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Edition #30: Oct-Dec 2016

CIAO Newsletter EDITION #30

Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization Oct-Dec 2016

CRICOS Provider No. 00103D of 16

Editorial Welcome to the Oct-Dec 2016 issue of CIAO Newsletter! After a long break, we are back with a new look and many items of news to share. CIAO would like to thank Leigh Achterbosch from the Faculty of Science and Technology for the newsletter design and technical support.

We hope you enjoy this issue.

Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio

Director’s section We are resuming the series of quarterly CIAO Newsletters which dates back to March 2003 and was interrupted in 2010 after the release of edition #29. It has been decided to continue the old numbering system, so the current first issue of the new series is numbered 30. In its turn, the old series of CIAO Newsletters had replaced in 2003 an even older series of so called Research Newsletters covering the period 1998 – 2002. Those old newsletters from 1998 – 2010 present an interesting account of research related activities within CIAO and then School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences and are going to appear on the CIAO web site soon.

Let me remind the readers that CIAO was established on June 22, 2001 as one of four designated university research centres with Professor Alex Rubinov as the Founding Director. Alex Rubinov was a stellar researcher who brought to Ballarat his tremendous knowledge and experience in optimisation, passion for mathematics in general, strong international ties and several outstanding PhD students, many of whom have grown up by now into recognized leaders in the field. CIAO was Alex’s beloved child and he invested all his energy into making it one of the leading research centre in optimisation and IT in the world. CIAO is Alex’s legacy and we are doing whatever possible to preserve it as well as its reputation.

Currently CIAO is a multidisciplinary research centre within the Faculty of Science and Technology at Federation University Australia and includes 8 research groups and laboratories:

Optimisation Group (leader A/Prof Adil Bagirov), Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Group (leader Prof David Gao), Pure Mathematics Group (leader A/Prof David Yost), Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (leader A/Prof Iqbal Gondal), Federation Learning Agents Group (leader A/Prof Peter Vamplew), Health Informatics Laboratory (leader A/Prof Andrew Stranieri), Technologies Empowering People for Participation in Society (leader Grant Meredith;

this group is a subdivision of Health Informatics Laboratory), Climate Informatics Group (leader Dr Savin Chand).

More information about the groups and their research activities will appear in the subsequent issues. CIAO International Academic Advisory Group includes 3 renowned international scholars: Professor Michel Théra (University of Limoges, France), Professor Marco Antonio López Cerdá (University of Alicante, Spain) and Professor Jean-Pierre Crouzeix (University Blaise Pascal, France). The group provides advice and feedback from an international academic perspective and promotes CIAO, the Faculty and FedUni internationally.

This issue covers the period October-December 2016. This period was rich on various events and activities, some of them will be described in more details in the subsequent pages.

Many thanks to Dr Guillermo Pineda Villavicencio for volunteering to be the Editor of CIAO Newsletters and Ms Helen Wade for providing most of the information and photos. I am sure that Guillermo’s energy and enthusiasm will make CIAO Newsletters a valuable and interesting source of information about CIAO activities.

Alex Kruger

In this issue:

Research priority areas Alex Rubinov Memorial

Oration Conferences and workshops Celebrating the 70th birthday

of Michel Théra Industry connections Research group news Research visits Other news Future events CIAO visitors New publications

A/Prof Alex Kruger CIAO Research Director

Dr Guillermo Pineda Editor of CIAO Newsletter

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Research Priority Areas In 2016 FedUni announced research priority areas (RPA) aimed at expanding the university’s research potential. “The University is committed to expanding our research capability throughout all of our campuses,” Prof Leigh Sullivan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), said.

“We are focused on establishing research priorities that build on our present strengths and that are relevant to and support the development of the regional areas that Federation University Australia serves.

“Our five main research priorities are information forensics and security; transformative and preventative health; history and heritage; improving policy and practice in vocational education and training; and dynamic landscapes…The University has senior researchers throughout our campuses that are leading experts in each of these fields.” Prof Sullivan said.

As part of the five research priorities eight specific focus areas will be pursued.

