Summary
The strategic research initiative within 4TU.AMI focuses on establishing a community of researchers with different mathematical backgrounds to advance the development of new solution methods for sequential decision-making problems and prove performance guarantees of those methods, with a special focus on problems that exhibit real-world characteristics such as those found in finance, agriculture, and healthcare. The initiative seeks to address gaps in research and collaboration. It emphasizes methodological development with regard to uncertainty, large-scale systems, and non-stationarity, e.g., due to multiple agents, aiming to bridge theoretical advancements and practical implementations.
Goals
Short-Term Goals:
1. Build a sustainable mathematical community by fostering collaboration among diverse researchers
2. Enhance visibility and establish connections with other research communities in related fields.
Long-Term Goals:
1. Develop educational programs such as a PhD summer school, national Master’s courses, and workshops.
2. Write joint research proposals to secure funding and ensure the community's sustainability.
Timeline
Year 1:
Semester 1: Host initial community-building meeting. Organize solution development workshop.
Semester 2: Conduct external workshops for broader visibility. Focus on developing educational materials and organizing research visits. Initiate proposal writing sessions.
Year 2:
Semester 1: Host a follow-up community-building workshop and refine educational materials.
Semester 2: Organize another external workshop. Continue proposal writing sessions. Conduct a summer school for PhDs focused on SDM.
Participants
University of Twente: Richard Boucherie, Aleida Braaksma, Sophie Langer, Janusz Meylahn, Maria Vlasiou, Anne Zander
Eindhoven University of Technology: Stella Kapodistria
Delft University of Technology: Antonis Papapantoleon, Fenghui Yu
Wageningen University: Xiaodong Cheng, George van Voorn
Contact persons: Anne Zander (a.b.zander@utwente.nl) and Janusz Meylahn (j.m.meylahn@utwente.nl)