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Adrián Esteban Wins 'Margarita Salas Falgueras' Award
The 'Margarita Salas Falgueras' award, which recognizes the best work published in the areas of Experimental Sciences, has been awarded to Adrián Esteban Pérez for 'Distributionally robust stochastic programs with side information based on trimmings'. The jury has highlighted the significant contribution in the field of Operations Research with the development of a methodology with mathematical guarantee, particularly useful in areas such as financial risk management, production planning in companies, or the operation of electrical energy systems.
Marina Aguilar joined OASYS as postdoc
OASYS are delighted to present our newest member of the group - Marina Aguilar Moreno. Marina has joined the Oasys group, as a postdoctoral researcher, to develop mathematical models of energy systems. She received her B.Sc in Industrial Engineering and M.Sc in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Málaga in 2012 and 2016, respectively. She was awarded her PhD (with International Mention and Cum Laude) in Computer Science titled "Contributions to LiDAR-based SLAM and Computational Ethology" supervised by Prof. Manuel Graña at the University of the Basque Country in 2023. Her research focus is the development of Artificial Intelligence based algorithms to improve decision making and for classification tasks.
Summer's here and that can only mean one thing for OASYS - to get out and about sharing the results of their hardwork at prestigious international conferences. Salva, Concepción, Juan Miguel & Álvaro at the IFORS conference in Chile. While we swelter in Málaga's heat, our colleagues are all wrapped up warm against the Chilean cold 😂
The OASYS group are very happy to announce a special event in the OASYS Seminar Series
The II FlexAnalytics Symposium on Advanced Techniques for Power System Operations
21st & 22nd of September, 2023
The group under the ERC Starting Grant project FlexAnalytics will be welcoming internationally renowned experts in the field to speak at the 2-day event. In a very special session a member of the group Álvaro Porras Cabrera will be defending his doctoral thesis 🎓📜
Don't miss it! All Welcome! Full details here or click on this link for the full programme
Oasys Research Group's founder and leader Juan Miguel Morales González was awarded the Fundación Banco Sabadell (Sabadell Bank Foundation) VII Award for the Sciences and Engineering for his contribution to optimisation and analysis of sustainable energy systems. Congratulations Juan Miguel from your friends and colleagues at OASYS 👏🏆🎉🌬🌞🌊🌍 Congratulations also to Dr. Manuel Valiente from Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) who was presented with the XVIII Premio Fundación Banco Sabadell a la Investigación Biomédica for his work, combining Cancer Biology and Neuroscience to develop novel therapeutic approaches for patients affected with metastatic disease in their brains.
Juan Miguel talks about his interdisciplinary research into sustainable electrical systems to acheive maximum penetration of sustainable renewable energy, and what winning this prize means to him personally.
Photo credit to Banco Sabadell Press
(above) Juan Miguel accepting his award from the Sabadell Bank Foundation at the award ceremony, celebrated at the banks headquarters in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona.
Register now for the I CONGRESO TALENTO CIENCIA Y JOVENTUD organised by the District Council of Málaga, sponsored by the Unicaja Foundation in collaboration with Málaga University
When: 6th of June
Where: Auditorio Edgar Neville Diputación de Málaga
Full details: 👉👉👉👉👉👉LINK
OASYS' Salvador Pineda & Juan Miguel Morales will be on hand to talk about the group's research, and answer any questions! Don't miss this opportunity! Look for our stand 👀👀🏃♀️🏃♂️🧐
Juan Miguel taking part in the round table at the conference 6 of June 2023. (Photo courtesy of global displays)
The I Congreso Talento Ciencia Y Joventud (link to Europapress report) was a huge success, with over 300 students attending. OASYS was there, both at our stand and with the group's founder Juan Miguel speaking on the panel of the roundtable discussion.
YW4OR_Webinar_Flyer_June_2022 (2).pdfConcepción's presentation at the YW4OR WISDOM webinar taken from the WISDOM YouTube channel where you can catch up on others you may have missed
👉👉 EURO WISDOM 👈👈
Register now for the EURO WISDOM "LOCATION" YoungWomen4OR talks on Stochastic Optimization and Game Theory
When: 13th of June 13:00-14:00 (CET)
Where: Zoom - register in pdf (left) (or click here EURO WISDOM) to receive the Zoom link
👈👈👈👈👈👀 Full details and bios in pdf
OASYS' Concepción Domínguez, a Y4OR awardee this year will be taking part in this event. Conchi will be discussing the Cooperative Maximum Capture Facility Location problem (CMCFL).
