Please register at the following link - All talks will be given with Zoom https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQjPn5xfm3YIVU9oyWgaJqmCcjmoeWiNAI7x4lVD3qRHpFgQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link Note - If your company does not allow you to fill out website registration forms. Please reply to crojo@ucsb.edu and send: First and last name, Email address, Affiliation, and Title, and you will be registered Agenda Monday, 9/14/2020 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)
Speaker: James B. Rawlings, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: On cascade control using MPC and PI, and storing MPC control laws in
neural networks
Discussant: James J. Down, Eastman Chemical
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)
Speaker: Victor Zavala, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Thinking About Data: Representations, Transformations, and
Applications.
Discussant: Jeff Ahrens, Corning Incorporated
Tuesday, 9/15/2020
8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)
Speaker: Michael Baldea, The University of Texas as Austin
Title: Monetizing Plant-Wide Data Sets.
Discussant: Jesus Flores-Cerrillo, Linde
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)
Flash talks:
Rawlings group:
Pratyush Kumar: Data completion of initial gray box models for process
control and optimization
Steven Kuntz: Economic optimization of large-scale, complex processes,
aka a chemical plant.
Zavala group:
Sungho Shin: Exponential Decay of Sensitivity in Graph-Structured Optimization
Problems
Phil Tominac: Economic Properties of Supply Chains
Baldea group:
Fernando Lejarza, Regularization strategies for closed-loop supply chain
management
Morgan Kelley, Fast feedback vs. Stochastic optimization: initial results
10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)
Wrap up: James B. Rawlings |