Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University is pleased to announce the Industrial Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (iMOPTA), a one-day event aimed at presenting and discussing industrial innovation and the research behind it, to connect industry and academia more actively. This new half-day workshop is a satellite event of the annual Lehigh ISE flagship conference, Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA).
The inaugural edition of iMOPTA will take place at Lehigh’s Rauch Business Center on August 16, 2024. It is focused on energy and sustainability and organized by Lehigh COB and ISE faculty member, Professor Alberto J. Lamadrid. A number of leading companies in the section will participate and give presentations, including Air Products, DERNetSoft, Exxon Mobil, and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
MOPTA 2024 will welcome approximately 130 participants to the Lehigh campus. The conference program will be opened by a Lehigh ISE Spencer C. Schantz Lecture given by Jose Blanchet (Stanford). The remaining plenary talks will be given by Miguel Anjos (Edinburgh), Harbir Antil (George Mason), Carleton Coffrin (Los Alamos), Dorit S. Hochbaum (Berkeley), Pinar Keskinocak (Georgia Tech), and Madeleine Udell (Stanford). We will feature 28 parallel sessions and a tutorial on quantum computing. The 16th AIMMS-MOPTA Competition will include 16 teams from around the world and is chaired by Lehigh ISE faculty member Xiu Yang. This year’s competition problem is synchronized with iMOPTA: “Would a fully renewable energy grid benefit from adding green hydrogen as a supplemental power source?”
