Title: The Long-run Impact of Wind Power on Electricity Prices and Generating Capacity (joint work with Nicholas Vasilakos)Speaker: Prof. Richard Green - Alan and Sabine Howard Professor of Sustainable Energy Business at Imperial College Business SchoolAffiliation: Imperial College LondonLocation: Room 344A Huxley BuildingTime: 2:00pmAbstract. This paper uses a market equilibrium model to calculate how the... Read more »

Title: Payment Rules through Discriminant-Based ClassifiersSpeaker: Prof. David ParkesAffiliation: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard UniversityLocation: Room 217-218 Huxley BuildingTime: 2:00pmAbstract. In mechanism design it is typical to impose incentive compatibility and then derive an optimal mechanism subject to this constraint. By replacing the incentive compatibility requirement with the goal of minimizing expected... Read more »

Title: Lifting Methods for Generalized Semi-Infinite ProgramsSpeaker: Dr. Boris HouskaAffiliation: Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial CollegeLocation: Room 217 Huxley BuildingTime: 3:00pmAbstract. In this talk we present numerical solution strategies for generalized semi-infinite optimization problems (GSIP), a class of mathematical optimization problems which occur naturally in the context of design centering problems, robust optimization... Read more »