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Andreas Tillmann receives COAP Best Paper Prize

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!

Successful Defense of Lisa Hegerhorst-Schultchen

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

Article Published

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.

Press Release about New Research Project

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.

Paul Manns has been named James Hardy Wilkinson Fellow

Paul Manns has been named the James Hardy Wilkinson Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago, IL). Congratulations, Paul!

Successful Defense of Manuel Kudruss

Manuel Kudruss successfully defended his PhD thesis "Nonlinear model predictive control for motion generation of humanoids" at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!

Successful Defense of Paul Manns

Paul Manns successfully defended his PhD thesis "Approximation properties of sum-up rounding". Congratulations!

New Member Joins the Institute for Mathematical Optimization

Andreas Tillmann joins the Institute for Mathematical Optimization as a PostDoc.

Imke Joormann Heads Junior Research Group

Dr. Imke Joormann heads a junior research group within the Braunschweig Cluster of Excellence SE2A. Congratulations!

Workshop on Optimization, Machine Learning, and Data Science

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.

Conferences & Workshops

Christian Kirches and Christian Clason (Duisburg-Essen) will chair Section S16 "Optimization" at GAMM Annual Meeting 2019 in Vienna.

Conferences & Workshops

Christian joins the IPC program chairs for the 6th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control in Madison, Wisconsin (USA).

Successful Defense of Lilli Bergner

Lilli Bergner successfully defended her PhD thesis "Fast Numerical Methods for Robust Nonlinear Optimal Control under Uncertainty" at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!

Successful Defense of Felix Lenders

Felix Lenders successfully defended his PhD thesis "Numerical Methods for Mixed-Integer Optimal Control with Combinatorial Constraints." at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!