Wednesday, May 12

MS30
Optimization in Engineering

9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Room: Atlanta 4

The use of high performance optimization techniques in different areas of engineering is increasing rapidly. The first three speakers will demonstrate the power of optimization methods to solve difficult engineering problems in chemical engineering, aerodynamics and in tracking problems (AWACS). The speakers demonstrate innovative application of powerful optimization methods. The final speakers will discuss a novel approach to engineering optimization problems and show how robust solutions can be obtained by using semidefinite optimization. This minisymposium will provide a glimpse for the state of the art "optimization in engineering".

Organizer: Tamás Terlaky
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

9:00-9:25 Real Time Optimization of Chemical Processes

Hans Georg Bock, University of Heidelberg, Germany

9:30-9:55 Multilevel Optimization with Surrogates in Wing Design

Natalia M. Alexandrov, NASA Langley Research Center

10:00-10:25 Applications of Nonsmooth Optimization in Industry

Sharon Filipowsi, The Boeing Company

10:30-10:55 Robust Convex Optimization in Engineering

Aharon Ben-Tal and Arkadi Nemirovski, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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