New article published today in the Computers & Chemical Engineering journal: *A multi-agent system for hybrid optimization*. This paper is based on the work presented last year at the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE 34) conference.

One key lesson I took away from this work: how easy it is to write efficient and effective multiprocessing code in Julia. And how much fun it is actually.

#MultiAgentSystem #Agents #Optimization #HybridOptimization #ProcessSystemsEngineering #CAPE #PSE #JuliaLang

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109258

Gigantyczna pożyczka dla PSE! Tusk: mówimy o morzu pieniędzy https://businessinsider.com.pl/wiadomosci/wielomiliardowa-pozyczka-dla-pse-tusk-komentuje/n3x3n3f?utm_term=autor_3&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=businessinsider-page-post

La direction du Point sabre dans les effectifs de la rédaction pour faire plaisir à l'actionnaire François Pinault en déclenchant un PSE avec 58 suppressions de postes, sur un effectif de 200 salariés. Les services de correction et de révision du magazine sont touchés, remplacés par l'IA. Vive la grammaire, vive l'orthographe. https://www.lalettre.fr/fr/medias_presse-ecrite/2025/04/23/le-point-enclenche-un-important-plan-social,110439143-art

Przewidywana dziś przez #PSE spotowa cena prądu w południe to MINUS 200 zl/MWg
#energetyka. A w szczycie - czyli po zachodzie słońca - ponad 700 zł/MWh
#energetyka

New post-doctoral research position in my group at University College London (#UCL), looking at the use of **optimization for the design of dynamic and flexible processes for electronic waste**, in collaboration with researchers in multi-phase and micro-channel flow experiments for process intensification and in model identification for the development of dynamic models. The eventual deliverable of this project is a demonstrator process with a digital twin. External collaboration includes both industry and two local councils, Newham Council in London and West Sussex County Council.

Closing date: 13 February 2025

#ChemicalEngineering #ProcessSystems #ProcessSystemsEngineering #PSE #PostDoctoralResearch #Optimization #eWaste #ProcessDesign #DigitalTwin

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=12911&nPostingTargetId=31636&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07

## New paper on arXiv

*A multi-agent system for hybrid optimization*

by me and colleagues at #UCL #ChemicalEngineering.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09563

Headed to bed. Turned off the main house breaker to avoid all the terrible surges and brownouts which occur when they try to bring the grid back up and everything all tries to draw current at the same time. I strongly suggest that if you are in the Puget Sound region you do the same to avoid damaging your equipment.

Accounts trading in the PH stock exchange (PSE) rose 11.3% in 2023. This is attributed to the availability of online trading platforms like the newly launched GStocks (in GCash). The bulk of investors in the PSE are Gen Y (Millennial) and Gen Z.

#Philippines #Asian #GCash #Filipino #Business #Stocks #Trading #Investment #ABSCBN #GStocks #PSE #GenZ #Millennial #Finance #FinTech

https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/5/29/gstocks-ph-drives-up-number-of-investors-in-stock-market-pse-1534

Ostatnie akcje z wyłączaniem przez PSE fotowoltaiki, pokazują tylko jak my się bierzemy za transformację od dupy strony. Efekt? "Zielona" energia „wyparowuje” w kosmos. Przypomina mi to sytuację w niemieckiej, pobliskiej elektrowni #Jänschwalde Tam na święta wyłączono z eksploatacji dwa bloki E i F, przywrócone do pracy w czasie kryzysu w 2022 roku. Cała elektrownia ma przestać pracować w 2028 roku (planowano w 2038). Jednak zdaniem burmistrz Sprembergu - Christine Herntie, ta data jest nierealna do zachowania. Jej zdaniem region nie jest na tak szybkie zamknięcie elektrowni przygotowany.
I tak sobie myślę, że skoro Niemcy nie są na to przygotowani, to jak my poradzimy sobie bez #Turów Przecież w takim razie my to już całkiem jesteśmy w czarnej nomen omen de… ? #energetyka #transformacja #PSE #OZE

The Geel (Shall Inherit)… Zeitzeugenfotos von Fadercommander Nielso, zwei Tage Preisgekröntes mit großen Maschinen, großen Boxen, großem Publikum mitunter auch.

