Electric Power Optimization Centre
2023
2023 EPOC Winter Workshop August 10, 2023 The EPOC Winter Workshop for 2023 was held on Monday August 28.
The presentations are now available for downloading at the link above.
2022
2022 EPOC Winter Workshop September 12, 2022 The EPOC Winter Workshop for 2022 was held on Friday September 9.
The meeting agenda and presentations are now available for downloading at the link above.
2021
2021 EPOC Winter Workshop September 10, 2021 The EPOC Winter Workshop for 2021 was a Zoom meeting held on Friday September 10.
The meeting agenda and presentations are available for downloading at the link above.
2020
JuDGE.jl package launched (github)November 5, 2020
EPOC Winter Workshop CancelledSeptember 1, 2020 The 2020 EPOC Winter Workshop has been cancelled owing to Level 2.5 Covid 19 restrictions in Auckland.
EPOC Winter WorkshopAugust 8, 2020 The 2020 EPOC Winter Workshop will be held on Friday, September 11,
at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland.
PhD graduate opportunities in EPOC (movie)Andy Philpott ‒ May 14, 2020
Golbon Zakeri takes up new positionFebruary 14, 2020EPOC co-director Associate Professor Golbon Zakeri has taken up a new position as
a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Golbon was a founding member
of EPOC and has been instrumental in its success. We are sad to see her leave Auckland, but
wish her well in her new role.
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas visit to Auckland on February 10.February 10, 2020Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Professor of Operations Research at MIT presented two talks in Auckland on February 10. One presentation was in the
Engineering Science seminar series, and the second lecture was part of a New Zealand Analytics Forum Meeting sponsored
by the Operations Research Society of New Zealand. Slides can be downloaded by following the link above.
2019
EPOC Winter Workshop (pdf)September 11, 2019 The 2019 EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Wednesday, September 11,
at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland.
Talk slides are now available for downloading in Workshops below.
2018
EPOC Winter Workshop (pdf)August 28, 2018 The 2018 EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Friday, September 7,
at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland.
The talks are available for downloading in Workshops below.
Recent presentationMay 29, 2018 Andy Philpott presented at the CMS conference in Trondheim, Norway
Recent presentationsApril 28, 2018 Michael Ferris gave three talks on complementarity as part of the EPOC Brown Bag series.
Details can be found below.
SfTI sponsored workshop on Distributed Energy resourcesJanuary 12, 2018 Distributed Energy Resources is a SfTI
sponsored workshop that will be held in Auckland on
12 and 13 January 2018. This workshop is supported through the National Science Challenge Portfolio 4, Smart Services.
We are grateful to MBIE for their generous support of this project. To learn more about the Smart Services portfolio
go to http://www.sftichallenge.govt.nz/research/portfolios/portfolio-4-smart-services.
2017
Congratulations!November 01, 2017 EPOC offers congratulations to successful PhD candidates Keith Ruddell and Faisal Wahid
who submitted final versions of their theses to the University of Auckland Library
in September and October.
EPOC Winter Workshop Programme here (pdf)July 28, 2017 The 2017 EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Monday, September 4,
at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland.
The talks are available for downloading in Workshops below.
EPOC Mini Workshop July 28, 2017 A special EPOC Mini Workshop was held on Thursday, July 27,
at the Engineering Science Department at the University of Auckland.
The talks are available for downloading in Workshops below.
2016
EPOC Summer Workshop December 13, 2016 A special EPOC Summer Workshop was held on Tuesday, November 13,
at the Engineering School at the University of Auckland, 70 Symonds Street.
The talks are now available for downloading in Workshops below.
Congratulations!December 12, 2016 EPOC offers congratulations to co-director Golbon Zakeri who has
just been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.
EPOC Winter Workshop (Updated Programme) (pdf)September 06, 2016 The 15th Annual EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Wednesday, September 7,
at the Engineering School at the University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street.
The programme is here and talks are now available for downloading in Workshops below.
EPOC Winter Workshop (Programme) (pdf)August 29, 2016 The 15th Annual EPOC Winter Workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 7,
at the Engineering School at the University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street.
Latest programme can be downloaded here.
If you wish to attend, please contact Andy Philpott at a.philpott@auckland.ac.nz.
PhD Scholarship Awarded (pdf)July 17, 2016The Te Punaha Matatini PhD scholarship for research leading to new models and software for computing the value of stored water has been awarded to Ms Niloufar Izadinia from Tehran. She will take up the scholarship in October 2016.
2015
EPOC Seminar by Par Holmberg (html)December 9, 2015Dr Par Holmberg from IFN, Stockholm will give a seminar, Pro-competitive rationing in multi-unit auctions, on December 9, Room 201, 70 Symonds Street.
EPOC Winter Workshop (html)September 9, 2015EPOC held its 14th annual Winter Workshop on September 9, 2015 at the School of Engineering, University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street.
PhD Scholarship Announced (pdf)May 11, 2015Te Punaha Matatini will fund a PhD scholarship for research leading to new models and software for computing the value of stored water.
Winter School in Norway (html)March 22, 2015Four EPOC PhD students and Andy Philpott attended the NTNU Winter School in Energy Systems and Markets held at Kvitfjell from March 22-28.
2014
EPOC Winter Workshop (html)July 04, 2014EPOC held its 13th annual Winter Workshop on July 9, 2014 at the School of Engineering, University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street.
Dr Athena WuFebruary 11, 2014Congratulations to Athena Wu who successfully defended her thesis "Expansion Models and Investment
Decisions in Electricity Systems with
Renewable-induced Uncertainties".
EPOC Winter Workshop (html)March 10, 2014EPOC will hold its 13th annual Winter Workshop in July, 2014 at the University of Auckland School of Engineering. More details will follow nearer the date.
2013
ATE Symposium (html)December 12, 2013EPOC was represented at the ATE Symposium at Massey University. Slides and videos can be viewed here.
CMSS workshop (pdf)December 11, 2013The Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences held a workshop in conjunction with EPOC in December.