Michael C. Ferris -- Talks

Michael C. Ferris
John P. Morgridge Chair in Computer Sciences & Jacques-Louis Lions Professor of Computer Sciences,
and (by courtesy) Mathematics and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Director, Hub Central, 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

Complementarity: Music and Mathematics (recording)
- Ferris Fest, University of Chicago, Chicago, July 30, 2024.
Optimization in Energy and Environmental Systems (recording)
- Weston Roundtable Lecture, Madison, October 14, 2021.
Optimization in Energy and Environmental Systems (recording)
- Weston Roundtable Lecture, Madison, October 14, 2021.
Overview of Electricity Markets (pdf)
- Regional Transmission Organization Fundamentals, Wisconsin Public Utilities Institute, Virtual, April 23, 2021.
Crossroads of ideas: Getting Wisconsin vaccinated (YouTube)
- Discovery Building, Madison, Virtual, March 24, 2021.
WEREWOLF in London: Minding the Gap with User-Friendly Energy Optimization Tools Informing Policy Makers through the Energy Transition (YouTube)
- Energy Evaluation Europe 2021 Virtual Conference, March 15, 2021.
wivDM: covid vaccine allocation modeling for Wisconsin (pdf)
- Rector's Guild Meeting, Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, Virtual, March 9, 2021.
Using Optimization in planning problems: a Covid case (mp4)
- Visiting Professor Series, American Family Insurance, Virtual, Jan 7, 2021.
Podcast: Covid vaccines and Werewolf (html)
- Badgercast, Tommy Thompson Center on Public Leadership, University of Wisconsin, January, 2021.
Dairy Brain - Informing Decisions on Dairy Farms using Data Analytics (pdf)
- 2020 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) Annual Meeting, Virtual, Nov 11, 2020.
Stochastic Equilibria: Data and Applications (pdf)
- INFORMS National Meeting, Virtual, Nov 11, 2020.
Overview of Electricity Markets (pdf)
- Regional Transmission Organization Fundamentals, Wisconsin Public Utilities Institute, Virtual, May 6, 2020.
Solving equilibrium problems using extended mathematical programming (pdf)
- Dynamics, Optimization and Variational Analysis in Applied Games, Fields Institute, Toronto, Virtual, May 1, 2020.
Planning towards a 100 percent renewable electricity system (pdf)
- ESIG Spring Technical Workshop, Virtual, April 21, 2020.
Capacity expansion and operations tradeoffs in renewable electricity (pdf)
- International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Berlin, August 7, 2019.
Computation in Markets with Risk (pdf)
- Open for Business Meeting, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, May 1, 2019.
- Industrial and System Engineering, Georgia Tech, May 27, 2019.
- BIRS-CMO, Oaxaca, September 23, 2019.
How to manage households (pdf)
- Eddie-fest, Judge Business School, Cambridge, England, March 17, 2019.
Modelling 100 percent renewable electricity (pdf)
- Plenary, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Spokane, Washington, February 25, 2019.
- MES Workshop, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, March 20, 2019.
Keeping the Lights On (pdf)
- Hub Central Opening, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, December 12, 2018.
Planning a 100% renewable electricity system (pdf)
- Morgridge Dicovery Lecture, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, October 26, 2018.
- BEAM-ME Review Meeting, Stuttgart, Germany, February 1, 2019.
- Wisconsin Clean Tech Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, February 21, 2019.
Connections: Data, Decisions, Optimization, Cows and Fish (pdf)
- Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 4, 2018.
Solving Stochastic Equilibria: Emp, Selkie, and Optimal Value Functions (pdf)
- Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 24, 2018.
Dynamic Risked Equilibria (pdf)
- International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Bordeaux, July 3, 2018.
Modelling 100 percent renewable electricity (pdf)
- Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, June 20, 2018.
- Technische Universitat, Munich, Germany, June 27, 2018.
- Energy System and Optimization Workshop, Georgia Tech, November 15, 2018.
Solving equilibrium problems using extended mathematical programming and SELKIE (pdf)
- GAMS Corporation, Braunchweig, Germany, June 22, 2018.
- Electric Power Optimization Centre, University of Auckland, April 30, 2018.
Formulations and solution algorithms for Complementarity Problems (pdf)
- Electric Power Optimization Centre, University of Auckland, April 26, 2018.
Optimality conditions and complementarity, variational inequalities, operators and graphs (pdf)
- Electric Power Optimization Centre, University of Auckland, April 26, 2018.
Optimization, equilibria, energy and risk (pdf)
- Energy and Operations Research Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand March 21, 2018.
Dynamic Risked Equilibria (pdf)
- Distributed Energy Resources Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand January 13, 2018.