Cyber security Multimedia signal processing and machine learning Translating basic and applied research to improve healthcare Injury prevention in active populations Sport and recreation Australian history and heritage Improving policy and practice in vocational education and training Dynamic landscapes: environmental knowledge and management tools

CIAO researchers are directly or indirectly involved in several RPAs. Congratulations to Internet Commerce Security Laboratory research director A/Prof Iqbal Gondal who is going to be the leader of the Cyber Security focus area within the Information Forensics and Security RPA. The other focus area within this RPA is Multimedia Signal Processing and Machine Learning and is going to be led by Prof Manzur Murshed, research director of the Centre for Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Artificial Intelligence Research (MCCAIR). MCCAIR is our partner in the Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) group. Congratulations also go to him and his colleagues in MCCAIR.

Several other CIAO researchers are going to be involved in both focus areas within the Information Forensics and Security RPA. A/Prof Adil Bagirov from the Optimisation group is going to contribute to the Cyber Security Analytics theme, while A/Prof Peter Vamplew and Dr Richard Dazeley from Federation Learning Agents Group are going to do research on Machine Learning.

Dr Savin Chand from the Climate Informatics group is going to be involved in the Dynamic Landscapes RPA.

A/Prof Iqbal Gondal ICSL Research Director

A/Prof Adil Bagirov Leader of Optimisation Group

A/Prof Peter Vamplew FLAG Leader

Prof Manzur Murshed MCCAIR Research Director




Events

Alex Rubinov Memorial Oration 2016 Each year an oration to commemorate the life of Professor Alex Rubinov is held to celebrate his contribution to the University as an outstanding researcher and the founding Director of CIAO.

This time the University was privileged to have Professor Nalini Joshi AO, FAA, FRSN, FAustMS presenting the oration on Thursday 3 November 2016 titled "Symmetry through Geometry".

Professor Joshi is a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science, the University of Sydney. She is an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to mathematical science and tertiary education as an academic, author and researcher, to professional societies and as a role model and mentor of young mathematicians.

The Alex Rubinov Memorial Oration 2016 was well attended by the university staff and students, guests from other universities and school communities.

Workshop on polytopes (RMIT University, 16 Nov 2016) The workshop was organised by Dr Vera Roshchina and sponsored by RMIT Optimisation group, with whom CIAO has a strong collaboration. There were 16 participants from CIAO, The University of Melbourne, Monash University and RMIT. The workshop consisted of 5 talks and an open problem session. CIAO researchers Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio and David Yost gave talks on "The excess degree of a polytope and some of its applications" and "Lower bound theorems and decomposability for polytopes."

More information about the workshop and talk slides can be found at http://www.polytopes.rmitopt.org/.

Prof Alex Rubinov CIAO Founding Director

Prof Alexander Rubinov (1940 – 2006) was the Founding Director of CIAO and transformed it into an internationally recognised research centre in optimisation and informatics.

Alexander Rubinov was born in Leningrad, now S. Petersburg, Russia, and graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Leningrad State University. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Novosibirsk and an advanced doctorate at the Computer Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. He then held positions in Leningrad, Novosibirsk and Kalinin (Russia), Baku (Azerbaijan), Beersheba (Israel), and Ballarat.

Prof Rubinov attracted to Ballarat first-class researchers from around the world. Under his leadership, CIAO became an extremely successful centre of both national and international repute, recognised especially for its theoretical and applied research in optimisation.

Alexander Rubinov was a strikingly modest and humble family man loved by everybody.




MATRIX Program "Optimisation and Approximation"

The MATRIX program Optimisation and Approximation co-organised by CIAO in July 2016 was a great success. We enjoyed a series of lectures by Prof Nira Dyn (Tel Aviv University), Prof Constantin Zalinescu (University "Al. I. Cuza" Iasi), Julien Ugon (Federation University Australia) and Nadia Sukhorukova (Swinburne).

The enjoyable atmosphere on the Creswick campus of Melbourne University was conducive to good research and encouraged research collaboration.

Program participants, through anonymous surveys, reported that "The lecturers did a brilliant job with their presentations: the material was very well selected and presented at an appropriate level, they were very attentive to our questions and comments, patiently and passionately exposing us to their research areas. I believe I have understood several fundamental ideas in approximation theory that I would have never learned otherwise."

Mathematical Optimisation Down Under 2016 The Mathematical Optimisation Down Under (MODU2016) held in Melbourne at Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens on 18–22 July 2016 was part of the MATRIX research program Approximation and Optimisation.

