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SUMMARY:MICDE Seminar: Andrea Lodi\, Polytechnique Montréal
DESCRIPTION:Bio:  Andrea Lodi received a PhD in System Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2000 and he was a Herman Goldstine Fellow at the IBM Mathematical Sciences Department\, NY from 2005–2006. He was a full professor of Operations Research at DEI\, University of Bologna between 2007 and 2015. Since 2015 he has been the Canada Excellence Research Chair in “Data Science for Real-time Decision Making” at the Polytechnique Montréal. His main research interests are in Mixed-Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programming and Data Science and his work has received recognition including the IBM and Google faculty awards. He is author of more than 80 publications in the top journals of the field of Mathematical Optimization. He serves as Associate Editor for several prestigious journals in the area. He has been the network coordinator and principal investigator of two large EU projects/networks\, and\, since 2006\, consultant of the IBM CPLEX research and development team. Finally\, Andrea Lodi is the co-principal investigator (with Yoshua Bengio) of the project “Data Serving Canadians: Deep Learning and Optimization for the Knowledge Revolution”\, recently funded by the Canadian Federal Government under the Apogée Programme. \nOn Wide Split Cuts for Mixed-Integer Programming\nCutting planes (or simply cuts) are a fundamental component of modern Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solvers because they help in strengthening the linear programming relaxation\, a proxy to make the branchand-bound tree small. A classical way of devising cuts is to exploit disjunctions\, for example in the domain of an integer variable\, where\, of course\, no fractional value leads to any feasible solution. Cutting planes of this type\, called split cuts\, classically exploit disjunctions whose ‘width’ is always equal to one\, i.e.\, no fractional value is feasible between two consecutive integer values. We investigate cutting planes that arise when widening the associated disjunctions. This allows\, e.g.\, to model non contiguous domains of (integer) variables (or\, stated differently\, ‘holes’ in the domains). The validity of the disjunctions in a MILP can come from either primal or dual information\, and we present examples and computational results in both cases. We further explore an exact MILP approach based on these cutting planes\, that in addition tackles non-contiguity directly via branching and as a side-effect reduces the model size. (Joint work with P. Bonami\, F. Serrano\, A. Tramontani\, S. Wiese.) \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
URL:https://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-seminar-andrea-lodi-ecole-polytechnique-montreal/
LOCATION:Boeing Auditorium –  1109 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building\, 1320 Beal Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:MICDE Seminar: Anthony Wachs\, University of British Columbia
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Anthony Wachs is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the departments of Mathematics and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, Canada. He received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg and his PhD from the Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble in 2000. Right after\, he was hired in 2001 as a Fluid Mechanics research engineer at IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN\, at that time Institut Français du Pétrole) in Paris. \nIn 2009\, he spent a one-year sabbatical at the nuclear research center of Cadarache in the south of France\, where he worked for IRSN (the french national safety administration for nuclear energy). In 2010\, he got his HDR (French Habilitation to Supervise Research) and was later promoted Scientific Advisor at IFPEN in Multiphase Flows and Scientific Computing. He then moved to IFPEN-Lyon where he supervised a group of researchers (including PhD and post-doc students) on the numerical simulation of reactive particulate flows (www.peligriff.com). \nHis main research interests are non-Newtonian Flows\, Multiphase Flows and High Performance Computing. He collaborates extensively with academic groups in Canada\, Brazil\, France and Germany. \nMicro/meso numerical modeling of flows laden with particles of arbitrary shape\nParticulate flows are ubiquitous in environmental\, geophysical and engineering processes. The intricate dynamics of these two-phase flows is governed by momentum transfer between the continuous fluid phase and the dispersed particulate phase. When significant temperature differences exist between the fluid and particles and/or chemical reactions take place at the fluid/particle interfaces\, the phases also exchange heat and/or mass\, respectively. While some multi-phase processes may be successfully modelled at the continuum scale through closure approximations\, an increasing number of applications require resolution across scales\, e.g. dense suspensions\, fluidized beds. Within a multi-scale micro/meso/macro-framework\, we develop robust numerical models at the micro and meso scales\, based on a Distributed Lagrange Multiplier/Fictitious Domain method and a two-way Euler/Lagrange method\, respectively. Collisions between finite size particles are modeled with a Discrete Element Method. Many real-life processes and/or flows involve non-spherical particles. Although there is still a lot to learn about flows laden with spherical particles\, there is also a strong incentive to develop new modeling tools to account for non-spherical\, angular\, convex or even non-convex particles. We discuss assorted issues related to the numerical modelling of flows laden with particles of arbitrary shape. Along the way\, we also address high performance computing issues related to our massively parallel numerical tools and challenges to efficiently transfer knowledge from small scales to large scales. We illustrate the modelling capabilities of our tools on the two following problems relevant of applications from the chemical engineering and process industry: (i) a rotating drum filled with non-convex particles and (ii) fixed and fluidized beds of multilobic (and hence non-convex) particles.\n\n  \nThis seminar is co-organized with the Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics program
