Alex Dowling

@kaklise @blnicho @DLWoodruff @AlexanderPerez23 @kanishka-ghosh @lxhowl

Kanishka is also having codecov issues. Perhaps discuss this at the Pyomo dev call today?

@jsiirola @kaklise @jialuw96 I creating this issue to get organized for our conversation today.

@kanishka-ghosh I believe you prototyped an extension to `parmest` that improves initialization for complex models. Please please open a PR to contribute this code back to Pyomo. We can talk...

And to remind everyone, our overarching goal is for ParmEst to model systematically initialize the model using a provided value of theta. The proposal here is to use `objective_at_theta()` to...

Can this be closed now that the PR was merged? @kanishka-ghosh

@blnicho That is an excellent point. Here is code from the example: ``` Time-varying inputs >>> m.b = Var(m.t) >>> m.c = Param(m.t, default=5.0) ... Specifying the piecewise constant inputs...

@blnicho Let's say I defined my dynamic model using a block in Pyomo such that: * each block uses the same general dynamic model * each block has a control...

@blnicho Does the Pyomo simulator now support Block hierarchical models? If so, I think we can close this issue. @lxhowl

@blnicho Any update? Also, is it possible to define a different time set for each block? We have an application were were would like to use a different time discretization...