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Dr Oscar Dowson
Core Contributor
JuMP
Dr Oscar Dowson
Core Contributor
JuMP
Dr Oscar Dowson is a core contributor to JuMP and a member of the JuMP steering committee.
Are you passionate about operational efficiency, doing more with your limited resources, and solving complex business problems? So are we! And we’re growing a community of like-minded individuals who want to network and share their knowledge and resources.
This year, we are hosting our community event alongside the Operations Research Society of New Zealand (ORSNZ) annual conference:
Agenda:
| 3:30pm | Arrival & Registration |
| 3:45pm | Welcome Remarks
Andrea Raith Iain Jardin |
| 4:00pm | Generative AI at Gurobi
See the powerful potential and significant risks of using Generative AI for modeling. While Generative AI can help you get started modeling and coding quickly, it often requires careful oversight. We will walk you through a couple of examples of optimisation modeling using Generative AI, highlighting key issues that can arise. This talk will also touch on the other application areas for AI in the context of Gurobi. Steven Edwards |
| 4:20pm | Tackling Non-Linearities with Gurobi 12.0
Gurobi can handle a number of non-linear functions in the optimisation models. Historically, Gurobi first supported convex quadratic function in the objective and constraints. With Gurobi 9.0, Gurobi introduced a global solver for non-convex quadratic models and automatic piecewise-linear approximations of common arithmetic functions. Gurobi 11.0 comes with support for global optimisation of models containing univariate non-linear functions . In this talk, we will review those various features and present our current work for tackling non-linearities better, including what is included in our most recent release. Simon Bowly |
| 4:40pm | JuMP + Gurobi.jl
JuMP is an open-source algebraic modeling language in Julia. In this talk, we will provide a brief overview of our activities over the last year, and show how JuMP makes it easy to solve optimisation problems with Gurobi. Dr. Oscar Dowson |
| 5:10pm | Networking Reception |
| 6:00pm | End of Event |
Core Contributor
JuMP
Core Contributor
JuMP
Dr Oscar Dowson is a core contributor to JuMP and a member of the JuMP steering committee.
Regional Sales Director - APAC
Gurobi Optimization
Regional Sales Director - APAC
Gurobi Optimization
Iain Jardin has been working with customers and partners in APAC, EMEA and North America for the last 30 years. Prior to joining Gurobi Iain worked at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Amdahl where he ran numerous business development, product management, sales and technical-sales organisations. The biggest learning from his extensive involvement in the global IT market has been that the common denominator of successful and sustainable business is healthy (human) relationships that embrace diversity and celebrate inclusion. Outside of work Iain loves Australian Football, is a keen cyclist, a developing apiarist, an aspiring artist and holds a BA Soc.Sci. in Information Management from Melbourne University. Iain currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two daughters and two dogs. Connect with Iain on Twitter @IainJardin or on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/iainjardin/
Software Developer
Gurobi Optimization
Software Developer
Gurobi Optimization
Dr. Simon Bowly completed his PhD in 2019 at the University of Melbourne, focusing on generating difficult test cases for optimization algorithms. Simon has previously lectured in applied data science and discrete optimization at Monash University, worked in optimization consulting for transport and logistics projects, and developed software for real time analytics in power generation applications.
Team Lead Technical Account Management - APAC
Gurobi Optimization
Team Lead Technical Account Management - APAC
Gurobi Optimization
Dr. Steven Edwards completed his PhD at Monash University in the field of discrete optimization. His thesis was motivated by the scheduling of automated pathology testing systems used for the diagnosis of cancers and infectious diseases. As part of his research, he developed a modeling framework for efficiently solving large-scale optimization problems using constraint programming inspired by existing techniques in boolean satisfiability and mixed-integer programming. After completing his thesis, Steven worked briefly at the Australian Bureau of Statistics on optimization problems in data security before commencing as a Research Fellow in Operations Research at the University of Melbourne.
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