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Michael C. Ferris
Stephen C. Kleene Professor in Computer Science, and (by courtesy) Mathematics and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Theme Leader (Optimization), Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Research Interests:
Algorithms, environments, theory and applications of optimization.
PhD: University of Cambridge, 1989
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Recent talks by Michael C. Ferris
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- Shared Constraints and Implicit Functions in General Nash Equilibria (pdf)
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DOE-MACS Annual Meeting, Madison: Feb 16, 2017.
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- Formulations and solution algorithms for Complementarity Problems
(pdf)
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 19, 2017.
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- Extended Mathematical Programming
(pdf)
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 18, 2017.
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- Optimality conditions and complementarity, variational inequalities, operators and graphs
(pdf)
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 16, 2017.
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- Connections: Data, Decisions, Optimization, Cows and Fish (pdf)
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Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Dec 13, 2016.
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 20, 2017.
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- Wisconsin Environmental Modeling and Policy: Cows, Fish and Optimization (pdf)
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Presentation to Badger Legislative Caucus, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison: Dec 8, 2016.
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- Demystifying Discovery: Enhancing the Wisconsin Collaboratory (pdf)
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Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison: Nov 14, 2016.
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- Integrated Modeling for Optimization of Energy Systems (pdf)
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Plenary, Infraday Conference, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC: Nov 10, 2016.
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- Optimization and Equilibrium in Energy Economics (pdf)
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Emerging Topics in Sustainable Electric Power Systems Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Sep 29, 2016.
- Optimization Research Consortium, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison: Oct 18, 2016.
- Alliant Energy Company Presentation, Madison: Oct 27, 2016.
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 17, 2017.
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- Modeling and Optimization within Interacting Systems (pdf)
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Optimization Workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle, North Carolina: Sep 1, 2016.
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- Fish, Cows, Fields of Fuel and Optimization
(pdf)
- NATCOR meeting, Edinburgh, June 17, 2016.
- Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Sep 30, 2016.
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- Optimality conditions and complementarity, Nash equilibria and games, engineering and economic application
(pdf)
- Summer School on Convex Optimization, Edinburgh, June 13-16, 2016.
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- Quadratic Support Functions and Extended Mathematical Programs (pdf)
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West Coast Optimization Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle: May 14, 2016.
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- Some remarks on computation: three cases where structure counts (pdf)
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IPAM Workshop, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles: January 14, 2016.
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- Optimization and Equilibrium in Energy Economics (pdf)
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IPAM Workshop, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles: January 11, 2016.
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School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
April 6, 2016.
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SILO, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 27, 2016.
- Summer School on Convex Optimization, Edinburgh, June 13-16, 2016.
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- Optimization of the sum of a convex surrogate and quadratic objective: Example from Electricity Markets
(pdf)
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Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland: January 13, 2016.
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- Optimization and Modeling at UW: Fish, Cows, Sanctions and Energy
(pdf)
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Optimization Research Consortium, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: November 20, 2015.
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- Why Use Optimization?
(pdf)
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Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: August 25, 2015.
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- MOPEC, contracts, risk and stochastics
(pdf)
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International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Pittsburgh: July 13, 2015.
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- Modeling, equilibria, power and risk
(pdf)
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ACNW Optimization Workshop, Northwestern University, Chicago: June 8, 2015.
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Workshop on Stochastic Optimization and Equilibrium,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles: October 16, 2015.
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- Cows, Fish, Fields of Fuel and Optimization
(pdf)
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Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago: May 25, 2015.
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- Modeling and Optimization within Interacting Systems
(pdf)
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles: February 24, 2015.
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Plenary, Optimization, Sparsity and Adaptive Data Analysis, Chinese Academy of Sciences:
March 21, 2015.
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Plenary, 17th British-French-German Conference on Optimization, Imperial College, London: June 15, 2015.
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Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: December 14, 2015.
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- Modeling and Computation of Security-constrained Economic Dispatch with Multi-stage Rescheduling
(pdf)
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Grid Science Winter Conference, Santa Fe: January 15, 2015.
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- Environmental Optimization at Wisconsin: CS and WID
(pdf)
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Board of Visitors (CALS), Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: October 17, 2014.
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American Family Insurance Presentation, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: January 28, 2015.
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Water@UW Symposium: May 11, 2015.
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- Games, optimization bots and fields of fuel
(pdf)
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Agricultural and Environmental Economics Department Seminar, Madison: October 15, 2014.
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- Modeling and Optimization of Electricity Markets
(pdf)
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Texas - Wisconsin - California Control Consortium Annual Meeting, Madison: October 7, 2014.
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Tufts University, Boston: November 13, 2014.
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- The convergence of stationary iterations with indefinite splitting
(pdf)
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Tutorial, International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Berlin, Germany: August 7, 2014.
