Calendar – Introduction to Optimisation

Monday
9am – 1.30pm: Fundamental Concepts in Convex Optimisation
2.30pm – 3.30pm: Applications Lecture – Prof. Rick Middleton, Hamilton Institute.

“Optimization and Circle Fitting in Robot Vision”

Tuesday
9am – 1.30pm: Static Optimisation
Wednesday
9am – 1.30pm: Motivating Examples: Network Applications
2.30pm – 3.30pm: Applications Lecture – Dr. Kai Wulff, TU Berlin.

“Time-optimal scheduling for cyclically repeated processes”

Thursday
9am – 1.30pm: Dynamic Optimisation and Applications
2.40pm – 4.30pm: Applications Lecture – Dr. Brenda Dietrich, IBM Fellow and Vice President,IBM T J Watson Research Center.

“Industrial Applications of Mathematical Optimization”

Friday