The workshop was designed to bring together researchers working in various areas of modern mathematical optimisation and to prompt an exchange of ideas between researchers. The main focus was on the modern aspects of optimisation that involve deep interplay between

computational problems and pure mathematical questions. Talks spanned both continuous and discrete optimisation. The main themes covered variational analysis, semidefinite programming, polynomial optimisation, optimisation on manifolds, optimal control and set-valued optimisation, as well as stochastic and integer programming.

The workshop attracted 49 participants including 10 high profile keynote speakers. CIAO researchers Alexander Kruger, Vera Roshchina




(honorary), Nadezda Sukhorukova (honorary), Julien Ugon and David Yost gave invited talks. The workshop was sponsored by AMSI, AustMS, CARMA (University of Newcastle) and RMIT University.

Workshop on Metric Bounds and Transversality 2016 Following the successful MATRIX research program and workshop Approximation and Optimisation in Creswick and the subsequent international conference Mathematical Optimisation Down Under in Melbourne in July 2016, CIAO researchers jointly with colleagues from RMIT and Swinburne universities organized a Workshop on Metric Bounds and Transversality (WoMBaT 2016) at RMIT City Campus, 24–25 November 2016.

The topics of the workshop included error bounds, metric (sub-)regularity, Aubin property and calmness, transversality of collections of sets,

subdifferential characterisations and applications of these properties to estimating the convergence of fundamental optimisation algorithms. The keynote lecture was given by Professor Marco López-Cerdá from the University of Alicante, Spain and CIAO adjunct professor and International Academic Advisory Group member.

Before attending the workshop, Professor López spent 10 days in Ballarat where he worked with CIAO Research Director A/Prof Alex Kruger on their current ARC Discovery project and collaborated with other CIAO researchers.

CIAO researchers Alex Kruger, Adil Bagirov, Nadia Sukhorukova (honorary), Julien Ugon, David Yost, Musa Mammadov and Vera Roshchina (honorary) gave invited talks. Other presentations were made by researchers from RMIT University, University of Newcastle, University of New South Wales and Federal Institute of Goiás (Brazil).

It was decided to make WoMBaT an annual event.

Marco López and Alex Kruger, Melbourne, 24 November 2016

Australian Mathematical Society meeting The 60th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society was held by the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University in Canberra 5-8 December 2016. A/Prof Adil Bagirov gave a keynote talk at the section on Mathematical and Computational Optimisation. A/Prof David Yost gave a talk at the Combinatorics section.




Celebrating the 70th birthday of Michel Théra Year 2016 was marked by the celebrations of the 70th birthday of CIAO adjunct professor and chair of the CIAO International Academic Advisory Group Professor Michel Théra.

Professor Théra from the University of Limoges in France is an internationally renowned expert in optimisation and variational analysis who has made significant contributions to the field. He is also known as a very nice person, greatly respected by his colleagues and former students around the world. Two major international events where dedicated to Michel Théra.

International Seminar on Optimization and Variational Analysis at the University of Alicante, Spain, 1-3 June 2016; International conference “New Trends in Optimization and Variational Analysis for Applications” at Quy Nhon University, Vietnam, 7-10 December 2016. He was also presented with an impressive cake at the Workshop on Variational Analysis with Applications at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 13-14 December 2016.

Special issues of two journals: ‘Set Valued and Variational Analysis’ and ‘Vietnam Journal of Mathematics’ dedicated to Michel Théra are going to be published in 2017.

Professor Michel Théra is a Partner Investigator on the current ARC Discovery project led by A/Prof Alex Kruger.

Industry connections

Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre Transport Accident Commission (TAC)

CIAO researchers Dr Musa Mammadov and Dr Julien Ugon are working on a CMCRC project with the Transport Accident Commission. They are assisting the TAC Forensic team to develop a novel methodology for outlier detection in billing data. The first phase of the project was completed at the end of 2016 and is now being used by TAC to investigate unusual behaviour. The findings will be submitted for publication in 2017, and the second phase of the project will start at the beginning of 2017. The TAC staff involved in this project are Rob Muspratt and Marcus Lyngcoln.

Medibank

CIAO researchers Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio and Dr Julien Ugon are supervisors of an industry-oriented PhD student, Daniel Morales-Silva, enrolled at FedUni, with Medibank and Capital Markets CRC as partners. This project encompasses the delivery of solutions to short-term business questions posed by Medibank.

