The Moyal Medal Committee is pleased to invite you to the 2023 Moyal Medal Presentation and Lecture to celebrate the achievements of this year's Medalist, Professor Kate Smith-Miles of the University of Melbourne.
The Moyal Medal, awarded annually, honours distinguished research contributions in mathematics, physics, or statistics, in tribute to the late Professor José Enrique Moyal who was one of Australia’s most remarkable scientists. His insight into the interaction between mathematics, physics and statistics led him to make contributions to these disciplines which have had far-reaching ramifications in all three fields.
The 2023 Medalist, Professor Smith-Miles, holds the esteemed position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability) at The University of Melbourne and is also distinguished Melbourne Laureate Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Professor David Coutts, Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Macquarie University, will present the 2023 Moyal Medal to Professor Kate Smith-Miles.
Professor Smith-Miles' lecture titled "Optimization in the Darkness of Uncertainty: When you don't know what you don't know, and what you do know isn't much!" will delve into how can one make informed choices about process control settings to achieve optimal outcomes when they have limited prior knowledge and trial-and-error is costly.
Abstract: How do we find the optimal solution for a constrained multi-objective optimisation problem when we have no analytical expression for the objective functions, and very limited function evaluations within the huge search space due to the expense of measuring the objective functions? Calculus can’t help you, and trial and error is not an option! This talk will describe a common practical optimisation problem found in many industrial settings with these challenges, and introduce some methods for expensive black-box optimisation. Finally, we will address the question of how best to evaluate the performance of such methods by generating new test instances with controllable characteristics.
Learn more about Professor Kate Smith-Miles and the Moyal Medal.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2022
Time & Program: 5pm-6:30pm for the medal presentation and lecture, followed by light refreshments and networking until 7:30pm.
Location: Lecture Theatre 1.200, The Australian Hearing Hub, 16 University Avenue, Macquarie University, Wallumatagal Campus North Ryde, NSW 2109
Register here by 5pm Monday 23rd October (for catering purposes)
If you have any questions about this event, please contact us at fse.outreach@mq.edu.au.
We look forward to welcoming you to the event.
Our warmest regards,
The Moyal Medal Committee, Macquarie University