The Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA), has received Australian Government funding of $4.86 million through the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Program. The University of Melbourne, Monash University, and an inaugural group of ten industry partners have invested a further $3 million and made significant in-kind contributions. OPTIMA has 18 chief investigators across the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and a further 13 partner investigators across our industry organisations and three international partner universities. Numerous other researchers working in optimisation at other universities are part of OPTIMA as Associate Investigators.
Headquartered in Melbourne Connect, OPTIMA brings together the various interdisciplinary fields with advanced optimisation technologies – mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, and economics.
OPTIMA’s initial industry partner cohort spans the energy resources, advanced manufacturing and critical infrastructure sectors. Given the ubiquitous need for optimisation technologies to support decision-making within many more industrial sectors, OPTIMA’s expansion will include opportunities for more industry partners to join in future years.
Beyond working with industry partners, OPTIMA researchers also engage with academic colleagues in other fields on cross-disciplinary research projects, supporting other researchers where optimisation knowledge is required to advance solutions to a wide range of societal challenges.
OPTIMA’s leadership is steered by an Executive Committee, which takes advice from external members of its Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) and Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), and its’ sub-committees for Education and Training (E&T), Outreach; and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
Optima's Mission
Industrial transformation via increased uptake of trusted and sophisticated optimisation technologies.
Optima's Goal
By connecting industry partners with world-leading interdisciplinary researchers and talented students, OPTIMA’s goal is to advance an industry-ready optimisation toolkit while training a new generation of industry practitioners and over 120 young researchers, producing a highly skilled workforce of change agents for industrial transformation.
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Join our online public seminar if you want to know more about real-world applications for which we develop and deploy AI-based solutions in product development and manufacturing. Thomas Bäck (Fellow, IEEE) on 31st August.
https://optima.org.au/outreach-and-events/
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Do you know someone excited about education and outreach who wants to work part-time?
OPTIMA Education and Outreach Officer - Hew 6, 0.5 FTE
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OPTIMA student Wathsala Karunarathne has finished her PhD and has started a Postdoc at the University of Adelaide. Join us on Wednesday for our online seminar presented by Wathsala. All are welcome to attend. #students #optimization #seminar
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We are proud to work in a country with a rich history and an incredible culture. NAIDOC Week celebrations are being held across the country to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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At OPTIMA we have the pleasure of working with our industry partners to solve their optimisation problems assisted by talented PhD students and over 100 researchers. If you have an optimisation problem you’d like to discuss contact us at info@optima.org.au #optimization #industry
We finished our Strategic Plan! Now we start work on our initiatives such as an international student exchange program and a MOOC on optimisation. Read our Strategic Plan to discover what other ambitious initiatives we have in store. https://optima.org.au/governance/
Join us online next Wednesday at 16:00 AEST for our OPTIMA seminar series. Our presenter will be Fulya Trösser (Ural) discussing her work on Exact Methods For Bayesian Network Structure Learning.
More details on our event page https://optima.org.au/events/optima-seminar-series-15-jun-2022/
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