Integrated Modeling for Optimization of Energy Systems (pdf)
- Plenary, Operational Research Society of New Zealand Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand December 13, 2017.
Optimization and Equilibrium in Energy Economics (pdf)
- BEAM-ME Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany September 28, 2017.
- Energy Seminar, Wisconsin Energy Institute October 23, 2017.
Optimization, Equilibrium and Computation for Energy Economics (pdf)
- Aurora Energy Research, Oxford, UK September 22, 2017.
Connections: Data, Decisions, Optimization, Cows and Fish (pdf)
- Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, September 5, 2017.
- Electric Power Optimization Centre, University of Auckland, November 15, 2017.
The Case for Competition: Efficient Computation of Equilibrium (pdf)
- SIAM Optimization 2017, Vancouver, May 23, 2017.
Solution of equilibrium problems using extended mathematical programming (pdf)
- 2017 Bay Optimization Meeting, Davis, California, May 13, 2017.
Shared Constraints and Implicit Functions in General Nash Equilibria (pdf)
- DOE-MACS Annual Meeting, Madison: Feb 16, 2017.
Formulations and solution algorithms for Complementarity Problems (pdf)
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 19, 2017.
Extended Mathematical Programming (pdf)
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 18, 2017.
Optimality conditions and complementarity, variational inequalities, operators and graphs (pdf)
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 16, 2017.
Connections: Data, Decisions, Optimization, Cows and Fish (pdf)
- Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Dec 13, 2016.
- Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research, Zinal, Switzerland: Jan 20, 2017.
Wisconsin Environmental Modeling and Policy: Cows, Fish and Optimization (pdf)
- Presentation to Badger Legislative Caucus, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison: Dec 8, 2016.
Demystifying Discovery: Enhancing the Wisconsin Collaboratory (pdf)
- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison: Nov 14, 2016.
Integrated Modeling for Optimization of Energy Systems (pdf)
- Plenary, Infraday Conference, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC: Nov 10, 2016.
Optimization and Equilibrium in Energy Economics (pdf)
- 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.
Modeling and Optimization within Interacting Systems (pdf)
- Optimization Workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle, North Carolina: Sep 1, 2016.
Fish, Cows, Fields of Fuel and Optimization (pdf)
- NATCOR meeting, Edinburgh, June 17, 2016.
- Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Sep 30, 2016.
Optimality conditions and complementarity, Nash equilibria and games, engineering and economic application (pdf)
- Summer School on Convex Optimization, Edinburgh, June 13-16, 2016.
Quadratic Support Functions and Extended Mathematical Programs (pdf)
- West Coast Optimization Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle: May 14, 2016.
Some remarks on computation: three cases where structure counts (pdf)
- IPAM Workshop, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles: January 14, 2016.
Optimization and Equilibrium in Energy Economics (pdf)
- IPAM Workshop, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles: January 11, 2016.
- School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta April 6, 2016.
- SILO, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 27, 2016.
- Summer School on Convex Optimization, Edinburgh, June 13-16, 2016.
Optimization of the sum of a convex surrogate and quadratic objective: Example from Electricity Markets (pdf)
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland: January 13, 2016.
Optimization and Modeling at UW: Fish, Cows, Sanctions and Energy (pdf)
- Optimization Research Consortium, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: November 20, 2015.
Why Use Optimization? (pdf)
- Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: August 25, 2015.
MOPEC, contracts, risk and stochastics (pdf)
- International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Pittsburgh: July 13, 2015.
Modeling, equilibria, power and risk (pdf)
- ACNW Optimization Workshop, Northwestern University, Chicago: June 8, 2015.
- Workshop on Stochastic Optimization and Equilibrium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles: October 16, 2015.
Cows, Fish, Fields of Fuel and Optimization (pdf)
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago: May 25, 2015.
Modeling and Optimization within Interacting Systems (pdf)
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles: February 24, 2015.
- Plenary, Optimization, Sparsity and Adaptive Data Analysis, Chinese Academy of Sciences: March 21, 2015.
- Plenary, 17th British-French-German Conference on Optimization, Imperial College, London: June 15, 2015.
- Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: December 14, 2015.
Modeling and Computation of Security-constrained Economic Dispatch with Multi-stage Rescheduling (pdf)
- Grid Science Winter Conference, Santa Fe: January 15, 2015.
Environmental Optimization at Wisconsin: CS and WID (pdf)
- Board of Visitors (CALS), Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: October 17, 2014.
- American Family Insurance Presentation, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison: January 28, 2015.
- Water@UW Symposium: May 11, 2015.
Games, optimization bots and fields of fuel (pdf)
- Agricultural and Environmental Economics Department Seminar, Madison: October 15, 2014.