Our first project highlighted the diagnostic potential of visualization techniques for reporting quality outcomes of patient admissions in orthopaedic surgeries. At hospital and national levels, we

Dr Musa Mamadov

Michel Théra with his PhD supervisor Jean-Paul Penot




compared the “best” and the “worst” performing surgeons and hospitals. We concluded that in our health care system we do not necessarily pay more for better quality.

Using risk adjustment techniques, our current project looks at how reports should be adjusted for fair comparison between medical providers since there are significant differences in patient severity, treatment complexity or provider specialisation.

The student has successfully completed his confirmation of candidature in 2016.

Research Group News

Technologies for Empowering People for Participation in Society (TEPPS) Late 2016 saw the Scenari-Kids project go into full development and testing. Scenari-Kids is a Telematics Trust funded project aimed to produce a social online simulator for children. Scenari-Kids will host a series of video-recorded scenarios concerning common social and school-based activities in which children with peer support can work through in order to become more confident with them. At this stage an accessibly web-player has been introduced and the overall platform is being user tested. A tentative mid-2017 launch will be planned for global release. This new platform is mirrored to that of the already developed and launched Scenari-Aid website which currently has 1000s of registered users worldwide and is adult focused in terms of scenario content.

Early 2017 has been busy for TEPPS with more Scenari-Kids testing and development occurring. Excitingly there havebeen talks with researchers from Latrobe University’s School of Allied Health about a possible collaboration with both TEPPS and HIL in terms of wireless technologies and speech therapy.

Federation Learning Agents Group

Highlights for FLAG over the last few months include:

Acceptance of two papers for a special issue of Neurocomputing journal on multiobjective reinforcement learning.

An invitation for Richard Dazeley and Peter Vamplew to be part of the Organising Committee for the inaugural MODeM (Multiobjective Decision Making) workshop to be held at AAMAS.

New student members: Tanya Pedersen (guided study) and Charlotte Young (Honours).

An imminent agreement on industry-funded PhD scholarship (full details to be revealed in the next CIAO newsletter once the agreement is finalised).

Purchase of two new Deep Learning Robots for research.

Richard Dazeley named ICT Educator of the Year

Dr Richard Dazeley received the ICT Educator of the Year at the prestigious 2016 ACS Digital Disruptors Awards.

“The award recognises Dr Dazeley’s outstanding work in leading our innovative and exciting renewal of the Bachelor of Information Technology,” Dr Jason Giri, Head of the School of Engineering and Information Technology, said.

“The award is a fitting acknowledgement of the great work that Richard has done at the University over many years. He is very well-respected at FedUni and is an outstanding educator.

“The University is very proud it will now finish the 2016 year with the best IT programs in the nation as well as the number one ICT educator.”

Members: A/Prof Peter Vamplew, Dr Richard Dazeley, and Dr Cameron Foale

Grant Meredith TEPPS Leader

Dr Richard Dazeley Member of FLAG




Climate Informatics Research Group Climate Informatics Research Group (CIRG) is a group formed within the Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization (CIAO), at FedUni. Key focus of CIRG is to understanding climate change and variability, and their impacts on environment and society in Australia and the Asia-Pacific regions. CIRG also promotes collaboration between climate scientists, data scientists (machine learning, statistics and data mining researchers) and the end-user communities across multidisciplinary sectors in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

CIRG supports research in the following broad “umbrella” areas of investigation:

Mathematical and Statistical Modelling – this includes environmental process modelling, weather and climate modelling, and disaster risk and impact modelling using information from satellite observations, instrumental records and physical model simulations.

Climate Change Impacts and Threats – multidisciplinary research into the impact of climate change on building infrastructure, food and water security, ecological biodiversity, infectious disease transmission etc.

Weather and Climate Extremes – such as tropical cyclones, severe rainfall, droughts and heat waves.

Dr Savin Chan Leader of Climate Informatics

Research Group




Decision Tools – developing end-user defined tools and decision support systems to better understand climate change and its impact on environment and society.

Major Research Highlight: El Nino driven cyclones set to increase in the Pacific

A latest research led by Dr Savin Chand, published in Nature Climate Change, indicated that small island states in the Pacific could be hit by more tropical cyclones during future El Nino weather patterns due to climate change.

El Nino is a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific occurring every two to seven years which can trigger both floods and drought in different parts of the world.

Its opposite phase, a cooling of the same waters known as La Nina, is associated with the increased probability of wetter conditions over much of Australia and increased numbers of tropical cyclones.

