TWCCC Fall 2024 Meeting - In Person

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pyle Center - Alumni Lounge [link]

Access to Files [link]

Travel Information [link]

WiFi Access: UWNet (open to all, just register) or Eduroam (open to academics and students)

Tentative Program (All Times Central)

Monday September 23rd

Breakfast on your own

8:45  Welcome and Introduction

9:00 - Kyle Cranmer (Director of UW-Madison Data Science Institute) - "Advances and Opportunities in Scientific Machine Learning"

9:45 - Break

10:00 - Jim Rawlings (UC Santa Barbara) - "Can we learn the optimal operation of a process flowsheet directly from data?"

10:45 - Break

11:00 - Jay Lee  (University of Southern California) - "Machine Learning-Related Research in My Laboratory"

11:45 - Lunch on your own

2:00  - Elizabeth Endler (Shell) - "Decarbonization Through Process Electrification"

2:45 - Break

3:00 - Michael Baldea (UT Austin) - "Process electrification – why, how, where, when?"

3:45 - Break

4:00 - Illias Mitrai (UT Austin) -  "Accelerating process control and optimization via machine learning"

4:45 - Break

5:15 -  Reception + Poster Presentations by Students/Postdocs 

David Cole (UW-Madison) -  "Advances in Graph-Based Optimization"

Angan Mukherjee (UW-Madison) - "Physics-Constrained Machine Learning"

Ashley McCullough (UW-Madison) - "Exploiting Frequency Regulation Markets in Manufacturing"

Jukbin Kim (UW-Madison) - "Durability/Flexibility Trade-Offs in Electrochemical Systems"

Yoel Cortes (UW-Madison) - "Phenomena-Based Decomposition of Chemical Processes"

Meng-Lin Tsai (UW-Madison)  - "Advances in Bilevel Optimization"

Kenneth Martinez (UW-Madison) - "Circular Economy Assessment Framework - A case study on transportation fuels"

Paola Munoz (UW-Madison) - "Optimal Design of Food Packaging under Circular Economy Considerations"

Joshua Hammond (UT-Austin) - "Retrain or update: Initial results in ANN model maintenance"

Titus Quah (UC Santa Barbara) - "Model Predictive Control of Active Hard Disks"

Howoun Jung (USC) - "Direct Air Capture Using Solid Sorbents  in the Presence of Moisture and Temperature Variations"

Davide Mannini (UC Santa Barbara) - "Robust Model Predictive Control: Optimal Solutions and Applications"

6:30 -  Dinner + Industry Talk (Ashwin Chemburkar from Cargill)

Tuesday September 24th

Breakfast on your own

8:00 - 9:00 - PIs+Industry Meeting (coffee+pastries provided)

9:00 - Styliana Avraamidou (UW-Madison) - "Multi-Stakeholder Decision-Making for Circular Economy Supply Chains"

9:40 - Break

9:50 - Victor Zavala (UW-Madison) - "Modeling and Quantifying the Shape of Complex Systems"

10:30 - Break (snacks provided)

10:45 - Student/Postdoc Talks

Joshua Hammond (UT-Austin) - "Retrain or update: initial results in ANN model maintenance"

Howoun Jung (USC) - "Direct Air Capture Using Solid Sorbents  in the Presence of Moisture and Temperature Variations"

Titus Quah (UC Santa Barbara) - "Model Predictive Control of Active Hard Disks"

Davide Mannini (UC Santa Barbara) - "Robust Model Predictive Control: Optimal Solutions and Applications"

Parth Brahmbhatt (UW-Madison) - "Iteration-Free Cooperative Distributed MPC through Multiparametric Programming"

Yoel Cortes (UW-Madison) - "Phenomena-Based Decomposition of Chemical Processes"

1:00 Concluding Remarks + Adjourn