Modeling and Optimization of Electricity Markets (pdf)
- Texas - Wisconsin - California Control Consortium Annual Meeting, Madison: October 7, 2014.
- Tufts University, Boston: November 13, 2014.
The convergence of stationary iterations with indefinite splitting (pdf)
- Tutorial, International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Berlin, Germany: August 7, 2014.
Theory and Computations for Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPEC) (pdf)
- Tutorial, International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Berlin, Germany: August 4, 2014.
Modeling and Computation of Security-constrained Economic Dispatch with Multi-stage Rescheduling (pdf)
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington: June 24, 2014.
- ISO-NE, Holyoke, Massachusetts: November 17, 2014.
Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPEC) (pdf)
- SIAM Conference on Optimization, San Diego: May 19, 2014.
PATH VI: a pathsearch method for variational inequalities (pdf)
- Computational Contact Mechanics Meeting, Banff, Canada: Feb 17, 2014.
Some things to know about Mathematical Optimization (pdf)
- Mathematics Club, Madison Area Technical College, Madison: January 31, 2014.
Stochastic Programming in GAMS (pdf)
- International Conference on Continuous Optimiziation, Lisbon, Portugal: August 1, 2013.
Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPEC) (pdf)
- Plenary, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal: July 29, 2013.
Stochastic Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (pdf)
- International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Bergamo, Italy: July 11, 2013.
ACOPF models: extending data, formulations, and solution methodology (pdf)
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington: June 26, 2013.
Why use a modeling language: a view from Optimization (pdf)
- Mathematical tools for evolutionary systems biology, Banff Research Station, Canada: May 30, 2013.
MOPEC: multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints (pdf)
- Scientific and Statistical Computing Colloquium, University of Chicago: March 26, 2013.
Extended Mathematical Programming: Competition and Stochasticity (pdf)
- Shell Lecture Series, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University: March 11, 2013.
The price of storage (pdf)
- 2012 ICCP Meeting, IMS, National University of Singapore, December 19, 2012.
Why use a modeling language: a view from optimization (pdf)
- 2012 EvoSysBio Meeting, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, July 31, 2012.
Extended Mathematical Programming: Competition and Stochasticity (pdf)
- Initiative for Computational Economics (ICE) Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago: July 27, 2012.
The price of storage (pdf)
- ISMP 2012, Berlin: August 20, 2012.
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington: June 25, 2012.
Optimization at WID (prezi)
- Optimization at WID, Madison, Wisconsin: June 13, 2012.
Why model? a view from optimization (pdf)
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota: March 9, 2012.
Optimization: beyond the normal (pdf)
- video of presentation
- Lunchtime Seminar, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, Madison: February 24, 2012.
Stochastic Programming, Equilibria and Extended Mathematical Programming (pdf)
- IEOR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley: March 12, 2012.
- Workshop on Uncertainty and Risk, ETH, Zurich: November 2, 2011.
MOPEC: multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints (pdf)
- Optimization Seminar, GERAD and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal: January 19, 2012.
- Optimization and Applications Seminar, ETH and Univeristy of Zurich: October 31, 2011.
- Plenary, 2011 DOE Applied Mathematics Program Meeting, Washington: October 19, 2011.
Why Model? (pdf)
- Math Bio III, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, Madison: September 29, 2011.
MOPEC: multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints (pdf)
- MOPTA 2011, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: August 18, 2011.
Optimization and Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery (pdf)
- MEPP Seminar, Madison: August 15, 2011.
Extended Mathematical Programming: Competition and Stochasticity (pdf)
- ICIAM (plenary), Vancouver, July 18 2011.
MOPEC Models for Energy Problems (pdf)
- SIAM Optimization Meeting, Darmstadt, May 18 2011.
Coupled Optimization Models for Planning and Operation of Power Systems on Multiple Scales (pdf)
- Computational Needs for the Next Generation Electric Grid (DOE Meeting), Ithaca, April 19 2011.
New Stochastic Programming Approaches to Radiation Therapy (pdf)
- Cornell University, Ithaca, April 18 2011.
- Banff Research Station, Canada, March 12 2011.
- CIBM Annual Retreat, October 15, 2011.
An Extended Mathematical Programming Framework (pdf)
- INFORMS Computer Science Meeting, Monterey, January 9 2011.
- CMMI Grantees Meeting, Atlanta, January 5 2011.
Optimization in Radiotherapy: A Review (pdf)
- Phillips, Madison, September 22 2010.
Computation, Complementarity and Extended Mathematical Programming (pdf)
- ICiC, Snowbird, Utah, August 3, 2010.
Optimization, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, andSoccerManager.com: Is there a link? (pdf)
- Innovations Seminar, Madison: March 10, 2010.
