Sunday, July 11, 2021
Professor. Ghaddar (Management Sciences) gave a keynote talk on “Polynomial optimization in power and water network operations”. She discussed several challenging optimization problems in power and water networks involving both operational decisions and non-linear models of the underlying physics described by the network. However, these networks exhibit a nice sparse structure. This talk provided an overview of approaches that combined recent advances in conic relaxation of polynomial optimization problems along with exploiting the underlying problem. These approaches were demonstrated in applications arising in power and water networks.