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- Theory and Computations for Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPEC)
(pdf)
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Tutorial, International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Berlin, Germany: August 4, 2014.
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- Modeling and Computation of Security-constrained Economic Dispatch with Multi-stage Rescheduling
(pdf)
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington: June 24, 2014.
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ISO-NE, Holyoke, Massachusetts: November 17, 2014.
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- Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPEC)
(pdf)
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SIAM Conference on Optimization, San Diego: May 19, 2014.
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- PATH VI: a pathsearch method for variational inequalities
(pdf)
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Computational Contact Mechanics Meeting, Banff, Canada: Feb 17, 2014.
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- Some things to know about Mathematical Optimization
(pdf)
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Mathematics Club, Madison Area Technical College, Madison:
January 31, 2014.
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- Stochastic Programming in GAMS
(pdf)
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International Conference on Continuous Optimiziation, Lisbon, Portugal:
August 1, 2013.
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- Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPEC)
(pdf)
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Plenary, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal:
July 29, 2013.
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- Stochastic Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints
(pdf)
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International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Bergamo, Italy:
July 11, 2013.
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- ACOPF models: extending data, formulations, and solution methodology
(pdf)
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington:
June 26, 2013.
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- Why use a modeling language: a view from Optimization
(pdf)
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Mathematical tools for evolutionary systems biology, Banff Research Station, Canada:
May 30, 2013.
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- MOPEC: multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints
(pdf)
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Scientific and Statistical Computing Colloquium, University of Chicago:
March 26, 2013.
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- Extended Mathematical
Programming: Competition and Stochasticity
(pdf)
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Shell Lecture Series, Computational and Applied
Mathematics, Rice University:
March 11, 2013.
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- The price of storage
(pdf)
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2012 ICCP Meeting, IMS, National University of Singapore, December 19, 2012.
- Why use a modeling language: a view from optimization
(pdf)
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2012 EvoSysBio Meeting, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, July 31, 2012.
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- Extended Mathematical Programming: Competition and Stochasticity
(pdf)
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Initiative for Computational Economics (ICE) Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago: July 27, 2012.
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- The price of storage
(pdf)
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ISMP 2012, Berlin: August 20, 2012.
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington: June 25, 2012.
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- Optimization at WID
(prezi)
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Optimization at WID, Madison, Wisconsin: June 13, 2012.
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- Why model? a view from optimization
(pdf)
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota: March 9, 2012.
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- Optimization: beyond the normal
(pdf)
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- Stochastic Programming, Equilibria and Extended Mathematical Programming
(pdf)
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IEOR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley: March 12, 2012.
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Workshop on Uncertainty and Risk, ETH, Zurich:
November 2, 2011.
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- MOPEC: multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints
(pdf)
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Optimization Seminar, GERAD and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal:
January 19, 2012.
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Optimization and Applications Seminar, ETH and Univeristy of Zurich:
October 31, 2011.
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Plenary, 2011 DOE Applied Mathematics Program Meeting, Washington:
October 19, 2011.
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- Why Model?
(pdf)
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Math Bio III, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, Madison: September 29, 2011.
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- MOPEC: multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints
(pdf)
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MOPTA 2011, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: August 18, 2011.
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- Optimization and Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery
(pdf)
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MEPP Seminar, Madison: August 15, 2011.
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- Extended Mathematical Programming: Competition and Stochasticity
(pdf)
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ICIAM (plenary), Vancouver, July 18 2011.
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- MOPEC Models for Energy Problems
(pdf)
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SIAM Optimization Meeting, Darmstadt, May 18 2011.
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- Coupled Optimization Models for Planning and
Operation of Power Systems on Multiple Scales
(pdf)
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Computational Needs for the Next Generation Electric Grid (DOE Meeting), Ithaca, April 19 2011.
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- New Stochastic Programming Approaches to Radiation Therapy
(pdf)
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Cornell University, Ithaca, April 18 2011.
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Banff Research Station, Canada, March 12 2011.
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CIBM Annual Retreat, October 15, 2011.
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- An Extended Mathematical Programming Framework
(pdf)
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INFORMS Computer Science Meeting, Monterey, January 9 2011.
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CMMI Grantees Meeting, Atlanta, January 5 2011.
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- Optimization in Radiotherapy: A Review
(pdf)
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Phillips, Madison, September 22 2010.
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- Computation, Complementarity and Extended Mathematical Programming
(pdf)
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ICiC, Snowbird, Utah, August 3, 2010.
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- Optimization, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, andSoccerManager.com: Is there a link?
(pdf)
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Innovations Seminar, Madison: March 10, 2010.
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- An Extended Mathematical Programming Framework
(pdf)
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Computing with Uncertainty Meeting, IMA, Minneapolis, October 21 2010.
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Nonsmooth Mechanics Summer School, Aussois, France, June 15, 2010.
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University of California, Davis, January 15 2010.