She will be joined by:
Marta Baldomero-Naranjo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,
Serena Fugaro, Institute for Applications of Calculus "Mauro Picone" - CNR, Rome, Italy
and panel expert Prof. Bahar Yetiş Kara, Bilkent University, Istanbul, Turkey
Interview on 101TV Hola Andalucía programme with Juan Miguel. Soledad Mena talks to Juan Miguel about his research, winning the Agustín de Betancourt Y Molina award and the current situation of research in Spain - undervalued and underfunded!
The award ceremony in full can be viewed on the RAI's YouTube channel
In his acceptance speech, Juan Miguel, after thanking the academy, and congratulating his fellow awardees, opened by saying how R&D&i needs to be taken far more seriously in his home country. As he pointed out, many of Spain's talented researchers are forced to work abroad, as the lack of funding and long-term prospects make research a "vocation" rather than an attractive promising career option. Juan Miguel also highlighted the precarious nature of research positions in Spanish universities and stressed the importance of fully funding public institutions to the level enjoyed in the other countries.
The award ceremony is to be held on the 26th of January at 18:00 at the Royal Academy's headquarters in Madrid and streamed live on the RAI's YouTube channel click here to watch
Oasys group´s postdoc researcher Concepción Domínguez has been chosen as one of the awardees of YW4OR 2023 following Asunción Jiménez, who was one of the cohort of 2022. Congratulations Conchi!!!!
Celebrating women in research 👩💻🧐🏆💪
The OASYS group are very happy to announce a special event within the OASYS Seminar Series
DYCON Seminar: Leveraging Optimal Transport for Decision Making
14th - 15th of November
The group under the Spanish Ministry for Innovation & Science project DYCON Data-driven Optimization Under a Dynamic Context will be welcoming internationally renowned experts in the field from the College of Management of Technology at EPFL, who will be joined by Oasys members to talk about aspects of data-driven distributionally robust optimization.
Full details and times of talks here
Asunción Jiménez Cordero giving her presentation at SYSORM
Asunción Jiménez Cordero was an invited speaker at the 3rd Spanish Young Statisticians and Operational Researchers Meeting (SYSORM) at the Universitas Miguel Hernández Research Institute in Elche, where she gave a talk on "Solving mixed-integer programs with warm-starting constraint generation methods via machine learning tools" This was based on her recently published paper Warm-starting Constraint Generation for Mixed-integer Optimization: A Machine Learning Approach
The conference, promoted by the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO), is organised for and by young researchers.
The scope of the meeting is to represent and give visibility to the newer generations of talented researchers in Statistics and Operational Research, ranging from methodological to applied research topics, and to foster professional communication between them, both nationally and internationally.
The OASYS group are very happy to announce a special event within the OASYS Seminar Series
The FlexAnalytics Symposium on Data-driven Decision Making via Mathematical Optimization and Statistics
26th - 29th of September
The group under the ERC Starting Grant project FlexAnalytics will be welcoming internationally renowned experts in the field to speak over the 4-day event. In two very special sessions two members of the group Adrián Esteban Pérez & Miguel Ángel Muñoz Díaz will be defending their doctoral theses 🎓🗞
Don't miss it! Full details here or click on this link for the full programme
FlexAnalytics Symposium Cover.pdfIt´s good to be back on the road!! This summer the team are out and about sharing the results of their hard work at various conferences. The first of these SEIO 2022. Links to all the presentations can be found here
Upcoming EURO WISDOM YW4OR Webinar
Oasys Research Group's Asunción Jiménez Cordero will be speaking at the WISDOM YW4OR webinar on Bilevel Optimization with Marina Leal Palazón, Martina Cerulli, and panelist Prof Martine Labbé
Where: Zoom - Register to join meeting at the following link 👉👉👉
When: Friday, May 27th, 2022 - 10:00 -11:00h CET
Limited space - don't miss out!
