Hitoshi Oi visited the University of Porto in mid to late September. This time, the main objective was to mentor and advise Tomoya Furukawa who had been studying with Dr Ines Dutra's group at Port0 since late August. He was studying the Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) from the basics to its application to the breast cancer image analysis.
Hitoshi Oi is visiting University of Porto, to work with Drs Pedroso and Dutra, and their colleagues and students.
Returned from the trip to Portugal. During the visit to University of Porto, I had chances to give a seminar at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems ((CRACS), discussed with Drs. Ines Dutra and Joao Pedroso and their students, and students of Porto in person.
His plans during this visit include discussions on the research collaboration with colleagues and giving a talk introducing Aizu to the people in the University of Porto.
The detail of his talk is as follows:
Date: December 12,
Time: from 1810 to 1940
Place: University of Aizu, Research Quadangles Bldg, room 281 (S8): Floor plan of the Research Quadangles Bldg is attached at the bottom; Room281 (S8) is marked red.
Title: Optimizing fuel consumption in thermal electricity production
Abstract: Non-nuclear thermal power plants are responsible for emitting a large amount of carbon dioxide, as well as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. In this talk we will present state-of-the-art solution techniques for unit commitment and load dispatch, which can be used for optimizing fuel consumption when meeting electricity demand with thermal power plants. We will put in evidence the impact that the use of recent models and solvers may have in energy savings and in the reduction of emissions.
Keywords: electricity generation; unit commitment; load dispatch
Bio: Dr Pedroso is Assistant Professor in Departamento de Ciência de Computadores (Department of Computer Science) at University of Porto, Portugal. He has PhD in Computational mathematics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His research interests include, combinatorial optimization, tree search methods, metaheuristics, simulation and machine learning.
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~jpp/JPP/Welcome.html
Reseach Quadangles 2nd Floor Map
Venue: Research Quadangle 361 (M11) at University of Aizu
Date: March 30 (Fri) from 1300
As an ivited speaker for the meeting, we will welcome Dr João Pedro Pedroso from University of Porto, Portugal. Aizu and Porto have agreement on the exchange programe development, and he hosted an exchange student from Aizu, and also visited us in December 2010 and gave us a special lecture.
Hitoshi Oi is visiting University of Porto, Portugal and is meeting Ines and Vitor, Joao Pedro and Rui.
He plans to give us a special lecture, titled "An introduction to the Traveling Salesman Problem". The primary audiences of the lecture are the students in the section of the Operating Systems course taught by Hitoshi Oi. However, we plan to make it open to public as the room capacilty allows. The detail will be posted here as it is fixed.
Abstract: One of the most widely studied problems in discrete optimization is the Traveling Salesman Problem. In this talk we will make an introduction to this problem and to strategies that can be used for solving it. We will also present some variants, focusing on applications in subjects related to computer science.
(From Left, Rui, Pedro and Hitoshi).
Hitoshi Oi is visiting University of Porto, Portugal. He met Rui, who is a former exchange student to Aizu and Prof. Joao Pedro, who was the host faculty member for Kazuaki Takahashi (an exchange student from Aizu). We discussed on the future exchange plan and continuation of the collaborative project of modeling virtualized system.
Rui Rei is the first visitor from University of Porto under the exchange program agreement with University of Aizu. He gave us a talk on the introduction of his school and his work at Porto as well as during his stay at Aizu.
Prior to Rei, Kazuaki Takahashi visited University of Porto last year and studied under the supervision of Dr Joao Pedro Pedroso with the support of Aizu short term study program. He also talked about the introduction of Porto (from a point of view of a Japanese who has been to a foreign country for the first time) and his study at Porto.
Dear all,
University of Porto is one of schools with which Aizu has signed the exchange program agreements. From January this year, an exchange student from Porto, Rui Jorge Rei, who received the scholarship from JASSO, has been with us and engaged in research.
We set an unofficial and casual opportunity for him to talk about introductions to Porto, Portugal and his research.
We will have another speaker, Kazuaki Takahashi, who is a senior student in our group and stayed at Porto for 6 weeks last summer with the support of Aizu Short Study Scholarship.
No registration necessary; walk-ins are welcome.
