Mike Eldred, Sandia National Labs: Overview of Optimization Under Uncertainty Capabilities in DAKOTA

Uncertainties must be properly modeled in order to quantify risk and enable the design of systems that are both robust and reliable. A number of capabilities for optimization under uncertainty (OUU) have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories and deployed to users through the DAKOTA software toolkit. This talk will overview these capabilities, as well as describe the uncertainty quantification and optimization foundations on which they are based. Of particular interest are surrogate-based OUU and reliability-based design optimization methods. Application of these techniques to robust design of inertial confinement fusion capsules and reliability-based design of micro-electro-mechanical systems will be presented.Mike Eldred is Principal Member of Technical Staff, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Dept., at Sandia National Laboratories.http://venus.usc.edu/seminars/CAM/

Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Roger Ghanem