“By the end of late 21st century, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Hawaii could face an increased frequency in tropical cyclone numbers during El Nino of up to 40 per cent,” Dr Chand said.

“However cyclones may be up to 60 per cent less frequent in these regions during the opposite La Nina pattern.”

“We hope our work leads to considerable debate and action about climate research.”

The paper can be accessed at: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n2/full/nclimate3181.html

Health Informatics Laboratory Khan summer

Masters of IT graduate, Umair Khan has had a hot, dry summer, embroiled in data. Mr Khan was awarded the CSIRO’s Data61 summer scholarship to work with Venki Balasubramanian and Andrew Stranieri on data generated from a remote patient monitoring trial they ran in India last year. Umair’s project involved refining and implementing an algorithm Dr Balasubramanian had developed to quantify the level of trust a doctor could have in vital signs streaming from different sensors worn by patients.

“Data from all sensors rarely arrive at the same time”, explained Mr Khan, “so any calculation to raise alarms are often using vital signs that have been streamed seconds, or minutes before. This reduces the level of certainty the alarm is correct, so should be quantified and reported to the doctors”

As part of the same project, Mr Khan also implemented and refined an algorithm for updating counts of all subsequences in a stream, in real time, as each data point arrives. The counts of subsequences are the raw material for many forecasting algorithms.

Umair recently presented his research project together with other Summer Scholarship recipients in Melbourne.

In the framework of Summer TECH LIVE, a new student initiative of the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources, HIL will host two students Teena Arora and Ramkumar Krubanandam to continue refining programs for remote patient sensors.

The Lab has been able to purchase 6 new patient monitoring sensors and 4 tablets for their test trial in an Indian hospital which was very successful. Further trials are planned as part of the collaboration with Karpagum.

Student Umair Khan

A/Prof Andrew Stranieri Leader of Health Informatics

Laboratory




Healthy India

Dr Balasubramanian and A/Prof Andrew Stranieri have set up a collaboration with two leading Engineering Colleges in India. The Australia - India Health Care Data Acquisition and Analytics Research Lab (AIDAAL) is a joint research facility between the Health Informatics Laboratory in CIAO and the Karpagum Engineering College, Coimbatore, India. A/Prof Stranieri travelled to Coimbatore in November for the launch of the centre and to conduct the inaugural project at the Karpagum group’s public teaching hospital. Nurses in the pilot program installed cutting edge vital signs sensors programmed at Mt Helen to Bluetooth data to nearby Tablets then to Cloud repositories where custom software designed by the HIL researchers processed data in real time to calculate a score known as the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) that is to designed to warn of a decline in the patient’s health. If so, the algorithm raised alarms to nurses by SMS. The automated and continuous calculation of MEWS promises to detect a decline in a patient’s condition far more rapidly than is possible with signs taken manually. The remote patient monitoring pilot software has attracted considerable commercial interest and has led to a spin-out company, Anidra Tech Ventures Pty Ltd, established to commercial the MEWS software.

Also in India, CIAO Associate Dr Siddhivinayak Kulkarni, the Coordinator of the Center of Excellence-Machine Intelligence and High Performance Computing at MIT-College of Engineering, Pune, India has established a collaboration with CIAO’s HIL. MIT College of Engineering is one the highest ranked private colleges in India. Inaugural projects include automated image classification and health literacy. Please contact A/Prof Stranieri for further details.

Healthy collaboration

How do you get researchers at Burwood, Caulfield, Auckland, Mt Helen, Horsham, Mortlake, Hamilton, Swan Hill and Warrnambool from four universities and two hospitals to collaborate? Easy

The ARC Discovery funded team is working on understanding how clinicians in teams, on ward rounds and multi-disciplinary reasoning, communicate, reason and deliberate particularly with complex cases involving multi-morbidities. The insights coming from this project are being used to develop visual information representations that aim to help patients and health care professionals quickly assimilate and share complex information. Contact A/Prof Andrew Stranieri for further information




Research visits

Vietnam and Hong Kong At the end of 2016 CIAO Research Director A/Prof Alex Kruger made a research travel to Vietnam and Hong Kong. It included visits to Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), Quy Nhon University, Vietnam and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

On this trip Alex made 4 presentations and collaborated with colleagues at the 3 institutions listed above as well as other international visitors including Partner Investigators on his current ARC Discovery project.

