Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

The international society in Mathematical Optimisation (MOS) has selected the bid of Realopt for the organization of the next triennial international congress of mathematical optimization. Hence, the 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2018) shall take place in Bordeaux. The web site is in construction http://ismp2018.sciencesconf.org . This symposium is the most prestigious scientific event in the field of optimization by the quality of its program and its size (it can gather close to 2000 participants). This event has received strong support from the University of Bordeaux, Inria and CNRS, along side national scientific societies: Roadef and SMAI.

The team is tightening its links with industrial partners: our Inria Innovation Lab with Ertus-consulting has been launched; we have had two recruitements (a PhD and a Post-doc) this year on our production planning project with EDF; Saint Gobain is very enthousiastic about our progress in solving glass cutting problems, and Renault was quite happy with the challenge on logistic issues that we organized for them.

We are making progress on methodologic developments of algorithms for large scale optimization (convergence acceleration, filtering to reduce problem size, math heuristics, approximation algorithms) and their application (in cloud computing, sheduling, and planning). In particular, two of our papers were accepted at the prestigious conference IPDPS’16. Our research collaborations are being tightened in particular through the SAMBA associated team project: Ruslan Sadykov is spending a sabbatical year in Brasil in our associated team. We established a new partnership with KEDGE business school.