Title: Revenue-Optimising Scheduling in Parallel Stochastic NetworksSpeaker: Dr. Giuliano CasaleAffiliation: Department of Computing - Imperial College LondonLocation: Room 145 Huxley BuildingTime: 4:00pmAbstract. Cloud applications are often deployed on multiple virtual machines (VMs) with heterogeneous compute capacities. In this setting, we consider the optimal static scheduling of users to application servers hosted in a set of... Read more »

Title: On the standard pooling problem and strong valid inequalitiesSpeaker: Dr. Claudia D AmbrosioAffiliation: Laboratory for Information - Ecole PolytechniqueLocation: Room 311 Huxley BuildingTime: 4:00pmAbstract. The focus of this talk will be on the standard pooling problem, i.e., a continuous, non-convex optimization problem arising in the chemical engineering context. First, we will introduce the problem... Read more »

Title: Large-scale MILP and MINLP problems in power system planningSpeaker: Dr. Ioannis KonstantelosAffiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Imperial College LondonLocation: Room 218 Huxley BuildingTime: 4:00pmAbstract. Achieving the ambitious decarbonization goals set by governments worldwide will entail significant changes to the way electrical energy is generated, transmitted and used. The cost-effective integration of... Read more »