URL:https://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-seminar-anthony-wachs-university-of-british-columbia/
LOCATION:1084 East Hall\, 530 Church St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:MICDE Seminar: Jonathan Freund\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Jonathan Freund is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Mechanical Science & Engineering and Aerospace at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society\, and a winner of the 2008 Frenkiel Prize from its Division of Fluid Dynamics where he currently serves as the division secretary/treasurer.  He is an associate editor of Physical Review Fluids and on the editorial board of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.  Computational science has been central to his research\, which has included simulations of turbulent jet noise and its control\, the dynamics of molecularly thin liquid films\, nanostructure formation by ion-bombardment of semiconductor materials\, and most recently the dynamics of red blood cells flowing in the narrow confines of the microcirculation.  He co-directs the DOE-funded Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion at the University of Illinois. \nAdjoint-based optimization for understanding and reducing flow noise\nAdvanced simulation tools\, particularly large-eddy simulation techniques\, are becoming capable of making quality predictions of jet noise for realistic nozzle geometries and at engineering relevant flow conditions.  Increasing computer resources will be a key factor in improving these predictions still further.  Quality prediction\, however\, is only a necessary condition for the use of such simulations in design optimization.  Predictions do not of themselves lead to quieter designs.  They must be interpreted or harnessed in some way that leads to design improvements.  As yet\, such simulations have not yielded any simplifying principals that offer general design guidance. The turbulence mechanisms leading to jet noise remain poorly described in their complexity.  In this light\, we have implemented and demonstrated an aeroacoustic adjoint-based optimization technique that automatically calculates gradients that point the direction in which to adjust controls in order to improve designs.  This is done with only a single flow solutions and a solution of an adjoint system\, which is solved at computational cost comparable to that for the flow. Optimization requires iterations\, but having the gradient information provided via the adjoint accelerates convergence in a manner that is insensitive to the number of parameters to be optimized.  The talk will review the formulation of the adjoint of the compressible flow equations for optimizing noise-reducing controls and present examples of its use.  We will particularly focus on some mechanisms of flow noise that have been revealed via this approach. \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by U-M Aerospace Engineering
URL:https://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-seminar-jonathan-freund-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign/
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SUMMARY:MICDE Seminar: Jeremy Lichstein\, University of Florida
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Jeremy Lichstein is an assistant professor of Biology at the University of Florida. Professor Lichstein got his Ph. D. from Princeton University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton’s department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He was the recipient of the University of Florida Excellence Award for Assistant Professor\, and was named a Florida Climate Institute Fellow for 2016-2017. His research interests are forest dynamics\, biodiversity\, carbon cycle and climate change. \nBiodiversity and the changing Earth System: computational challenges and new answers to old questions\nTerrestrial ecosystems currently offset roughly 25% of global annual anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions. However\, the fate of this carbon sink is highly uncertain\, in large part because global models diverge in their predictions of ecosystem responses to climate change\, drought\, and other perturbations. Although there is little agreement on how terrestrial ecosystems will respond to global change on decadal and longer time-scales\, there is wide consensus that current global models are overly simplistic in their representation of important ecological processes. I will discuss our current understanding of how tree functional diversity is maintained in forests\, the consequences of including more realistic levels of functional diversity in global models\, and the computational challenges that need to be overcome in order to introduce ecological realism into the Earth System Models that the scientific and policy communities rely on for climate projections. A key result that is emerging from empirical and theoretical studies is that shifts in species composition across time or space (beta diversity) have different (and sometimes opposite) effects on ecosystem stability as local (alpha) diversity. \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the U-M department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
