December 08, 2011 Andreas Lundell Events
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.
Read moreDecember 01, 2011 Andreas Lundell Events
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.
Read moreNovember 02, 2011 Andreas Lundell Events
he public defence of Toni Lastusilta’s PhD thesis, “GAMS MINLP Solver Comparisons and Some Improvements to the AlphaECP Algorithm” will take place on December 2, 2011, 12 PM in Auditorium Salin, Axelia II, Biskopsgatan 8, Åbo.
The opponent is professor Zdravko Kravanja, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Professor Tapio Westerlund, Process Design and Systems Engineering, will act as custos.
More information including a summary is given here.
Read moreJune 07, 2011 Andreas Lundell News
The article: “Global Solution of Optimization Problems with Signomial Parts, Discrete Optimization, 5, Issue 1, February 2008, 108-120″ is on fifth place among the “Top 25 Hottest Articles” in the journal Discrete Optimization during January to March 2011.
Read moreApril 20, 2011 Andreas Lundell News
PhD student Anders Skjäl was invited to visit Professor Christodoulos Floudas’ research group in Princeton University, USA, for the period 28.3–8.4 2011. Professor Floudas is a member of the International Scientific Panel of the OSE group and was the plenary speaker at the annual OSE seminar in 2010. As a result of the research visit, progress has been made on a nondiagonal version of the aBB underestimator for nonconvex optimization.
Read moreMarch 10, 2011 Andreas Lundell Conferences, Events
The Nordic-Baltic Region of the International Biometric Society welcome you to the 3rd Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference, NBBC11, June 6-9 in Turku, Finland. The conference is hosted by the Statistics Unit, University of Turku and Department of Mathematics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. More information available here.
Read moreFebruary 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.
Read moreJanuary 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.
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