This is a reminder that the next ENRE online event will take place next week
Thursday the 10th of December at 15:00 GMT. See below for details.
Feel free to share this invite with others, but please do not post the Zoom link publicly online. Seminars will be recorded and posted at
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/enre/, where there will also be an opportunity to continue the discussions. If you have missed the previous seminar on modelling price controls with mixed-complementarity models, you can still find a recording on the website.
We will continue this event series in 2021 - scroll down to the bottom of this email for the first two dates in 2021.
10 December 2020 15:00-16:30 GMT: Andy Philpott & Anthony Downward (University of Auckland) - Capacity planning with JuDGE
Zoom link: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88097951730 (Meeting ID: 880 9795 1730, Passcode: enre1234)
Abstract: JuDGE is an open-source Julia package that solves multi-stage stochastic programming models for capacity expansion. It applies a form of Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition to decouple a scenario tree into nodes representing different states of the world. The first part of the talk will briefly cover the theory underlying JuDGE and describe some recent applications of JuDGE to problems in electricity transmission expansion planning and long-term planning for 100% renewable electricity systems. The second part of the talk will be more tutorial in nature, demonstrating the features of the package, and how to download and apply it to capacity planning problems.
Andy Philpott is Professor of Operations Research and director of the Electric Power Optimization Center at the University of Auckland. His research interests are in stochastic optimization and game theory and their application to electricity markets. Dr Philpott currently serves on the editorial board of Operations Research, and has previously served on the editorial boards of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research Letters. Dr Philpott is an Edelman Laureate and a Fellow of INFORMS.
Dr Anthony Downward is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and a member of the Electric Power Optimization Centre, at the University of Auckland. His research spans micro-economic and optimization models of electricity systems, focussing on modelling competitive and oligopolistic behaviour over networks with transmission constraints. Recently Tony has been involved in the development of JuDGE, a flexible Julia package for modelling long-term capacity expansion problems under uncertainty.
In addition, save the date for the next events in this series:
28 January 2021 15:00-16:30 GMT (on Zoom): Andres Weintraub, Jaime Carrasco & Cristobal Pais (Universidad de Chile)
25 February 2021 15:00-16:30 GMT (on Zoom): Antonio Conejo & Gonzalo Constante (Ohio State University)
If you enjoy these sessions and are a member of INFORMS, please consider signing up to become a member of ENRE which gives access to all community events and helps us continue our work.
Miguel Anjos, President of ENRE
Harry van der Weijde
Lars Schewe
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Miguel F. Anjos, Ph.D., P.Eng., FHEA, SMIEEE, FEUROPT, FCAE
President, INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE)
Chair of Operational Research, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Inria International Chair
Schöller Senior Fellow 2020
http://www.miguelanjos.com/------------------------------