000 EUR from the Ruth and Nils-Erik Stenbäck Foundation at the Finnish Society of Science and Letters annual ceremony in Helsinki, Finland.

March 06, 2013 Andreas Lundell News

Professor Göran Högnäs is the leader of a research project about Markov processes titled “Markovprocesser: Teori i användning” (in Swedish) that was one of the large research grants (130.000 EUR) awarded to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation in 2013.

January 16, 2013 Andreas Lundell Events, In the media

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.

November 29, 2012 Andreas Lundell Events

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.

August 31, 2012 Andreas Lundell Events

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.

August 01, 2012 Andreas Lundell News

PhD student Axel Nyberg spent half a year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, USA.

March 02, 2012 Andreas Lundell In the media, News

Aided by one-hundred year old weather maps and his knowledge in optimization, PhD student Mikael Nyberg won a leg in one of the world’s largest virtual regattas, Volvo Ocean Race Game, with over 178 000 registered boats and about 90 000 participants. Nyberg was awarded a trip to Auckland, New Zeeland to visit the real Volvo Ocean Race when it visited the city.

February 23, 2012 Andreas Lundell Events

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.

January 04, 2012 Andreas Lundell News

Professor Tapio Westerlund has been invited to join the editorial board of Journal of Global Optimization (JOGO) from 2012.

January 01, 2012 Andreas Lundell News

Andreas Anckar became the newest member of the OSE group when he was accepted as a PhD student starting from January 2012. His thesis is done at the Department of Mathematics under the supervision of professor Göran Högnäs. The title of the research is “The Hausdorff Dimension of Invariant Measures for Iterated Function Systems”.