The modeling competition problem was focused on designing a fully renewable integrated energy system, using green hydrogen and fuel cells to provide baseload stability in conjunction with intermittent renewable sources. G. Riccardi and B. Urso, advised by S. Gualandi, won the third place award.
S. Cambiaghi won second place at the "Steve Gallivan Award" poster competition of the 50th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operations Research Applied to Health Service, held in Turin. She presented a work entitled "A stochastic optimization approach for scheduling CT scans and reports".
For their visiting period in Delft, A.M. Bernardelli and S. Milanesi won a TAILOR grant. TAILOR is a vibrant network whose task is to connect all the best European AI labs and we could not be more excited to be a part of it. #WeAreTAILOR
We were tasked to develop an efficient and implementable optimization model with a user interface. The goal was to find the best solutions for surgery scheduling in flexible operating rooms under uncertainty. A.M. Bernardelli, L. Bonasera, E. Vercesi, advised by D. Duma, won the second place award.
The competition aimed at rewarding the best master's and doctoral thesis that focus on the topic of digital ethics. The awarded thesis, by S. Milanesi, concerns the study of causal relationships between new positives and the human and health costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The conclusions drawn are a useful tool for policy makers to gain an informed view of the pandemic phenomenon: here's the publication (in Italian). The prize was bestowed by Rotary International and AICA.
S. Gualandi, L.-M. Rousseau, and P.-Y. Bouchet won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), 2020. The awarded paper is entitled Primal Heuristics for Wasserstein Barycenters.