Prof. Nelson Maculan (PESC) was one of the Keynote Speakers at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics (ICAM-2024), which was held on June 27th and 28th, 2024.

ICAM-2024 was organized, in a hybrid way, by the Department of Applied at Vidyasagar University - Paschim Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

The Prof. Maculan gave his presentation on 06/27 with the theme Optimization Models for the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem in n-Dimensions, with Prof. Bibhas Chandra Giri, Dept. of Mathematics, Jadavpur University.

Abstract:
In this talk, we review the mathematical optimization models for the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem (ESTP) in n dimensions proposed in the literature. The development of such models for the ESTP began in the late 1990s. The ESTP is a mixed integer nonlinear optimization problem with a history dating back to the 17th century. Several properties of its optimal solutions are well known, but it is still a big challenge to encode these properties in its modeling, aiming for its numerical resolution with branch-and-bound algorithms. We identify some of the difficulties and present the modeling techniques used in the literature to overcome them.

Congratulations Prof. Maculan for this talk!

Published on 07/26/2024.