Seminars in June 2012

June 1, 2012, 12 p.m. - Sustainable food processing for the future – intensification by joining forces (Remko Boom)

With a growing world population that acquires more affluence in many regions, people want to enjoy more luxury foods. At the same time, we have the ambition to shift from fossil fuels and materials to renewable sources. Arable land will therefore be at a premium, and we need to make ...

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June 8, 2012, 12 p.m. - Hybrid metaheuristics: A short introduction (Christian Blum)

Metaheuristics, such as simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony optimization, scatter search and iterated local search, are considered state-of-the-art methods for many combinatorial optimization problems. Lately, however, it has become evident that the concentration on a sole metaheuristic is rather restrictive. A skilled combination of concepts from different ...

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June 15, 2012, 12 p.m. - Novel nanomaterials for environmental applications and nanomedicine (Joaquín Silvestre-Albero)

The great progress achieved in the last few years in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology has been inevitable linked to the design of new nanomaterials able to perform optimum in a given application. In this sense, materials science has been crucial in hot topics such as environmental science and ...

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