VIASM is a new research institution which started operation in 2011. The main activity of the Institute is organizing research groups to conduct research programs and projects of high quality. Scientists from Vietnam and other countries in the same field gather and work together at the Institute for up to 6 months. VIASM organizes conferences, workshops, seminars, summer schools for math students and short-term training courses for mathematics teachers.

At VIASM, Alex Kruger together with CIAO adjunct professor and CIAO International Academic Advisory Group member Prof Marco López-Cerdá from the University of Alicante, Spain and Prof Rafael Correa from the University of Chile gave invited lectures at the one-day international workshop Variational Analysis and Optimization Theory.

At Quy Nhon University, Alex Kruger together with CIAO adjunct professors Marco López-Cerdá and Phan Quoc Khanh from the International University of Ho Chi Minh City gave plenary lectures at the

International conference “New Trends in Optimization and Variational Analysis for Applications” dedicated to the 70th birthday of another CIAO adjunct professor and chair of the CIAO International Academic Advisory Group Prof Michel Théra from the University of Limoges, France. Alex Kruger, Marco López-Cerdá and Phan Quoc Khanh were also Scientific Committee members of this conference. CIAO honorary research fellow Dr Vera Roshchina and former PhD student Dr Nguyen Hieu Thao gave invited and contributed talks, respectively.

At Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Alex Kruger gave an invited lecture at the Department of Applied Mathematics and then participated with an invited talk at the Workshop on Variational Analysis with Applications. Honorary CIAO researchers Prof Michel Théra and Dr Vera Roshchina also gave invited talks at this workshop.

Berlin Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio visited Prof Michael Joswig from the Technical University of Berlin to collaborate on projects about the reconstruction of polytopes from their graphs. While in TUB, Guillermo gave a colloquium talk title “The excess degree of a polytope and some of its applications”; see http://www3.math.tu-berlin.de/MDS/monday-lectures_16-17.html for more information.

India and Thailand A/Prof David Yost was an invited speaker at the "TSSRK Rao Fest" held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, on 22-24 September 2016. The conference, on Approximation Theory, Geometry of Banach Spaces, General Topology and Operator Theory, was held to honour the distinguished career of T.S.S.R.K. Rao, following his 60th Birthday. David gave a lecture titled “Rao, reducibility, ridges and random encounters".

During his travel, David has also provided lectures at:




Thammasat University, Rangsit, Thailand, on 19 September 2016 titled "Quasilinear Functions, Banach Spaces and Polyhedra";

Cochin University of Science and Technology, India on 3 October 2016 titled "Lower bound theorems for general polytopes";

Madurai Kamaraj University, India on 7 October 2016 titled "Lower bound theorems for general polytopes".

News

Promotions We want to congratulate

Dr Andrew Percy

Dr Julien Ugon

on their promotion to Level C. This is a clear acknowledgment of their contributions to the Faculty and University.

Optimisation seminars CIAO optimisation seminars are now regular fortnightly events. They involve presentations by CIAO members and visitors from other universities and from overseas.

Students We welcome a new PhD student, Bui Thi Hoa, to our faculty. Hoa Thi Bui recently arrived from Quang Ngai, Vietnam. She studied Mathematics at Ho Chi Minh City, University of Pedagogy, Vietnam. Her PhD Supervisors are A/Prof Alex Kruger and A/Prof David Yost.

Student Leonard Whitehead received an AMSI scholarship to work on a project with A/Prof Alex Kruger. Leonard is enrolled in a joint Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences/ Bachelor of Education

New Memorandum of Understanding signed FedUni signed new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Institut of Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. ITB is the top ranked university in Indonesia for science and engineering. This MOU will support the development of academic collaboration between both institutions, and ultimately, will foster relationships between Australia and Indonesia.

Future Events CIAO annual showcase – April 2017

CIAO annual workshop – April 2017

China-Australia Optimization Meeting (CA), Perth, 4 December 2017

South Pacific Optimization Meeting in Western Australia (SPOM at WA), Perth, 5-6 December 2017

