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Olvi Mangasarian reflects on pioneering career in optimization
Singing the praises of and reflecting upon a career rooted in optimization.
Optimization of Energy Systems
Victor Zavala, WID Optimization Affiliate and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, spoke at the Discovery Seminar Series in February, 2016, about optimization of energy systems.
Sound Engineering: UW-Madison’s burgeoning optimization community
Discovery Fellow, Jim Luedtke, discusses the growing field of Optimization and addresses some criticism of the discipline in this June 8, 2015 edition of UW College of Engineering podcast.
The Natural Order and Divine Law of Optimization
Michael Ferris and Stephen Wright, principal investigators in the WID Optimization Theme comment on New York Times Magazine article “A Sucker is Optimized Every Minute”.
MIP Workshop Promotes Synergies among Optimization Experts
National and international experts convene at the annual Mixed Integer Programming Workshop, co-hosted by WID this year. Learn how this research affects energy and water networks, traffic flow, and even health care systems.
Optimization Researcher among 2013 SIAM Fellowship Class for Complementarity Research
Optimization researcher Michael Ferris has been honored as a SIAM Fellow for pushing math research into industry.
Steven Wright Nominated for Hilldale Professorship
Steven Wright, a Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Fellow and Computer Science professor, has been nominated for a Hilldale Professorship for his pioneering work in continuous optimization and machine learning.
Wright named to 2024 class of National Academy of Engineering
Discovery Fellow, Stephen Wright was cited for theory and design of optimization algorithms and their application in signal processing and machine learning. Inauguration in to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional distinctions in the field.
2022 Publications
2022 publications from our faculty and fellows during their time at WID are listed below. Please see each publication for additional information. View Additional Publications:
WID Seminar Series
Resilience, Robustness and Adaptability. OPTIMIZATION, EQUILIBRIUM, POWER AND CHRISTMAS COOKIES! Join us to hear the Ferris Lab tie it all together in a festive bow! Praful Gagrani from the Baum Lab will introduce this fascinating medley. December 19th at 2pm in the Orchard View Room, Discovery Building. Wisconsin Institute for …
Vanessa Sawkmie
I'm interested in Mixed Integer Programming. I work on discrete and stochastic optimization models for scheduling and search applications.
Alberto Del Pia Wins 2023 Egon Balas Prize
The award goes to a researcher “for a body of contributions in the area of optimization.”
WID Seminar Series
Alberto del Pia and Sarah Miller will present their research and how it connects with the WID theme of Resilience, Robustness, and Adaptability.
Woojin Kim
Integer optimization problems and stochastic optimization problems on various networks
2021 Publications
2021 publications from our faculty and fellows during their time at WID are listed below. Please see each publication for additional information. View Additional Publications:
Josh Arnold
Campus Energy Coordinator, UW-Madison Office of Sustainability
Develop policy discussions to inform scenarios for moving Wisconsin to a clean energy future
Ahmet Alacaoglu
Continuous optimization for machine learning, reinforcement learning and other data science problems