Grimsman Defends Thesis

July 1, 2016

David Grimsman defended his Masters Thesis Friday. The research, entitled “The Asynchronous t-Step Approximation for Scheduling Batch Flow Systems” offers a high-performance method for approximately solving provably hard scheduling problems–problems that can’t be solved using the largest computers working for years at a time. These problems arise naturally in chemical manufacturing, such as oil refining and polymer production, explosive and propellant manufacturing, and pharmaceutical production. His presentation can be found here.