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Operational Resilience with Pyomo

Episode #291, published Sun, Nov 22, 2020, recorded Thu, Oct 1, 2020

Do you have a scientific system that needs optimization or solving? Our guest, on this episode, Clark Petri is here to tell us all about pyomo. This is a library that can solve all sorts of cool problems, linear programming, nonlinear equations, and many other things you can throw at it.

We're gonna solve a really fun diet problem: What is the most nutritious meal that you can eat for the least amount of money? The answer might surprise you a little bit! It's going to be a lot of fun. So listen in to hear about how Clark has used pyomo to do his work and how you might use it in yours.

Links from the show

Pyomo: pyomo.org
Clark on Twitter: @clarkpetri
Center for Infrastructure Defense: nps.edu
Thesis: apps.dtic.mil
I’m not alone in my work post: morenuance.com
handcalcs package: github.com
Diet optimization problem: nbviewer.jupyter.org

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