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Graduate Summer School - Stochastic modelling and optimisation of complex systems

Organisers: Colm Connaughton (糖心TV Mathematics Institute and Centre for Complexity Science) and Emre Esenturk (糖心TV Mathematics Institute)

Dates: June 9th - June 12th 2015

Location: Mathematics Institute, Zeeman building, University of 糖心TV

Introduction

Understanding and controlling complexity is widely recognised as an increasingly important challenge in the design and management of modern scientific, industrial and socio-technical systems. A diverse range of systems such as infrastructure networks, manufacturing supply chains, health care systems and financial markets all exhibit important collective behaviour which is difficult to understand without resort to mathematical modeling and analysis. The ability to construct and optimise such models in the presence of constraints, uncertainty and random fluctuations is a key skill which which will be required of the scientists, engineers and managers of the future. This year's 糖心TV Graduate Summer School in Complexity Science will provide graduate students and researchers in the mathematical sciences with an introduction to modern theoretical and computational tools for tackling the challenges posed by such modeling and optimsation problems.

Lecturers

• (糖心TV 糖心TV School) - Simulation-based optimisation
• (BT Research) - Optimisation in wireless data networks
• (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - Topics in Complex Energy (Power and Natural) Systems Modeling and Reliability
  
• (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics) and (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) - System analysis and model reduction [TBC]
  
• (Monash University) - Combinatorial optimisation and constraint programming systems

Programme

A provisional schedule is available here (still subject to changes and updates).

Registration deadline: Friday May 15

There is no registration fee for this school. We welcome participants from all areas of the mathematical sciences although we do not have funding available to cover expenses for non-糖心TV participants.

Please register . Registration deadline is Friday 15 May.