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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We are thrilled to share that Septiana Septiana has won 3rd place 🥉 in the OPTIMA Showreel competition! 📽
“Who knew optimisation could be this awesome!”
Check out Septiana's winning video here:
MEET THE SPEAKERS: Meet @JieYenFan1 @MonashUni one of our AMSI #WinterSchool lecturers 🎓❄️
🔍 Dr. Fan will be delving into the topic of "Mimicking: Martingales with Matching Marginals" offering unique insights that you won't want to miss! 🤯
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We are thrilled to announce Simon Fenech from @Fruit2Work will join us in the OPTIMISATION FOR SOCIAL GOOD panel to discuss the complex business decisions they need to consider, and the ethical considerations in decision making.
More info: https://optima.org.au/outreach-and-events/optima-con2024/
Listen to the latest OPTIMA Seminar by OPTIMA CI Guido Tack, Titled "How to make optimal decisions (that are unfair, biased and non-objective)".
OPTIMA run weekly seminars on a variety of optimization topics. More info https://optima.org.au/outreach-and-events/
Presenter mandatory registration is 10 May. Make sure you don't miss out on your chance to be a speaker at GECCO24!
https://gecco-2024.sigevo.org/Registration
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Just out! Our latest episode gives you a glimpse into some of the mathematics and physics that is used to understand the building blocks of the universe. Our guest is Prof Alessandro Sfondrini from Italy's University of Padua @UniPadova.
https://www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/building-blocks-of-universe/ @MATRIX_Inst
Early Bird Tickets are available for OPTIMA-CON 24-
Industry and academic talks in Advanced Manufacturing, Water and Resource Management, Workforce Scheduling, Logistics and Transport, Health and Wellbeing and more.
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