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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 24, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael C. Ferris, Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Talk Title: Modeling and Optimization within Interacting Systems
Abstract: We consider models built up from a collection of optimizations within an interacting physical, economic or virtual system. We show how optimization and equilibrium concepts can be deployed and resulting models solved within an extended mathematical programming framework. Examples are drawn from sustainable land use modeling, power system design and economic operation, discrete Nash equilibria and risk analysis. The interplay between stochasticity, complementarity and hierarchical optimization will be highlighted.
Biography: Michael C. Ferris is Professor of Computer Sciences and leads the Optimization Group within the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1989.
Dr. Ferris' research is concerned with algorithmic and interface development for large scale problems in mathematical programming, including links to the GAMS and AMPL modeling languages, and general purpose software such as PATH, NLPEC and EMP. He has worked on several applications of both optimization and complement-arity, including cancer treatment plan development, radiation therapy, video-on-demand data delivery, economic and traffic equilibria, structural and mechanical engineering.
Ferris is a SIAM fellow, an INFORMS fellow, Ferris is a SIAM fellow, an INFORMS fellow, received the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and is a past recipient of a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He serves on the editorial boards of Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Transactions of Mathematical Software, and Optimization Methods and Software.
More Information: Seminar-Ferris.docx
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