Pacific Optimization Conference (POC), Perth, 7-8 December 2017

Dr Andrew Percy

Dr Julien Ugon CIAO Deputy Director

PhD student Bui Thi Hoa




Visitors

Dates Name Institution CIAO host

15 Dec 2015 – 14 Dec 2016 Dr Wei Deng Shanghai Maritime University, China Prof David Gao

2 Jan – 24 Dec 2016 Dr Napsu Karmitsa University of Turku, Finland A/Prof Adil Bagirov

31 May – 24 Dec 2016 Ms Soodabeh Asadi Dezaki Shahrekord University, Iran A/Prof Adil Bagirov

11 Jul – 17 Sep 2016 Prof Fusheng Bai Chongqing Normal University, China A/Prof Adil Bagirov

15 Aug – 14 Sep 2016 Mr Dengyang Zhao Zheijiang University, Hangzhou, China Prof David Gao

15 Aug – 14 Sep 2016 Prof Ming Li Zheijiang University, Hangzhou, China Prof David Gao

22-27 Sep 2016 Prof Rabian Wangkeeree Naresuan University, Thailand A/Prof Alex Kruger

22 Sep – 30 Nov 2016 Miss Panatda Boonman Naresuan University, Thailand A/Prof Alex Kruger

22 Sep – 30 Nov 2016 Miss Thanatporn Bantaojai Naresuan University, Thailand A/Prof Alex Kruger

12-26 Nov 2016 Prof Marco López Cerdá University of Alicante, Spain Dr Julien Ugon, A/Prof Alex Kruger




Publications – Oct-Dec 2016 (SCOPUS) 1. Ali E.J., Gao D.Y. Canonical finite element method for solving nonconvex variational problems to post buckling beam problem.

(2016), AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1776, 10.1063/1.4965409.

2. Bao T.Q., Khanh P.Q., Soubeyran A. Variational principles with generalized distances and the modelization of organizational change. (2016), Optimization, vol. 65, pp. 2049-2066, 10.1080/02331934.2016.1228062.

3. Cai K., Gao D.Y., Qin Q.H. Erratum: Triality theory and complete post-buckling solutions of large deformed beam by canonical dual finite element method (Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids). (2016), Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, vol. 21, pp. NP123-NP136, 10.1177/1081286515591085.

4. Chen Y., Gao D.Y. Erratum: Global solutions to spherically constrained quadratic minimization via canonical duality theory (Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids). (2016), Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, vol. 21, pp. NP139-NP157, 10.1177/1081286515577122.

5. Chen Y., Gao D.Y. Global solutions to nonconvex optimization of 4th-order polynomial and log-sum-exp functions. (2016), Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 64, pp. 417-431, 10.1007/s10898-014-0244-5.

6. Cibulka R., Dontchev A.L., Kruger A.Y. Strong metric subregularity of mappings in variational analysis and optimization. (2016), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 10.1016/j.jmaa.2016.11.045.

7. Correa R., Hantoute A., Lopez M.A. Weaker conditions for subdifferential calculus of convex functions. (2016), Journal of Functional Analysis, vol. 271, pp. 1177-1212, 10.1016/j.jfa.2016.05.012.

8. Correa R., Hantoute A., Lopez M.A. Towards supremum-sum subdifferential calculus free of qualification conditions. (2016), SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 26, pp. 2219-2234, 10.1137/15M1045375.

9. Dickinson J., Puxty G., Percy A., Verheyen T.V. Further developments in dynamic modelling of CO2 capture from flue gas. (2016), IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 28, pp. 216-221, 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.05.067.

10. Fang S.-C., Gao D.Y., Lin G.-X., Sheu R.-L., Xing W.-X. Erratum: Double well potential function and its optimization in the n-dimensional real space: Part I (Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids). (2016), Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, vol. 21, pp. NP66-NP80, 10.1177/1081286514566704.

11. Gao D.Y. Analytical solutions to general anti-plane shear problems in finite elasticity. (2016), Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, vol. 28, pp. 175-194, 10.1007/s00161-015-0412-y.

12. Gao D.Y. On unified modeling, theory, and method for solving multi-scale global optimization problems. (2016), AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1776, 10.1063/1.4965311.

13. Gfrerer H., Outrata J.V. On Lipschitzian properties of implicit multifunctions. (2016), SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 26, pp. 2160-2189, 10.1137/15M1052299.

14. Gfrerer H., Outrata J.V. On computation of generalized derivatives of the normal-cone mapping and their applications. (2016), Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 41, pp. 1535-1556, 10.1287/moor.2016.0789.

15. Joki K., Bagirov A.M., Karmitsa N., Makela M.M. A proximal bundle method for nonsmooth DC optimization utilizing nonconvex cutting planes. (2016), Journal of Global Optimization, pp. 1-35, 10.1007/s10898-016-0488-3.

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