YW4OR_Webinar_Flyer_May_2022.pdf
Pauline Kergus is a CNRS researcher at LAPLACE (Laboratory on plasma and conversion of energy, Toulouse, France). She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at LTH (Lund, Sweden) in the Department of Automatic Control, where she worked on the modelling and control of district heating and cooling networks. She received her PhD in October 2019 from ISAE-SUPAERO (Toulouse, France) and her engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2016. Her research aims at proposing data-driven strategies for modelling, control and analysis of complex dynamical systems, with a specific focus on energy systems. Her general research interests are control, system theory, model order reduction and system identification.
Upcoming Public Research Seminar
The Oasys Research Group has the pleasure to welcome invited speaker Pauline Kergus who will be speaking at the seminar in conjuction with ERC project FlexAnalytics
Where: Sala B.2.7- Edificio de Investigación Ada Byron, Ampliación Campus Teatinos,
Universidad de Málaga, C/Arquitecto Francisco Peñalosa, 18, 29010 Málaga.
When: Wednesday, May 18th, 2022 - 12:00 -13:30h
All welcome to attend
Data-driven strategies for modeling and control - Application to building thermal modeling.
In many cases, dynamical systems are not described by a physical model that is simple yet accurate for control, optimization, analysis or simulation purposes. It is therefore necessary to explore available data to obtain suitable models. Different data-driven strategies will be presented briefly, at the crossroad of identification, learning and control. The main part of the talk will be dedicated to the modeling of a residential building's thermal behaviour based on real measurements. In the end, the outlooks considered in this work, and more generally the perspectives regarding the development of data-driven strategies for modeling and control will be presented, with a specific focus on energy systems, in order to encourage discussion and scientific interactions.
This research seminar is sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 755705).
Oasys group's founders Salvador Pineda and Juan Miguel Morales attended the Statistics & Operations Research (SEIO)-BBVA Foundation Awards Ceremony on the 16th February in Madrid. They were there to receive their award for Best Applied Contribution to Operations Research, 2020 for their article Chronological time-period clustering for optimal capacity expansion planning with storage (published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems: 33(6)) considered by the jury to be a "highly relevant application, given today’s massive energy use and the high cost of related operations".
Another step in the group's fulfilment of its mission statement the development of mathematical methods and solutions to achieve more efficient, secure and sustainable energy systems
Read more about them and their work in this awardees interview with the BBVA Foundation (link)
Below: The researchers - awardees of the Statistics & Operations Research (SEIO)-BBVA Foundation Awards 2020 talk about their work and the importance of this recognition to their efforts. Watch on FBBVA YouTube channel
Salvador defends the importance of multidisciplinary research in his appreciation speech for the SEIO - BBVA Foundation award.
Oasys group member Asunción recently attended the IMUS Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Seminar where she, and her fellow awardees, Marina Leal & Eduardo García Juárez talked about their award-wining theses and postdoctoral research work. They also took part in a round table session, where they shared they PhD experiences with current PhD and master´s students. Asun's thesis, supervised by Rafael Blanquero and Emilio Carrizosa was one of the outstanding thesis of 2019. She is currently continuing her postdoctoral career at the University of Málaga, as part of the Oasys research group, mentored by Juan Miguel Morales and Salvador Pineda.
The awardees of EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies #WISDOM YoungWomen4OR 2020-21 welcome the awardees of YoungWomen4OR 2021-22. Among these talented young researchers Asunción Jiménez-Cordero of Oasys Research Group 👩👩🏫📊👨💻☕📆🕒
EURO WISDOM Forum Winter Event 2021
Where: Zoom - Register in the Google Form https://lnkd.in/dC6yp2Mp to receive the Zoom link
When: 20th December 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 (CET)
IMUS Jornada Premios Extraordinarios de Doctorado
21st of December 9:15 (CET) onwards
Asunción Jiménez, together wth her fellow awardees Marina Leal Palazón and Eduardo García Juárez will be taking part in IMUS Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Seminar. Follow the link to sign up 👇👇👇
https://www.imus.us.es/www/#actividad/2772
Members of Oasys took part in the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2021
Finally back on the road! Asunción Cordero-Jiménez presenting An Offline-Online Strategy to Improve MILP Performance via Machine Learning Tools a joint work with Juan Miguel Morales & Salvador Pineda at the Spanish ‘Mathematical Strategic Network’ conference New Bridges between Mathematics and Data Science in Valladolid, Spain.
Members of Oasys took part in the EURO2021 conference.
