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Research Spotlight: Giving retired electric vehicle batteries new life

WISE Public Lecture: Mohamed Elkadragy, Li-ion and Hybrid Battery Storage Systems - Using Casestudies within Africa and North America

WISE Public Lecture: Hydrogen as a Sustainable Fuel: Its Role Globally and in Ontario

WISE Public Lecture: The Road to Reliable and Economically Feasible Electricity for Remote Communities in Developing and Developed Economies

On June 19th, 2019,  a public event was held, featuring innovation lab participants discussing cleantech entrepreneurship in Africa. This event was also a part of the TrueNorth Festival, the largest annual gathering of tech leaders in Canada's technology triangle.\

The ‘innovation lab’ is a non-traditional workshop format wherein participants focus more on what they want to do next and how they might work together, rather than on sharing past results. Deep discussions in small groups are a feature. These are invite-only events that feature a highly diverse set of participants (expertise, nationality, age, gender, etc.). 

Research Spotlight: Transforming food waste into fuel

Research Spotlight: Assessing energy efficiency on the farm

Prof. Ghaddar (Management Sciences) attended the event. She gave a talk on the global optimization approach for binary polynomial programs. In this talk, she presented branch-and-dig, an algorithm to find global solutions for binary polynomial programming problems. She discussed the inequality generating techniques based on lift-and-project relaxations that are developed to speed up the branch-and-bound process and reduce the number of nodes of the tree. Computational results for problems of degree two and degree three were presented to assess the impact of the proposed approach.

WISE Public Lecture: Utility of the Future – Perspective from a Local Distribution Company

WISE Member Maurice Dusseault gave a Water Institute public lecture presentation on the emission of methane and hydrogen sulphide gas from legacy gas wells in southwestern Ontario as an emerging public-health issue.