Last week, Helena, with the support of the UPF and BGSMath, organize a Graduate Course in Metaheuristics. Check the web https://blogbarg.upf.edu/metaheuristics-course/ to see the program and all presentations of the course.

In collaboration with the Barcelona Graduate School of mathematics (BGSMath) and the Business Analytics research Group (BARG), Helena, together with other colleagues, is participating in three different events:

• International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2018. Jesica de Armas and Helena Ramalhinho are organizing a challenge for high school female teenagers to motivate then to study mathematics. The challenge is to plan the delivery of internet order using mathematics! See VIDEO https://youtu.be/hQ6rSHtGqbU
• Math for Industry 4.0. “Maths for Industry 4.0” will showcase how academic excellence at BGSMath is helping companies becoming digital. This activity belongs to the Mobile Week Barcelona and it’s an open space for reflexion on digital transformation through art, science and technology. (Nota de prensa). 
• Metaheuristics Workshop. This is open and free-access workshop to learn about the metaheuristics methodologies and their successful applications to several industries. Celso Ribeiro, Angel A. Juan, Jésica de Armas ,Christian Blum, Belén Melián-Batista and Helena Ramalhinho are the invited speakers of this workshop.

Helena participated in the workshop WORLO III – WORKSHOP ON REAL LIFE OPTIMIZATION, 25-26 of January, Valencia, Spain. Helena presented a her work on “Iterated Local Search and Extensions”. In this talk, she presented the last advances of ILS to solve stochastic bilevel optimization problems!