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Impact Accelaration Account Funding Success
Jacek Gondzio and Sotirios Sabanis have been awarded a £124k IAA project to work with Aberdeen Standard Investments on an asset portfolio optimisation project.
Scientists outline plans to reduce the environmental footprint of Brazilian beef
Julian Hall and PhD student, Rafael de Oliveria Silva, with co-authors from SRUC, the University of York and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation have published a paper on how the country's farmers can meet the rising demands for beef without increasing the amount of farming space used.
Grant Success: Sergio Garcia, Joerg Kalcsics and Jacek Gondzio
Sergio Garcia, Joerg Kalcsics and Jacek Gondzio have been awarded an EPSRC grant "IP-Match: Integer Programming for Large and Complex Matching Problems" worth over £0.5M.
Chris Dent awarded Chartered Engineer status
Congratulations to Chris Dent on being awarded Chartered Engineer status.
Standard Life Investments jointly funding project
Congratulations to Sotirios Sabanis and colleagues Jacek Gondzio, Joerg Kalcsics and Sergio Garcia for receiving funding from Standard Life Investments.
Grant Success: Jacek Gondzio
Congratulations to Jacek Gondzio who has been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award.
Julian Hall awarded prize for best paper of 2015 in Computational Optimization and Applications
Julian Hall, in collaboration with his former PhD student Qi Huangfu, has been awarded the prize for the best paper of 2015 in Computational Optimization and Applications. The article describes the novel numerical linear algebra techniques required by their efficient parallel implementation of the dual revised simplex method.
EPSRC Grant Success: Jacek Gondzio
Congratulation to Jacek Gondzio who has been awarded a three year EPSRC grant entitled "Computational Design Optimization of Large-Scale Building Structures: Methods, Benchmarking & Applications".
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Optimization
Applications are invited for a 2-year postdoctoral position in the area of optimization with a particular focus on practical methods used in financial mathematics.
MLconf Industry Impact Student Research Award
The CoCoA [NIPS 2014] / CoCoA+ [ICML 2015] distributed optimization algorithm developed in a duo of papers with two co-authors from Edinburgh (Martin TakáÄ, Peter Richtarik) has won the MLconf Industry Impact Student Research Award. The award goes to our coauthor Virginia Smith (UC Berkeley).