Advances in data-driven decision making under uncertainty and its applications - Adrián Esteban y Juan Miguel Morales
Machine Learning and Optimization: new challenges, applications and objectives - Álvaro Porras, Salvador Pineda, Juan Miguel Morales and Asunción Jiménez
Expansion planning problems in renewable-dominated power systems - Salvador Pineda, Juan Miguel Morales and Yury Dvorkin
Data-driven power systems - Keynote speaker session Juan Miguel Morales
MINLP for Energy Networks - Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Salvador Pineda and Juan Miguel Morales
Machine Learning and Optimization: new challenges, applications and objectives - Asunción Jiménez, Juan Miguel Morales and Salvador Pineda
EURO 2021 is the largest European conference for Operational Research and Management Science with more than 40 years of history since the first edition in 1975 in Brussels.
It is organized by EURO – the European Association of Operational Research Societies
Concepción Domínguez is a Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the S. and Operations Research Department of the University of Murcia. Her thesis focuses mainly on the development of mixed-integer formulations and exact algorithms for pricing problems. Her research interests lie in combinatorial optimization and bilevel optimization problems with real-world applications.
The Rank Pricing Problem: a mixed-integer linear optimization approach
In the Rank Pricing Problem (RPP), a firm intends to maximize its profit through the pricing of a set of products to sell. Customers are interested in purchasing at most one product from among a subset of products. To do so, they are endowed with a ranked list of preferences and a budget. Their choice rule consists in purchasing the highest-ranked product in their list and whose price is below their budget. In this talk, we focus on the resolution of the RPP and two generalizations that consist in adding ties in the list of preferences and capacities. We present MILP formulations, valid inequalities, and exact resolution algorithms. The performance of the models and the resolution algorithms developed is tested by means of extensive computational experiments.
Seminar in conjuction with ERC project FlexAnalytics and the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad project PowerMath the Oasys Research Group welcomes invited speaker Concepción Domínguez Sánchez on Friday the 16th of July Ada Byron Research Centre starting at 12 noon. All welcome to attend 👩🏫👏👀
This research seminar has been sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 755705) and Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad under Plan Nacional (grant agreement No ENE2017-83775-P)
Members of Oasys took part in PowerTech 2021, Madrid.
For more information about the conference - PowerTech 2021
Check out our YouTube channel to watch the presentations 👉 👉 👉
The members of Oasys Research Group have taken part in the excellent online seminar series Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization.
For more information on these seminars and to catch up on any missed
Oasys group members Juan Miguel Morales and Salvador Pineda took part in the Machine learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization Online Seminar Series, in March, presenting their talk "Contextual decision-making under uncertainty".
In February, Asunción Jimenéz-Cordero also took part, presenting the group's work on "Feature selection in nonlinear SVM using a novel min-max approach" from the ERC-funded project Flexanalytics.
Various members of Oasys took part in the INFORMS Virtual Annual Meeting 2020. They presented their latest work from the Flexanalytics project funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant.
Members of the Oasys Research Group presented their work, via Zoom, from the Flexanalytics project funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant at the Fifth Annual Autumn School workshop 12 - 14 October. Organised by The Research Training Group on Algorithmic Optimization at the Universität Trier, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation (DFG).
Photo credit C. Pinto Diario Sur
La Fundación General de la Universidad & CaixaBank have awarded the UMA Research prize in Engineering & Architecture to Juan Miguel & Salvador for their paper on reducing costs when designing electrical systems to integrate and store renewable energy.
Diario Sur - Premios Fundación General de la Universidad y CaixaBank
Premios SEIO -Fundación BBVA
Congratulations! Juan Miguel & Salvador awarded prize for Best contribution to Operations Research
Podcast Cadena Ser Juan Miguel discusses the importance of easing computational burden in complex energy systems with Esther Luque, Francis Villatoro & Enrique Viguera and the implications for wider society. Research is not just academic!
Premios SEIO -Fundación BBVA
Congratulations! Juan Miguel & Salvador awarded prize for Best contribution to Operations Research
SEIO award to Juan Miguel & Salvador for Best Contribution to Operations Research. They have been recognised for their work, which significantly reduces the computational burden in complex energy systems planning. A well-deserved prize. Congratulations!
Fundación BBVA have published interviews with the winners of the Premios SEIO -Fundación BBVA to their YouTube Channel (link ) Juan Miguel and Salvador talk about their energy system research which was awarded the Best contribution to Operations Research and discuss the crossover between their two disciplines.