uwmadison2017

UW-Madison Stochastic Programming Short Course, August 3rd-4th, 2017

Note: Access to this page is restricted to registered participants.

Questions: Contact Victor Zavala [link]

Agenda

Thursday, August 3rd

08:30 am - 10:00 am: Basics on Probability Theory, Statistics, and Optimization

10:00 am - 10:15 am: Break

10:15 am - 11:45 am: Two-Stage Formulations

11:45 am - 01:30 pm: Lunch at Wisconsin Union Terrace

01:30 pm - 03:00 pm: Risk Metrics and Probabilistic Constraints

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm: Break

03:30 pm - 05:00 pm: Multi-Objective Formulations and Conflict Resolution

06:30 pm - : Dinner at Brocach [link]

Friday, August 4th

08:30 am - 10:00 am: Advanced Applications (Supply Chain Design, Inventory Management)

10:00 am - 10:15 am: Break

10:15 am - 11:45 am: Advanced Applications (Optimal Control and Operations)

11:45 am - 12:45 pm: Lunch at Union South

12:45 pm - 01:30 pm: Multi-Stage Formulations

01:30 pm - 01:45 pm: Break

01:45 pm - 03:00 pm: Algorithms and Tools

03:00 pm - : Adjourn

Important: Please bring a laptop with a web browser that has a web browser other than Internet Explorer. The course involves lectures that are mixed with computational experiments in the Julia programming language. You do not need to install any software on your laptop, all tools will be available via the JuliaBox web server.

Registered Participants

Victor Saucedo, Genentech

Aryan Geraili, P&G

Brian Gettelfinger P&G

Holger Teichgraeber, Stanford

Zhou Yu, Carnegie Mellon

Can Li, Carnegie Mellon

Sophie Kim, Georgia Tech

Jackie Zhai, Georgia Tech

Alexander Smith, UW-Madison

Di Liang, UW-Madison

Mahmoud Sharara, UW-Madison

Yicheng Hu, UW-Madison

Sungho Shin, UW-Madison

Logistics

Short Course Location: UW-Madison Campus, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Building, Room 1170 Northwest [link].

Recommended Hotels: Buckingham Inn [link], DoubleTree [link], Union South [link], Hotel Red [link], Hilton [link]

Parking: Engineering Parking Ramp [link], Union South Garage [link]

Meals: Refreshments (coffee, soda, cookies) will be provided during the course.

Breakfast on your own. Expenses not covered.

Group will get together to have lunch and dinner on Thursday 3rd and lunch on Friday 4th. Expenses not covered.

Slides [link]

Pre-Survey [link]