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 twelve 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.
@OPTIMA_ARC
Join us for the @gurobi Melbourne #OptimisationCommunity event! Sponsored by @OPTIMA_ARC , connect with fellow problem solvers from across industry and academia.
📅 17 July, 3 - 6pm, Melbourne Connect
Register now:
#Optimisation
Discover how optimisation is transforming offshore wind farm design!
Join @OPTIMA_ARC online seminar today, with Dr Martina Fischetti on Optimizing the Design of Wind Farms
🗓️ Wed 4 June, 4–5pm AEST
More: https://optima.org.au/events/seminar04une2025/
#Optimisation #OperationsResearch #SeminarSeries
📬The latest edition of the @OPTIMA_ARC newsletter is out!
Explore upcoming seminars, events, and opportunities across the optimisation community - whether you're a researcher, practitioner, or just curious.
📰https://mailchi.mp/372f97214210/optima-newsletter-may2025-10140615
#Optimisation #OPTIMASeminarSeries
[OPTIMA Outreach Newsletter April 2025] - https://mailchi.mp/e37336766027/optima-newsletter-apr2025-10139822
PhD opportunity: OPTIMA_ARC, University of Melbourne & AGL
Optimisation of production by “selected turbine de-rating”
Start ASAP
Applications are invited from Australian residents and those with valid student visas.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/av1A6u1X5sP873TF9
#PhD #optimization
Optimisation PhD opportunity in France at University of Lille- with Bilel Derbel! This project will work closely with OPTIMA_ARC researchers.
Advanced Instance Space Analysis for Automated Combinatorial Optimization
https://phd.cristal.univ-lille.fr/details.html?id=b636b5aeedf34ae590172d6441ad646b
#PhD #opportunity #optimization
Work on a real-world PhD optimisation project with real impact—help make the Birrarung swimmable again. Join a collaboration between OPTIMA_ARC, Regen Melbourne, and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute.
Apply today!
https://forms.gle/SjGA1e5T6hjXRyR16
#PhDposition
Our first newsletter of the year is out now! We share opportunities in optimisation and announce our Seminar Series resuming in Feb with new speakers: https://mailchi.mp/657570fd8bb2/optima-outreach-newsletter-jan2025
KU Leuven Postdoc position: Towards a Modular Vehicle Routing Solver framework.
Looking for a researcher with experience in software development and vehicle routing research.
All info available at:
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60430428
Closes 6 Feb 2025.
NB: This is not an OPTIMA position