Andreas Tillmann receives the COAP Best Paper 2019 Prize for his work "Computing the spark: mixed-integer programming for the (vector) matroid girth problem", published in Computational Optimization and Applications 74(2), 2019. Congratulations!
Lisa C. Hegerhorst-Schultchen successfully defended her thesis "Optimality Conditions for Abs-Normal NLPs" at Leibniz Universität Hannover under supervision of Prof. Marc. C. Steinbach. Congratulations, Lisa! Christian Kirches acted as secondary refere
Our article C. Kirches, F. Lenders, P. Manns, "Approximation Properties and Tight Bounds for Constrained Mixed-Integer Optimal Control" has been published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, see https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/18M1182917.
The Institute for Mathematical Optimization is in the news with a new BMBF grant to research mathematical methods for artificial intelligence and machine learning in logistics, sensor nets, and molecular databases.
Manuel Kudruss successfully defended his PhD thesis "Nonlinear model predictive control for motion generation of humanoids" at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!
The Institute for Mathematical Optimization and the Institute for Analysis and Algebra will host a Workshop on Optimization, Machine Learning, and Data Science at Braunschweig on April 12-13, 2018.
Lilli Bergner successfully defended her PhD thesis "Fast Numerical Methods for Robust Nonlinear Optimal Control under Uncertainty" at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!
Felix Lenders successfully defended his PhD thesis "Numerical Methods for Mixed-Integer Optimal Control with Combinatorial Constraints." at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!