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- An Introduction to Complementarity
(pdf)
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Nonsmooth Mechanics Summer School, Aussois, France, June 14, 2010.
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- Facebook friend wheels and quadratic assignment
(pdf)
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INFORMS National Meeting, San Diego, October 11 2009.
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- Optimization Modeling: Recent Enhancements and Future Extensions
(pdf)
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- An Extended Mathematical Programming Framework
(pdf)
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University of California, Berkeley, April 27 2009.
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INFORMS Computer Science Meeting, Charleston, January 11 2009.
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- Optimization of Noisy Functions
(pdf)
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INFORMS National Meeting, Washington, October 15 2008.
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- Radiation Treatment Planning: A View from Optimization
(pdf)
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American Association of Physicists in Medicine National Meeting, Houston, July 27 2008
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- Optimization Tools in an Uncertain Environment
(pdf)
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Workshop on Modeling Uncertainty in Integrated Assessment Models, Chicago, July 21 2008
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- Embedded Mathematical Programming:
Structure and Solution
(pdf)
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Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO), Boston, July 1 2008
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SIAM Optimization Meeting, Boston, May 13 2008
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- Nonlinear Complementarity Problems
and Extensions
(pdf)
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INFORMS Practice Meeting, Baltimore, April 14 2008
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- Optimization in Radiotherapy: A Review
(pdf)
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Tomotherapy, Madison, January 16 2008
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- Optimization Modeling: Recent
Enhancements and Future Extensions
(pdf)
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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, December 6 2007
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- Optimization of Noisy Functions: Application to Simulations
(pdf)
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MIT, Boston, December 12 2007
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, November 19 2007
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INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 6 2007 short version.
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- Multistage Process Models and Grid Computation
(pdf)
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INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 4 2007.
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- From Data to Knowledge
(pdf)
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NSF CDI Workshop, Seattle, November 3 2007.
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- Solution of Structured
Complementarity Problems (pdf)
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ICCOPT II, McMaster University, Canada, August 13, 2007
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- GAMS, Condor and the Grid (pdf)
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Summer School on Grid Computing for Optimization, ICCOPT II, McMaster
University, Canada, August 12, 2007
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- Optimization of Gamma Knife
Radiosurgery and Beyond (pdf)
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Industrial Optimization Seminar, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada, May 1, 2007
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- Optimization Modeling: Recent
Enhancements and Future Extensions
(pdf)
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Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, April 25, 2007
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State of the Art and Future Directions of Computational Mathematics and Numerical Computing, Stanford University,
California, March 30, 2007
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- Games, Path and Complementarity
(pdf)
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Second International Conference on Complementarity, Duality and Global Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2, 2007
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- Optimization of Noisy Functions: Application to Simulations
(pdf)
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Eighth US-Mexico Optimization and Its Applications Meeting, Mexico,
January 8, 2007
abbreviated version (pdf).
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Optimization and Engineering Workshop, Banff, November 13 2006.
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INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 8 2006.
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- Decomposition and High Throughput
Solution of Equilibrium Problems (pdf)
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INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 10 2006.
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- GAMS, Condor and the Grid:
Solving Hard Optimization Problems in Parallel (pdf)
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INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 8 2006
abbreviated version (pdf).
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Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, September 22 2006.
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MOPTA, Waterloo, July 25 2006.
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- High Throughput Computing and
Sampling Issues for Optimization in Radiotherapy (pdf), with A. Meeraus
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Optimization Days, Montreal, May 10 2006.
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- Complementarity Problems and Applications (pdf)
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International Conference on Complementarity, Duality and Global Optimization, Virginia Tech, Virginia, August 19 2005.
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- Some Computational Legacies of Lemke and Dantzig in Complementarity (pdf)
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Fourth International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Stanford University, California, August 11 2005.
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- Optimization of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (pdf)
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Workshop on Optimization in Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal, July 20 2005.
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- Complementarity Problems and Applications (pdf)
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Plenary Lecture, SIAM Optimization Meeting, Stockholm, May 18 2005.
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- Breast cancer epidemiology: calibrating simulations via optimization (pdf)
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Optimization and Applications Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, January
9 2005.
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University of Houston, Texas, April 8 2005.
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- Sampling Issues for Optimization in Radiotherapy (pdf)
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Interdisciplinary Experts' Workshop on Intensity-Modulated Radiation
Therapy, Medical Imaging, and Optimization Theory, University of
Haifa, Israel, June 10 2004.
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First International
Conference on Continuous Optimization, Troy, New York, August 3 2004.
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Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, March 29 2005.
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- Radiation Treatment Planning: Fractionation (pdf)
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Interdisciplinary Experts' Workshop on Intensity-Modulated Radiation
Therapy, Medical Imaging, and Optimization Theory, University of
Haifa, Israel, June 8 2004.
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