An Extended Mathematical Programming Framework (pdf)
- Computing with Uncertainty Meeting, IMA, Minneapolis, October 21 2010.
- Nonsmooth Mechanics Summer School, Aussois, France, June 15, 2010.
- University of California, Davis, January 15 2010.
An Introduction to Complementarity (pdf)
- Nonsmooth Mechanics Summer School, Aussois, France, June 14, 2010.
Facebook friend wheels and quadratic assignment (pdf)
- INFORMS National Meeting, San Diego, October 11 2009.
Optimization Modeling: Recent Enhancements and Future Extensions (pdf)
- SIAM National Meeting, Denver, July 6 2009. Video taped capture of the talk.
An Extended Mathematical Programming Framework (pdf)
- University of California, Berkeley, April 27 2009.
- INFORMS Computer Science Meeting, Charleston, January 11 2009.
Optimization of Noisy Functions (pdf)
- INFORMS National Meeting, Washington, October 15 2008.
Radiation Treatment Planning: A View from Optimization (pdf)
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine National Meeting, Houston, July 27 2008
Optimization Tools in an Uncertain Environment (pdf)
- Workshop on Modeling Uncertainty in Integrated Assessment Models, Chicago, July 21 2008
Embedded Mathematical Programming: Structure and Solution (pdf)
- Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO), Boston, July 1 2008
- SIAM Optimization Meeting, Boston, May 13 2008
Nonlinear Complementarity Problems and Extensions (pdf)
- INFORMS Practice Meeting, Baltimore, April 14 2008
Optimization in Radiotherapy: A Review (pdf)
- Tomotherapy, Madison, January 16 2008
Optimization Modeling: Recent Enhancements and Future Extensions (pdf)
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, December 6 2007
Optimization of Noisy Functions: Application to Simulations (pdf)
- MIT, Boston, December 12 2007
- University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, November 19 2007
- INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 6 2007 short version.
Multistage Process Models and Grid Computation (pdf)
- INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 4 2007.
From Data to Knowledge (pdf)
- NSF CDI Workshop, Seattle, November 3 2007.
Solution of Structured Complementarity Problems (pdf)
- ICCOPT II, McMaster University, Canada, August 13, 2007
GAMS, Condor and the Grid (pdf)
- Summer School on Grid Computing for Optimization, ICCOPT II, McMaster University, Canada, August 12, 2007
Optimization of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Beyond (pdf)
- Industrial Optimization Seminar, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada, May 1, 2007
Optimization Modeling: Recent Enhancements and Future Extensions (pdf)
- Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 25, 2007
- State of the Art and Future Directions of Computational Mathematics and Numerical Computing, Stanford University, California, March 30, 2007
Games, Path and Complementarity (pdf)
- Second International Conference on Complementarity, Duality and Global Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2, 2007
Optimization of Noisy Functions: Application to Simulations (pdf)
- Eighth US-Mexico Optimization and Its Applications Meeting, Mexico, January 8, 2007 abbreviated version (pdf).
- Optimization and Engineering Workshop, Banff, November 13 2006.
- INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 8 2006.
Decomposition and High Throughput Solution of Equilibrium Problems (pdf)
- INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 10 2006.
GAMS, Condor and the Grid: Solving Hard Optimization Problems in Parallel (pdf)
- INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 8 2006 abbreviated version (pdf).
- Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, September 22 2006.
- MOPTA, Waterloo, July 25 2006.
High Throughput Computing and Sampling Issues for Optimization in Radiotherapy (pdf), with A. Meeraus
- Optimization Days, Montreal, May 10 2006.
Complementarity Problems and Applications (pdf)
- International Conference on Complementarity, Duality and Global Optimization, Virginia Tech, Virginia, August 19 2005.
Some Computational Legacies of Lemke and Dantzig in Complementarity (pdf)
- Fourth International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Stanford University, California, August 11 2005.
Optimization of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (pdf)
- Workshop on Optimization in Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal, July 20 2005.
Complementarity Problems and Applications (pdf)
- Plenary Lecture, SIAM Optimization Meeting, Stockholm, May 18 2005.
Breast cancer epidemiology: calibrating simulations via optimization (pdf)
- Optimization and Applications Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, January 9 2005.
- University of Houston, Texas, April 8 2005.
Sampling Issues for Optimization in Radiotherapy (pdf)
- Interdisciplinary Experts' Workshop on Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Medical Imaging, and Optimization Theory, University of Haifa, Israel, June 10 2004.
- First International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Troy, New York, August 3 2004.
- Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, March 29 2005.
Radiation Treatment Planning: Fractionation (pdf)
- Interdisciplinary Experts' Workshop on Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Medical Imaging, and Optimization Theory, University of Haifa, Israel, June 8 2004.

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