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.
OPTIMA works with industry to conduct world-class research and provides training for research students working in industrial optimisation. OPTIMA addresses industry’s urgent need for decision-making tools to support global competitiveness: reducing lead times and financial and environmental costs while improving efficiency, quality, and agility. Despite strong expertise in academia, industry is yet to fully benefit from optimisation technology due to its high barrier to entry. Connecting industry partners with world-leading interdisciplinary researchers and talented students, OPTIMA will advance an industry-ready optimisation toolkit while training a new generation of industry practitioners and over 120 young researchers, vanguarding a highly skilled workforce of change agents for the transformation of priority sectors including advanced manufacturing, energy resources, and critical infrastructure.
Optima's Mission
Industrial transformation via increased uptake of trusted and sophisticated optimisation technologies.
Optima's Goal
Advancing an industry-ready optimisation toolkit, while training a new generation of industry practitioners and over 120 young researchers, who will vanguard a highly skilled workforce of change agents for industrial transformation.
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We often post optimisation jobs in OPTIMA and other institutions on the OPTIMA LinkedIn account. If this is of interest to you or someone you know, please check it out at http://linkedin.com/company/optima-arc
Happy women in maths day! This is the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. To celebrate, we would like to say thank you to the fantastic female talent that we have in OPTIMA and to highlight our female members (https://optima.org.au/our-people/)
The majority of the OPTIMA seminars are made available to the public. Watch this seminar by Anil Yaman on Improving the efficiency of collective learning with meta-control of soc... https://youtu.be/x8Ezsy3_NVg via @YouTube #optimization #seminar
What does optimisation mean for industry? At OPTIMA, we have members from across disciplines working together to address industry’s urgent need for decision-making tools for global competitiveness, reducing lead times and financial costs. https://optima.org.au/research/
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We want to celebrate our members and support them to feel included in OPTIMA, which is why we added INCLUSION in our EDI policy. Check it out here. https://optima.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OPTIMA-Equity-Diversity-and-Inclusion-Plan-FINAL-20220222.pdf
This Harmony Week, we acknowledge the diversity of people in OPTIMA, from 19 citizenships. But this is only a part of their story. Our people have deep connections to their cultures that they bring to OPTIMA through language, experience, food and attitude.
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IWD starts with celebrating our Chief Investigators who are leaders in their fields. With optimisation knowledge that spans maths, engineering and IT. CIs Doreen Thomas, Maria Garcia de la Banda, Joyce Zhang, Kate Smith-Miles & Hamideh Anjomshoa. http://optima.org.au/our-people/#InternationalWomensDay
How does optimisation translate to real-world problems? OPTIMA Director Kate Smith-Miles and OPTIMA Associate Investigators Matthew Burns and Tim Fletcher, along with Wei (Daniel) Xu, show us in their article on smart rainwater storage.
The OPTIMA Education and Training Committee met for the first time. It was great to hear the initiatives they are proposing for help our members and industry partners to become leaders in optimisation.