Aras’ academic performance has been recognised in the Imperial College Business School Dean’s List for 2019/20. The Dean’s List recognises outstanding students whose overall performance in their programme is above 70% and within the top 10% of the cohort. Congratulations, Aras!
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President’s PhD Scholarship for Zhengchao
Zhengchao was awarded one of the prestigious Imperial College President’s PhD Scholarships — congratulations, Zhengchao!
Plenary Talk at ROADEF 2020
Wolfram gave a plenary talk on Data Driven Chance Constraints at the 21st ROADEF conference in Montpellier, France, on Feb 21st, 2020.
Area Editorship: Operations Research Letters
Starting Jan 1st, 2020, Wolfram will take up the area editorship for Linear and Stochastic Optimization in Operations Research Letters. Wolfram succeeds Ruediger Schultz, who has been area editor for 17 years.
Imperial College’s Control and Optimisation Seminars
Wolfram gave an invited seminar on Robust Dual Dynamic Programming at Imperial’s Math department on Oct 23rd, 2019.
We’re hiring!
We are currently seeking applications for a Research Associate in the area of optimization under uncertainty, in particular in the fields of (distributionally) robust optimization and stochastic programming, with applications to energy systems. Applicants must hold a PhD in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics or a related field and have strong mathematical skills.The position is funded through EPSRC… Read more »
33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Two of our papers got accepted as posters for the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), taking place Dec 8th-14th, 2019, in Vancouver: Distributionally Optimistic Optimization Approach to Nonparametric Likelihood Approximation and Calculating Optimistic Likelihoods Using (Geodesically) Convex Optimization. Both papers were written by Viet Anh Nguyen, Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh and Daniel Kuhn from EPFL as well as Man-Chung… Read more »
Stochastic Programming Society Elections
At the The 15th International Conference on Stochastic Programming in Trondheim, Wolfram has been elected into the governing board of the Stochastic Programming Society. The Stochastic Programming Society promotes the development and application of stochastic programming theory, models, methods, analysis, software tools and standards, and encourages the exchange of information among practitioners and scholars in the area… Read more »
15th International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP)
Wolfram joined the Scientific Committee of the 15th tri-annual International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP) taking place July 29 – August 2, 2019 in Trondheim, Norway.
K-Adaptability in Two-Stage Mixed-Integer Robust Optimization
Our paper K-Adaptability in Two-Stage Mixed-Integer Robust Optimization has been accepted for publication at Mathematical Programming Computation. A draft version of the paper can be found here.