La chaîne Pimkie envisage cinquante nouvelles fermetures de magasins en 2024

Après un premier plan de sauvegarde de l’emploi en mars, le consortium propriétaire de l’enseigne s’apprête à en déclencher un second pour tenter de redresser la situation.

https://www.linforme.com/grande-conso/article/la-chaine-pimkie-envisage-cinquante-nouvelles-fermetures-de-magasins-en-2024_1292.html

Face au retournement du marché, Nexity réfléchit à un plan de départs

Les départs ont doublé cette année chez le premier promoteur français. Pourtant, la crise de l’immobilier ne pèsera qu’à partir de l’année prochaine sur ses comptes.

https://www.linforme.com/banque-finance/article/face-au-retournement-du-marche-nexity-reflechit-a-un-plan-de-departs_1244.html

#HelloESR Economiste du travail, spécialisée sur les questions d'inégalités de genre et/ou d'origine. J'aime les bases de données et les sujets originaux.
Institutionnellement, je suis PR à #Nanterre, chercheuse associée à l' #Ined (UR09), et directrice exécutrice de la Chaire Travail à #PSE.
Je m'intéresse aussi aux questions d'enseignement, et à de multiples sujets, sans vraiment de limitation: la SF, les séries, les livres, l'Australie et bien sûr les chats.
Mais je n'aime pas la bagnole.

Negotiations at Western are not going well. The association has asked the conciliator to file a "no-board report". Seventeen days after this report is filed (and assuming that a strike vote has been held), the librarians at UWO will be in a legal strike position.

https://www.uwofa.ca/librarians-archivists-bargaining-bulletin-vol-6-no-21/
#libraries #librarians #onpse #labor #labour #onpol #uwofala #uwofa #pse #cdnpse

Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne opublikowały aplikację na smartfony (android i iOS) "Energetyczny kompas". Dzięki niej mamy możliwość podglądu (well, szacunku) stanu krajowego systemu elektroenergetycznego i podejmować indywidualne decyzje dot. oszczędzania energii. Na razie niewiele w niej jest, ale zobaczymy, jak się rozwinie.

Większym problemem jest to, że mamy kolejny przykład prywatyzacji problemów niewydolnego państwa.
#PSE #energetyka #energia

Vandalism at three power substations in western #Washington early Sunday cut power to about 14,000 customers

Two of the break-ins were at Tacoma Public Utilities #TPU substations and the third was at a Puget Sound #Energy station #PSE

#Tacoma Public Utilities reported vandalism at about 5:30 a.m. at one #substation followed by vandalism at a second substation

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) also reported vandalism at about 2:30 a.m. causing a power #outage at one of its substations.

"There's a good possibility they are related, we are going to be investigating to see if this was coordinated by a specific group or people, but at this time all we know is that we have burglaries where the #power was purposefully knocked out"

#Graham #PierceCounty

https://www.mytpu.org/physical-attacks-on-our-substations/

- No public statement from PSE found on PSE website or social media - "The company is investigating, along with authorities, and declined to comment further"

Current students and an advocacy group are suing Yale University and its governing body, alleging "systemic discrimination against students with mental health disabilities," according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Connecticut federal court.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/us/yale-university-mental-health-disabilities-lawsuit/index.html

‘What if Yale finds out?’
Suicidal students are pressured to withdraw from Yale, then have to apply to get back into the university
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/11/yale-suicides-mental-health-withdrawals/

Via #WashingtonPost

A Delegação Portuguesa no Congresso do Partido Socialista Europeu (#PSE) em Berlim. #withcourageforeurope

: https://nitter.eu/editeestrela/status/1581221505693667328