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Esma won the prestigious Imperial College Student Academic Choice Award in the category “Best Graduate Teaching Assistant”. The award is university-wide and given out to one person per year only. Well done, Esma!

Wolfram gave an invited seminar on Distributionally Robust Vehicle Routing at Erasmus University Rotterdam on Mar 22nd, 2019.

Our paper A Primal-Dual Lifting Scheme for Two-Stage Robust Optimization has been accepted for publication at Operations Research. A draft version of the paper can be found here.

Under the Building Research Bridges programme of the American University of Beirut, Wolfram gave a PhD short course on Robust Optimization as well as a seminar on The Distributionally Robust Vehicle Routing Problem during his visit at AUB on Feb 12-18, 2019.

Our paper on Cardinality-Constrained Clustering and Outlier Detection via Conic Optimization has been accepted for publication at SIAM Journal on Optimization. A draft version of the paper can be found here.

Wolfram gave an invited talk on Data-Driven Chance Constraints over Wasserstein Balls at the single-track workshop on Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty at Banff, Canada, on Jan 14, 2019.

Melvyn Sim and I will be the cluster chairs for Robust Optimization at the Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT) in Berlin, August 3-8, 2019.

Wolfram gave an invited seminar on Distributionally Robust Vehicle Routing at EPFL on Dec 14th, 2018.

Wolfram will organise a mini symposium on Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization as well as give a semi-plenary talk at the 15th International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP) taking place July 29 – August 2, 2019 in Trondheim, Norway.

Dr Esma Koca passed her viva without any corrections yesterday! Her thesis, “Product Release Strategies in the Digital Economy”, revisits several conventional economic models in the light of new constraints and opportunities that arise in the digital economy.