Tuesday, May 21

MS33
Applications

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pier 4

This minisymposium will feature presentations on a variety of applications of modern optimization technology. The speakers will discuss application to environmental remediation, control of thermal processes, and the aircraft industry.

Organizer: Tim Kelley
North Carolina State University

5:00-5:25 Solving Groundwater Remediation Problems with Implicit Filtering

Cass T. Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kathleen R. Kavanagh, North Carolina State University; Carl T. Kelley,

5:30-5:55 Application of Generalized Pattern Search Methods to the Design of Catalytic Converters

J. E. Dennis Jr., Rice University; Mark Abramson, Air Force Institute of Technology; Charles Audet, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

6:00-6:25 Large Scale Parameter Estimation Using Sparse Nonlinear Programming Methods

John T. Betts and William P. Huffman, The Boeing Company

6:30-6:55 POD Methods in Food Sterilization

Bret Kragel, University of Trier, Germany; Ekkehard W. Sachs, University of Trier, Germany and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University