URL:https://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-2016-fall-seminar-series-jeremy-lichstein-university-of-florida/
LOCATION:1210 Chemistry & Willard H Dow Laboratory\, 930 University Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:MICDE Seminar: Rob Gardner\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Robert Gardner is a Senior Scientist at the Computation Institute from the University of Chicago\,  and aSenior Scientist in the Enrico Fermi Institute. He spent his early academic career doing experimental high-energy physics research at different universities in the Midwest. He has been a member of the ATLAS experiment using the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN Laboratory\, Geneva\, Switzerland since 1998. His experimental work led him to specialize in developing and improving distributed computing technologies necessary for discoveries at the frontier of particle physics. He was instrumental in developing early research computing grids in the U.S.: the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL)\, and the first deployment of the Open Science Grid (OSG) (NSF\, Department of Energy). He have also generated systems for metrics collection for distributed systems (Grid Telemetry\, PI\, NSF-ITR). Currently\, he directs the ATLAS Midwest Tier2 Center\, which is comprised of integrated computing facilities from the University of Chicago\, Indiana University\, and the University of Illinois. \nLeadership cyberinfrastructure for science and the humanities\nIn the past two decades high energy physics transformed its computing model from one relying on a single high performance computing center at the host laboratory to one incorporating resources distributed across institutional boundaries and geographic regions. Given the complexity of detectors and scale of data\, the international collaborations of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN demanded it. By removing barriers to resource sharing\, the resulting data and computation platform democratized the physics process across collaborations. Accelerated modes of scientific discovery by thousands of physicists were forged using hundreds of data centers linked by very high bandwidth networks. Meanwhile the explosion of commercial\, social and enterprise data has driven innovation in resource abstraction and the creation of new service platforms\, offering fresh opportunities to accelerate science and intellectual inquiry at all scales and across all domains. In this talk I’ll discuss the strategic significance that cyberinfrastructure technology plays in this regard and describe models for creating ubiquitous “substrates” that remove obstacles to connecting campuses\, facilities\, instruments and researchers. \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the U-M department of Physics
URL:https://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-2016-fall-seminar-series-rob-gardner-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:340 West Hall\, 1085 South University Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:MICDE Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:MICDE Seminar: Nathan Kutz\, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Nathan Kutz is the Robert Bolles and Yasuko Endo Professor in the department of Applied Mathematics\, and an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1990 and the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1994. Following postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (University of Minnesota\, 1994-1995) and Princeton University (1995-1997)\, he joined the faculty of applied mathematics and served as Chair from 2007-2015. \nData-driven discovery of dynamical systems in the engineering\, physical and biological sciences\nWe demonstrate that the integration of data-driven dynamical systems and machine learning strategies with adaptive control are capable of producing efficient and optimal self-tuning algorithms for many complex systems arising in the engineering\, physical and biological sciences. We demonstrate that we can use emerging\, large-scale time-series data from modern sensors to directly construct\, in an adaptive manner\, governing equations\, even nonlinear dynamics\, that best model the system measured using sparsity-promoting techniques. Recent innovations also allow for handling multi-scale physics phenomenon and control protocols in an adaptive and robust way. The overall architecture is equation-free in that the dynamics and control protocols are discovered directly from data acquired from sensors. The theory developed is demonstrated on a number of example problems. Ultimately\, the method can be used to construct adaptive controllers which are capable of obtaining and maintaining optimal states while the machine learning and sparse sensing techniques characterize the system itself for rapid state identification and improved optimization. \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Mathematics.
URL:https://micde.umich.edu/event/micde-2016-fall-seminar-series-nathan-kutz-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:1360 East Hall\, 530 Church St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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