Monday@Marin: day of optimism

We are a nice group of seven from four different countries. The participants form a very international bunch this year! As is usual on the first day, we are very optimistic that we can solve Marin's problem in the next couple of days.


Most probably, only tomorrow we will understand why it is difficult. Anyway, we quickly got the nonlinear optimisation problem with constraints (e.g. the ship should stay in position) on the white board. The white board is tiny by the way: good for keeping the discussion focused. It is down now to obtaining meaningful estimates for the parameters and then we should be off and running. Running some code that is; we seem to have numerical gurus as well as visualisation experts in the group.